[Wednesdays] Plastic Passion @ Oz, Ann Arbor

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Wednesdays @ Oz

210 S. Fifth Ave.

(between Liberty & Washington)

Ann Arbor, MI

Doors Open 8:30p, Musik Plays 9:30p-2a

21+, No Cover Before 10p, $3 After

Drink Specials:

$2 Labatt & $3 Bacardi Drinks All Night

$4 Martinis Before 11p

Playlists posted weekly on our myspace blog. Click here.

[PlasticPassion_a2]

LAST NIGHT'S PLAYLIST & SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT - PLEASE READ!

Thanks to those who joined us last night!

(Most of) Last Night's Spins:

Bruce Springsteen - Badlands

Bad Brains - Soul Craft

Patrick Fitzgerald - Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart

Wolfgang Press - Cut The Tree

Attrition - Dream Sleep

Japan - Art Of Parties

Debbie Harry - French Kissin' In The USA

Dali's Car - Dali's Car

Naked Raygun - Treason

Ultra Vivid Scene - Mercy Seat

Public Image Limited - Tie Me To The Length Of That

KMFDM - More & Faster

Die Krupps - Fatherland

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Slowdive

Pixies - Velouria

Cranes - Shining Road

Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

Echo & The Bunnymen - Killing Moon

David Bowie - Modern Love

Peter Schilling - Major Tom

Faith No More - We Care A Lot

Big Audio Dynamite - The Globe

Pop Will Eat Itself - There's No Love Between Us

After The Fire/Falco - Der Kommissar

Ministry - Revenge

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue

Front 242 - U-Men

Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?

Queen - One Vision

Laibach - Geburt Einer Nation

Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Camouflage - Heaven (I Want You)

Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark - If You Leave

Psychedelic Furs - President Gas

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Fear (Of The Unknown)

Pat Benatar - Invincible

Moev - Crucify Me

Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe

Gap Band - You Dropped The Bomb On Me

Re-Flex - Politics Of Dancing

Skinny Puppy - Assimilate

Electric Hellfire Club - Hellflower

The Cure - The Baby Screams

Sol Invictus - Black Easter

The Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter

New Order - Thieves Like Us

Ministry - You Know What You Are

The Damned - New Rose

Portishead - Sour Times

Alphaville - Forever Young

AND NOW FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT

There will be only two more Plastic Passion Wednesdays:

Wednesday, April 19th,

and Wednesday, April 26th.

This is not a gimmick to try and get more people out. This is pretty much a done deal. There a many reasons for this, but essentially comes down to this:

1) Lack of consistent attendance. We've had some great crowds a few nights as well as a some nights where the crowd was thin, but we had loads of fun anyway with a full dancefloor until the wee hours of the morning. Doing it every Wednesday, however, demands to have at least a fairly sizable crowd that consistently shows, and this just hasn't happened.

The biggest obstacle was not only trying to get crowds on a Wednesday night (which is itself a difficult task), but to get a certain type of audience to come to Oz that previously had never been to Oz. In the end, it turned out to be not just having to sell the night and the music, but to have to sell Oz, too.

2) Lack of funds to print more flyers, buy ads, increase promotion and awareness, etc. Doing it free for the first six weeks = no $. No regrets about doing it free, however.

3) Finally, the biggest reason has not to do with Oz, but a personal matter. Josh, Plastic Passion's DJ, was just finishing his last year of enlistment in the National Guard...when whammo... he's being deployed to Iraq this summer. So, some time is needed to prepare for such a big change in life including several weeks army training in May as well as taking many days off to visit friends and family before he is sent off.

So, I, Josh, hope you all can come out for the last two. I assure you that they will be my best DJ sets ever.

Wednesday the 19th:

Diane's (PP's extraordinary bartender ) last night -she's leaving A2. =( Come say goodbye to the best bartender in Ann Arbor!

Only songs that I've never played before will be played - but it's gonna be great!

Requests will be taken, as long as the above applies.

Wednesday the 26th:

THE FINAL PLASTIC PASSION!

A "best of" Plastic Passion 4 1/2 hour DJ set! The best songs! The best mixes of those songs ever! As many great songs and bands as we can pack into 4 1/2 hrs!

BOTH NIGHTS: FREE! (voluntary $3-$5 donation can be made, if you wish, which will be used to recoup previous PP's expenses and investments)

Thanks to all and there will some personal thank yous to persons acknowledged released soon.

Until then...you can leave comments/thoughts about this here or on our myspace blog and I hope to see you all the next two Wednesdays!

- Josh, your humble new wave DJ