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About Me

Unpop. Weird Pop. Pop gone wrong. Beautifully errored Pop with a glitch in its component parts.From post-Nazi polysexual alien kabuki robots to lesbian teen runaway lovers fleeing the Lilya 4-Ever dystopia of dead-Communist Russia. A gorgeous parade of heroes and villains, misfits and mis-shapes marginalised by an industry where every little star is slung back on the production line and pulped into homogenic pop putty, ready to be remoulded into more Wills and Gareths. Even Kylie, Pop’s own ass-wielding hologram redeemer, could only cheat her fate at the cold hands of Nick Cave, a rock and a pool, gloriously reincarnating herself forever as a typeface (German Bold Italic).Unpop is soundbite slogan shorthand for a kind of Outsider Pop. It’s a badge, a clubhouse, a heterotopia – the name of a better time and place, a world that never quite existed, except perhaps in Leiji Matsumoto’s head and Dickon Edwards’ hair. In Unpop Klaus Nomi and Jobriath were never slain by AIDS before their rightful thrones were cruelly snatched away by metteur en scene’s, in Unpop Gary Numan *did* die in that plane crash and thankfully never got to hear Nine Inch Nails. Why Pop? Because it’s the only genuinely rootless music. The only music that actively abhors atavism and all the fake guitar-smashing that goes with it. It’s the only music that thinks starjumps are fucking cool.Every so often a ‘what-the-fuck??’ solar flare of weirdness erupts from its cold, controlled landscape. These chancers are the Unpop avatars. Some of them were visionaries, most just dared to be wrong in a world where wrongness (unstraightness, ungreyness, uniqueness) is sent to the showers and the charity shop bargain bins.Some of them had Number 1’s. Most had their flame pissed out before that ‘difficult’ second single. They *all* desperately, heroically, wanted to be wanted.Unpop is NOT about kitsch, it’s about finding style, sensitivity and intelligence in the uncoolest of all musics.All Pop, All Style.

My Interests

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The above blurb was an introductory manifesto to Unpop - a DJ night which ran at the Penthouse in Brighton from 2003 to 2006. Unpop was never meant to be a DJ night. Unpop was meant to be a book.Maybe one day we'll get round to it. Until then you can read David's writing on the subject of weird pop music in publications such as The Guardian, Dazed & Confused, Metal Hammer (honestly), Plan B, Loose Lips Sink Ships, "NC" magazine, and, of course, on this myspace blog.We are available to play records no one else could ever love, day and night.

My Blog

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Borrowed & Blue (or all the songs I never heard)
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:42:00 GMT

John Darnielle’s Master Of Reality - a free sampler

Readers of Pitchfork will know that the frankly magnificent Mr John Darnielle has made the introduction of his forthcoming 33 1/3 book on Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality available to anyone who emai...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:29:00 GMT

WANTED: BANDMATES

Wanted: people to make music with on Sundays.Musical experience and/or knowledge not required.Influences: Disco Inferno Xiu Xiu Piano Magic James Hetfield Sunn O))) Weaponry Listens To Love-era Huggy ...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:02:00 GMT

DOMESTIC ABUSE POP

'Just to give a little, gives a flame to the fire inside!' implores Daniel Rachel, grinning, as he strums an acoustic guitar around a garish bingo hall. 'Let it be mine! Let it be mine!'  &nbs...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:06:00 GMT

HADOUKEN!

Hadouken! Not Here To Please You       Fuck. It's really good.       There are a lot of misinterpretations about Hadouken! The...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:41:00 GMT

ROBYN - Bush Hall, London

      OK, so Robyn has re-signed to a major label, prompting the third issuing of an album that we first heard the best part of three years ago. And yes, I'm aware more th...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:21:00 GMT

WANTED: DANCING PARTNER

Wanted: dancing partner for nightclubs, parties, promenades.Daytime, nighttime or early morning dancing. Straight or intoxicated. Brighton or London.I feel lonely and want to start feeling l...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:27:00 GMT

The Olde Peculiar

Me and Heidi Heelz are spinning tunes at John Doran's new The Olde Peculiar night in London Town on Sunday evening. See myspace.com/theoldepeculiar for more info on the night, which is held every wee...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:09:00 GMT

Andy & Rohan - get together

  apologies for the lack of blog posts recently, in light of events writing inane babble about popular culture suddenly seemed a lot more unimportant. on which note... our good fried jim brackp...
Posted by on Thu, 31 May 2007 10:47:00 GMT

MAKE MOTION MATTER!!

Please come to Make Motion Matter at the Penthouse (above the freebutt) on Thursday. I will be DJing with Andy Puffinboy from 8-12pm. From me, expect: Animated Egg, Basic Channel stuff, Black Devil, ...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:03:00 GMT