Early New Year's Eve Pre-pre (pre) show

Totally unannounced set at the Velvet. I should do these lists more often. Figure the odds.

Shameless plug time (click through to see in HD):


Godzilla of the Four Corners from Toomb Paine on Vimeo.



The playlist:

1. The Young Gods - Speak Low (5:13)
2. The Magnetic Fields - Swinging London (2:35)
3. Rasputina - In Old Yellowcake (4:05)
4. Yma Sumac - Malambo No. 1 (2:57)
5. Kevin Bloody Wilson - New Christmas Song (3:20)
6. Camera Obscura - Happy New Year (4:03)
7. John Valby - Frosty [Explicit] (1:15)
8. Bing Crosby - Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas) (2:55)
9. Louis XIV - Illegal Tender (Album/EP Version) (3:13)
10. Original Broadway Cast - Happy New Year (3:23)
11. Nina Gordon - New Year's Eve (3:28)
12. The Capitol Steps - Sunni Side Of Tikrit (2:25)
13. Saint Etienne - Kiss And Make Up (Album Version) (5:14)
14. Ben's Brother - Kiss Me Again (Stuttering) (3:23)
15. Camera Obscura - Anti-Western (3:10)
16. Pink Floyd - Any Colour You Like (3:25)
17. JAMES NEWTON HOWARD - De Profundis (From "The Sixth Sense") (2:23)
18. Stuart M. Frank - Liverpool Judies (Instrumental) (1:11)
19. Indigo Girls - Left Me A Fool (4:53)
20. Leszek Możdżer - Zapraszamy do Sekretariatu (1:13)
21. The Dreamside - Apaika (4:36)
22. Dialogue - You're My Wicked Life (1:14)
23. The Upsetters - Apeman Skank (2:29)
24. Céu - Lenda (4:17)
25. David Bowie - Leon Takes Us Outside (Album Version) (1:26)
26. The Magnetic Fields - Sugar World (3:19)
27. Jon Brion - Peer Pressure (1:12)
28. Patricia Kaas - L'enterrement de Sidney Bechet (3:04)
29. Yo La Tengo - Fourth Time Around (Album Version) (5:10)
30. Sarah McLachlan - Mary (3:55)
31. Blake Leyh - Apophenia (3:17)
32. Mary Gauthier - Drag Queens in Limousines (5:39)
33. Bert Jansch - The Bright New Year (1:28)
34. Ani DiFranco - In Or Out (3:06)
35. Teresa Stratas - Youkali Tango from Marie Galante (6:38)
36. Lucie Blue Tremblay - Getting Old (4:20)
37. Austin Lounge Lizards - Leonard Cohen's Day Job (4:42)
38. Zeb - The Tango I Saved for You (from the film Gaily, Gaily) (Zeb's The Tango I Stole From You Remix) (5:13)
39. Donovan - Legend of a Girl Child Linda (6:56)
40. Sinéad O'Connor - Jah Nuh Dead (3:20)

Impromptu, Traditional and Not Trad

Playlist from an impromptu set at the Velvet, Wednesday, 5 March

1. Clannad - Banba Oir (3:26)
2. Peter Gabriel - Before Night Falls (2:19)
3. Aimee Mann - Wise Up (3:31)
4. Christine Lavin - Somebody's Baby (3:51)
5. Roxy Music - Could it Happen to Me? (3:36)
6. Roxy Music - Nightingale (4:11)
7. Clannad - I Will Find You - Afterlife Mix (3:40)
8. Brave Combo - Who Stole The Kishka (1:57)
9. Christine Lavin - Downtown (3:38)
10. Brave Combo - Happy Wanderer (2:32)
11. John Fahey - Fight On Christians, Fight On (2:03)
12. Patty Griffin - You Never Get What You Want (3:42)
13. Le Tigre - Eau D'Bedroom Dancing (2:55)
14. Clannad - Caide Sin Do'n Te Sin (4:22)
15. Suzanne Vega - Machine Ballerina (2:57)
16. David Bromberg - I Want To Go Home (3:06)
17. Moby - Natural Blues (4:13)
18. Brave Combo - Jesusita En Chihuahua (1:43)
19. Moby - Extreme Ways (Bourne's Ultimatum) (4:22)
20. Tom Waits - I Wish I Was In New Orleans (4:53)
21. Arlo Guthrie - City Of New Orleans (5:24)
22. Roy Zimmerman - When the Saints Go Marching In to New Orleans (3:53)
23. Various Artists - Procession To Orleans (1:32)
24. Utah Philips & Ani DiFranco - Half A Ghost Town (4:22)
25. David Bromberg - Mrs. Delion's Lament (4:25)
26. Roxy Music - She Sells (3:39)
27. Christine Lavin - Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind (3:05)
28. Talking Heads - Stay Hungry (5:37)
29. Ben Folds Five - Satan Is My Master (1:33)
30. Harry Waller - Cockroaches On Parade (2:28)
31. Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk (4:44)
32. Dar Williams - February (3:54)
33. Talking Heads - Love Is All Around (3:42)
34. Randy Newman - Bless The Children Of The World (Remastered LP Version) (3:50)
35. Dar Williams - Highway Patrolman (6:12)
36. Cry Cry Cry - Cold Missouri Waters (4:34)
37. Cry Cry Cry - The Ballad of Mary Magdalen (5:22)
38. Dar Williams - I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono (3:39)
39. Liz Phair - Fuck And Run (3:07)
40. Stereo Action Unlimited - Hi-Fi Trumpet (Boys From Brazil Mix) (4:17)
41. Brave Combo - Crazy Serbian Butcher's Dance (1:50)
42. David Bromberg - Sheebeg And Sheemore (2:26)
43. Ani DiFranco - Two Little Girls (4:57)
44. Barry Louis Polisar - All I Want Is You (2:37)
45. James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Live) (3:14)
46. The Fort Knox Five - The Brazilian Hipster (3:47)
47. Fred Holstein - The Thanksgiving Song (2:52)
48. Harald Paulsen - Kanonensong (2:08)
49. Sophie B. Hawkins - Live And Let Love (4:13)
50. Frank Zappa - Help, I'm a Rock (4:43)
51. Scissor Sisters - It Can't Come Quickly Enough (4:39)
52. Talking Heads - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (2:15)
53. Madrugada - The Kids Are On High Street (4:57)
54. The Chieftains & Sinéad O'Connor - The Foggy Dew (5:20)
55. Madrugada - Ramona (3:55)
56. Brave Combo - I Could Have Danced All Night (4:18)
57. Joan Osborne - Dracula Moon (6:18)
58. Laurie Anderson - Language Is A Virus (4:15)
59. 及川リン - She Said from "Kamikaze Girls" (2:43)
60. John Gallagher Jr. & Boys - The Bitch of Living from "Spring Awakening" (2:53)
61. Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces (2:51)
62. Aimee Mann - You're With Stupid Now (3:29)