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Thanks to all who came out to our 90s special edition nite, where we managed to get through an entire decade without *gasp* playing any grunge! Lots of requests, but but five hours was not nearly enough time to get 'em all in, let alone represent all genres. But... we'll be sure to do 90s night again in the future! Props to Stever for compiling all the video clips and thanks again to all the Necto staff who've been 100% awesome since our move to the Red Room. They really are the best venue we've ever worked with! Playlist from May 14th: Current 93 - When The May Rain Comes Tattle Tale - Glass Vase Cello Case Catatonia - Dead From The Waist Down Rasputina - Mayfly Lisa Germano - If I Think Of Love Adam Ant - Wonderful Cranes - Paris And Rome Tricky - Overcome Kelley Deal 6000 - Brillo Hunt Liz Phair - May Queen Blake Babies - Out There Travis - Tied To The 90's Radiohead - Karma Police The Cure - A Letter To Elise Wolfgang Press - Chains Golden Palominos - Belfast Air - Sexy Boy The Cardigans - Lovefool Peter Murphy - I'll Fall With Your Knife Mono - Life In Mono Chapterhouse - Pearl Curve - Horror Head Renegade Soundwave - Blast 'Em Out Meat Beat Manifesto - Asbestos Lead Asbestos Dubstar - Stars Duran Duran - Come Undone Björk - Army Of Me Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground Kitty Craft - Alright Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand Depeche Mode - It's No Good CJ Bolland - Sugar Is Sweeter Rx (Ritalin) - KY Re:amin Whale - Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe Elastica - Stutter Catherine Wheel - Crank Social Distortion - Bad Luck Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy Underworld - Born Slippy. Nuxx Leftfield & John Lydon - Open Up Messiah - Temple Of Dreams Front 242 - Animal Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous Rosetta Stone - Adrenaline Pulp - Disco 2000 Blur - Song 2 Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize The Rentals - Waiting Sleater-Kinney - One More Hour Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube James - Laid Electronic - Getting Away With It Big Audio Dynamite - Rush Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains Die Krupps - Fatherland Rammstein - Du Hast KMFDM - Megalomaniac Delerium - Incantation Opus III - It's A Fine Day Sarah McLachlan - Possession [Rabbit In The Moon Mix] Afghan Whigs - Rebirth Of The Cool Ruby - Tiny Meat Depeche Mode - Rush Fluke - Atom Bomb Front Line Assembly - The Blade Crystal Method - More Consolidated w/ Yeastie Girlz- You Suck Nine Inch Nails - Closer Daft Punk - Da Funk Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat) Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In LA Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 Beastie Boys - Sabotage Tori Amos - God David Bowie & Trent Reznor - I'm Afraid Of Americans Butthole Surfers - Pepper The The - Dogs Of Lust Pixies - Head On Björk - All Is Full Of Love Massive Attack - Teardrop Gus Gus - Blue Mug ['Anakin' Version] Semisonic - Closing Time (outro) Frente! - Bizarre Love Triangle Plastic Passion will be back to the Red Room on Saturday, June 11th to celebrate our Anniversary as a monthly party! Hard to believe we've managed to make this thing last for 2 YEARS already. No musical theme other than a "best of" return to our original format! And then the Summer of Passion will continue on July 9 and August 13th!

SATURDAY! Get there early for a table and 1/2 off all drinks!

PLASTIC PASSION – your monthly period of gushing fun – throws a crash course for you ravers, grungies, trainspotters, and modern primitives as we pay musical tribute to years 1990-1999 - for this night only! While Josh the Deejay refuses to don flannel, he will drop the normal 80s schtick to compile and play for you an eclectic mix of 90s indie-pop, electronica, trip-hop, industrial.... maybe even a Nirvana track or two? Aphex Twin, Blur, Bjork, Chemical Brothers, Curve, Garbage, KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails, Portishead, Prodigy, Pulp, Moby, Sleeter-Kinney, Suede, Tori Amos, Tricky, Underworld, Weezer are just some that will surely be included, but no Stone Temple Pilots....don't. even. ask. We've moved more seating and tables into the expanded Red Room for you and Necto's still featuring AWESOME DRINK SPECIALS (including HALF-OFF ALL DRINKS before 11PM) poured by the fabulous Becki the Bartender!! Necto Red Room, 516 E. Liberty, 9:00pm - 2:00am $5 cover 21+ / $8 cover 18-20 Note there will be a SEPARATE RED ROOM ENTRANCE on these nights specifically for the PP crowd. When you enter Necto from the street, be sure to tell the folks at the door you're there for Plastic Passion and go DOWN the new stairwell to the right (not up). The Summer of Passion continues: June 11, July 9, August 13 and September 10! See facebook fan page for photos, previous playlists (under 'notes'), make song requests (under 'discussions'), etc.

