[I]luring disco dollies to a life of vice…[/i]
[i]Stay Beautiful[/i]
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WE PLAY: SLEAZY GLAM // HI-VOLTAGE ELECTRO // GLITTER ROCK // F UCKED UP DISCO // '77 PUNK // NEW WAVE // ALTERNATIVE ANTHEMS // POP TRASH
Event: Stay Beautiful
Venue: Purple Turtle, Camden Town
Date: Saturday 3rd May, 2008
New territory for Stay Beautiful: an out-and-out pop act. Pure pop music has always been a smallish element of the SB playlist, sprinkled into the mix to add flavour, but this is the first time we’ve had a proper pop group onstage. Teenagers Tammy and Kally, the sisters from Caerphilly who sound like South Wales’ answer to Shampoo, delivered a sweet short sharp shock of a hit-and-run PA, consisting of their awesome debut single “I Don’t Like The Vibe In The VIP” and the follow-up “The Drinks Taste Better When They’re Free”, which is stuck in our heads already and is gonna be absolutely everywhere by late summer (not least because it’s been confirmed as the title tune for the forthcoming Simon Pegg/Jeff Bridges movie How To Lose Friends And Alienate People). And mentioned their Myspace maybe one time too many, but made up for it by telling the crowd “You’re looking very sexy… We love your outfits, by the way. Maybe we should wear something like that.” Flattery will get them everywhere.
It was another great night all round, with the usual variety of bizarre extras that makes Stay Beautiful what it is. For example, the uncannily accurate (and surprisingly tasty) ‘Cakey Wire’ brought along by regulars Sam & Amanda, for reasons too complicated to explain. I went a bit prop-crazy in the DJ booth, brandishing my brolly to the Manics’ Rihanna cover, and dancing with a stuffed tiger to Mud. Had to be done.
Big thanks to everyone who chose to spend their birthdays with us, everyone who put up with my depressed and angry rants about Boris Johnson, and everyone who was probably meant to be locked away revising for exams but decided “Nah, f#ck it”…
Which with no further ado, apart from reminding you that you can see photos at
http://www.staybeautifulclub.co.uk/gallery.htm (thanks again to Mark Cooper for additional digital photography) and video clips at
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=staybeautifulclub, and that the next Stay Beautiful is on Saturday 7th June (starring GLAM CHOPS live and ACEY MURDERDOLL as guest DJ!), brings us to what we actually played:
SIMON PRICE (9.00-9.30)
Nouvelle Vague - “Fade To Grey”
Johnny Cash - “Hurt”
Hole - “Doll Parts”
Scarlett Johansson with David Bowie - “Falling Down”
LCD Soundsystem - “All My Friends”
The Dresden Dolls - “Coin Operated Boy”
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JENNA (9.30-10.15)
Spice Girls - “The Lady Is A Vamp”
Har Mar Superstar - “Power Lunch”
Grinderman - “Get It On”
Raveonettes - “Twilight”
Japan - “Life In Tokyo”
Kate Bush - “Wuthering Heights”
Associates - “Club Country”
Mansun - “Being A Girl”
Minty - “Useless Man”
The Horrors - “Death In The Chapel”
Bow Wow Wow - “I Want Candy”
Kenickie - “PVC”
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SIMON PRICE (10.15-11.30)
Annie - “I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me”
Ladytron - “Ghosts (Toxic Avenger Mix)”
Queen Adreena - “Pretty Like Drugs”
Nine Inch Nails - “Head Like A Hole”
Alphabeat - “Fascination”
David Bowie - “Modern Love”
Pink Grease - “Fever”
New Young Pony Club - “Ice Cream”
The Dresden Dolls - “Pretty In Pink”
New York Dolls - “Jet Boy”
My Life Story - “Strumpet”
Nicky Wire’s Secret Society - “I Killed The Zeitgeist”
Kylie Minogue - “2 Hearts”
IAMX - “Nightlife”
Dragonette - “The Boys”
Peaches feat Iggy Pop - “Kick It”
Duran Duran - “Girls On Film”
The Tigerpicks - “Disco Punk Electro Funk”
Mason feat Princess Superstar - “Perfect (Exceeder)“
Dead Or Alive - “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)“
Britney Spears - “Piece Of Me”
Shampoo - “Trouble”
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ELECTROVAMP (11.30-11.40)
(live onstage)
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SIMON PRICE (11.40-12.30)
Cyndi Lauper - “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”
Billy Idol - “White Wedding”
The Murderdolls - “Dead In Hollywood”
David Bowie - “Rebel Rebel (Soulwax mix)” (Watering Can Song)
Sam Sparro - “Black And Gold”
Goldfrapp - “Strict Machine (Paris Loaded mix)“
Marilyn Manson - “Rock Is Dead”
Mindless Self Indulgence - “Bitches”
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts - “I Love Rock And Roll”
Courtney Love - “Mono”
Blondie - “Atomic”
Placebo - “Bruise Pristine”
Interpol - “Slow Hands”
Manic Street Preachers - “Umbrella”
Salt’N’Pepa vs. The Stooges - “Push It/No Fun (2 Many DJs)“
The Gossip - “Standing In The Way Of Control”
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JENNA (12.30-1.30)
Tubeway Army - “Are ‘Friends‘ Electric?”
Nine Inch Nails - “Closer”
Manic Street Preachers - “Motown Junk”
Pulp - “Mis-Shapes”
Miss Kittin and The Hacker - “Frank Sinatra 2001”
Duran Duran - “Hungry Like The Wolf”
David Bowie - “John, I’m Only Dancing”
Ladytron - “Sugar”
Joy Division - “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Siouxsie and the Banshees - “Spellbound”
Marilyn Manson - “Disposable Teens”
Peaches - “Rock Show”
T. Rex - “Metal Guru”
Placebo - “Daddy Cool”
Prince - “1999”
Spice Girls - “Spice Up Your Life”
The Cure - “Boys Don’t Cry”
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SIMON PRICE (1.30-3.00)
The Ting Tings - “That’s Not My Name” (competition song)
My Chemical Romance - “Teenagers”
Rachel Stamp - “Brand New Toy”
The Dresden Dolls - “Girl Anachronism”
Ladytron - “Blue Jeans (Eddie TM Temple Of Jay mix)“
The Long Blondes - “Separated By Motorways”
Suede - “Trash”
Buzzcocks - “What Do I Get?“
Muse - “Plug In Baby”
Le Tigre - “Deceptacon”
X-Ray Spex - “Oh Bondage, Up Yours!”
Hole - “Celebrity Skin”
Marilyn Manson - “mOBSCENE”
Patrick MacNee and Honor Blackman - “Kinky Boots”
Nancy Sinatra - “These Boots Are Made For Walking”
Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel - “Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)“
Guns N’Roses - “Paradise City”
Sex Pistols - “God Save The Queen”
Pulp - “Common People”
The Smiths - “What Difference Does It Make?”
Prince - “Kiss”
Roxy Music - “Love Is The Drug”
Soft Cell - “Tainted Love”
T. Rex - “20th Century Boy”
Mud - “Tiger Feet”
Christina Aguilera - “Candyman”
Manic Street Preachers - “Stay Beautiful“
(The Muppets - “Mah Nah Mah Nah“)
Films shown: a Russ Meyer quadruple bill of Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Up!, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!, and Supervixens.