10 Things NOT to say to a DJ [AND WHY!]

MuPpItJoCkEy

1. PLAY SOMETHING GOOD... SOMETHING WE CAN DANCE TO!
[The DJ has to play for more than one person... so what you hate may
be another's favorite song and EVERYTHING played here can be danced to,
one way or another, asshole!]

2. WOULD YOU PLAY SOMETHING WITH A "BEAT"!
[Get real! We know of NO songs played in a club that don't have some
sort of BEAT!]

3. I DON'T KNOW WHO SINGS IT AND I DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE SONG, BUT IT GOES LIKE THIS............
[PLEASE don't sing for the DJ. We have to put up with rooms full of smelly people and loud music levels all night long... Do us a favour and DON'T give
us a rendition of your favorite song, however good you might think you are... knobjockey!]

4. EVERYBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT!
[OK... you just polled everyone in the club and, as their spokesperson, you're requesting the song.]

5. EVERYBODY WILL DANCE IF YOU PLAY IT!
[The DJ won't. I guess that blows a hole in your theory!]

6. I CAN GET LAID IF YOU PLAY IT!
[Why settle for one night? Buy the CD and get laid for a whole month,
wanker!]

7. I WANT TO HEAR IT NEXT!
[The ONLY people who can get away with that statement sign the DJ's pay cheque!]

8. WHAT DO YOU HAVE?
[It's a lot easier for you to go have another beer and figure out what you want to hear than it is for the DJ to recite the name of every record in the
box!]

9. HEY, MAN, NOBODY CAN DANCE TO THIS!
[It's NOT advisable to say this when the dance floor is packed (but some
people do anyway)! HOWEVER, even if there is only ONE person on the floor, it STILL contradicts the statement!]

10. PLAY IT SOON BECAUSE WE'RE LEAVING!
[If you're gonna leave after I play it, why shouldn't I wait until the
very last song so you can stay all night!]

copeyhagen

11. Any Yokes Mate...

armour87

Shabba

MuPpItJoCkEy

copeyhagen wrote: »

11. Any Yokes Mate...

Not sure I'd count that one. At house parties, I've heard now that it's been possible to obtain yokes from certain DJs and if I remember correctly, at some gigs in the 90s, it was possible to get them from certain DJs and there pals so if ya were looking, it could've been an option!

djdeclan

With the exception of number 6 I've heard these statements more times than I care to mention, in fact I'd say I heard most of them last night! Drunk female students wearing very little think they can tell the dj what to do because he is a man.. and all the other men do exactly what they say... It don't work on me though!!
I have to love the "play it now/next" line... do people honestly think we are waiting just to hear their request so we know what to play next??!
On the plus side i got a big hug off some random girl for playing her request Its great when people acknowledge that you play a song for them!

MuPpItJoCkEy

djdeclan wrote: »

On the plus side i got a big hug off some random girl for playing her request Its great when people acknowledge that you play a song for them!

Rather that than to get bottled or fruit n veg thrown at ya:eek:

L1011

The 'drunk female with little clothing' who tried to get me to play something with flirting and got sent away with the "sorry, not interested, my boyfriend wouldn't be happy" sent a male mate up next with the same request

The correct answer to #1 is to play Something Good by the Utah Saints if at all possible... they did ask for it after all!

MuPpItJoCkEy

MYOB wrote: »

The correct answer to #1 is to play Something Good by the Utah Saints if at all possible... they did ask for it after all!

Well spotted!

copeyhagen

MuPpItJoCkEy wrote: »

Not sure I'd count that one. At house parties, I've heard now that it's been possible to obtain yokes from certain DJs and if I remember correctly, at some gigs in the 90s, it was possible to get them from certain DJs and there pals so if ya were looking, it could've been an option!

mine was tongue in cheek.

im gonna get flamed for this but i reckon about 80% of djs are fond of the auld hoover, be it playing in a house party to playing somewhere decent!!