THANKS to all you dancing cinemaphiliacs who made it out to "Cinema Plastique"! If you missed it, every song was pulled from a movie or TV soundtrack with an accompanying video clip! Playlist from April 9th: Goblin - Suspiria (Suspiria) Gerard McMann - Cry, Little Sister (The Lost Boys) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity (Wings Of Desire) The Bangles - A Hazy Shade Of Winter (Less Than Zero) The Ramones - Pet Sematary (Pet Sematary) Oingo Boingo - Forbidden Zone (Fobidden Zone) The Fibonaccis - TerrorVision (TerrorVision) 45 Grave - Party Time (The Return Of The Living Dead) They Might Be Giants - Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head (Tapeheads) Joe Esposito - You're The Best Around (Karate Kid) Sinead O'Connor - Jump In The River (Married To The Mob) Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (Say Anything) Queen - A Kind Of Magic (Highlander) Prince - I Would Die 4 U (Purple Rain) Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink (Pretty In Pink) The Call - The Walls Came Down (Real Genius) Blondie - Call Me (American Gigilo) March Violets - Miss Amanda Jones (Some Kind Of Wonderful) Josie Cotton - Johnny, Are You Queer? (Valley Girl) Altered Images - Happy Birthday (Sixteen Candles) Killing Joke - Eighties (Weird Science) Kim Wilde - Kids In America (Reckless) Michael Sembello - Maniac (Flashdance) Devo - Theme From Doctor Detroit (Doctor Detroit) Lene Lovich - Breakin' The Rules/Opposites Attract (Tuff Turf) Cyndi Lauper - The Goonies 'R' Good Enough (The Goonies) Eddy Grant - Romancing The Stone (Romancing The Stone) Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (Pretty Woman) INXS - The One Thing (Reckless) Billy Idol - Cradle Of Love (Adventures Of Ford Fairlane) Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life (True Stories) Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows (Pump Up The Volume) Julee Cruise - Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Twin Peaks) Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Real Genius) Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange (Lost Boys) Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You (Singles) Dramarama - Anything Anything (Nightmare On Elm Street IV) TSOL - Wash Away (Suburbia) Black Flag - TV Party (Repo Man) The Waitresses - Square Pegs (Square Pegs) The B-52's - Cosmic Thing (Earth Girls Are Easy) Karla DeVito - We Are Not Alone (The Breakfast Club) Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (Ferris Beuller's Day Off) The Cure - Grinding Halt (Times Square) The Vapors - Turning Japanese (Sixteen Candles) The Ramones - Rock & Roll High School (Rock & Roll High School) Rocky Horror Cast - The Time Warp (Rocky Horror Picture Show) Depeche Mode - But Not Tonight (Modern Girls) David Bowie - Magic Dance (Labyrinth) Queen - One Vision (Iron Eagle) New Order - Shellshock (Pretty In Pink) Flesh For Lulu - I Go Crazy (Some Kind Of Wonderful) Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire (She's Having A Baby) Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way (Valley Girl) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - If You Leave (Pretty In Pink) Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It For The Boy (Footloose) Alice Cooper - The Man Behind The Mask (Friday The 13th VI) SSQ - Tonight We'll Make Love Until We Die (The Return Of The Living Dead) Joe Strummer - Love Kills (Sid & Nancy) Q. Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (Silence Of The Lambs) John Parr - Man In Motion (St. Elmo's Fire) Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me (The Breakfast Club) Siouxsie And The Banshees - Face To Face (Batman Returns) Berlin - Take My Breath Away [Remix] (Top Gun) Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five - Beat Street Breakdown (Beat Street) Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2 (The Wall) Ice-T - Colors (Colors) Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Do The Right Thing) Bananarama - Cruel Summer (Karate Kid) Jackson Browne - Somebody's Baby (Fast Times At Ridgemont High) New Order - True Faith (Bright Lights, Big City) Pat Benatar - Invincible (Legend of Billie Jean) The Cramps - Surfin' Dead (The Return Of The Living Dead) Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters) Oingo Boingo - Weird Science (Weird Science) J. Geils Band - Fright Night (Fright Night) Duran Duran - A View To A Kill (A View To A Kill) Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl (Private School) Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F (Beverly Hills Cop) Hipnosis - Blade Runner End Titles (Not really from the Blade Runner soundtrack, but a great Eurodisco cover from '83) Human League - Together In Electric Dreams (Electric Dreams) Limahl - The Never Ending Story (The Never Ending Story) Giorgio Moroder - Chase (Midnight Express) Thompson Twins - Play With Me (Cool World) Public Image Limited - Warrior (Slaves Of New York) M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume (Bright Lights, Big City) George Kranz - Din Daa Daa (Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo) DeBarge - Rhythm Of The Night (The Last Dragon) Madonna - Into The Groove (Desperately Seeking Susan) Eurythmics - Sexcrime/Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme (Miami Vice) Yello - Oh Yeah (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) Depeche Mode - Pleasure, Little Treasure (Bright Lights, Big City) Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero (Footloose) Wang Chung - Fire In The Twilight (The Breakfast Club) Charlie Sexton - Beat's So Lonely (Some Kind Of Wonderful) The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away (Valley Girl) The Pogues w/ Kristy MacColl - Haunted (Sid & Nancy) Olivia Newton John & ELO - Xanadu (Xanadu) Kermit The Frog - The Rainbow Connection (The Muppet Movie) (outro) Vangelis - Tears In Rain (Blade Runner) Plastic Passion: probably the only club night in the world where you might hear Black Flag and Jackson Browne in the same night! So many great soundtrack songs that we didn't have time to play - we could do another night of this theme with an entirely different setlist (but don't expect this soon as it took Josh many many long hours to compile and edit this night's affair)! Special thanks once again to the Necto staff and Becki the bartender for the fabulous pours (including the much-coveted 'Pretty In Pink' cocktail and the giant 'Weird Science' fishbowl complete with dry ice)! Next Plastic Passion is Saturday, May 14th - for one night, we'll skip the eighties and go through the NINETIES! Stay tuned for more details including upcoming summer dates!

