it's a negative post i know
so let's keep things humorous or factual
i have to say recently
AUSTRIA!!!!!!!
i mean come on you guys ****ing give something back!!!!!
there's nothing worese than wanting to get off the moment you get on
please!!!!
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it's a negative post i know
so let's keep things humorous or factual
i have to say recently
AUSTRIA!!!!!!!
i mean come on you guys ****ing give something back!!!!!
there's nothing worese than wanting to get off the moment you get on
please!!!!
what happend there then?
always thought they liked to ave it over there.
heard from many very well known artists that Austria sucks, nobody dancking, just drinking and standing :dontevengothere:
My worst gig, hmmmmmm...on island Rab where were tourists asking a dance music?!?!?!?!?!?!?! :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono:
unbelivble!
i heard austria was pretty good.. so good a friend of mine wants to move there! (and another did last year) they love it & i cant wait to go either :love:
my friends colleen and lori live in graz they seem to like...
so far only bad reports about austria
although lori the hi fi princess moved there a few years ago and seems to like it.
i played in linz last time and people only seemed to dance to the classics
soon as i played something a bit risky they vanished!!!!!
carola and vigorito were playing down the road ..same night and they got about 40 people!!!!!
we actually did better than that but it was free entry, so that probably had something to do with it.
anyways not too impressed with austria.
anyways thinking about it ....one of the funniest nights had to be at the drome ( se1) a couple of years back.
someone had given julian a pill during his set , only it turned out to be about 5 gelatin pills which had moulded together in the heat in a sweaty pocket. juloian necked the lump thinking " that was a bit big" and then came up during his set.
when i got there he was puking behind the decks whilst mixing , apparently the set had been good for the beginning but it had dissolved into a total frenzy , julian's screaming to me to go on , so's the sound guy , i had to manouver my records round piles of puke and kind of stand on one foot to avoid the major puddle by one of the decks.
julian ended up being carried out!
gross , but entertaining........hope my mum doesn't read this.
lols....
mine would have to be playing for a motorbike gang.
they spiked my drinks with something nasty :shock: then i played to their girlfriends whilst they all hung out in the shadows of the room!
the girls loved it and the guys hated them talking to me or it seems having a good time on the floor.
scariest night of my life.
needless to say i wasnt at the after party :roll:
Sounds like an experience we had with Julian here in Cali...
We need to get him out here again, he can party :clap: :lol:
lol :lol: :lol:
i was asked to dj at the local pub. they just wanted pub music. the place was full of hill billy old school mullet dudes.
a fight was about to break out. i put on 'welcome to the jungle' by guns n roses. then i put on 'a small victory' by faith no more. the tension in the air was fark'n intense then a huge fight broke out. they fell on me equipment. the needle went "eeerrrreewwwweeee". i quickly put the needle back on tryin to keep the atmosphere goin so the fight would keep goin. no techno but an interesting night..
hahaha
Was in Hong Kong playing some harder stuff and was told by the promotor if I dont play slower to around 135 bpm, the triad gang were going to chop me.
And I banged out Rowland the bastard's Nowt#1 to save my balls.
medicine hat - pop 50,000 - about a 3 hour drive from here.
i knew i would be playing for hicks, so i brought lots of b-boy breaks, just in case they weren't into techno. the location turned out to be a former strip club. the raised stage and poles were still there in the middle of the room.
not long into my set somebody asked me if i would play something they could break dance too. i was already playing breaks, so i kept doing that. a while later somebody else asked the same thing. repeat. repeat. i was into my funkiest, dare i say, cheeziest stuff, and still, instead of breakdancing, all i saw on the floor was a bunch of pissed off doods staring at me.
finally somebody clued me in that the local break dance scene was used to breaking to hard trance and hard house, and had somehow incorporated glow sticks. they had never heard breakbeat before. :doh:
Well when I moved out from the city into the boondocks I was stoked to find a party crew... And they all pretty much had similar styles of dance music they spun, so when they heard some of my acid techno sets they were really excited to get a new sound... So I play at a party and it turns out the guys who throw the parties were the only ones who LIKE acid techno, the crowd just stood there bopping there heads like idiots and ocassionally dancing for 30 second spurts... So I pretty much just spun for myself that night haha :doh:
[quote="dtl"]Was in Hong Kong playing some harder stuff and was told by the promotor if I dont play slower to around 135 bpm, the triad gang were going to chop me.
