Poptimism #3: June 9th, Downstairs @ The Polar Bear

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Thursday 9th June, Downstairs@The Polar Bear on Lisle Street, £2 before 11, £4 after, 7pm until 1am, guest DJs TBA, free gifties also TBA, maybe we'll do the badges again.

No gimmicks this time, no TV screens, just 6 hours of drinks, dancing and fantastic pop. Tell all your friends, and see you there.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

CHEAP drinks!

― Poptimism Street Team (blueski), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Bbbblolsshom HIll I wuv you yore my bezzht mate alright?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

And here's the cast of Grange Hill with a timely message for us all...Just...Say No.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought it said free girlies.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Who knows, they're TBA!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

TBA

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Shhhh!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd definitely turn up if you could get Terry Hall to DJ! He's big on Jake Thackeray, you know.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha back when there was a difference between Jimmy Greaves and Morrissey!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Certainly agree with the comments on Charles Aznavour.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

why do you guys keep having this when i'm out of the country?! boo, i have to miss another one, as i'll be staying in a villa in spain with my friends. but i'm sure poptimism would be more fun.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm trying to work out why the keep doing it while I'M out of the country. I one of the resident DJ's!

Still, should be good - mainly because I'm not there.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

for your e-flyering plaisir

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/pictures/flyers/poptimism_sm.jpg

― alang, Monday, 16 May 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god, the fear, oh god, the £5 wine, oh god, are we really going to do this again?

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Your taste or your liver: which will blink first?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmm, raisins.

I'm not worried about my Taste. I have 50 more copies under the bed!

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Grr Thursdays - I hope I'll be able to come . . . it was awfully good fun last time.

Will there be badges?

― Johnney B, Monday, 16 May 2005 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

it's me birthday the next day you know

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to have to be good for this Poptimism but I'm booking the day after the July one off work, and maybe August as well. Consider normal service resumed.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Will there be badgers?

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't know. I might bring the Freaky Trigger owl though if there's a demand for him.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Good God, not badgers, the place would stink to fuck yeuck!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

That'll be a hoot.

(see what I dun there?)

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Will this be before the first DJ sett?

(HYUK HYUK PLAYING WITH WORDS YOU SEE IS FUNNY)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a shame I no longer have access to all the stuffed animals, but Joe kept custody in the divorce. (Can one sue an ex partner to have access to the stuffed animals?)

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd definitely turn up if you could get Terry Hall to DJ! He's big on Jake Thackeray, you know.

Well that makes two of us....... who are big on Jake Thackray I mean

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The day after my birthday! (I think a FAP on the 8th would therefore be a mistake, but maybe the 7th, to be discussed at some point with someone whose birthday is on that date...) I'll be there, of course.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(very nice flyer)

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think we had a Carsmile Meg setlist :-(

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Tricky 'Black Steel', Marion 'Time' and the new Nine Inch Nails (cut short because the CD skipped) are the only tracks I can remember Meg playing.

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

That will keep me going. I don't know Marion though.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The bargain basement of MVE certainly does.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Meg played three tracks by acts I'd seen live in 1977 - Ramones, Iggy Pop and T. Rex, I believe they were.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

it's me birthday the next day you know
-- ken c

and mine on the same day!

The day after my birthday!

-- Martin Skidmore

and mine on the same day!

if you see what i mean. i'll be there, celebrating being 30, and hopefully bringing some nice friends too. and if they don't like it...i'll pay their entry fee! fules.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

if i don't like it will you pay my entry fees too?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

it's me birthday the next day you know
-- ken c
and mine on the same day!
The day after my birthday!
-- Martin Skidmore
and mine on the same day!

if you see what i mean.

that you have two birthdays, two days apart?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no way on god's green earth I shall be drinking that sodding Blossom Hill. There's a whole new world of £2.99 doubles ruin yet to strike. Heigh ho.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

so just to recap - they sell BOTTLES of Blossom Hill for £5? bloody crikey...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. That is the only thing one can remember when you wake up with HEAD OF DEATH next morning.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The sincerest form of flattery?