‎99 danceable songs from 82 retro-cult movies and TV shows have been painstakingly compiled and mixed! 99 accompanying video clips have been painstakingly edited to be broadcast on 8 screens! All for Tonight's event! Hope to see you there!

A great scene and a great song for this rainy week. We'll be sure to play this and more on Saturday (and yes, we'll probably open with Cry Little Sister, too ) (Josh assures you, however, that he is no Jack Grisham and will not be tossing any microphones onto any heads)

PLASTIC PASSION presents "CINEMA PLASTIQUE" - a tribute night entirely devoted to the music soundtracks of retro-cult films for all you Movie Maniacs! SATURDAY, APRIL 9th! Josh the Deejay will compile the most danceable songs from the likes of retro-cult films including Absolute Beginners, Batman, Beat Street, Better Off Dead, Breakfast Club, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, Bright Lights Big City, Cool World, Desperately Seeking Susan, Do The Right Thing, Doctor Detroit, Earth Girls Are Easy, Electric Dreams, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Flashdance, Footloose, Forbidden Zone, Fright Night, Labyrinth, Legend Of Billie Jean, Less Than Zero, Little Darlings, Lost Boys, Married To The Mob, Miami Vice, Modern Girls, Nightmare On Elm Street, Pretty In Pink, Pump Up The Volume, Purple Rain, Real Genius, Reckless, Repo Man, Return Of The Living Dead, Rock'n' Roll High School, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Say Anything, She's Having A Baby, Sid & Nancy, Sixteen Candles, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Spinal Tap, Square Pegs, St. Elmo's Fire, Suburbia, Terror Vision, The Wall, Thrashin', Times Square, True Stories, Tuff Turf, Twin Peaks, Valley Girl, Vision Quest, Weird Science, Xanadu and many, many more! And of course video clips from these films will be compiled and edited by our hardworking VJ, Martin Thoburn, broadcast on 8 video screens! We've MOVED to the recently remodeled and expanded RED ROOM @ NECTO! Note there will be a SEPARATE RED ROOM ENTRANCE on these nights specifically for the PP crowd. When you enter Necto from the street, be sure to tell the folks at the door you're there for Plastic Passion and go DOWN the new stairwell to the right (not up). Necto Red Room, 516 E. Liberty, 9:00pm - 2:00am $5 cover 21+ $8 cover 18-20 Looking ahead on to May 14th: Plastic Passion goes 90s! Stay tuned! See facebook page for photos, previous playlists (under 'notes'), make song requests (under 'discussions'), etc. Or, write to us to join the direct email list at Plasticpassion_a2@yahoo.com

