Preview tomorrow’s playlist!

One of DJ Cool Britt’s usually hot mixes!  See ya there!

We Gotta Get Out of This Place    3:16    The Animals
Rebel Rebel    4:32    David Bowie
Crosstown Traffic    2:19    The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Start Me Up    3:34    The Rolling Stones
Jump Around    3:36    House Of Pain
Bust a Move    4:22    Young M.C.
American Woman    3:53    The Guess Who
El Matador    4:33    Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Hella Good    4:03    No Doubt
Work It Out (Radio Edit)    3:22    Beyoncé
Groove Me    4:16    Angie Stone
Que’ Onda Guero    3:29    Beck
Pump It Up    3:17    Elvis Costello
Baby Fratelli    3:57    The Fratellis
Private Eyes (Remastered)    3:37    Daryl Hall & John Oates
I’m Coming Out    3:56    Diana Ross
Body Movin’    3:04    Beastie Boys
The Fun Lovin’ Criminal    3:12    Fun Lovin’ Criminals
B.O.O.G.A.L.O.O.    3.46    Big Boss Man
Secret Agent Man    3:07    Johnny Rivers
He’s Misstra Know It All [1973]    5:34    Stevie Wonder

The Blog is back

Sorry to my guest DJ’s who’ve been waiting to see their play lists up here…I had brain surgery, what’s your excuse?

Here’s DJ Bex, from the end of March:

You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away 2:10 Eddie Vedder
Let’s Get It Started 3:37 Black Eyed Peas
Sweet Dreams 3:04 Eurythmics
Take Me Out 3:57 Franz Ferdinand
Only The Good Die Young 3:57 Billy Joel
Heart Of Glass 4:20 Blondie
The Golden Path 4:48 Chemical Brothers
Eye of the tiger 3:51 Survivor
Let’s Dance 4:10 David Bowie
Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu) 3:03 Dean Martin
Suavemente 4:27 Elvis Crespo
Don’t Stop Believing 4:11 Journey
And She Was 3:39 Talking Heads
Rock the Casbah 3:40 The Clash
Androgyny 3:12 Garbage
Clandestino 2:28 Manu Chao
I Ran 3:34 A Flock of Seagulls
Crazy 2:58 Gnarls Barkley
I get a kick out of you 3:15 Frank Sinatra
Carnivalia 4:17 Tribalistas
I Will Survive 5:11 Cake Fashion Nugget Rock

Prince, Prince, Prince, Prince, Prince,Prince, Prince.

Alas, I never made it to the library to get those Aretha CD’s for our planned theme day. DJ YaYa will debut later.  Though it pains me to admit it, I don’t own any Prince CD’s. DL, the Marketing Director at Perishable Theatre, our esteemed location, loaned me her collection. With so much great material to choose from, I decided it was time to make it up to The Purple One by creating a mix in which, literally, every other song was Prince:

We also broke last week’s attendance record with 14 ladies! Kudos to our new pal who brought 3 friends.

BTW, if you were wondering about our leapday playlist by Cool Britt, here it is:

Stray Cat Strut 3:16 Stray Cats
A Message to You Rudy 2:53 The Specials
Material Girl 3:53 Madonna
We Both Reached for the Gun 3:58 Christine Baranski, Rick Negron & Taye Diggs Chicago
Concrete and Clay 2:17 Unit 4 + 2
Going Underground 2:56 The Jam
Higher Ground [1973] 3:43 Stevie Wonder
Laid 2:39 James
Carrie-Anne 2:54 The Hollies
Manic Monday 3:05 The Bangles
Here Comes My Baby 3:05 The Tremeloes
Dreadlock Holiday 5:03 10cc
Here’s That Rainy Day 3:31 Astrud Gilberto & Koop
Whatta Man 4:56 Salt ‘n’ Pepa with En Vogue
My Wife’s Nightie 2:37 Lord Kitchener
Night Fever 3:29 Bee Gees
Can’t Get Used to Losing You 3:02 The English Beat
Groove Is In the Heart 3:52 Deee-Lite
It’s Not Unusual (Single) 2:02 Tom Jones
Disco Inferno (Single Edit) 3:34 The Trammps
Trick or Treat 3:11 Otis Redding
Willkommen 1:26 Nigel Planer & Toyah Willcox Cabaret
The Munster’s Theme 2:14 Jack Marshall
The Girl from Ipanema 2:46 Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto & Stan Getz
Thank You for the Music 3:51 ABBA
Danke Schoen 2:37 Wayne Newton

Lucky 13

Last night broke DDPPProv attendance records–13 ladies came downtown, climbed all six flights of stairs and shook it all night long (well, until 7PM) to DJ Buddmobile’s goofily diverse playlist. Imagine a mess o’grown ass women juimping around, shouting along to “Fight for Your Right (to Party)” and making almost as much racket as the Thursday afternoon b-boy practice session.

Dancin’ Rebecca took a trip to DDPPBoston last weekend and told us all about how they have a dress up box of boas and such. So the Buddmobile dove into a closet and pulled out boxes of accoutrements that burlesque artiste Lady Miss Iris stores at the studio. Awesome! LMI won’t leave her gear there forever, though, so ladies, bring in your old glamourpuss goodies and we’ll build up a permanent stash.

DJ Cool Britt snapped pics of it all so you can see what’s like to have this much fun!

DJ Cool Britt–now your official co-hostess

The only place in town where you can hear The Donnas AND The Cell Block Tango in the same 90 minutes welcomes DJ Cool Britt as our offical co-Den Mother.

Cool Britt (aka Sarah) is sweet tempered, wicked funny, and brings along a mighty fine stash of 80’s/90’s pop know-how from across the pond.  I mean SERIOUSLY her first concert experience was ERASURE for gods sake.  Yes!