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!

Red Riding Kylie and everything!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

worlwide domination of poptimism! hurrah...

just since i'm putting a load of stuff in my diary, have other dates been set? when should i next plan on leaving the country?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

After this one it's every first Thursday until November at least i.e.

7th July
4th August
1st September
6th October
3rd November

There have also been discussions of a Secret Spin-Off Event, but discussions is all they are so far.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like secret events. I really don't.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

4th August

I am on holiday the first week in August. Poptimism HERE I COME! (this may take some planning and failing and replanning like all my vaunted trips to London, but it's soon enough after I get paid for me to have money...I might be at Benicassim if other people who said they would come with me actually agree to come with me, but otherwise this could be a goer)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate you will like this one I promise!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 19 May 2005 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't you copyright "Poptimism" then? Fool of fools!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 19 May 2005 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(as I should have done with GUILTY PLEASURES™)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 19 May 2005 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

August will be JOY.

― spontine (cis), Thursday, 19 May 2005 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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Just leave a note on the fridge.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Leave a note!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

get your lawyer to send a fax. i thought this was standard.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

lots of old Billie Holiday records would be best

we could play Bille Piper and then Holiday Rap - would that do?

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Text them after a courage-giving swig of Blossom Hill!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

leave a turd on their doorstep.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Or a video cassette! "By the time you watch this, I will be gone gone gone." Are you giving them full notice (whatever that is in London), or are you dropping them in it a bit?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i think dissensus whould start a rival night (maybe at the hippodrome). thursdays could see a regular soundclash; there could be rucks in leicester square. plus, the argument could be won where it matters: on the streets, among the kids.

― N)RQ, Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/images/173/originals.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

well if july's poptimism moves to a friday we might have a CLUB OFF between this and forgetaboutthesugar

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i think dissensus whould start a rival night

ye gods, miller, wtf?

you WISH they WOULD

― N_RQ, Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I'd be up for DJing at a Dissensus Night! Julio and I could do our legendary Six Hours of Undanceable Noise set!!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

On the thread for the Dissensus club night some of us could talk about how we weren't going to go to it.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Full notice, but i like them.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

it's dissensus music Event, btw < /snarky badiou joke>

― N_RQ, Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ananova.com/images/web/290804.jpg

Look, a chicken.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Kentucky Fried Chav.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry I can't make it coz, er, I'm still in Oxford and I haven't had my tea yet.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I am sitting sulking in my room over not being able to make this :(

I hope the move to Fridays doesn't start next month, eek!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i just went to bed and passed out and just woken up. got work to do, got work to do tomorrow morning. can't come.

sorry.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Kids. I'm two thirds of the way through the gigantic pile. If it carries on like this I might be done by midnight.

Does anyone want to offer me a job? I'll do anything.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

do mine if you like, i'll be on-call 24hrs (plus 12hr per day on-site) for two weeks in a couple of week's time!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

mm and it's 2am and i'm still doing my evening work.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

We *think* the Fridays will be a later time in the month, I'd hate there to be a club-off.

It was bijou, but it was fun. It could easily have just been people sitting around miserably but the mystical powers of pop and blossom hill made sure that everyone who was there ended up on the dancefloor. So I ended up really enjoying it. It gladdened my heart when the floor filled up for Cobrastyle.

Special thanks to Alan and Kate. And big shouts out to Abby, WBS, and anyone else who came a long way to a quiet night. Though not as long a way as Pete, who came from 'Nam.

We even broke even.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 June 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

tom, would you like your share of the profits, or should i just buy you a half tonight?

as tom says thanks to those of you who did make it, big push for the first friday one starting, oh later today when i've booked it :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 10 June 2005 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I spent my profits on a third of a tube fare home!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 June 2005 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That giveaway CD in full:

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/nylpm/2005_06_01_nylpm_archive.html#111839756578286544

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 June 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Blimey, what a hangover I have. I think Alan and I broke Poptimism.
:-(

Sucks to all of you who didn't make it! Those of us who had what little we had, had a great time! The first (and possibly only) playing of Can at Freaky Trigger, hah! Lots of poppy dronerock and droney bubblegum. The only Madonna dronerock song ever. (Plus The Spy pretending to be Austin Powers on the dancefloor, YES BABY!!!)