You have 'Maniac'?

highlydebased

"turn that off!"

FruitLover

I once heard some spanner ask the DJ would he not 'play a bit of JayZ or something' (on techno night in Switch).

Run_to_da_hills

Being told to play tunes after Amhran Na Bfiann and the PA has been powered off.

jonny68

I used to play tunes at a party if a scantily dressed lady requested it, no alterior motives of course ;) :pac::D

MuPpItJoCkEy

jonny68 wrote: »

I used to play tunes at a party if a scantily dressed lady requested it, no alterior motives of course ;) :pac::D

But of course:D

MistyCheese

To a female DJ...

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Where's the DJ?

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Oh, sure I don't know, I'm just here to make the tea. Don't let the fact that I'm the only one behind the turntables fool you. Or the headphones, or my right hand on the mixer. Do you take sugar?

DarkJager

MistyCheese wrote: »

To a female DJ...

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Where's the DJ?

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Oh, sure I don't know, I'm just here to make the tea. Don't let the fact that I'm the only one behind the turntables fool you. Or the headphones, or my right hand on the mixer. Do you take sugar?

Yeah 2 sugars please Big respect to female dj's, it shows not all women are into vapid talentless music.

In response to all the questions, a good long blast of some Rotterdam Terror Corps will keep the irritations away. Even better when you throw it on at some dizzy birds 21st!!!

Executive Steve

i've known plenty of dizzy birds into their rotterdam terror corps over the years, as it happens!

sweetie

whilst playing at a bar a few years ago there was some jungle night on downstairs and one of the organisers said to me 'your not a dj, your a cj.' I thought of an appropriate response the next day 'your not a dj, your a c**t' but alas too late!

silvine

That list is a big smug. It reads like The DJ is better than the punter.

DarkJager

silvine wrote: »

That list is a big smug. It reads like The DJ is better than the punter.

We are :pac: . Its not a sense of being better than the punter, just consider it as some of the crowd trying to be backseat DJ's.

JcDubz4life

silvine wrote: »

That list is a big smug. It reads like The DJ is better than the punter.

They are. never been to a good club with no dj on the tables....and in fairness ive a mate whos a dj an id be up there with him somethimes and jesus some of the stuff youd hear

''heeearrr mate ya got a bi' o' tIIIIessstooooo there'' *passes out drunk*

DJ_Spider

I was playing at a club one time and there was about 12 guys who got there early. There was about 20 people in and they asked for some song, (can't remember what it was!) and when I played it they all go on the floor and danced to it. 2 other guys came up and said 'wtf you playing, play something decent like tiesto' Well I only had teo & tea at the time so I played it, should have seen thier faces!

But all night they kept badgering me, saying you would never play this sh1t in a Dublin club, (it was out in skerries) I said but I'm not in Dublin! Later on they got drunker and were on the floor dancing to my 'sh1t tunes' every so often they would put thier thumbs up and shout 'u da maaan!'

Oh well can't please everyone! I have over 25000 songs but you can guarentee whatever I play wont be liked by everyone. BTW here's a good one, a guy came up to me at a wedding all the way from the back. He asked for a song and as I use VDJ I did a search and had it cued ready to play next. The current song ended and I played his song before he got back to his seat! He turned round and ran, (well staggered) back to the dancefloor and started giving it some!

silvine

BTW here's a good one, a guy came up to me at a wedding all the way from the back. He asked for a song and as I use VDJ I did a search and had it cued ready to play next. The current song ended and I played his song before he got back to his seat! He turned round and ran, (well staggered) back to the dancefloor and started giving it some!

That sounds like the kind of thing I'd do!

Doctor DooM

This thread made me laugh. In my head, I can see each and everyone one of these things happening...

There's something similar that singer/ songwriter types get, which is some randomer walks up to them in the middle of their set and asks "gizzago ofyurguitar", the guitar of course probably being worth about €2000.