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE IT OUT FOR OUR MARCH MADNESS! Once again, big thanks to all Necto staff, too! We hope you enjoy all the mix CDs that were taken home! Playlist from March 12th: Madness - One Step Beyond Sisters Of Mercy - More Tones On Tail - Performance Moev - Cracked Mirror Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It Modern Talking - Brother Louie The Specials - Ghost Town Squeeze - Annie Get Your Gun The Bolshoi - Romeo In Clover English Beat - Tears Of A Clown Violent Femmes - I Hear The Rain Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene The Stranglers - (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want) Tears For Fears - Mad World Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People Shriekback - My Spine (Is The Bassline) Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Nine Inch Nails - Suck Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way Faith No More - We Care A Lot Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit) Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime Bowie/Queen - Under Pressure Big Country - In A Big Country The Kings - Switchin' To Glide Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated Siouxsie And The Banshees - Happy House Lene Lovich - New Toy Cristina - What's A Girl To Do? Big Audio Dynamite - Rush Madness - Our House Missing Persons - Destination Unknown Human League - I Love You Too Much Depeche Mode - Master And Servant My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Leathersex Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise New Order - Everything's Gone Green Psychedelic Furs - Here Come Cowboys Jesus & Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains The Cure - In Between Days Sugarcubes - Birthday Biz Markie - Spring Again Public Enemy - 911 Is A Joke Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies Soup Dragons - I'm Free Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance Public Image Limited - The Body Echo & The Bunnymen - Bedbugs And Ballyhoo Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing Lords Of Acid - I Must Increase My Bust Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) Yaz - Don't Go After The Fire - Der Kommissar Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People Madonna - Burning Up Adam Ant - Strip Duran Duran - All She Wants Is Depeche Mode - New Dress Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home) Clan Of Xymox - Louise The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) B-52's - 52 Girls Operation Ivy - Unity Fugazi - Merchandise Descendents - Coolidge Generation X - Ready, Steady, Go The Pogues - The Sunnyside Of The Street Kristy MacColl - A New England Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust Pixies - Where Is My Mind? U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday Joy Division - Interzone Ministry - Stigmata D. Street - Crazy Cuts The Clash - Train In Vain Prince - Let's Go Crazy English Beat - Save It For Later The Creatures - Right Now The Cure - A Night Like This Sinéad O'Connor - The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance The The - This Is The Day (outro) Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger NEXT PLASTIC PASSIONS ARE: SATURDAY, APRIL 9th - "CINEMA PLASTIQUE" MOVIE SOUNTRACK NIGHT SATURDAY, MAY 14th - "PP GOES '90s" STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS!

Get there early for 1/2 off drink specials and free mix cds! Be sure to tell the folks at the door you're there for the Red Room/PP, it just may get you out of having to wait in line!

Thanks for posting the setlist! It was indeed a great show and I'm proud of Michigan for turning out in numbers to see them. You could tell by the look on OMD's face and the things they said, they were really impressed by the crowd response. If the rest of the tour is going as well, I would expect them to return very soon.

