Six Hours At Blossom Street

Last Sunday three fifths of the Flightpath Estate DJ team (myself, Dan and Martin) played a six hour, vinyl only set at Blossom Street Social, a bar in Ancoats. We had a great time, a few people came down and seemed to enjoy the tunes. The idea was to celebrate the music and influences of Andrew Weatherall, so his music and remixes were obviously going to feature heavily in the setlist. The technical set up in the bar is first class- a pair of Technics 1210 turntables and a beautiful rotary mixer. The set was recorded live from the mixer and went up on Mixcloud yesterday. You can listen to it here. 

The session, which in Weatherall style/ homage we dubbed The First Mission, was six hours of unrehearsed live performance. It is therefore filled with moments of idiosyncratic charm. One person's idiosyncratic charm is of course another person's mistake (or total fucking mess) but if we were to do it again there are a few things we'd want to iron out. The second track in, my second record, Richard Norris' remix of Mark Peters' Sundowning, is a 33rpm record which I played at 45. I might have got away with this if Dot Allison's vocals two thirds of the way into the song weren't clearly too fast and too high. Embarrassingly I followed this with my next record, the ambient mix of Miranda Sex Garden's Gush Forth My Tears (by The Orb's Thrash) at 33 when it is a 45. Less noticeable but still, amateurish stuff. In my defence, I couldn't get the headphones working at this point and was busy sorting records out. Fortunately, the next tune, Malcolm McLaren's Madame Butterfly is played at the correct speed, as are the next four, at which point I handed over to Dan. Here I am pictured wondering what this knob does....

More pictures- from the top Andrew Weatherall's remix of Galliano's Skunk Funk spinning, part of a dubby section I played three hours in. It was during this section that, with the headphones now working, I managed to put on the Leo Mas and Fabrice remix 291out's Hannabera at 33rpm, switch it up to 45 and then change it back to the correct speed of 33. Below that Dan at the decks, shortly before being told off for playing customer frightening electro slightly too loud for a Sunday afternoon and then below that Dan and Martin, one of them possibly about to catch the stylus and bounce it off the surface of the record with a loud scratching clunk noise. The full tracklist is at the bottom. The mixing, rpm issues, stylus being bounced off by shirt sleeves and general incompetence are all our own work. The music is impeccable. 

{Adam} [0:00] Andy Bell - The Sky Without You (David Holmes Radical Mycology Remix) [6:00] Mark Peters- Sundowning (Richard Norris Remix) * wrong speed [11:00] Miranda Sex Garden- Gush Forth My Tears (Ambient Remix) * wrong speed [18:00] Sunsonic- Innocent Man [23:00] Peace Together – Be Still (Sabres Of Paradise Remix) [34:00] Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly [40:00] AMOR - Unravel [46:00] Scott Fraser - A Life Of Silence [53:00] Beth Orton - Galaxy Of Emptiness [57:00] IWDG - In A Lonely Place (David Holmes Remix) {Dan} [1:01:00] Spiritualized - Come Together (Two Lone Swordsmen Mix) [1:11:00] Sabres Of Paradise - Edge 6 [1:16:00] Creation Rebel & New Age Steppers - Chemical Specialist [1:20:00] Tackhead - Now What? [1:27:00] Solar Bears - Separate From The Arc (Andrew Weatherall Mix 1) {1:28:00} {Dan twats stylus} [1:31:00] Sabres Of Paradise - Ballad Of Nicky McGuire [1:39:00] Eyes Of Others - Once, Twice, Thrice [1:42:00] Pleasure Pool - Modern Nature [1:46:00] Scott Fraser - Together More [1:55:00] Phil Kieran - Find Love (Andrew Weatherall Remix) {Martin} [2:02:00] Chris & Cosey - October (Love Song) [2:05:00] Two Lone Swordsmen - Get Out Of My Kingdom [2:12:00] Pete Molinari - Hang My Head In Shame [2:16:00] Johnny Bond - All I Can Do Is Cry [2:17:00] Buddy Greco - They Took John Away [2:20:00] Billy Fury - Don't Jump [2:23:00] Two Lone Swordsmen - No Girl In My Plan [2:29:00] David Holmes - I Heard Wonders (Andrew Weatherall Remix) [2:35:00] Summerisle Trio - Willow's Song {2:35:30} {Martin twats stylus} [2:40:00] Skylab - Seashell [2:46:00] Love T.K.O. - For What It's Worth [2:52:00] Two Lone Swordsmen - Brother Foster Through The Phones [2:55:00] New Order - Regret (Sabres Slow N Lo) {Adam} [3:02:00] St. Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix Of Two Halves) [3:06:00] Meatraffle - Meatraffle On The Moon (Andrew Weatherall Remix) [3:13:00] The Liminanas - Garden Of Love (Lundi Mouille Mix) [3:16:00] Richard Sen - Songs Of Pressure (Asphodells Remix) [3:19:00] The Sexual Objects- Sometimes (Andrew Weatherall Remix) [3:22:00] Galliano- Skunk Funk (The Soldiers Mix) [3:27:00] The Clash - Street Parade [3:30:00] Baris K - 200 (Asphodells Remix) {3:33:00} {Adam plays with the 33/45 selector} [3:34:00] 291out- Hannabera (Leo Mas and Fabrice Remix) [3:39:00] The Vendetta Suite - Purple Haze, Yellow Sunrise (David Holmes Remix)

{Dan} [3:45:00] Stereo MC's - Everything (Everything Grooves Pt.2) [3:55:00] LCMDF - Gandhi (Weatherall Remix 2) [4:01:00] Pleasure Pool - Ask Your Body [4:07:00] Curses - Ghost Of Arms [4:11:00] New Order - Your Silent Face {Martin} [4:17:00] Mike Garry & Joe Duddell - St Anthony: An Ode to Anthony H Wilson (Andrew Weatherall Remix) [4:25:00] Sam Roberts Band - We're All In This Together (Andrew Weatherall Remix) [4:30:00] Mugwump - Until You're Worth It (Andrew Weatherall Remix) [4:35:00] Primal Scream - Come Together (7" Edit)

{Adam} [4:39:00] A Certain Ratio - Do The Du [4:42:00] Crocodiles - Foolin' Around [4:45:00] Echo & The Bunnymen - Angels And Devils [4:49:00] Andrew Weatherall - Kicking The River [4:52:00] Wooden Shjips - Crossing (Andrew Weatherall Remix) [4:55:00] Moon Duo - White Rose [5:01:00] Silver Apples - Edge Of Wonder (Andrew Weatherall Remix)

{Dan} [5:08:00] Yello- Frautonium (Andrew Weatherall Warehouse Remix) [5:16:00] Andrew Weatherall- The Moton 5.2 {Martin} [5:22:00] The Orielles - Sugar Tastes Like Salt (Andrew Weatherall Remix) [5:25:00] Bocca Juniors - Raise (DJ History 7" Mix) [5:30:00] Primal Scream - Don't Fight It Feel It (Scat Mix) [5:36:00] Sabres Of Paradise - Smokebelch (Beatless) {Adam} [5:38:00] Carly Simon - Why

At this point having decided that full on Sunday evening Balearic dance action was the way forward I had the Tribal Remix of Pete Wylie's Sinful cued up and ready to play, but Dan and Martin had both just departed and my driver arrived outside and that was that, end of session, time to pack up and go home. But I think we will definitely do it again at some point.