Inevitably, for some reason, if the singer songwriter gives in, the crowd will be treated to Oasis

Andrewf20

[cm]tyranny wrote: »

i've known plenty of dizzy birds into their rotterdam terror corps over the years, as it happens!

Seriously, has a DJ ever put on this stuff. I would find it quite hilarious to hear some Lancinhouse industrial strength in the wee hours.

thesoulfulldude

2. WOULD YOU PLAY SOMETHING WITH A "BEAT"!
[Get real! We know of NO songs played in a club that don't have some
sort of BEAT!]

dont stop beleiving!

here also if your asked to play something, play it after all im paying my 10 in and 5euro a pop for a drink atleast the music can be good here's a short list

ANYTHING PRODIGY!!!!
Paul Van Dyk - Nothing But You
Sash! - Equador
Chocolate Puma - I wanna be with you
anything ERIC B AND RAKIM
felix da housecat
chemical bro's
daft punk
haddaway what is love
Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It



i could go on and on but seriously all great great songs... some dj's need a fair smack over the back of the head, hardly ever venture to redz but was there last weekend and i asked for a bitta prodigy.... what do i get back but 'sorry bud but i dont have dat' holy **** get the **** outta the club right now

end of rant

MistyCheese

Here Soulful Dude, sounds like you should be the DJ. Then you'd get to choose all the choons.

copeyhagen

and they would all be ****e by the look of it!!

thesoulfulldude

MistyCheese wrote: »

Here Soulful Dude, sounds like you should be the DJ. Then you'd get to choose all the choons.

i would but dj's dont get paid much and i prefair to socialise when im out with friends :rolleyes:

Kimbot

DJ's... would you play a requested tune if lets say by about 11 the floor is still empty and you are playing since 9??

Oh it's this sh!t that drives me mad.

Did a gig on sat night, and there was some girls there that were witches, and saying that I am stuck in the times, and being critical cause I wasn't playing chart ( Scooter) sh!t...

Now I'm a deep house, house DJ, I'm 36, and I'm more off a Music lover & collector than DJ, and I get asked by people who have seen me in action, Ie I have done weddings where they have been no cheese, Hacienda, Northern Soul, House, & Indie Rock and so on, Clubs, Bars and my favourites House Parties where I can do 16 hour sets and so on every type off good music. I still buy records from various sources, Ie Discogs & MusicStack, CD's from Amazon and so on and Downloads from various stores, and having a wagon come up, who wouldn't know a string from a hi hat tell you that you are stuck in the times, argh, I nearly went on the piss all day yesterday, the only thing that saved me was to listen to some good oul detroit techno from a Bodytonic Podcast "Robert Hood", hightly reccomend everyone to grab this from there website.

Sorry for the rant folks, it was just my worst gig ever, and I'll never do anything like that again, and there was a only a couple off people at it, bikers who wouldn't dance and a few witches that you couldn't please, a club or wedding with 500 people is 500 times easier than the sh!t I had to endure over the weekend, it nearly put me off from ever doing it again, thankfully I have a great cirlcle off friends of friends of friends whom have greater intilagence and a taste off music, and one just rang me yesterday and asked will a DJ for a party, and I know it will be cracker and that's what its all about.

All of those qoutes I've heard all the time, I throw one at ya, Doing a birthday, played Altererd Images Happy Birthday, this girl asks me, have you got happy birthday, I say, this is Happy Birthday, and she goes no, you know the one we use to hear in school when we were little...

And you have to smile and be pleasant, times like that and the above, its always good to have some poppers under the decks, it makes being pleasant to them alot more easier..:)

DarkJager

NoDrama wrote: »

Oh it's this sh!t that drives me mad.

Did a gig on sat night, and there was some girls there that were witches, and saying that I am stuck in the times, and being critical cause I wasn't playing chart ( Scooter) sh!t...