PLASTIC PASSION, Ann Arbor's favorite retro dance party continues with MARCH MADNESS on SATURDAY, MARCH 12th at the RED ROOM and will continue again on APRIL 9th and MAY 14th! AND.....A brand spankin' new "VOL. 3" MIX CD given FREE to the first 80 folks in the door!! Josh the Deejay will play a maddenly fun set featuring the likes of The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, Smiths, Echo & Bunnymen, Siouxsie, Prince, Bowie, Love & Rockets, Psych Furs, OMD, Talking Heads, Sugarcubes, Duran Duran, Cocteau Twins, Skinny Pupp...y, Joy Division, Nitzer Ebb, Sisters of Mercy, Kate Bush, Clash, Pixies, Ramones, Peter Murphy, Killing Joke, Kraftwerk, The The, XTC, Cult, Blondie, Human League, B-52's, Public Image Ltd., Ministry, Yaz, Erasure, Devo, Pop Will Eat Itself, Missing Persons, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Jam, English Beat, Xymox, blah blah blah blah, won't somebody ever request Eddie Money? And now featuring spectacular visuals from VJ Martin Thoburn! We've MOVED to the recently remodeled and expanded RED ROOM @ NECTO! A bit different space than before, sure, but it's loaded with great sound, lights, video screens and ran by friendly, professional, competent management who fully understand and appreciate what we do! Note there will be a SEPARATE RED ROOM ENTRANCE on these nights specifically for the PP crowd. When you enter Necto from the street, be sure to tell the folks at the door you're there for Plastic Passion and go DOWN the new stairwell to the right (not up). Necto Red Room, 516 E. Liberty, 9:00pm - 2:00am $5 cover 21+ $8 cover 18-20 See facebook page for photos, previous playlists (under 'notes'), make song requests (under 'discussions'), etc. http://www.facebook.com/plasticpassion

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE IT OUT FOR PLASTIC PASSION'S VALENTINE BALL! Special thanks to all the staff at Necto for a warm welcome to our new home and to our newest PP crew member, video guru Martin Thoburn! Congrats to Janet for winning OMD tickets courtesy of the Crofoot! Playlist from February 12th (Songs of Love, Lust, and Heartache): Skinny Puppy - Love Art Of Noise - Moments In Love Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me? Spacemen 3 - I Love You The Glove - Punish Me With Kisses Cocteau Twins - Love's Easy Tears Coil - Love's Secret Domain Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love Stone Roses - One Love Lush - For Love Psychedelic Furs - Valentine XTC - Love At First Sight Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love Adam Ant - Hello, I Love You Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love? Bauhaus - The Passion Of Lovers The Replacements - Valentine George Michael - I Want Your Sex Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart Madonna - Justify My Love Renegade Soundwave - Cocaine Sex Nine Inch Nails - Get Down, Make Love The Cult - Love Removal Machine REM - The One I Love The Cure - Just Like Heaven Pop Will Eat Itself - There Is No Love Between Us Anymore Depeche Mode - Strangelove The Pixies - La La Love You Eurogliders - Can't Wait To See You Ready For The World - Oh Sheila ABC - The Look Of Love Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love Sinéad O'Connor - I Want Your (Hands On Me) Chris & Cosey - Obsession Animotion - Obsession Apollonia 6 - Sex Shooter Love And Rockets - So Alive New Order - Thieves Like Us Platinum Blonde - Not In Love J. Geils Band - Love Stinks April March - Laisse Tomber les Filles (Chick Habit) Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar House Of Love - I Don't Know Why I Love You Joy Division - Means To An End Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - We Love You Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - So In Love Violent Femmes - Add It Up Billy Idol - White Wedding Judas Priest - Turbo Lover Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love Berlin - Sex (I'm A...) Stacey Q - Two Of Hearts Lil Louis - French Kiss LaTour - People Are Still Having Sex Pet Shop Boys - Heart Donna Summer - I Feel Love Depeche Mode - Sea Of Sin Secession - Touch Ministry - Revenge Lords Of Acid - Rough Sex Killing Joke - Love Like Blood Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker David Bowie - Modern Love Sugarcubes - Hit Siouxsie And The Banshees - Kiss Them For Me Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance Prince - Kiss The Cure - The Lovecats Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle The Suburbs - Love Is The Law Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart The Cure - Lovesong Haircut 100 - Love Plus One Trio - Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Soft Cell - Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go? The Smiths - I Know It's Over Blancmange - Lose Your Love (outro) The The - Love Is Stronger Than Death NEXT PLASTIC PASSION DATES ARE: SATURDAY, MARCH 12th SATURDAY, APRIL 9th SATURDAY, MAY 14th STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS!

THIS JUST IN: Thanks to the folks at CROFOOT we'll be giving away a pair of tickets to see ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK to a lucky person around Midnight-ish! Must be present to win!

It's a Valentine's Day theme, so only if your requests are especially sexy and sticky, will they get played.