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 10 June 2005 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Eeep, got cut off there and had to take a phone call with someone OFFERING ME A JOB!!! hurrah! Well, no, not really, but wanting me to come in for a proper interview, which I haven't done in ages.

Errr... what else happened last night? I've no idea, I was wrecked by my second DJ set. One of the CD drives didn't work so I couldn't play half the songs I wanted to, so I apologise for the schitzophrenic nature of my set, it really just was "whatever will work in the CD player".

I think the dronepop set actually worked better, at least it had more people coming up to me asking "what WERE those last three songs you played?" (Probably Medicine, an obscure 60s bubblegarage band called The Fenwyck, and Capitol K)

Did anyone take pictures? (Please lord, no) Well, apart from The Spy but those are pretty much blackmail material.

Our appeal is getting more selective. That's all.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

things i realised: i will play 16 tonnes of hardware each and every time i get a chance to dj until absolutely everyone is dancing to it. that princess superstar song sounds great loud in a club.

did steve play Make it Reggae?

i have forgotten about half of what i played in the end

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Aww, no pics?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Starry was wielding a cameraphone for some of it.

I had a grebt night. More Reggae for Kids pls.

― robster (robster), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked the Capitol K one.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

And Alan's seamless mixing of Chicks On Speed with Orbital, arf.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm trying to decide if I'm too hungover to go out tonight. Bah.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

My (only very slight) hangover has abated due to the power of fish and chips.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, but I had a whole nother more bottle of wine than you!

(I am so not making sense.)

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

SO MUCH EMPATHY with every one of those points: you are me, last month!

sorry I couldn't make it :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I was a bit annoyed the left-hand drive was wonky again, it always seems to hit the guests worst. We will make sure future guests are forewarned and forearmed.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I was forewarned and forearmed! I brought plenty of non-CDR CDs! But half of *them* wouldn't even work in it! The first CD I played (Duran Duran) - it played for exactly 30 seconds and sputtered out. So blame Nick Rhodes.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i tried to remember what i played, but got stuck

1
White Town / Puff Daddy bootleg
MIA - Bucky Done Gone
Princess Superstar - Coochy Coo
Hayseed Dixie - Walk This Way
Cut Copy - Future
krush - house arrest
er something else??
mannionmix Chicks on Speed Wordy Rapping Hood into Orbital You Lot

2
girls aloud - Here we go
vitalic / khia bootleg
armin van buuren - the longest day
altern8 - activ8
taffy - i love my radio
bodies w/o organs - 16 tonnes of hardware
erm
no idea - too much cooking lager

vanilla ninja miss out AGANE. needs more chart pop

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Carsmile played something I really liked which he said was a Eurovision thing (I think). Alas it was not 'Grandma Bangs The Drums', but does he remember the exact details?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

it's another one of the trawl tracks which i am assuming is eurovision (might not be) Romeo by Shebang (it says here). they appear to:

a. be swedish
b. have just released a cover of kids in america...

http://www.shebangonline.com/

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

tanks kiddo.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Geez Louise, did I wake up early today.

― BARMS, Friday, 10 June 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Shebang got play last night? Dagnamit . . . .

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

FRIDAYS ARE NOW BOOKED TIL XMAS!!!

first one 15 July (they are almost all 3rd fridays i think) the night before i fly to barcelona so i will have to try to avoid too much ruin.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Pros: Removal of early start the next day increases that chances of me making it/making a weekend of it.

Cons: Getting to the airport on a Friday evening will be an absolute bastard. Oh for a decent public transport system.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the first friday poptimism, and I'm bloomin working the next day!

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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