What's cooking on the dancefloor?

Just as a hint towards the sounds being spun in between bands, and inspiring some hip-shakin' frenzy among the clientele, here are our selected Top 10s/20s/stop-me-when-you've-heard-enough tracks.

These are now a bit out of date, and some fresh ones will be upcoming from the DJs fairly soon, but you can find out a bit more about their current listening habits at their various blogs/myspaces/scraps of paper tucked under the sofa...

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Gareth' Current Pick O' The Pops

1. Calvin Harris -Acceptable In The 80's (yes, I know, it's a bloody top ten chart record, but I like it, OK?!)
2. Gameboy/Gamegirl - Fruit Salad (Healthy Boy Delight)
3. Operator Please - Just A Song About Ping Pong
4. The Micragirls - My My Micraboy
5. Bonde Do Role - Solta O Frango
6. Battles - Atlas
7. Shy Child - Noise Won't Stop
8. The Leatherettes -Mickey & Minnie
9. Lucky Soul - Get Outta Town
10. Bobby Conn - Anybody

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Johnny Yen

1. Blah Blah Blase - In The City
2. Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
3. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Satan Said Dance
4. Crack Und Ultraeczema - Ebola Day
5. Dandi Wind - Apotempnophilia
6. The Fall - Theme from Sparta FC
7. Gameboy Gamegirl - Sweaty Wet/Dirty Damp
8. Help She Can't Swim - Hospital Drama
9. The Horrors - Excellent Choice
10. Innercity Pirates - Cockney Sparra
11. Late of the Pier - Space the Woods
12. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
13. Los Campesinos - We Throw Parties, You Thow Knives
14. Mathematiques Modern - Disco Rough
15. Mohammed Rafi - Jaan Pehechaan Ho
16. Patrick Wolf - Magic Position
17. Pop Levi - Sugar Assault Me Now
18. The Royal We - All The Rage
19. Snatch - All I Want
20. The Sounds - Tony The Beat
21. The Teenagers - Starlett Johansson
22. Tiger Force - Beat This
23. The Wombats - Backfire At The Disco
24. We Smoke Fags - Passion for Fashion
25. Zoltan Kodaly School For Girls - Hounds of Love

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Tim Purr

Whizz-bang up-to-date stuff.

1. Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants
2. Wild Beast - Through Dark Night
3. Wild Beasts - Please, Sir
4. Los Campesinos! - You Me Dancing
5. Los Campesinos - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
6. Let's Wrestle - Let's Wrestle
7. Late Of The Pier - Space & The Woods
8. The Royal We - All The Rage
9. Innercity Pirates - Cockney Sparra
10. Cheeky Cheeky & The Nosebleeds - Fascinating

And, in my own private world with the curtains drawn.

Junkshop glam-a-go-go.

1. X Certificate - Don't Stick Stickers On My Paper Knickers
2. Café Con Leche - The Land Of Light
3. The Rockin' Marchin' Band - Rock And Roll Part 2
4. Richmond - Peaches (What's It All About?)
5. Heart-Throb - Ain't It Strange
6. Marianne - Queen To The Pharaoh
7. Squeek - Make Hay While The Sun Shines
8. Grame Grace - Flambuoyant Freak
9. The Cuban Boys - Oh My God! They Killed Kenny
10. Smiffy - See You Later (Little Baby Love)

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Dave Purr

1. Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants
2. The Wombats - Moving To New York
3. Das Wanderlust - The Orange Shop
4. Mechanical Bride - Chapel
5. Hot Girls Cool Guys - Queen Kong
6. Finally Punk - Manatee
7. Modern Reveries - Empty Museums
8. Untitled Musical Project - Beards And Drugs
9. Dananananaykroyd - Some Dresses
10. Dmonstrations - Aorta

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Oh, well, you get the picture...on any Purr night you'll hear tracks like these as well as tracks by Sleater Kinney, Vyvyan, X-Ray Spex, Gossip, Deerhoof, Rondelles, The Contortions, Erase Errata, Nancy Sinatra, New York Dolls, Shangri-Las, The Slits, Catapult, Out Hud, Demolition Doll Rods, Les Georges Leningrad, The Donnas, The Voidoids, Screamers, The Runaways, Iron Virgin, Gun Club, CSS, Electrelane, Numbers, Twinkie, Glass Candy, Gang Of Four, Kim Wilde, Helen Love, Gravy Train!!!!, Shonen Knife, Stereolab, all kinds of sixties pop, seventies punk, j-pop, synth-punk, all kinds of things glammy and trashy and fun.....