Matador Records set at the Metro … loads of great stuff I didn’t get to play, could have played for much longer (and sorry to The Don for not fitting in his request for Hot Freaks)

Mogwai – Punk Rock
HP Zinker – Dancing Days
Silkworm – Couldn’t You Wait (Acoustic Version)
Sleater-Kinney – Good Things
Spoon – Don’t Buy the Realistic
Superchunk – Cast Iron
Chavez – Unreal Is Here
The Fall – Ladybird (Green Grass)
Pavement – Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Guided By Voices – A Salty Salute
Yo La Tengo – Sudden Organ
JPS Experience – Into You
Bailter Space – Splat
Teenage Fanclub – Everything Flows
Belle & Sebastian – Photo Jenny
Guided By Voices – Game of Pricks (7″ Version)
Pavement – Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse)
Yo La Tengo – Tom Coutenay
Modest Mouse – Doin’ the Cockroach
Helium – Vibrations
Tobin Sprout – Carnival Boy
Robert Pollard – Release the Sunbird
Cat Power – Nude as the News
Superchunk – The Question is How Fast
Sleater-Kinney – Get Up
Pretty Girls Make Graves – Speakers Push the Air
The New Pornographers – From Blown Speakers
Modest Mouse – Heart Cooks Brain
Mission of Burma – Trem Two
Pavement – Grounded
Cat Power – Maybe Not
Yo La Tengo – Autmun Sweater (Kevin Shields Remix)
Boards of Canado – ROYGBIV
Boards of Canada – An Eagle in Your Mind (Push Button Objects remix)
Matmos – Polychords
Plone – Top & Low Rent
LFO & Aphex Twin – Simon From Sydney / SAW2 cd1 trk 7 (Pram Remix)
Red Snapper – Sleepless
Mr Len feat. Jean Grae – The Hurt (Early Years version)
Arsonists – Blaze
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Talk About the Blues
Cat Power – Love & Communication
Guided By Voices – Everyone Thinks I’m a Raincloud (When I’m Not Looking)
The New Pornographers – The Bleeding Heart Show
Sleater-Kinney – You’re No Rock’n’Roll Fun
Love of Diagrams – The Pyramid
Sonic Youth – Poison Arrow
Yo La Tengo – Moby Octopad
Mogwai – 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
Cat Power – Metal Heart
Belle & Sebastian – Seeing Other People
The New Pornographers – Use It
Stephen Malmus & the Jicks – Cold Son
Yo La Tengo – Here To Fall
Guided By Voices – Don’t Stop Now

and here’s the top 10 things I wish I’d fitted in somewhere but didn’t:
Yo La Tengo – Our Way to Fall
Pavement live at the Matador 10th Birthday – Here or The Hexx or Zurich is Stained
More Belle & Sebastian – something from The Boy with the Arab Strap
A heavy bit with Dead Meadow & Bardo Pond
A lo-fi bit with Times New Viking, GBV (from Bee Thousand &/or Vampire on Titus), early Smog (Matador released Julius Ceasar in Europe), Condo Fucks & more Bob Pollard solo stuff.
Esben & the Witch
More Mogwai (Hunted By a Freak, or BBC sessions version of Heroes of BMX or one of the Helicons)
Something from Pretty Girls Makes Graves – The New Romance.
More Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Superchunk – Throwing Things