What music would ye like played??

[Proud Mary 1980]

Just out of interest and research, do people enjoy the music played in Loafers, Taboo and the clubs in Cork, do ye find it too gay, to straight or just right. What tracks do ye feel are missing, you know, the ones ye love but never hear when ye are out?

[amnesiac]

I find the music played in Cork's gay venues very repetitive. It's a pity their aren't more varied nights.

[KTS]

More female singers - Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette. And the Counting Crows, love them to bits!

[Slayer]

Agrees with KTS and amnesiac.

I'm on the scene a matter of weeks, and already I find the music repetitive.

It's all this poppy "gay icon" shit like Kylie and Madonna, I mean, I enjoy that music, what about rocky kinda things?

Music with a bit of an edge.

Michelle Branch, Alanis, Evanescence.

Something needs to be done.

[redbulljunkie]

I like indie mostly, but wouldn't mind pop if they just added variety.

[damien]

Anything thats not from "The Greatest Mix CD that you fags would love ever in the World Part III"

Its like some idiot believed all the stereotypes and then compiled a cd and now its played in Taboo and The Other Place.

[Proud Mary 1980]

Ok suggestions as to what to play would be good my friend and I are djing in Taboo Monday night coming, Monday the 15th, if it changes, this post shall change too. So suggestions please like.

[redbulljunkie]

speaking of stereotypes, does anyone remember when that song "blow your whistle" was been piped through all the cork straight joints like surfers and gorbys, and they were all dancing away to it without realising?

[NuMarvel]

I have to admit that I kinda enjoy the music played in the other place sometimes (NM ducks to avoid incoming flak!)

Anything that gets my booty shaking is good enough for me, though I am beginning to hate the way we hear about three different versions of the same song in the one night. Come one DJ's enough with the BackStreet bootleg version (version 18.5) of "in Da Club" or crazy in love! Play one and move on! (Hmm sounds just like my love life... anyways!)

Maybe if the clubs (i.e. Other Place and Fever when it returns to the Savoy) played different music upstairs it would widen people's experience a bit more?

And what's this about Blow your whistle? Subtext SO goes over my head... can anyone fill me in on this?

[redbulljunkie]

just the way you see in some gay clubs like in the us, a load of gay guys with whistles and they blow them during some songs.

[NuMarvel]

Really... hmm they still do that in my home town...... latent tendancies there methinks -) or maybe it's the way that they think the cows will come home faster if they blow the whistles.... (no that ain't a metaphor for anything)

[redbulljunkie]

lol

[sann]

well for a chilling atmosphere Groove Armada and Massive Attack. David Bowie, Neil Young,Jewel, Tori Amos, Dusty Springfield,Leonard Cohen,David Gray and Tracy Chapman for the for the early evening pints period.. Janis Joplin and Melissa Etheridge for the dykes!
Ahh Melissa......[p]

[redbulljunkie]

David Bowie would be perfect for any mood.

[Viruswriter]

more heavy metal/black metal - not necessarily homophobic shit but slipknot and stuff, in small doses i find it quite uplifting )

[redbulljunkie]

In small doses yes. I always find smashing pumpkins (or even zwan) very uplifting.

[KTS]

I sometimes like the loud madness of heavy metal - but rarely ...

[redbulljunkie]

Bars like Fred zeppelins and the old "an brog" are a good example of good music. They play grungy stuff but don't play the really loud heavy stuff so you can have good music and a chat.

[amnesiac]

Given that people have wide tastes in music I feel gay bars should cater for Queers of all musical tastes and vary their playlists. It's fine for gay bars in cities like London and Manc to have certain musical policies because there is plenty of choice for Queers with different tastes but in a town the size of Cork it's a shame Taboo and Loafers don't make a bigger effort to have mosr musical variety.

[redbulljunkie]

Plus there are songs/artists in each genre that tend to bridge the boundaries. A good dj should recognise these.

[jaymze]

how about some groovy and funky stuff like chic, jamiroqui, james brown...... that always gets your booty shaking!!
use trevor nelson as an influence!