PLASTIC PASSION, Ann Arbor's favorite retro dance party RETURNS with a VALENTINE'S BALL on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12th at the RED ROOM and will continue MARCH 12th, APRIL 9th and MAY 14th! Josh the Deejay will play an especially sticky playlist with gooey songs of LOVE and LUST from the likes of The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, Smiths, Echo & Bunnymen, Siouxsie, Prince, Bowie, Love & Rockets, Psych Furs, OMD, Talking Heads, Sugarcubes, Duran Duran, Cocteau Twins, Skinny Puppy, Joy Division, Nitzer Ebb, Sisters of Mercy, Kate Bush, Clash, Pixies, Ramones, Peter Murphy, Killing Joke, Kraftwerk, The The, XTC, Cult, Blondie, Human League, B-52's, Public Image Ltd., Ministry, Yaz, Erasure, Devo, Pop Will Eat Itself, Missing Persons, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Jam, English Beat, Xymox, blah blah blah blah, won't somebody ever request Eddie Money? And now featuring spectacular visuals from VJ Martin Thoburn! We've MOVED to the recently remodeled and expanded RED ROOM @ NECTO! A bit different space than before, sure, but it's loaded with great sound, lights, video screens and ran by friendly, professional, competent management who fully understand and appreciate what we do! Note there will be a SEPARATE RED ROOM ENTRANCE on these nights specifically for the PP crowd. When you enter Necto from the street, be sure to tell the folks at the door you're there for Plastic Passion and go DOWN the new stairwell to the right (not up). Necto Red Room, 516 E. Liberty, downtown Ann Arbor. Doors open 9pm, party til 2am. $5 21+ / $8 18-20 Other ways to track our shenanigans (get playlists, photos, make requests, etc): http://www.facebook.com/plasticpassion http://www.myspace.com/plasticpassion_a2

Saturday, February 12 Saturday, March 12 Saturday, April 9 Saturday, May 14 Write these dates down, plug 'em in your phones, tattoo on your forearm, whatever, 'cause these nights will mark the return of PLASTIC PASSION! We'll be at the newly remodeled and expanded Red Room @ Necto w/ a separate entrance for our nights! A smaller space than before, sure, but with very good sound and professional management who understand and appreciate what we do, we're very much looking forward to these dates! AND...for the first time ever: we're now open for the 18-20 crowd! More details TBA soon!

I used to work for Mike Himes and was the first buyer for the Ferndale store. I must say, he managed to last a lot longer than he thought he would. He was seriously worried about losing both stores as early as 2002. - Josh

Live At PJs management have hastily changed our Nov 13 agreement and booked it out to others for reasons totally bizarre to us. We're sorry to announce that we've reached our limits and can't continue to work w/ such a fickle, confused group of people anymore. As a result, we're canceling all PP events and we'll be on hiatus until a suitable venue is found that has competent, people-friendly management. If such a venue is never found, relish in the fact that we had one hell of a good run and our little parties grew beyond what anyone initially expected. We'll miss you all, thanks for everything. In the meantime, Josh hopes to guest-DJ elsewhere in the coming months, playing both retro and "now-tro" stuff. He will also happily DJ your private party, wedding, or bar-mitzvah for real, real cheap (think booze). Getting the rest of the crew to come do their fabulous decorating for you may be another matter (think stretch limos). Watch this space and you can always yammer ideas at us at Plasticpassion_a2@yahoo.com

We're looking to collaborate with a talented video editor who has projection equipment to do live or pre-edited video mixing at upcoming Plastic Passion events. If you are that someone or know someone, send us a pm here or contact us at plasticpassion_a2@yahoo.com!

Looking forward to this! Can't wait to play some

Yes, I'm afraid you do sound like a sexist. I saw quite a few bonehead male shit-talkers with 300 APFT scores cry like fucking sissies under fire and duress. And I saw plenty of females (some who could barely pass an APFT) calmly and professionally patch holes in guys while rockets were impacting all around them or take charge of a squad in the middle of a mission while their male counterparts were freaking the fuck out. Some of my unit's best gunners were chicks. Physical strength is pretty damn important when you're taking fire, but mental/emotional strength is a lot more. To you and Candyman: I don't know you guys. I don't mean to hassle or try to "pwn" you and I can appreciate the situation you're in now, but it sounds like you need to work on your mental strength, soldiers. The arguments you keep trying to make are pretty shabby and it sounds like you're very, very angry at a lot of things. I understand the feeling. We all came home with a lot of anger, too. Don't let it envelope you and don't let the Army dominate your identity of self. You were a civilian before you joined the army and eventually you'll become a civilian again when you leave. Really, all this differentiating between civilians and non-civilians is bullshit. One wears a uniform and the other doesn't. One has to deploy and the other doesn't. In today's modern/urban battlefield, and with over 60% of our deployed troops coming from the Guard and Reserves, those are about the only differences these days. It's still humans vs. humans. Take care and control. - Josh

Curious to hear others' thoughts who went to this. We found it boring and overall disappointing this time around. We ended up leaving early at about midnight.

