stories from the dj booth...

last weekend the VV's dj'ed at clwb ifor bach, at the dudes abide. it was the first time that we'd been together as a proper, power threesome since our amazing rocking of da radio one/nme stage at reading... and our super-fun set (in matching vinyl vendettas cardigans!) ... we were expecting a lot of fun, as shooting at unarmed men had played with big joan...man, we were going to bust out the fall, lightning bolt, shellac and some hip new band that laura & i never heard of but our ever-cool ms elfyn is all over...

seriously though...our first requests were incubus (what do you think?) arcade fire (this is a rock club) and the rolling stones. always happy to oblige, i played the last fella 'monkey man'. an hour later, said fella comes up to me...

drunk bloke: "can you play the rolling stones?"
me: "it's always a pleasure, but i already did"
drunk bloke: "nah ya didn't. what song?"
me: "monkey man, it's on let it bleed"
drunk bloke: "but that's a beatles album!"

what the?

we've got not gigs lined up...but we are doing some crazy recordings and research into a radio show. all class, us.

THE VINYL VENDETTAS GET BUSTED!!

JUMP, JUMP...EVERYBODY SAY....

we had the pleasure of dj'ing at the reading festival in august...we played sets in between bands on the radio one/nme stage. we glammed up & made friends with all the security guards. beth announced bands from the stage in her sassy way, and laura triumphed in her sound-clash with steve lamacq (by following his libertines song with the fall's "mister pharmacist"!). i didn't do anything particularly amazing, other than asking someone to use my digital camera to take a picture of us with Charlie from BUSTED!

but now i can't even upload the friggin thing!

waaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!

next year: the vinyl vendettas get their picture taken with cocaine kate.

stay dancin..
the vv's.
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