Playing at Bang! for the first time in three years was definitely strange, if only because, when I left, Interpol's "PDA" had just stopped clearing the dancefloor and I never would have played AFI. Some things never change, though, like the kids who grab the bars in front of the DJ booth window and do pull-ups to try and request a song while yours truly (who suffers from Oldest Child Syndrome and is therefore overly cautious about everything) tries to yell over the music, "Get down from there!"
The night definitely kicked ass. Lots of old regulars were in the house, including Holly and Carlos, who used to always show up early so that they could dance to stuff like The The, and Daniella, who loved Pulp album tracks. A good chunk of the PDP-posse showed up, including our elusive webmistress Kar3n.
The big hits of the night were "Cobrastyle" from Teddybears, Kill Hannah's cover of "Under the Milky Way" and "Valentine" by Delays. The old-school Bang! hit was Morrissey's classic "Sister I'm a Poet." Specifically, I played that for my friend S.P. Morrissey, who was a regularly since the club's inception. As the alias indicates, he is a major Morrissey fan and, as the story goes, back in the old days he kept bugging me to play "Sister I'm a Poet." Finally, we made an agreement (that I thought was just a joke) that I would play "Sister I'm a Poet" if S.P. showed up in a Catholic school girl uniform. The next week he showed up in complete Our Lady of Perpetual Moz garb and so I busted out the song and the whole crowd went nuts. It was a staple for sometime after that. So, S.P. was on stage at the end of the night throwing me Moz signals occasionally enhanced by a barely audible cry of "Where the fuck is my Morrissey song?" I held out on the song as long as possible, just because his pleas were so entertaining. S.P. actually didn't know that I had intended to play "Sister I'm a Poet" for him and I think I actually did hear him scream when it faded in over the speakers.
After the club had ended, My brother and I headed down to Del Taco with Kar3n in tow and met up with Balthazar Monsoon, Daniel and our friend Tony. Ten years ago, Kar3n, Daniel, Tony and I were part of a big group that inhabited Del Taco most Wednesdays after Helter Skelter and most Thursdays after Perversion. As we tried to find a booth that wasn't completely filthy, I remarked, "I don't remember it ever being this disgusting in here."
"Liz, I'm pretty sure we just didn't care back then," Tony replied.
Anyhow, here's the setlist.

Set 1: (11- Midnight)
Lady Sovereign-- Random
Franz Ferdinand-- Take Me Out (Daft Punk Edit)
Teddybears-- Cobrastyle
The Faint-- Paranoia Attack
Wolfmother-- Woman (MSTRKRFT Mix)
She Wants Revenge-- Tear You Apart
Bloc Party-- Two More Years (MSTRKRFT Mix)
The Killers-- Somebody Told Me (Mylo Mix)
Fischerspooner-- Emerge
Peaches-- Boys Want to Be Her
Shiny Toy Guns-- Don't Cry Out
Interpol-- PDA
Yeah Yeah Yeahs-- Gold Lion
Gorillaz-- Feels Good, Inc.

Set 2: (1-2)
Scissor Sisters v. Mylo-- Drop the Numb
Shiny Toy Guns-- Le Disko
MIA-- Bucky Done Gun
Soho Dolls-- Stripper
The Faint-- Your Retro Career Has Melted
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-- By the Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
AFI-- The Missing Frame
Delays-- Valentine
Kill Hannah-- Under the Milky Way
Pixies-- Velouria
Morrissey-- Sister I'm a Poet
Pulp-- Sorted for Es and Whizz
Scissor Sisters-- Take Me Out
Lush w/Jarvis Cocker-- Ciao!
Editors-- Laresistance

On a final note, last night was probably the only time you'll ever hear me play the same song twice ("Take Me Out") and that was only because Scissor Sisters cover is so far removed from the original that it kind of takes some time to realize that it's a Franz Ferdinand song. Plus, I had been wanting to play closing at a club for some time just so I could get it in and none of my little DJ rules could ever keep me from playing that.