I wound up DJing at this indie club on Friday night. It’s been ages since I did that last – I mean I play records at Popfrenzy things fairly often, but I don’t really count that, it’s far too open minded – anyway, I had to wait up super late. Like, when the last time I DJed at 3 in the morning was I have no idea. Anyway, everyone before me played great records, if fairly much on the indie DJ tip – Levins played his trademarked Levins set, Alex from Red Riders played a set that could have easily been in any indie club 10 years ago (Bazooka, Pure Pop), it was really weird watching a couple of girls about 18 or 19 scream when Ever Fallen In Love by The Buzzcocks came on.

Anna Burns played a cool electropop set (Soulwax, etc). Then I came on at 3. To be told the club had decided to shut early at 3:30, which became lights on at 3:15. I had planned to play straight hip hop, but luckily Zilber from FBI told me the crowd wouldn’t be into that. So I packed a bunch of indie, electro and pop records. I started with Orange Juice’s fantastic mid-tempo boogie Rip It Up. Then Architecture In Helsinki’s Do The Whirlwind (the extended mix from the 12″). Then Do The Right Thing by Redhead Kingpin and the FBI – seemed like appropriately FBI-referencing old school. Next up, and this may have been my downfall, Gwen Guthrie’s Ain’t Nothing Goin On But The Rent. Some whitebread indie girl came up and asked me if I’m “A Specialist R&B DJ?”

Where was the R&B? I mean it was all beatmixed, but that’s not the exclusive preserve of R&B jocks is it? The lights came on soon after, the exodus began, I gave up and played Francois Kevorkian’s mix of This Charming Man, and Ivan Smagghe’s remix of Dead Eyes Opened. I think I might steer away from indie DJing for a while.

If you’re in Sydney, my show JOINS THE DOTS is on FBI tonight from 9 til 11 kicking off with the extended Symbiotic crew (TZU, Curse, MVP, etc) from Melbourne, the super-underrated Homelife, The Sugarcubes, and new stuff from Pier Bucci, Johannes Heil, Highpoint Lowlife and Dave Miller.

I wanna go to South by Southwest. Rollie Pemberton did, so did a few other people of whom I am very jealous.