Now more about tomorrows playlist: frankly,  I don’t know why more places DON’T use the above artist combination.  I’ve also got Madonna & Loretta Lynn tunes for you to look forward to.  It’s like a kick-ass genre free radio station.

Later this month, DJ YaYa will debut with a very special “Aretha”mix.  I can’t wait!

In other news, I’ll be out for a big chunk o’ April getting brain surgery (yeah, you read it right), but never fear, Cool Britt is gonna keep you dancin’.  Now help the gal out by volunteering to DJ, will ya?

Valentine’s Hangover?

DDPP Feb. 15 rocked. Just plain rocked. Thanks DDPP Chicago for referring your friend, a new Providence resident.

Next week, dance with guest hostess, DJ Cool Britt (but you can call her Sarah).  DJ Buddmobile, your usual hostess, will be out of town.

Here’s the playlist:

DJ Cool Britt, our first guest DJ, and PARKING

Well, I’ve been slackin’ in the blog-o-sphere for a couple of weeks, but we’ve been dancin’ every week all the same. Last week DDPP Prov regular Sarah became DJ Cool Britt and brought a killer mix that had us cheering after each tune! Rock on.

Be not afraid of the parking, ladies! At our start time, folks are leaving work and chances are, you can find a FREE on street parking space. Just put your car in any legal metered space and don’t bother plugging it. The meter maids got off work hours ago. And if you work in downtown Prov, leave your car where it is and walk on over to Empire Street. By the time you leave, rush hour is DONE, girl. You’ll have any easy drive back to where ever to start your Friday night.

See ya in the studio.

Sunshine Superman 4:32 Donovan
Hot Love 4:58 T Rex
Carolina 5:54 Seu Jorge
Blister in the Sun 2:24 Violent Femmes
Theme from “The Apartment” 2:27 Tito Rodriguez
Rock the Casbah 3:40 The Clash
Mais Que Nada 2:42 Brasil ‘66 & Sergio Mendes
Jive Talkin’ 3:45 Bee Gees
Don’t Get Me Wrong 3:49 The Pretenders
Sunday Girl 3:15 Blondie
Queen Bitch 3:19 David Bowie
Stetch your rubber band 2:40 The Meters
Lunatique 2:13 Stereo Total
Cross the Tracks (We Better Go Back) 3:19 Maceo and The Macks
Gone Daddy Gone 3:06 Violent Femmes
Don’t Bring Lulu 2:57 Bobby Short
Our Lips Are Sealed 2:46 The Go-Go’s
Happy Hour 2:22 The Housemartins
Wild Wild Life 3:40 Talking Heads
In between days 2:59 The Cure
Agua de Beber (1965 Album Version) 2:22 Antonio Carlos Jobim
Love Will Tear Us Apart 3:11 Joy Division
Ain’t That a Kick in the Head 2:25 Dean Martin
Sweet Jane (Live) 4:01 The Velvet Underground

Week 2!

Aww yeah, the yellow & green slide in the Liquid Light Projector. Pretty new faces and charming repeat customers. Fabu Brit Sarah was there–we LOVE the way she says “dahncedahnceepahtypahty.” And Karen danced the meanest Charleston I’ve ever seen to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. See you next week when you’re like to hear “Don’t Tell Mama” from Cabaret and Pat Powdrill & the Powerdrills along with your fave booty shakin’ hits from 1950 to present.

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“You know you had fun at the party when you forget your handbag!”

9 bad ass gals braved pouring rain and nasty downtown parking to tear it up at our first DDPP. It was awesome. But it will be even more awesome if you join us next week. There’s lot’s of room in the studio and the Liquid Light Projector which makes you look like the opening credits of a James Bond flick.

Everybody really shook it to Louie Louie and That’s Amore had us all giggling.

Here’s our playlist:

Temptation - New Order
People Are People - Depeche Mode
Theme From “Shaft” / Isaac Hayes - Isaac Hayes
Reflections - The Supremes
Where The Streets Have No Name (Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You) - Pet Shop Boys
Venus - Bananarama
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Big Bottom - Spinal Tap
Rock ‘n Roll All Nite - Kiss
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
I Fought The Law (El Paso Version) - Fuller, Bobby
ABC - Jackson 5
All Day And All Of The Night - The Stranglers
Skullbucket - Southern Culture On The Skids
Misirlou - Dick Dale
Hello From Istanbul - Red Elvises
I Wanna See You Bellydance - Red Elvises
Somebody Told Me - The Killers
She’s Crafty - Beastie Boys
Let’s Spend The Night Together - The Rolling Stones
Wonder Woman - Super Heros Invasion
You Can’t Hurry Love - The Supremes
That’s Amore - Dean Martin

Come dance every Friday, 5:30-7.  Perishable Theatre, 3rd floor dance studio.   See you next week, gorgeous!

Wait, make that January 11!! One week earlier!

Well, gals, I have a major work showing on January 18, so we’re gonna get this goin’ earlier.  So mark your calendars and BE THERE to launch this baby on Janauary 11.

BTW, I’m lookin’ for an assistant.  Because, in the immortal words of Velma Kelley (or rather Kander & Ebb) I can’t do it alone.

The DDPP Prov pad-nuh must have the skills & equipment to burn 80 minute dance mix CD’s (we’ll be taking turns doing the play list), be gracious, welcoming and make particpants feel comfortable, be prepared to check shoe cleanliness at the entrance to the dance studio, and organized enough to handle the cash when I’m not available.  CD collection that fills in the 80’s-90’s “top 40″ gaps in my own a plus.  Interested parties reply to classes@perishable.org.