You devils! Thanks for coming by. Setlist as follows. I’m too hungry to engage in commentary.

Setlist

Freakwater – Whiskey Is Not Evil
Devil Doll – Bourbon In Your Eyes
Junkrod Joe and the Cadillac Hearse – Suicyco Baby*
Anna Nalick – Breathe (2 am)
The Maggots – Temptation
Rocket 350 – Drinking Again
Coyote Bones – Lightweights Drinking
Tankard – Frankfurt: We Need More Beer
Foetus – Miracle
Lineage II Soundtrack – Dwarven Drinking Song
John Lee Hooker – One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Maximo Park – Girls Who Play Guitars
Skalarick – Vodka Revolution
Tiger Lillies – Gin
Death of a Party – Weekend
Sarcofago – Sex, Drinks, and Metal
The Old Soul – Nectar of the Nitwit
Vitamin X – Wino Highway
The Billys – Drinkin’ Wine, Spodee-odee
Mason Dixon Disaster – Two Doubles
Mago de Oz – Irish Pub
Ola Podrida – Pour Me Another
Califone – Bottles and Bones (Shade and Sympathy)
Lenny Bruce – White Collar Drunks
Stage Bottles – Drinking On and On
Nas – Drunk By Myself
Memphis Slim – Whyskey Drinkin’ Man
Bouncing Souls – Started Drinkin’ Again
Alexisonfire – Drunks, Lovers, Sinners, and Saints

* = local artist

— devlocke

Since I am completely unprepared for the show, I’m just going to play what I feel like hearing. If I play stuff you’ve heard recently on the show… well, my apologies, if you don’t like it, and you’re welcome, if you do. Starting off with one of my all-time favorites because I discovered that Talia hasn’t heard it yet.

Setlist:

Richard Thompson – God Loves a Drunk
Dave Gahan – Bottle Living
Jim White – God Was Drunk When He Made Me
Zox – Thirsty
Hillbilly Hellcats – I Like Whiskey
Ray Stevens – Too Drunk To Fish
WASP – Blind In Texas
Zeke – Drunk
Mojo Nixon – She’s All Liquored Up
They Might Be Giants – Alienation’s For the Rich
The Popes – More Pricks Than Kicks
Cracker – Take Me Down To the Infirmary
Social Distortion – Ball and Chain
Gwar – Ragnarok
Jerry Reed – Eastbound and Down
Hank Williams III – Drink It and Drug It
David Allan Coe – Jack Daniels, If You Please
Concrete Blonde – Happy Birthday
David Byrne – The Man Who Loved Beer
Johnny Horton – Thunder Road
Lush – Ladykillers
Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies
Nerf Herder – Sorry
The Bloody Irish Boys – Drink, Drink, Drink
The Magnetic Fields – Reno Dakota
Vader Abraham – Smurphen Bier
Faron Young – Swingin’ Doors
Third Eye Blind – God of Wine
Boob – Ninjas

— devlocke

The interview’s still going to go up shortly. But I’ve been rather busy with other projects, and transcription is time-consuming. Just thought I’d let you know.

— devlocke

I’m getting a head-start on the setlist again this week, since I happen to be sitting in front of my computer right now anyways. Goin’ on the air at 11pm as per usual, with the usual mix of insanely varied tracks involving inebration and related items. Not a ton of new music this week – and a couple of the tracks I’ve selected for this evening are (gack!) instrumentals, but they’re neat. Or long enough that I can get a cigarette break in. They’re guaranteed to be at least ONE of those.

Also got some new stuff that’s quite rockin’; if you didn’t make it down to see Tub Ring on Saturday (you didn’t; that was the most woefully underattended event I’ve been to in quite a long while) then you’ll get to hear a track off their new album for the FIRST TIME, which is good. I don’t think they PLAYED this track, so even if you WERE there, you still get to hear it for the first time. Unless you already own it, anyways, but it just came out so you probably don’t. The other guys who opened for them were rock-solid as well, but neither of them happened to have any tracks about drinking handy, so I’m still trying to decide if I should just use the fact that I was drunk when I saw them as justification, or leave it to another show to turn you on to Foxy Shazzam and The Show Is the Rainbow. I’ll figure it out at the station, I suppose.