Now I'm a deep house, house DJ, I'm 36, and I'm more off a Music lover & collector than DJ, and I get asked by people who have seen me in action, Ie I have done weddings where they have been no cheese, Hacienda, Northern Soul, House, & Indie Rock and so on, Clubs, Bars and my favourites House Parties where I can do 16 hour sets and so on every type off good music. I still buy records from various sources, Ie Discogs & MusicStack, CD's from Amazon and so on and Downloads from various stores, and having a wagon come up, who wouldn't know a string from a hi hat tell you that you are stuck in the times, argh, I nearly went on the piss all day yesterday, the only thing that saved me was to listen to some good oul detroit techno from a Bodytonic Podcast "Robert Hood", hightly reccomend everyone to grab this from there website.

Sorry for the rant folks, it was just my worst gig ever, and I'll never do anything like that again, and there was a only a couple off people at it, bikers who wouldn't dance and a few witches that you couldn't please, a club or wedding with 500 people is 500 times easier than the sh!t I had to endure over the weekend, it nearly put me off from ever doing it again, thankfully I have a great cirlcle off friends of friends of friends whom have greater intilagence and a taste off music, and one just rang me yesterday and asked will a DJ for a party, and I know it will be cracker and that's what its all about.

All of those qoutes I've heard all the time, I throw one at ya, Doing a birthday, played Altererd Images Happy Birthday, this girl asks me, have you got happy birthday, I say, this is Happy Birthday, and she goes no, you know the one we use to hear in school when we were little...

And you have to smile and be pleasant, times like that and the above, its always good to have some poppers under the decks, it makes being pleasant to them alot more easier..:)

Ha ha excellent post man!! Sorry to hear about the "party" but I suppose its just part and parcel of what we do eh? I had a similar experience a few years back, except the witch in my case, also managed to puke into my vinyl case...I spent the next day wretching while trying to salavge what I could from a vomity end and wondering why I didn't make that bitch eat it back out of the case!!

It happens us all, so don't let it dent your confidence too much. There will always be teenybopper bastards in a club who just don't understand the music and will wreck your head. As done above, a similar named record but much harder usually shuts them up!!

DarkJager

DarkJager wrote: »

Ha ha excellent post man!! Sorry to hear about the "party" but I suppose its just part and parcel of what we do eh? I had a similar experience a few years back, except the witch in my case, also managed to puke into my vinyl case...I spent the next day wretching while trying to salavge what I could from a vomity end and wondering why I didn't make that bitch eat it back out of the case!!

It happens us all, so don't let it dent your confidence too much. There will always be teenybopper bastards in a club who just don't understand the music and will wreck your head. As done above, a similar named record but much harder usually shuts them up!!

Cheers DarkJager, , Yeah, it was a bad buzz...
When there good, it's excellent, you know the score man, though hopefully that will be the lowest I'll ever have to endure...

Ah, have a couple off good gigs coming up for some great people, who know how to party and have fun, & NO DRAMA....

Oh, thats nasty, with the Vinyl case, no respect there..

Bring on the summer & hope ye all have good one and never have to endure what I had to on Sat night, it was so bad I didn't charge and asked if I could get back 12 hours off my life, ...
I know thats bad..

L1011

thesoulfulldude wrote: »

i would but dj's dont get paid much and i prefair to socialise when im out with friends :rolleyes:

Oh, you get to socialise LOTS when you're the DJ - with drunken girls. All night long.

When you're not looking for girls, drunken or otherwise, it gets very tiring very fast. I'd suspect its still annoying for those who are...

thesoulfulldude

MYOB wrote: »

Oh, you get to socialise LOTS when you're the DJ - with drunken girls. All night long.