Funny thing about Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell is that the Army (and pretty much all AF branches for that matter) is probably the GAYEST organization I've ever been a part of! Never before had I witnessed so much man-on-man ass-slappin', flirty-jokin', genital exposin', homoerotic gesturin', peeing-on-dudes in the shower then during an annual training or my two deployments. I mean I could dip my balls into a dude's mouth while he was sleeping, take pictures, and instantly become the hit of the platoon; but if I dare admit that I liked The Smiths...well, that might arouse suspicion. - Josh

THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME OUT TO OUR 3RD ALL-REQUEST-NIGHT, MAKING IT ONE OF THE BEST ATTENDED PLASTIC PASSIONS TO DATE! You all make Josh work hard, trainwreckin' all your eclectic tastes together into one drunken mix, but it's always fun and never boooriiiing! Here's the final playlist.... Playlist from September 11th: (openers) Barry Adamson - The Violation Of Expectation Sisters Of Mercy - Something Fast The The - August And September Chapterhouse - Summer's Gone The Glove - Punish Me With Kisses Altered Images - Love To Stay Madness - Michael Caine My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow Gary Numan - We Take Mystery (To Bed) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Genetic Engineering Killing Joke - Follow The Leaders Human League - The Sound Of The Crowd Public Image Ltd. - Solitaire Clock DVA - Sound Mirror Ultravox - We Came To Dance Siouxsie And The Banshees - Melt! Tones On Tail - War Jesus & Mary Chain - Sidewalking The Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven Red Hot Chili Peppers - True Men Don't Kill Coyotes (Your requests) The Undertones - Teenage Kicks Shreikback - Nemesis Peter Schilling - The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime) A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) Michael Jackson - Billie Jean Prince - When Doves Cry Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel Berlin - No More Words Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger Nitzer Ebb - Lightning Man Cranes - Jewel Psychedelic Furs - Until She Comes Xymox - Imagination Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels The B-52's - 52 Girls Romantics - What I Like About You Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop The Cult - Wild Flower Dead Or Alive - Brand New Lover Yaz - Situation Ministry - Stigmata S' Express - Theme From S' Express New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle Erasure - Love To Hate You Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax Beastie Boys - Shadrach Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok Laura Branigan - Self Control After The Fire - Der Kommissar David Bowie - Let's Dance Front 242 - Headhunter Joy Division - Transmission Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi The Cure - Boys Don't Cry Book Of Love - Boy Run DMC - It's Tricky Cyndi Lauper - She Bop Duran Duran - All She Wants Is Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope Madonna - Like A Virgin Men At Work - Down Under Public Image Ltd - Rise Nine Inch Nails - Down In It Nitzer Ebb - Join In The Chant Lords Of The New Church - Open Your Eyes Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See Love And Rockets - Mirror People David Bowie - China Girl Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? The KLF - What Time Is Love? My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - A Daisy Chain 4 Satan The Breeders - Cannonball Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Deanna Violent Femmes - Add It Up The Passions - I'm In Love With A German Film Star The The - Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) (outro) Blondie - Sound-A-Sleep DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICTS, THERE WILL BE NO PP IN OCTOBER :( (But you can come out to City Club in Detroit on Saturday Oct 16th when Josh does a special old-school goth/industrial DJ set at the new "RIP - Retro In Peace" night!) NEXT PLASTIC PASSIONS ARE NOVEMBER 13, DECEMBER 11, AND JANUARY 8 - PUT 'EM ON YOUR CALENDAR ALREADY! VERY COOL THINGS ON THE HORIZON! STAY TUNED!

TONIGHT! WILL YOU REQUEST THIS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11? MIGHT BE FITTING... ALSO: DUE TO OVERBOOKING/SCHEDULING CONFLICTS WITH THE VENUE, THERE WILL BE NO PLASTIC PASSION IN OCTOBER SO WE HOPE TO SEE AS MANY OF YOU AS POSSIBLE TONIGHT!