Anyways, see you at eleven…

Setlist:

Great Big Sea – The Night Pat Murphy Died
Beck – Crystal Clear (Beer)
The Macc Lads – All Day Drinkin’
The Silver Ninjas – Castle Danger
NWA – Don’t Drink That Wine
The Business – Drinking and Driving
Clutch – Binge and Purge
Dario Zenker – Cindy’s Getting Drunk
Dr. Dre – Hard Liquor
Tub Ring – Girlfriend (Live)
Tub Ring – Glass Companion
Fabulous Thunderbirds – Last Call For Alcohol
Vanessa Mae – Tequila Mockingbird
Swingin’ Utters – Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones
The Ripmen – Party With the Dead
Buck Owens – Rhythm and Booze
DC Sills – Another Reason To Drink
The Cramps – Dames, Booze, Chains, and Boots
Sam Roberts – A Stone Would Cry Out
Koko Taylor – Bad Avenue
Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Skaggs – A Night on the Town
Those Poor Bastards – Drunk On Fear
Blood On the Slacks – Scotch On Ice
Handsome Family- Drunk By Noon
Gary Kyle and the No Standards Band – Beer Goggle Blues
Dakota – Getting Angry Is the Worst Way To Prove You’re Not Drunk
Jimmy Kaiser – Pass Me That Bottle
Anti-Nowhere League – Fucked Up and Wasted
Old 97’s – Barrier Reef

— devlocke

I guess I shouldn’t start EVERY setlist post with “Yay!” so I’m not going to this week. But I’m feeling yay-ish. I’m quite glad to be here, anyways. Thanks for listening, tunes to follow…

Setlist:

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – Before the War
The Pogues – Dirty Old Town
Darkbuster – Whiskey Will
Silver Jews – Punks in the Beer Light*
Satori – Ambience*
Southern Culture on the Skids – Liquored Up and Lacquered Down
The Runaways – Wasted
Scotch Greens – Drinkin’ By the River
Highway 101 – Whiskey, If You Were a Woman
Elvis Perkins – The Night and the Liquor
Bran Van 3000 – Drinking In L.A.
Murder By Death – Sometimes the Line Walks You
Dave Gahan – Bottle Living
Happy Mondays – 24 Hour Party People
Ween – Zoloft
The Ste. Catherines – The Shape of Drunks to Come
Faith No More – Take This Bottle
Supagroup – Let’s Go (Get Wasted)
Eddie Spaghetti – The Best of All Possible Worlds
Morning 40 Federation – Gin Instead of Whiskey
Pet Shop Boys – You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk
Primus – Coattails of a Dead Man
The Doors – Whiskey, Mystics, and Men
Gogol Bordello – When the Trickster Starts a’Pokin’ (Bordello Kind of Guy)
Digger – Alcohol, Women, and Misery
Robbie Williams feat. John Lovitz – Well, Did You Evah?
Foetus – Cirrhosis of the Heart
Dresden Dolls – Me and the Mini-Bar
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – And God Created Brixton

* = Local artist

— devlocke

The Joy of Drinking by Barbara Holland

It’s about drinking.  From pre-civilization days to the present day, apparently.  And also, it’s apparently very disgusted with today’s “culture of moderation” which I take to mean it’s pro-drunkenness.  And the chick who wrote it lives in VA, so it’s almost like supporting a local artist.  I think I will pick it up on payday.  If the review reads this well, imagine how neat the book must be!

Also of note:  the site just passted 1,000 hits.  Yay, milestone!

— devlocke

Yeehah! I am BACK, and I have NEW MUSIC! Over an hour of new stuff, tonight. Strap yourself in (with at least six drinks in easy reach) and get ready to rock. And country. And punk. And rap. And all that jazz. Only, no jazz. I had an Iggy Pop/Debbie Harry(sp?) song I wanted to play that was kinda jazzy, but that has to wait for next week. Thanks for listening, I love you all, and as always, hit me up on AIM on the screen name WRIRAllNight or on the phone at 804-649-9737 here in the studio.

Setlist:

Bruce Willis – Turn It Up (A Little Louder)
The Real McKenzies – 10,000 Shots
The Racines – One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
The Supersuckers – Ice Cold Beer
The Supersuckers – Bubblegum and Beer
Pulp – Whiskey In the Jar
Unknown Artist – Tequila (this is an amusing EBM/industrial take on the classic by the Champs)
Velhos Virgens – Uns Drinks
Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Jump Through Hoops
The Clutters – The Way Home
Fear – More Beer
Murder By Death – Brother
Poni Hoax – Drunks and Painters On Parade
The Jayhawks – The Liquor Store Came First
The Straps – My Liquor
Dirtball – Whiskey and Wild Women*
Monty Python – Australian Table Wines
MF Doom – One Beer
Ronnie Foster – Mystic Brew
The Supersuckers – Good Night For My Drinkin’ (by implied request)
Rod Stewart – What Made Milwaukee Famous (Made a Loser Out of Me)
Dubliners – Whiskey On a Sunday
AC/DC – Whiskey On the Rocks
Ween – Booze Me Up and Get Me High
Devil Doll – Liquor Store
The Tender Trio – Mr. Martini
Chaos Drunk Punx – Benefit For Beer
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – Johnny Cash
Atticus – Jaked On Green Beer
Supgroup – Rulin’ (Is Its Own Reward)
The Wretched Ones – Drinking Beer and Rock n’ Roll

* = local artist

— devlocke

I figured I’d go ahead and get the introductory part of the setlist done before I hit the station, so I don’t have to scramble so much at the beginning of my set. Starting at 11PM, you’ll be seein’ tonight’s setlist here, and you can also IM me on AIM at WRIRAllNight or call me at 649 9737 and say hey.

I was planning on having a bunch of new music tonight, but I had too much shit to do after getting off late from work today, and now it’s too late to get the shit together. So expect that next week. Tonight will just be… more randomness, I reckon. I’ll figure it out when I get to the station. Stay tuned, bitches…

The Pogues – Sickbed of Cuchulain
Lost Bayou Ramblers – Rye Whiskey
Riverboat Gamblers – Sparks and Shots
Murder By Death – Boy Decide
The Supersuckers – One Cigarette Away
Untamed Youth – Pabst Blue Ribbon
Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Another Drinking Song
George Thoroughgood – I Drink Alone (Live)
Nat Reese – Juice-Headed Woman*
Manowar – Brothers of Metal
Warren Zevon – Mr. Bad Example
Bright Eyes – The Drunk Kids, the Catholics
Tom Waits – Gin Soaked Boy
Roger Miller – Chug-a-Lug
Eddie Spaghetti – Carry Me Home
Hayseed Dixie – Have a Drink On Me
The Deviltones – Rock and Roll Dynasty*
KMFDM – Juke Joint Jezebel
Pop Culture Casualties – Hurricane*
Christ Connelly – Anyone’s Mistake
Rehab – Sittin’ At a Bar
The Veils – A Birthday Present
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – A Bottle of Buckie
The Swans – Alcohol (the Seed)
Jarvis Cocker – Tonite
Plum Jam – Payday Blues*
Bessie Smith – Me and My Gin
Janis Joplin – What Good Can Drinkin’ Do?
Social Distortion – Ball and Chain
(I don’t know the artist of this track) – Day Drinkin’

* = Local artist

— devlocke

Where are bands playing in Richmond these days anyways, guys? Since the death of Nanci Raygun, I’m just wondering where the local guys that aren’t prominent enough to play Alley Katz are even playing out, anymore. Just house shows? Let me know.

But anyways, on with the update. At Alley Katz, you have Fat Benatar as well as some other guys (I mention this because, uhmm, well, you have to be drunk to appreciate Fat Benatar, and one of the other bands is called something about Space Pirates which is just good livin’) this Friday. Monday the 30th has Nashville Pussy and Artimus Pyledriver; I’m positive I’ve played some Nashville Pussy on the show, and I’ll have to check my records but I think I’ve played some AP as well. Then you’ve got the Nekromantix (yay, psychobilly) on Thursday, the third of May, and local Johnny Cash tribute band Black Cash and the Bad Seeds on Friday the fourth. So Alley Katz is looking nice over the next week or two.

Weird Al is playing Innsbrook on the 2nd. I can’t think of a specific song of his that mentions drinking outside of “Trigger Happy” but he’s just someone that being drunk could only enhance, he has lyrical genius, and he plays the accordion. If that doesn’t excite you, you have no soul.  It’s too bad it’s Innsbrook, but what can you do?

Out of town, as far as the “majors” go, I didn’t see anything relevant to my audience at Black Cat or the NorVa, but Clutch is playing the 9:30 on the 11th (it’s a Friday) and they’re some hard-drinkin’ mother-effers. As evidenced by the fact that they’re all fat. That’s what being a professional PBR-swiller will do to you.

The comments section exists for a reason. If you know of any boozed-up or booze-friendly events, let us know. I’ll edit this post to reflect your input, and you will have helped keep Richmond alcoholics aware of the shindigs they need to know about. Do your part!

— devlocke

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— devlocke