You want to know what doesn't work?

The cd players and mixing equipment at The Dogstar in Brxton. Also, the lines of communication between their 4 managers a pretty crap as well.

But still, we persevered and My Awesome Mixtape was an awesome night with much dancing (I pogoed a lot and shouted at people about acupuncture). My set was good although pretty light on the dancing as it was still early, although 2 girls did dance to Debaser and a lovely girl named Cordelia came up to me later and said she thought my set was great. I think Cordelia is great!

That's a picture of me helping Paula test the light with her camera. She wanted to see movement lines but mostly she just got me doing jazz hands. I was also trying to simultaneously eat a burrito and learn how to work the mixer while drinking a beer. Somehow I managed to accomplish all these feats. I am fucking talented. I don't remember my set list in it's entirety (or even in proper order because there were some malfunctions) but I can tell you that I stared off with Never Said by Liz Phair and Mandinka by Sinead O'Connor and then played songs by the following fine artists:

• Caetano Veloso (Alegria, Alegria)
• Cat Stevens (Here Comes my Baby)
• G Love and The Speacial Sauce (My Baby Got Sauce)
• Kanye West (All Falls Down)
• OutKast (HeyYa)
• Breeders (Saints and Cannonball)
• Pixies (Debaser)
• All Girl Summer Fun Band (Dear Mr and Mrs Troublemaker)
• Starlight Mints (Submarine)
• The Clash (London Calling)
• Blur (Song 2)
• T Rex (Children of the Relolution)
• The New Pornographers (Mass Romantic and My Slow Descent Into Alcoholism)
• The Bangles (Hazy Shade of Winter)
• Nation of Ulysses (You're My Miss Washington DC)
• Drive By Truckers (Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus))
• Cibo Mato (Birthday Cake)
• Sleater-Kinney (I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone)

And other stuff that I can't remember. Sadly the CD players I was using would not accept 9 to 5, Liz Phair's cover of Turning Japanese or Here Comes Your Man.

Over all, it was a really great night. we think that we had approx 70 people there over the course of the night and there was loads of dancing and even a few hi jinx were got up to. Jeremy played Sex Machine, Tragedy, lots of Blondie, Star Wars Disco and many other awesome songs (despite the order he received from one friend of a friend to "Play something I know!") Harvey rocked some Ben Folds Five, A Ha, more New Pornographers, and lots of other good stuff I can't remember. The main thing I remember about Julia's set was that she played Part Time Lover and I had to defend Stevie Wonder's honor quite vociferously.

Most importantly, we got our deposit back because our friends are a bunch of drunks who spent a total of £1600 at the bar.

And, in case you were wondering, I have had Hanging on the Telephone by Blondie stuck in my head since Friday.

My Awesome Mixtape