i hate nights like that, i don't think i've done one period. talk about sheep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay Pace
i hate nights like that, i don't think i've done one period. talk about sheep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay Pace
innit. i used to go the headcharge nights and havok nights (in sheffield) about 3 times a month back in the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by crime
the djs were amazing, but everyone was too off their head, having a good time to be really noticing anything the dj was doing, they may aswell have been invisible.
well that's not strictly true, i think i'd be the one always trying to shake the dj's hand.
and dave the drummer got me removed from the side of the dj booth for being in some catatonic trance staring at him.
try doing that at one of those parties like watching U2 or summat.
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Originally Posted by DarkYoung
Funny stuff man.....
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Ha ha, I'm sure we've all been there doing DJ watching.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkYoung
Only time I've asked people to politely step away is when they're off their heads and they've got a pint in their hand, hovering over computer monitors or other mains fed kit :/
It's more for their safety than anything, most of my computer kit is salvaged :)
Bear in mind they're responsible for Ableton;Quote:
Originally Posted by davethedrummer
ableton live
really interesting articles!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jake Conlon
Yeah, Robert Henke definitely isn't one of the guetta style showboaters but his article makes you realise why some people need that to latch onto.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlavikSvensk
kiddie school simple concept tbh, but this is techno and we have to chin about everything.
Got to agree with this 100%Quote:
There is a reason why the most undercomplex, most generic music often works best for DJs - a sound design that has been tested in thousands of clubs most likely work in yet another club too. However, this does not serve the evolution of music, and it is quite boring. We know that a Roland TR-808 bassdrum works in a club. Fine, lets find a less overused sound. How can we do so, if we cannot hear it?
Club music could be far more advanced if the creators would have more control over their work. However, this means investing time and effort in convincing promoters and PA guys. And it means questioning the usual routine. Do I need to be on stage? Do i need to have monitors? Can I find a space in the middle of the room? Am I comfortable not to be seen as the untouchable star far away?
All my best PA`s have been when the promoters have allowed me to set up on the dance floor, or in front of the DJ set up, so that I can work from the PA and not from the inevitably useless stage monitors.
Not only that it gives the audience more of a chance to see me actually playing live, and I get the chance to be with them.
I hate being on stage, the fun is on the floor.
I'm sure you deserved it.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkYoung
by the way I nearly had a fight with a bloke in Austria
who insisted on ****ing about with the mixer while I was playing,
every time I went for a new record he would get stuck in
cutting and fading and eq'ing really badly and all out of time needless to say.
I basically said to him after asking politely about a million times:
" do that again and I'll smash you're f*cking face in !!"
and he smiled at me like:
" hahaha, look at the funny man, mummy, he looks angry."
you can't really hit someone after that can you?
I just showed him the door of the booth
and it turned out that was exactly what he had been looking for anyway.
goodbye muppet !
and off he went on his merry way,
face intact ( lucky boy )
I am AMAZING !!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay Pace
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Originally Posted by davethedrummer
yeah i deserved it, i was kind of watching you mixing and then i couldn't actually move because i was so pretty twatted. i think you had a cold actually it was roundabouts april 2004 maybe, at headcharge, you were full of cold you could tell.
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Originally Posted by davethedrummer
:lol:
I had someone ask me if I had any Rhianna whilst belting out schranz in a little pub in Tramore.
If it had been a fella Id have chewed his arms off.
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Originally Posted by DannyBlack
I remember playing a little bar in some mining town in the arse end of CZ, banging out the hardest of techno toons. It was an odd gig, competing with an enormo-screen right above
my head showing CZ playing in the world ice hockey finals. Kinda disconcerting when every time hands went in the air and whoops were hollered I had to check over my shoulder to see if they had scored a puckin goal, or were diggin the latest tune I had just dropped.
Final straw was two outrageously pissed chavettes insisting that I put their Michael Jackson CD on, my turntables. **** OFF!!!!
Michael Jackson + Bluntboy Wonder :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Prole
When i was playing in Clonmel there boxing day /stephens day . i was horsing out some old Glenn wilson and some cluster records and some guy asked me did I have any minimal. i was wearing one of does suf bored of minimal t-shirts aswell :lol:
@ Danny yeah that night in Tramore they were like 17/ 18 year olds that wandered downstairs from the night club upstairs. funny times