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BigSexyLand #10:
20th May 2006 at Low (downstairs at The Albany), London

There’s only one way to find out if playing Queen’s long-lost disco gem ‘Fun It’ is an act of club-emptying DJ suicide, and that’s by having a stiff drink, saying a prayer and sticking it on. And it’s a testament to the open-minded BSL crowd that John T didn’t simply get away with it, but a young man with blue hair asked him enthusiastically if he was going to play anything from the Hot Space LP too.

Earlier in the evening, Club Mental DJ Michael Gray had battled through a bout of the flu to warm up the dancefloor, only to have to stagger back to his bed almost immediately after his set, so a big thank you to Michael and all the Club Mental lot for making it.

This was quite easily the most oversubscribed BSL yet, with the doorman coming to ask if he could shut the doors at twenty to midnight, as there was no chance of squeezing in a single punter more. With the outside world locked out, there was nothing left to do but whip it up.

During Simon Price and John T’s joint set, a limbo competition broke out in the middle of the crowd as the words “BASS! How low can you go?” boomed from the latest BSL bootleg, an apocalyptic mash up of Public Enemy and Front 242. Simon span new Pet shop Boys, obscure Mute tracks, shameless arms-in-the-air electro disco and the hitherto verboten Pussycat Dolls while John T invoked the spirit of the temporarily absent John D by playing the pair’s acid-fried remix of Weird Science’s remix of Bloc Party’s ‘Helicopter’.

These are the songs that made the people get down:

* indicates exclusive BSL remixes, edits and bootlegs

Michael Gray (8:30-11):
Franz Ferdinand - L.Wells
Barry Adamson - Set The Controls For The Heart of the Pelvis
Make Up - Come Up to the Microphone
Essential Logic - Wonderful Offer
A Certain Ratio - Shack Up
Sugababes - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Shit Disco - Disco Blood
The Roger Sisters - I Dig A Hole
The Clash - Train In Vain
Iggy Pop - I'm Bored
Devo - Snowball
Out Hud - It's For You
The Knife - You Take My Breath Away
Imagination - Illusion
Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better
Booker T & The MG's - Soul Limbo
The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket
Pigbag - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag
White ROse Movement - Love Is A Number
OMD - Enola Gay
Prince - When Doves Cry
Beastie Boys - She's On It
Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
Fujiya & Miyagi - In One Ear & Out The Other
Grand Popo Football Club - Men Are Not Nice Guys
Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
The Slits - Heard It Through The Grapevine
Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty
Pixies - Gouge Away
Franz Ferdinand - Do You Wanna (Erol Alkan's Glam Racket)
Whitey - Leave Them All Behind
Digitalism - Idealistic
Tiga - Move My Body
Richard X & Kelis - Finest Dreams
!!! - Intensify
Datarock - Fa Fa Fa
Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month (Alan Braxe & Fred Faulk remix)
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone

Simon Price and John T (11-2):

John T:
Queen - Fun It
Shriekback - My Spine Is The Bassline
Britney Spears - I'm a Slave 4 U
Nine Inch Nails - Only
Prince - My Name Is Prince
Princess Superstar - Perfect

Simon Price:
The Farmers’ Boys - Muck It Out
Pet Shop Boys - The Sodom And Gomorrah Show
The Rapture - I Need Your Love
Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better (live)
Uffie - Pop The Glock
David Bowie vs. The Killers - Somebody Dance (Base 58 mash-up)
Minty - Plastic Bag
White Rose Movement - Girls In The Back
Nelly Furtado - Man Eater

John T:
Hot Chip - Over and Over (Naum Gabo Remix)
Public Enemy vs. Front 242 - Bring The Headhunter *
Uffie - Ready To Uff
Michael Jackson - State Of Shock (Ft. Mick Jagger)
Madonna vs. LFO - Like a Freak *
Frankie Goes to Hollywood vs Prince - Pleasurequake *

Simon Price:
Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends
Shannon - Give Me Tonight
Pussycat Dolls - Beep
Silicon Teens - You Really Got Me
Peaches - Set It Off (disco mix)
Freeez - IOU
Tiga feat Jake Shears -You Gonna Want Me

John T:
Bloc Party - Helicopter (Weird Science remix feat Peaches + the BSL Acid Orchestra) *
The Rapture vs. Kelis House Of Jealous Milkshakes *
Baxendale - I Built This City
Missy Eliot - Lose control (Jacques Lu Conte remix)
Mint Royale - Don't Falter
Junior Senior - Shake Your Coconuts (DFA mix)

Simon Price:
Blur - Girls And Boys (Pet Shop Boys disco mix)
Alcazar - Crying At The Discotheque
Daft Punk - One More Time
Rihanna - SOS (Rescue Me)

John T:
Princess Superstar - Sex, Drugs & Drugs
Blondie vs. Tiga - Louder than a Rapture *
Prince - Black Sweat
Afrika Bambaata vs. The Breeders - Get Up and Splash *
Prince vs. Yes - Owner of a Crying Dove *
Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To?
McAlmont & Butler - Yes
Prince - I Wish U Heaven

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