When you're not looking for girls, drunken or otherwise, it gets very tiring very fast. I'd suspect its still annoying for those who are...

still i dont see my friends standing around the dj boot all night + you cant drink while your playing can you? ahhhh the more important factor is i cant mix good nuff for clubs + dont have the confidence check it out

L1011

thesoulfulldude wrote: »

still i dont see my friends standing around the dj boot all night + you cant drink while your playing can you? ahhhh the more important factor is i cant mix good nuff for clubs + dont have the confidence check it out

Depends on the venue/promoter + whether you're willing to let your mixing slip to ****e by the end of the set

Everyones terrible when they start off, theres some big name DJs who are arguably still very poor at it, are famous for producing tracks and/or showmanship.

thumpybum

wedding last week (could have been any week)

(Band are good, good wedding, 15 mins in, dance floor full to the nolan sisters).
Here, how old are you , why dont you play some new stuff?
Im here for the next 2 hours pet, I'll fit some R&B in soon.

(Few songs later, low comes in, lose some punters, more get up, all the lil tramps with the lil dresses doing the jake stephens dance)
Ah jaysus, whats all that stuff, have you nothing for the oul ones, youre going to be playing that all night long,
ah sure you have to keep the young ones happy, I'll try and fit something in for you later on.

(circa 10 songs later, floor starting to dissipate, some 80s lined up, lose some punters, more get up)
about 60 secs into Tiffany, I get "the bride wants more R&B, have you any more?" (only for it was the bridesmaids sister I wouldnt have entertained it, but as was said earlier, the providor of the greenbacks rules all)
ah yeah, I'll try and fit some more in for you.

Bloke behind her has the strangest request of all time, have you any rock music, Im looking for that nickleback song "Heros" but I want you to put a fast beat behind it so I can dance to it. :eek:
me: Ah yeah, I'll try and fit it in for you.
him: Nice one.

Great wedding, dance floor full for most of it, most requests dealt with, Ive just played the scissor sisters, joe dolan and tom jones, sweet carolines belting out at 1:50am, slaying them, theyre hanging off the chandeliers, Ive got new york, new york, never walk alone and the natural antrim cued up and this punter comes over to me and says you have to play the prodigy, theyed love it, trust me.

Ah yeah, I'll try and fit it in for you.

Naked Lepper

i was playing dnb at a party last week and got requests for madonna, u2 and vitalic

wtf

Dun laoire

You lads have it easy. I had a ciggarette butt thrown at me and a bottle of beer. Happy days

Run_to_da_hills

Dun laoire wrote: »

You lads have it easy. I had a ciggarette butt thrown at me and a bottle of beer. Happy days

I had an empty can of Bulmers fired at me at one gig, it was about 15 minutes towards the end of the night and I had already got sorted. I played Amhran Na Bfiann immediately and made sure the crowd knew who spoiled the show. I have played at some venues where they had riot barriers with security, I wouldn't use anything too fancy at these gigs. :eek:

Nolanger

Remember The Commitments from the early '90s? There's a line in that movie about listening to real soul and to stop listening to stuff like the Soup Dragons. A few years later one of the actors from that movie was in a night club and got mobbed. An impressed customer went up to the DJ (moi) and asked for a good soul tune as everyone had suddenly turned into Commitments fans. The next tune started with "I'm free to do whatever I want any old time!".

Nolanger

Nolanger wrote: »

Remember The Commitments from the early '90s? There's a line in that movie about listening to real soul and to stop listening to stuff like the Soup Dragons. A few years later one of the actors from that movie was in a night club and got mobbed. An impressed customer went up to the DJ (moi) and asked for a good soul tune as everyone had suddenly turned into Commitments fans. The next tune started with "I'm free to do whatever I want any old time!".

Don't be afraid of your freedom
Freedom

Fair play, nice one that..

I played that at a wedding a couple off weeks ago, and I remember playing it at a girls 30th birthday whom announced her engagement and I fired off that without thinking... It's a deadly track, and as far as I know ain't it an old Stones B Side...

Again that must off being sweet...:D

Prefabsprouter

silvine wrote: »

That list is a big smug. It reads like The DJ is better than the punter.

Not so much that the DJ is better (which they arent) just that some people are rude/arrogant/smart-arse/obnoxious/impatient (delete as appropriate). Having been on the receiving end of most of these it makes your evening that much more annoying. Having said that most people are fine and their requests can add to an evening as opposed to detracting from it.

