Here’s What I Played at Club Underground on November 10, 2023

Sign at Club Underground in Los Angeles that reads:
Underground x Interpol 
Room 1- Turn on the Bright Lights
Loads of Interpol, post-punk, indie, Britpop, synthpop, dark/new wave dance party (80s-today) w/DJ Larry G.
Room 2 — Antics
Post-punk, indie, Brit pop, synthpop, dark/new wave, goth dance party (80s -today) with DJ Liz O.
Underground loves you!!
clubundergroundla.com
I forgot to take pics last night, save for this one of a sign in the stairwell.

I don’t know what I’m most grateful for tonight. Was it the people at Club Underground who danced to the brand new Confidence Man tune? Was it the person who admitted listening to Confidence Man, who released one of my favorite albums of 2022, because of my sets? (BTW, Confidence Man is at the Echoplex on December 2.) Or, was it the trio who listened to my rant about how Chumbawamba were the working class heroes we needed, but we didn’t deserve them and now we’re stuck with capitalist icon Taylor Swift? Maybe it’s all that. 

I’m also grateful for a good amount of people who stayed on the dance floor for a new song from Spiritual Cramp, a band I had previously ignored because the name is such an obvious Christian Death reference and I figured they would be a really cheesy, overly dramatic goth band. However, Spiritual Cramp’s new self-titled album, which is actually the San Francisco band’s full-length debut, is great. It doesn’t sound at all like I thought it would. Hey, I can admit when I’m wrong. 

Anyhow, life is weird, you guys, but thanks for dancing. I’ll be at Underground next on December 8, which is my birthday. (My real, actual birthday, btw.) You should go. Anyhow, this is the set list from the second floor at Underground for Interpol Nite on November 11, 2023. 

Set List. 

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Ultraflex – Under the Spell

The Knife.- Marble House (Rex the Dog Remix)

Decisive Pink – Haffmilch Holiday

Pulp – Party Hard

Kraftwerk – Das Model 

Elastica – Da Da Da

Depeche Mode – Fools (Bigger)

Optometry – Chameleon

The Human League – Seconds

Gary Numan – Down in the Park

Suede – Filmstar

Pixies – Dig for Fire

The Sundays- Here’s Where the Story Ends

Japanese Breakfast – Be Sweet

Visage – Fade to Grey

LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great

The Horrors – Something to Remember Me By

Chromatics – Shadow (Maceo Plex Remix) (Original Mix)

Interpol  Cmere Josh Patrick Remix

The Sisters Of Mercy Lucretia My Reflection ExtendedRemastered

Marc Almond – Tears Run Rings (The La Magia Dance Mix)

Siouxsie and the Banshees – Dazzle (Glamour Mix)

OMD – Tesla Girls

Joy Division – Transmission

The Strokes -Reptilia

Martin Dupont – Inside Out

Spiritual Cramp – Talkin’ on the Internet 

Interpol – The Heinrich Maneuver 

Morrissey – First of the Gang to Die

Teenage Fanclub – Here Comes Your Man

Depeche Mode – Policy of Truth (request)

Daft Punk – Da Funk 

New Order  – Bizarre Love Triangle (Shep Pettibone Mix)

Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls (Original Bobby Orlando Mix)

The Human League – Don’t You Want Me (Purple Disco Machine Extended Mix)

Bucketheads – The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) (Armand Van Helden Re-edit)

Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At?

Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch (request)

Postal Service – Such Great Heights

The Cure – Close to Me

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Y Control 

The Killers – Mr. Brightside

Phoenix -1901 (Mike Balance ReRub)

Future Islands – For Sure

The Strokes – 12:51

Le Tigre – Deceptacon

Wet Leg- Chaise Longue

Molchat Doma – sudno (Boris Ryzhy)

The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers

New Order – Blue Monday

Confidence Man – Firebreak

Scissor Sisters vs. Mylo – Comfortably Numb Drop the Pressure

Blur – Girls and Boys

Tame Impala – Is It True (Twin Sun Edit)

Asha Puthli – I Am Song (Sing Me) (Yuksek Remix)

Liz O. is an L.A.-based writer and DJ. Read her recently published work and check out her upcoming gigs.

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