Ghetto Walkman cd players. Beat Street. Top Gear. The Boss. Kid Sister. Cosmic Trigger. Student loans. Yelle. NYC. Artefacts for Space Travel. Delilah the Hamster. Men of Good Fortune (sly...). Craig Template. the Skids. David Bowie as always. Mikey Dread. Cosmic Ordering. Ali's red 50s record player. Romantics. and of course, a bit of the old Led Zeppelin eh?
Music
We DJ this shit:
good old rock'n'roll, indie, electro, bubblegum pop, hip-hop, blitzkids-revivalist*, punk, post-punk, pre-punk, lover's rock, dancehall, soul, new-wave, alt, country, pop, weirdness, 60's garage/underground/psychadelia, motown, northern soul, reggae, 80s electronica, roots, glam, girl groups, and some other bits we feel you should hear...for the organized among us here's a bit of an alphabetical list of the things we listen to and play, by no means complete...
AC/DC, Adam and the Ants, Althea and Donna, Amboy Dukes, Amy Winehouse, the Angels, Andrew W.K., Animals, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Aretha Franklin, Artefacts for Space Travel, Bangles, Barbarians, Bat For Lashes, Babyshambles, Beach Boys, Beatles, Belle Stars, Betty Everett, Big Audio Dynamite, Billie Holiday, Billy Idol, Bishi, Blondie, Blur, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Blood Brothers, Bolt Action Five, Bonde do Role, Bon Jovi, Bow Wow Wow, Boy Kill Boy, Bravery, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Brothers Johnson, Bruce Springsteen (Janie's Dad), Buzzcocks, Byrds, Calvin Harris, Canned Heat, Carole King, Castaways, Charlatans, Chiffons, Chi-lites, Cheap Trick, Chubby Checker, Clash, Client, Cream, Cribs, Cryan Shames, CSS, Craig Template, Cripplers, Culture Club, Cure, Curtis Mayfield, Daedelus, Damned, Dandy Warhols, Dan le Sac, Datarock, David Bowie, the Dead Boys, Dead or Alive, Deep Purple, Del Shannon, Depeche Mode, Desmond Dekker, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Dictators, Digable Planets, Dillinger, Dirty Pretty Things, Dizzee Rascal, Doors, Dresden Dolls, Duke Spirit, Duran Duran, Dusty Springfield, the Easybeats, Echo and the Bunnymen, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Elastica, the Electric Prunes, the Electric City, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, the Enemy, Erasure, Faces, Flaming Lips, Florence and the Machine, Foals, Fontella Bass, Francoise Hardy, Franz Ferdinand, Fratellis, Friendly Fires, Foo Fighters, Futureheads, Fuzzbox, Gang of Four, Gang War, Gaslight Anthem, Girls Aloud, Gossip, Gorillaz, Grace Jones, Graham Coxon, Gram Parsons, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Guess Who, Guns'n'Roses, Haysi Fantayzee, Helen Love, Hole, Holloways, Horrors, Hot Chip, Human League, Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy on his own, Ike and Tina, Indelicates, Infadels, Interpol, INXS, Isley Brothers, Jackie Wilson, Jackson 5, the Jam, Jamie T, Janis Joplin, Jacques Brel, Jefferson Airplane, Jesse Malin, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Cliff, John Coltrane, Joan Jett, Joanna Newsom, Johnny Cash, Johnny Thunders on his lonesome, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Jonathan Richman, Joni Mitchell, Joy Division, Junior Murvin, Jurassic 5, Justice, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Kate Bush, Kate Nash, Kid Sister, Kills, the Killers, King Adora, Kinks, Klaxons, Knickerbockers, Kraftwerk, Kylie, Ladytron, Lady Bunny, Lady Sovereign, Late of the Pier, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zepplin (a lot of this, Jimmy Page is our patron saint), Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Lesley Gore, Lethal Bizzle, Libertines, Lily Allen, Lionheart Brothers, Littl'ans, Little Death, Long Blondes, Lord Creator, Lords of the New Church, Lou Reed, Love, Lovin' Spoonful, Lucky Soul, Lush, Madonna, Magicians, Magic Mushrooms, Manic Street Preachers, Mansun, Markeys, Mark Ronson, Martha Reeves, Marvin Gaye, Maximo Park, Maxine Brown, MC5, Melodians, Men of Good Fortune, M.I.A., Michael Jackson, Midnight Juggernauts, Mikey Dread, Miles Davis, Mink deVille, Misfits, Miss Kitten and the Hacker, Missouri Sex Offenders, Modern Lovers, Moe Tucker, Mojo Men, Mooney Suzuki, Morrissey, Motley Crue, Move, My Chemical Romance, Nancy Sinatra, Neil Young, New Order, New York Dolls, New Young Pony Club, Nicky Wilson, Nirvana, No Picasso, Noisettes, Nouvelle Vague, Oasis, OMD, Orange Juice, Otis Redding, PJ Harvey, Partyshank, Passions, Patrick Wolf, Patsy Cline, Pete and the Pirates, Peggy Sue and the Pirates (everybody's with