Wateracre: September 2010

Thursday, 2 September 2010

Greenbelt - Blue Nun DJ set

Also at Greenbelt this year, I did my first live DJ set in a very, very long time. I enjoyed it a bit too much. Here's the tracklist:

Adam Green - Tropical Island

Annette - Pineapple Princess

Caetano Veloso - Superbacana

Brigitte Bardot - Ca pourrait changer

Dean Martin - Tonda Wonda Hoy

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Vanessa from Queens

Eric Matthews - Fanfare

Number One Cup - Divebomb

The Clash - Wrong Em Boyo

Spoon - Finer Feelings

Otis Redding - I'm A Changed Man

Parliament - Testify

Sandy Gaye - Watch The Dog That Bring The Bone

Jean Jacques Perrey - Gossipo Perpetuo

Mark Mothersbaugh - Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue Op

Mohammed Rafi - Jaan Pechechaan Ho

Yegelle Tezeta - My Own Memory

Georgia Gibbs - Kiss Of Fire (1966 version)

Bonzo Dog Band - Trouser Press

Luther Vandross - Never Too Much

Phil Collins and Phillip Bailey - Easy Lover

I've put as many of these as I could find in a Spotify playlist. Spotify appears to be really bad on mid-90s American indie (Eric Matthews, Number One Cup) - who knew?

As I may have mentioned before, the burdens of real world finance have caused me to get a day-job, albeit a really cool one. I work for Greenbelt, an annual music and arts festival, writing their blog, managing volunteer teams, updating their website and generally being a nuisance.

An upshot of this is that I get to make fun things like the following...

My girlfriend used to work for Greenbelt and so, as a joke, some friends of hers bought her the Sylvanian Families marquee for Christmas. She took a few photos, called it Bunnybelt, and then we started thinking... we should do this properly.

So here are five films about Bunnybelt, all of which parody the extraordinary combination of faith, arts and justice that Greenbelt actually gives the world... We're horribly ungrateful like that...