Prefabsprouter

NoDrama wrote: »

Oh it's this sh!t that drives me mad.

Did a gig on sat night, and there was some girls there that were witches, and saying that I am stuck in the times, and being critical cause I wasn't playing chart ( Scooter) sh!t...

Now I'm a deep house, house DJ, I'm 36, and I'm more off a Music lover & collector than DJ, and I get asked by people who have seen me in action, Ie I have done weddings where they have been no cheese, Hacienda, Northern Soul, House, & Indie Rock and so on, Clubs, Bars and my favourites House Parties where I can do 16 hour sets and so on every type off good music. I still buy records from various sources, Ie Discogs & MusicStack, CD's from Amazon and so on and Downloads from various stores, and having a wagon come up, who wouldn't know a string from a hi hat tell you that you are stuck in the times, argh, I nearly went on the piss all day yesterday, the only thing that saved me was to listen to some good oul detroit techno from a Bodytonic Podcast "Robert Hood", hightly reccomend everyone to grab this from there website.

Sorry for the rant folks, it was just my worst gig ever, and I'll never do anything like that again, and there was a only a couple off people at it, bikers who wouldn't dance and a few witches that you couldn't please, a club or wedding with 500 people is 500 times easier than the sh!t I had to endure over the weekend, it nearly put me off from ever doing it again, thankfully I have a great cirlcle off friends of friends of friends whom have greater intilagence and a taste off music, and one just rang me yesterday and asked will a DJ for a party, and I know it will be cracker and that's what its all about.

All of those qoutes I've heard all the time, I throw one at ya, Doing a birthday, played Altererd Images Happy Birthday, this girl asks me, have you got happy birthday, I say, this is Happy Birthday, and she goes no, you know the one we use to hear in school when we were little...

And you have to smile and be pleasant, times like that and the above, its always good to have some poppers under the decks, it makes being pleasant to them alot more easier..:)

LOL! You showed remarkable restraint indeed!! Part of the problem is that you spend hours researching music, spending good money on building up your collection and generally devoting work and time to ensuring that you can be the best you can be. And then some tosser makes a drunken throwaway comment which can be very insulting.

I remember losing it one night with a very drunken lady in a Leeson St club. she asked for a tune and I said that I would play it. After 10 minutes she charged back up, told me to "play the f#ck&*g track and that she was paying my wages". With that I asked her where she worked. When she told me I said "Right! Monday morning I'm going to go into your office drunk, stumble over your desk, insult you and expect you to do whatever the heck I want". She didnt respond but it gave me great satisfaction to say that!! People forget that you are working. They might be drunk but you still have to be professional. I wasnt that nite though!

Stab*City

i used to hate when playing at house parties there is always a couple of guys there who "used to have decks" and at some stage during the night they are gonna ask for a go.. i remember one night we had the decks in my friends kitchen for the week while his mother was in spain.. we organised a party back at his (a small few friends).. billy nasty was playing in the theatre royal in limerick that night.. so after the gig we all headed back.. i was the first one back so the door was locked.. but my friend had forgot to close the downstairs window.. more and more people started arriving back.. still no sign of my friend!! bout 20 people outside at this stage and they were talking about going in the window so i stepped in and said id go in the window so at least i could have some control of what was going on (at least thats what i thought in my head!) next thing my friend arrives back with half the club already partying in his house!! was under control so he didnt mind too much.. so this guy who used to have decks asks for a go.. he was one of these life of the party types so everyone got behind him for me to let him "play".. so i gave in.. went around and chatted for a bit.. next thing i heard a weird noise.. came out and there he was (out of his head).. trying to put the needle on the slipmatt thinking it was a record!! and he had put some records in the sink thinking it was a record box!! twas gas the carry on back in them days..

