They Call Me The Head Honcho

My sets @ Beg Yr Pardon party at the The Delancey 7/18/2006

Set 1: Elastica “Generator” / CSS “Patins” / Futon “Gay Boy” / Dog Ruff “Jon E Storm” / Devo 2.0 “Big Mess” / Art Brut “Good Weekend” / Belle & Sebastian “White Collar Boy” / The Pipettes “Dirty Mind” / Hank Collective “Ferox” / Andrew WK “Party Hard” / Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone” / Maxi Geil & Playcolt “Makin’ Love In The Sunshine”

This set came immediately before The Song Corporation‘s show, and those last three were played all in a row at the end mainly because this guy happens to be a member of that band. Their set was great, evenly divided between some pretty sweet mellow jams (think late period Sonic Youth) sung by guitarist Kristie Redfield and some more upbeat numbers that Mr. Barthel sang. That last one about maps was especially great.

Set 2: Killer Mike & Big Boi “ADIDAS” / Jagged Edge “Stunnas” / Beyonce “Check On It” / M.I.A. “URAQT” / The Make Up “Pow! To The People” / Le Tigre “Deceptacon” / Robyn “Konichiwa Bitches”

This set was between the Song Corporation and Pink Noise performances. I regret leaving the room for the middle of Pink Noise’s set — they were pretty intense, and have a pretty great frontwoman. Medic Medic, who were on before the Song Corporation were also kinda rad and also had a compelling female vocalist. They had kind of a Huggybear thing going on.

Set 3: The Silures “21 Ghosts” / The Knife “We Share Our Mothers’ Health” / Basement Jaxx & Dizzee Rascal “Lucky Star” / Muscles “One Inch Badge Pin” / Vanneshina & Allesandra “Gira” / Christina Aguilera “Ain’t No Other Man” / Edu K “Baille Jean” / Nu Shooz “I Can’t Wait” / Los Super Elegantes “Dance” / Erasure “Stop” / Annie “Chewing Gum” / Kylie Minogue “Love At First Sight” / Prince “Controversy” / The Supremes “You Can’t Hurry Love” / The Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” / The Rolling Stones “Let’s Spend The Night Together” / Britney Spears vs. Mike Jones and Paul Wall “Tippin’ Toxic” / Shawnna, Ludacris et al “Gettin’ Some (Remix)” / Joe Jackson “Steppin’ Out”

Shawnna featuring Ludacris, Too Short, Lil’ Wayne and Pharrell “Gettin’ Some (Remix)” – I had more of a plan for the main set, but it got thrown out when I was inundated with requests for songs that I did not have, and ended up shuffling everything around and playing a long string of crowd pleasers at the end. I had originally intended to play “Gettin’ Some” earlier, but managed to squeeze it in towards the end. It got a much better reaction than I had anticipated, but it’s a hard song to deny (Oh my God, that Ludacris verse at the end!!! Wow.), and at that point, I think the people dancing were just totally up for it. They were dancing up to the final notes of “Steppin’ Out,” a song that I had intended to be a floor-clearer that would send people on their way home. Now I know otherwise. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)