diy post-punk, avant-pop, Belgian beer, art-punk, minimal synth, Belgian beer, strange German music from the 70s, Belgian beer, shoegaze/wall-of-sound, bands influenced by King Tubby, Belgian beer, are you starting to get the idea? ;)
Music
Antifamily, Petit Mal, Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts, Cause Co-Motion!, The Tea Set, Metropak, X Ray Pop, Drinking Electricity, The Urinals, Edith Nylon, The Cravats, Faust, The Birthday Party, Joy Division/New Order, The Wake, Crispy Ambulance, The Chameleons, Abecedarians, Cocteau Twins, Lowlife, Disco Inferno, Ulrich Schnauss, Alcian Blue, Sonic Youth, Jeff and Jane Hudson, (early) House of Love, The Sound/The Second Layer, The Antiques, Shiny Two Shiny, The Passions, Skydivers, Whirlywirld, Gary Numan, Surface Mutants, Fire Engines, The Fall, Gang of Four, Malaria!, Cheveau, Scientists, Big Hair, The Actor, Piano Magic, Mahogany, For Against, Pink Industry, The Lines, The Passage, Portion Control, Wire/Colin Newman/He Said, Genders, Limp, The Teardrop Explodes, Public Image Limited, A Popular History of Signs, Cabaret Voltaire, Club Tango, Delta 5, The Mo-dettes, Essential Logic, The Slits, The Wedding Present, The Wolfhounds, McCarthy, Love Is All, The Violets, The Long Blondes, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Tronics/The Zarjaz, Glaxo Babies, Transmitters, PragVEC, Au Pairs, Neu Deutsche Welle, lots of bands from Australia and New Zealand...
Movies
Almost anything from Terry Gilliam (especially Brazil), Blade Runner: The Director's Cut, Donnie Darko, Wings of Desire, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz...really we could spend all day on this one.
Television
Dr. Who, The Prisoner, The Office (UK), Flight of the Conchords, The British Comic Strip
Books
Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds. No Wave by Marc Masters. No Wave Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980. by Byron Coley and Thurston Moore.
About me:
"One of the best ongoing dj nights in Washington DC!"
--- The Washington Post's Going Out Gurus, June 2009.
"The most consistently interesting and remarkable dj night going." --- William Alberque, BrightestYoungThings.com, April 2008.
Championed by the likes of WashingtonPost.com, On Tap Magazine, Wonkette and The Onion. Voted by SPIN magazine as one of the 101 hottest things to do in the U.S. (but don't let that deter you!)
On the first Friday of every month, DJs/record obsessives Brandon Grover and Rick Taylor host the ultimate celebration/listening party of left-of-center independent pop brilliance and post-punk weirdness. Who said Washington DC is a buttoned-down town?
THE NEXT WE FOUGHT THE BIG ONE IS FRI. DEC. 4! OUR GUEST DJs WILL BE OUTPOST, AKA STUART ARGABRIGHT(IKE YARD), MARK C (LIVE SKULL), AND KENT HEINE (HOLY GHOST)! WFTBO IS PRESENTING A SPECIAL LIVE SHOW WITH OUPOST ON SAT. DEC. 5 AT THE VELVET LOUNGE! ALSO PLAYING: SCREEN VINYL IMAGE, THE PLUMS AND BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT! DON'T MISS EITHER EVENT!
BTW, DO YOU HAVE A COPY OF OUR LATEST MIX CD? IF THE ANSWER IS YES, THEN YOU ARE A LUCKY SOD. THEY'RE ALL GONE NOW.
Who I'd like to meet: club sisters, dub sisters, all you kids and programmers...
If you are out on the West Coast this weekend, don't miss the second annual Part Time Punks festival in L.A.---it's going to be an incredible show! The Raincoats, Section 25, Medium Medium, Savage Republic, For Against, Crystal Stilts and loads of more amazing bands! I will be djing, along with Hugo Burnham and Dave Allen of Gang of Four, Dan Selzer (Acute Records), James Nice (LTM) and of course, the inimitable Michael Stock himself.
ey up rick! lovely to hear from you! thanks for rattling our cage again. please stay in touch with us poached eggs. even if we are on toast all the time! really good speaking with you and prattling on like snakes. love holly and David xx
So how do we get a petition started for an Empress of Sound guest DJ night? We bet that both Svitil & Goett would bring a nice mix to WFTBO!! See ya Friday...
A special DVD set of the February shows is now available to pre-order at the wire-sound shop
This strictly limited edition 2 disc, region free, PAL format DVD set will be shipped in June.
The ‘Real Life + Thereafter’ DVD contains the entire concert filmed at Manchester Academy …
PLUS … Extra features include ‘Feed The Enemy’ filmed at the rehearsals, an alternate take of ‘A Song From Under The Floorboards’ and exclusive images from the period …
PLUS … On the second CD disc, you get an audio recording straight from the desk of 11 songs from the show at The Forum, London …
PLUS … In the package, you get a free tour T-Shirt in any size you like ranging from Super Small to Mighty XL and all stops in between.
I probably do not have to tell you about this because attendance is mandatory... also, you should also check out our new song on our page, it will make you fluent in awesome.
Thank you R! You are pretty amazing yourself. I definitely will find joy and fulfillment. Everything is going to be incredible. Tell you more later. -lin.