thumpybum

Just remembered about a year ago, was doing a wedding, last song 2am, manager over twice to make sure I knew 2o'c was it. Anyway, dance floor heaving at 1:55, chief bridsemaid comes over (nice lil yoke an all but very drunk)and asks me to do the train,
the what (racking my head trying to think what it could be)
the train,
can you sing it?
No, the train!!!, (yer one gets distressed trying to get her point across)
Im sorry, I really dont know what that is, do you know who its by?
Its not a song, its a dance where everyone puts their hands up and the couple walk underneath.
ah, the arch, well, I asked the bride and groom beforehand and they said that they didnt want it and Ive only 2 songs left that they asked for as the last songs so I cant play anything else, 2am, manager of hotel, will pull plug, gear wrecked never play here again if I play past 2am etc. (besides which room was all wrong for copacabana anyway)
So get this, yer one starts crying, I mean bawling her head, literally sobbing
( im thinking this is going downhill very fast, please make it stop, please oh DJ god)
anyway, she goes back to the table, I finish up, but doesnt yer one comes back to me says Im rude an all, her fellas behind her asking why did I make her cry.
I try to explain but hes (as drunk) not listening to nothing except the missus crying, says the customer is always right cos he works in customer service and I should have played another song.
(decks, amp off, leads out at this stage)
I did the worst thing ever and started arguing with him (had a long day), so I said if you went to the bar after it was closed and they wouldnt serve cos they were cosed would you say they had to serve you cos the customer is always right?
Oh, thats not the same thing (never is, is it)), youre so rude, my girlfirend was correct. I'll make sure all my friends know never hire you as a dj for anything. For some reason girlfriend is getting even more hysterical at this stage, literally screeching "why couldnt you just play one ..more...fcking...song!!!!"
things got worse then cos I started laughing (it was funny).
Yer man then got aggresive an started to square up at which time the bouncers jumped in and calmed it all down and brought him back to his seat and I got out of dodge.
week later got a call from bride and groom who couldnt apologise enough.

Lessons learnt?
Never say no to a drunk, ever. The old "I'll fit that in for you in a minute" is your friend.

thesoulfulldude

MYOB wrote: »

Depends on the venue/promoter + whether you're willing to let your mixing slip to ****e by the end of the set

Everyones terrible when they start off, theres some big name DJs who are arguably still very poor at it, are famous for producing tracks and/or showmanship.

curious now but where would i go if i wanted to do a club? or who should i talk 2?

L1011

thesoulfulldude wrote: »

curious now but where would i go if i wanted to do a club? or who should i talk 2?

Find clubs or club nights that play the kind of music you play

Get to know who the promoters are

Get to know who the DJs are

If possible, get to know one, the other, or both of these personally

Make sure you're at least somewhat decent at what you do... do promo mixes, provide these to the DJs or promoters you now know

If its anything other than commercial dance, don't expect to be paid for quite a while - you'll be lucky to get offered the chance to play half an hour for a free pint at the start!

The reverse of that is, obviously, if you do start getting proper gigs, don't undervalue yourself or else the self same promoters who gave you a start may decide they can ride you...

thesoulfulldude

MYOB wrote: »

Find clubs or club nights that play the kind of music you play

Get to know who the promoters are

Get to know who the DJs are

If possible, get to know one, the other, or both of these personally

Make sure you're at least somewhat decent at what you do... do promo mixes, provide these to the DJs or promoters you now know

If its anything other than commercial dance, don't expect to be paid for quite a while - you'll be lucky to get offered the chance to play half an hour for a free pint at the start!

The reverse of that is, obviously, if you do start getting proper gigs, don't undervalue yourself or else the self same promoters who gave you a start may decide they can ride you...

i play a bit of everything mainly house dance trance techno ect if i was djing basiaclly music with good beats and catchy tunes and lyrics ya know! dont see how you can get to know a dj if he's busy mixing away ect

Climate Expert

You can say whatever you want to a dj as they are only jumped up gimps playing music.