More gold from Not Not Fun, this time a collaboration from the coolest characters in the game, LA Vampires and Ital (Daniel from Mi Ami/Sex Worker).

LA Vampires feat. Ital - Streetwise from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.

Thanks to all who came down to Go Bang! and made it another great night of dancing and dodgy mixing. Big congratulations to Birthday Sex on a storming first gig, reckon you’ll be hearing a lot about these guys in future - remember, you saw ‘em here first!

Here are a few photos taken by Claire Leonard - 

And here is a selection of what I remember playing - 

LA Vampires & Zola Jesus - Looking In

Cluster - Rotor

Legowelt - Ocean Arrow

The Leather Nun - FFA

Big Black - The Model

Super Wild Horses - Fifteen

Happy Refugees - Screaming and Shouting

Indian Jewelry - Bombing Nightclubs

Publicist - Momma

Arthur Russell - This is How We Walk on the Moon (Youth Edit)

Jimmy Edgar - Hush

Chandeliers - Sugarscoop

Catcall - Swimming Pool

Tussle - Elephants Meandering 

Mi Ami - Echo

Allez Allez - She Stirring Up (Optimo RMX)

Storm Queen - Look Right Through

Midnight Savari - Rimshots

Bush Tetras - Stand Up and Fight

Gay Marvine - To Hell With Cheap Wine

Mathematiques Modernes - Disco Rough

Magnetic Soul - Blue Flame

Hell Interface - Midas Touch

We’re back next month with something special.

Go Bang! was ace on Saturday night - great crowd, great atmosphere. Thanks to Patrick Kelleher for playing, Simon Mateer for doing sound and the 250-300 punters who crammed into the Deer’s Head and danced the bit out. Here are a few cool photos of Patrick, taken by Claire Miskimmin -

And here is some of what I can remember playing, in no order:

Soft Metals - The Cold Word Melts

Sonic Youth - Making the Nature Scene

Oreda - To the Sea

Scorpion Violente - Viol Et Revanche

Black Dice - Smiling Off (DFA RMX)

Los Massieras - Alrighty!

Krikor - God Will Break It All

//Tense// - Turn It Off (Valis RMX)

Trans Am - Apparent Horizon

Silicon Teens - You Got Me

Sarsparilla - Pop N Rock

Liaisons Dangereuses - Puet Etre…Pas

New Order - Temptation

Discodeine - Hypnotize

Dirtbombs - Good Life

Publicist - Chain Gang

Mi Ami - Hard Up

Sexual Harassment - Exercise Your Ass Off

Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault RMX)

Dinosaur L - Go Bang!

Jump - Funkatarium

David Bowie - New Career in Town

Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk?

Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Live)

We’re back on Saturday 19th March with some special guests, see you then.

It is a real Daniel Martin-McCormick love-in at Deformative this week but he is one of the most inspiring people making music right now, so what of it. I’ve loved watching the evolution of Mi Ami over the last few years - from the raucous tropicalia of their African Rhythms 12”, which was then stretched to new lengths on their debut album Watersports.

…to the A Towers Fall and Cut Men/Out At Night 12” that followed and gave a glimpse of both the intense, frantic rhythms and dubbed-out soundscapes that would make-up second album, Steal Your Face.

“Cut Men”

And now, after dropping a member, the band have taken the route already traversed by Martin-McCormick in his Sex Worker and Ital projects and become a leftfield, party-jam duo, as evidenced on new 12” Dolphins. Here’s the video for Hard-Up, directed by Amanda Brown (Pocahaunted/LA Vampires/NNF/100% Silk), and you can listen to the rest of the tracks on Mi Ami’s SoundCloud.

Mi Ami - Hard Up from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

Dolphins is out on the 15th March through Thrill Jockey.