Keeping It Peel - John, But Not Forgotten: The Etc Set

Nearly a month has passed since Etc played at Keeping It Peel, John But Not Forgotten where their friends We GANG not only stole the show, but also Etc's setlist. We GANG packed it away with their stuff. Poor Harvey Etc had to do without. It took a while to suss what Etc actually played in the end. Amusingly they missed out songs they'd been working on for the night - alt version of 'Handphones on the Dancefloor' and a Joy Division song whose one-word title they continually mix up with other Joy Division songtitles.

Etc's set sounded good on stage, but might have been too loud for some ("I got home and thought I'd left the air-con on until I realised it was the buzzing in my ears"). At least this might have helped to scare off people seen at the show who Etc recgonised as presenters of appalling shows on Singapore TV.

Ben's onstage tipple was plebeian: red wine poured onto ice cubes. Two mics. Alex wacked the reverb up on the one facing the drums. What Etc think they played:

Dancing to The Smiths
Dumb Waiter
Superhero, Incognito
Malaysian Trucks
Peter Panic
Unsurprised
Love Is No Alibi / Teenage Kicks
When I Was A Store Detective
Big Girl's Blouse
Laid
Adolesce / Teenage Kicks


(Thanks to the lurkers who request these lists/reports privately. Flattered when you've complained that Etc didn't report on recent shows. And that there's more than one of you. Lovely. It's too long ago to write up the Ping's Party one. Know this though: Etc will cherish this memory from that night: at the end of a soppy song (requested by our guest of honour) an Aussie rockspider heckled from the bar: "Wuss". And in this instance, Ben Etc agreed with him. It WAS a wussy song. Etc thinks the following song was then too heavy for the heckler though.