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Setlists.

Since the beginning of 2001 I've been archiving and doing a simple analysis of the setlists that DJ's and club promoters post to uk.people.gothic. This page is where I plan to store the "Top Ten" posts I make showing the most played artists and tracks.

These rankings are heavily skewed towards the classic tracks and all-time-great bands, which can be a little dull. As a result, I have tried various schemes to construct "interesting bands" Top Tens, with varying degrees of sucess.

- Jan-Dec 1998;
- Jan-Mar 1999;
- Apr-Jun 1999;
- Jul-Sep 1999;
- Oct-Dec 1999;
- Jan-Mar 2000;
- Apr-Jun 2000;
- Jul-Sep 2000;
- Oct-Dec 2000;
- Jan/Feb 2001, including Two-hit wonder analysis;
- Feb/Mar 2001;
- Mar/Apr 2001, including the controversial "No-Dave" rankings; [to add: dave/no-dave remarks...]
- Apr/May 2001;
- May/Jun 2001 and Jan-Jun 2001, including per-Club Top Tens; [to add: extra posts re p-interesting etc...]
- Jun/Jul 2001;
- Jul/Aug 2001;
- Aug/Sep 2001, including Two-hit wonder analysis for p-interesting bands;
- Sep/Oct 2001;
- Oct/Nov 2001;
- Nov/Dec 2001;
- Dec 2001/ Jan 2002;
- Jan/Feb 2002;
- Feb/Mar 2002;
- Mar/Apr 2002;
- Apr/May 2002;
- May/Jun 2002;
- Jun/Jul 2002, including who plays p-interesting bands;
- Jul/Aug 2002;
- Aug/Sep 2002;
- Sep/Oct 2002;
- Oct/Nov 2002;
- Nov/Dec 2002, including Top Ten 2001 vs 2002;
- Dec 2002/ Jan 2003, including p-interesting 2002 vs 2001;
- Jan/Feb 2003;
- Feb/Mar 2003;
- Mar/Apr 2003;
- May/Jun 2003;
- Jul/Aug 2003;
- Sep/Oct 2003;
- Nov/Dec 2003;
- All 2003;
- Jan/Feb 2004;
- Mar/Apr 2004;
- May/Jun 2004;
- Jul/Aug 2004;
- Sep/Oct 2004;
- Nov/Dec 2004;
- All 2004;
- Jan/Feb 2005;
- Mar/Apr 2005;
- May/Jun 2005;
- Jul/Aug 2005;
- Sep/Oct 2005;
- Nov/Dec 2005;
- All 2005;
- Jan/Feb 2006;
- Mar/Apr 2006;
- May/Jun 2006;
- Jul/Aug 2006;
- Sep/Oct 2006;
- Nov/Dec 2006;
- All 2006;
- Jan/Feb 2007;
- Mar/Apr 2007;
- May/Jun 2007;
- Jul/Aug 2007;
- Sep/Oct 2007;
- Nov/Dec 2007;
- All 2007;

#Paul

What is p-interesting?

P-interesting bands are:

bands I think (mistakenly or otherwise) to be British
bands who've played gigs in the last couple of years, either that I've been to or seen on flyers or listings
not so big and old that they're part of the furniture

Note that it's not that I'm against non-British bands, it's just that I cant possibly keep track of them all. If I seem to be including (e.g.) the "Wibble Pickets", a band from Argentina, then hopefully someone would let me know. Alternatively, If I'm not including the "Zaimundo Pong", a band consisting of two goths from Saxilby, who you heard 6 times at clubs in the last month then I also hope to be corrected.

Too big or too old is of course troublesome -- this is the most subjective part. I guess I'd rate anyone likely to be able to fill, er, the Brixton Academy or thereabouts on their own account to meet this. If anyone thinks a band I include as p-interesting meets this, convince me.

Finally, note that including (e.g.) Mesh, that well known boring, non-goth, old, and too-popular-in-germany band doesn't skew the p-interesting results at all -- because I list all p-i bands that get above 5 plays, or tracks above 3. Hate Mesh? ignore that line, and get the p-interesting ranking you want.

How do I collect and analyse the setlists?

I am prepared to visit websites to extract setlists ... but _only_ if there aren't to many of them, and only if they post an appropriately titled reminder here. I auto-extract any post with a list-like Subject field once a month, delete the non-setlists, grab any off websites I'm pointed to, clean up the formatting a bit (if necessary), then use a script to filter and aggregate the results. Most of the filtering involves correcting common misspellings of band names.

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