the bloody pirates these days...), Pet Shop Boys, Pigeon Detectives, Public Image Ltd, Pink Floyd, Pipettes, Placebo, Pogues, Premiers, the Presets, Pretty Things, Prince Far I, Prince, Prince Buster, Psychadelic Furs, Public Enemy, Pulp, Queens of the Stone Age, Quiet Riot, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Raconteurs, the Raincoats, the Ramones, the Raveonettes, Ray Charles, Razorlight, Remains, the Replacements, Reverend & The Makers, Rezillos, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Rolling Stones, Ronettes, Roots, Roxy Music, the Rulers, Rumblestrips, Run-DMC, Runaways, Ryan Adams, Saints, Sam and Dave, Santogold, Scissor Sisters, Screaming Lord Sutch, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Sceaming Tea Party, Scritti Politti, Seeds, Semifinalists, Sex Pistols, Shadows of Knight, Shampoo, Shangri-las, Shimmy Rivers and and Canal, Shirelles, Shitdisco, Shy Child, Simian Mobile Disco, Sir Yes Sir, Slade, Slickers, Slits, Small Faces, Smiths, Soko, Sons and Daughters, Sonic Youth, Spandau Ballet, Specials, Spice Girls, Soft Cell, Soulwax, Sparks, Squeeze, St. Etienne, Standells, Stellastarr*, Stevie Wonder, Stone Roses, Strangeloves, Stranglers, Strawberry Switchblade, Stricken City, Strokes, Subway Sect, Suede, Sunshine Underground, Supergrass, Sweet, T Rex, Take That, Tears for Fears, Television, Termites, Test-Icicles, These New Puritans, Third Rail, Tom Waits, Tom Vek, Transvision Vamp, Turtles, Twisted Sister, Undertones, Uffie, theeeee Upsetters, Vanessa Paradis, Velvetettes, Velvet Underground, Vagrants, Vampire Weekend, View, Vincent Vincent and the Villains, VIP Party Boys, Visage, We Are Scientists, Weezer, Wham!, White Stripes, White Rose Movement, White Sport, Whitest Boy Alive, the Who, Wilco, Wombats, Wreckless Eric, X-Ray Spex, XX Teens, Yardbirds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Young Knives, the Zombies...and a lot more random shit that we've forgotten or have yet to discover...
Movies
Slash horrors, the bloodier the better. Beat Street! (Janie). Mostly anything by Woody Allen, or something about gangsters or the mafia (Ali)
Television
Top Gear. Sky News. Come Dine With Me. Documentaries about music or serial killers. A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex. Gavin & Stacey.
Books
Ali prefers books about serial killers... Janie reads books written by photographers for other people who can't read...
Shit about Cosmic Ordering...
Emails about how to make your penis XXXL size...
Heroes
Jimmy Page - the Patron Saint of the Poundland Dolls. John Bonham (Janie's personal guardian Angel), The Boss, Kate Bush, Joe Strummer, Marla Ruzicka, Johnny Thunders, David Bowie, Ali's cat Holly (RIP HOL), Janie's dog Max, Captain Kangaroo, Steve Strange & Rusty Egan, People who work at call centres, Steven Watts, Richard Hammond, Me & You.
"A new genre-defying mash-up night with a kitsch, retro twist, taking in everything from electro to northern soul via dub and glam from DJs Poundland Dolls"--Time Out Magazine.
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A brief history of the magic:
On 13th April 2004 Ali met Janie and the two became friends through a shared love of Pennie Smith, the Rocksteady Crew, Chas'n'Dave, and all things weird and crap. Fast-forward to 2006 and--hey!--they decided that the world badly needed another female DJing duo, and now. Ali (English Rose and the yin to Janie's yang) brought the rock'n'roll, burlesque dancing, do-wopp girl groups, amazing hair, over-expanding boobs, and Janie (America's sweetheart and the yang to Ali's yin) put her obsessive love of weirdness, strippers, 70s reggae, people with bad manners, and English punk records to good use...We fell into the Void of Freakdom (Walthamstow), hung around in there for a while...and TA-DAAAHLINGS! The Poundland Dolls were born
If you looked hard in the right places, you might have seen us around London Town. We have a a monthly residency at The Fly in New Oxford Street for Aloud.com/Gibson Guitars' Plugged nights and have graced the booths of Nambucca, Punk, Metro, 93Ft East, the Barfly, the Fly, The Embassy, random clubs all around town, plus our front room.
For band bookings at one of our nights, or if you're a promoter and you want us to DJ, contact us at poundlanddolls@live.co.uk or you can myspace message us of course!
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Who I'd like to meet: Woody Allen and anyone fucked up and vaguely interesting.
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