Beginners guide to starting a night ??

fuzzydunlop85

Just wondering is anyone could give a rundown of how to go about starting a night / bringing a dj in from overseas? Do I just approach the manager of a club and try to work out a date that's free? Would it be bad form to try and latch on to an existing night and offer to pay part of the cost? Do the organisers cover the cost of everything (flights,hotel etc) or does the nightclub cover part of this? Wouldn't expect to make any money just want to gauge how much of a loss I'd have to endure! Also, how does it generally work with getting money back from entrance fee's if there are, for example, three rooms in the club? Do organisers get a cut of bar takings? Just trying to get an idea how the whole thing works! And sorry for lack of punctuation am on my phone!

Executive Steve

Best advice I can ever give you is to have a team before you go into this.

If you are playing records at packed house parties every weekend, if you know three or four dozen people by name who would be enthusiastic enough to come down to see you and your mates play records in a venue then you're half way there.

You can have the best skills in the city, the most amazing music, but unless you have a crowd of your own people who'll be there at your nights through thick or thin you don't have a party, and you certainly won't have a party that grows and that lasts.

People are THE most important thing. If your mates and the extended group of mates and their mates aren't showing up to make the venue look lively then you're doing something that needs to be fixed as soon as possible.