Violent Femmes records always went down big time at the clubs I DJed at. The first time I started playing their songs was at a club in Smith Street Collingwood called Barbarellas. After that every placed I played would have had a Femmes song in the set. And if their was only one then it was a Blister in The Sun. Not at first mind you. I started off pushing Gone Daddy Gone which was the big single when the album came out. Gradually however Blister seems to have taken over that spot. Put that song on the turntable anywhere and the crowd explodes. It was kind of the alternative song that everyone would dance to.
After the first year of Lizard Lounge when the place was just packed. Due to the fantastic idea of offering cheap drinks from 9 until 11 am which I think made the club in the beginning. Happy hour indeed! We seemed to have a special group of songs that came on around 11:30pm that would get the crowd mental for the next two hours. It was kind of a best of that Jason and I built up. The pace was unrelenting. DJ sets were 30 minutes long so we could always get to the bar. It meant we were always competing to rev up the crowd. And if you weren't listening to what the other was doing you could easily play a song they had just played. Which was embarrassing! So we kind of claimed songs. Records that only Jason and I would play. Blister was always one of mine.
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