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Geez tough gig mate!
geez i can't really imagine someone doin the 'worm' while listenin to hard trance....?Quote:
Originally Posted by Evil G
yeah i've seen thisQuote:
Originally Posted by sash
in ny at the tunnel funnily enough
2 rival gangs came down
(they were about the only people there)
and they just break danced ( or broke maybe???) all night long against each other.
i was playing with robert armani who gave up after 20 minutes and also after he heard the promoter wasn't paying anyone.
the high point was seeing some kid do a back flip off the wall
the low point ??
the hotel.......roach motel central eeeuuugh!
thats the single best and funniest thing ive ever heard.http://a9.cpimg.com/image/59/B0/3574...-02000180-.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by davethedrummer
Worst booking I ever had was in Switzerland when BenEye & myself went over to play. 4500 people stood still all night & just watched the DJ's playing. Then I was told there was an after party, so I got on the mic & told everyone. Trouble was, the after party was in a 150 capacity bar/club. 4500 tried to get into there & it was chaos! Went back to the hotel in the morning after loosing the promoter, and loosing our money & grabbed a few hours sleep. Woke up & realised that we were skint & about to be thrown out of the hotel. Spent the whole day jumping trains with loads of bags & records trying to get to Zurich to meet some friends. Couldn't find them, so we had to keep jumping trains to get to the airport. Flew back home & had a PHAT joint after the nightmare.
I've got too many to list.
Maybe there's a new genre on the cards here:Quote:
Originally Posted by davethedrummer
Hip Trance?
Acid Hop?
Hipno?
Acid Hipno?
man the worst gig i have had was in a small farm town outside Modesto Ca. the whole night this kid keeps telling me how much he wants the records i have and where did i get them. with the dj before me he kept over and messing with the effects while he was playing and i told him i wasn't having any of that. then when i was done he kept eyeing my records behind the decks, and this place was shady. so i dare not go outside and put them in the car. i might get jumped on my way there or they will follow and break into the car and take them when im not there so i just sat on them the whole time.
then when it came time for my friends set someone else jumped on the decks and was like too bad. its my party and i want to play now. so we just got the f#*k out of there! and counted are lucky stars for not gettin hurt or robbed.
not too bad all in all. but it ranks as number 1 in my book.
which reminds me of this one time....at band camp....hahaha :clap:
no really, one other i remember was playing an after party at a day club which is actually a strip bar through the night. poles and girls and drag everywhere. i liked it! just played sleazy, everyone was messy anyway. funny thing was i wasnt though. had got some sleep and was just there to play.
these young asian guys kept coming up and tipping me with $20 bills. not sure what they were up to but hey...all good.
:doh: i must go back there sometime.
:lol: there used to be pictures somewhere, they showed weird looking american ravers breakdancing with glowsticks :lol:
i need to find em :shock: :lol:
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hey tripleX you mean this one for example? ;)
www.ishkur.com
my craziest gig was at a school party. had an hour to play trance music, the DJ after me was about to play hiphop and rock. during my set, lots of people came and insulted me, they wanted me to play hiphop, no "XTC music for dumb people". bad luck for them, i had some stigmata and glenn wilson stuff in my case which i played then, until they threw me out 15 minutes before my set was about to end :D
When I played at a gay club and got my ass kicked by a 150cm dyke for not playing Bette Midler.
Istanbul was also pretty ****ed up with the armed guards :shock:
Promising!Quote:
Originally Posted by davethedrummer
A hahahhahaha what a wanker :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by davethedrummer
oh god !!
one of my messiest squat parties was a couple of years back,
i had a really nasty cold and there was some latin girl in the crowd i really fancied.
i was off my head, and everytime i bent over the mixer this huge line of snot would come out of my nose and dangle over the dex.
then when i changed records i'd sniff it up get the records , turn back round and it'd happen all over again.
this went on for the best part of an hour, i only found out about it afterwards when someone politely told me to blow my nose.
i also found out that the girl who i thought had been eyeing me up
( being the brilliant dj i am and all that of course??) all through the set had just been giggling at my runny nose......
you know i've got a way with the laydeez?????
:doh: :doh: :doh: :roll:
muhaha :lol:
hahaha, great thread
Funniest thing EVER!! :lol: :clap: :lol: :clap: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by davethedrummer
I had a bad one at a house party a few years ago...I had been playing for a while and my ex wanted a go, at this point the previously full kitchen where the decks were, was empty apart from me and her, I was just finishing my last record when she suddenly came up on a pill and projectile vomited all over the decks mixer, me , everybodies records and all over the kitchen in general. Moving quickly we managed to clear some of it, then the guys who's party it was came in, and my ex started telling him that one of his friends had been sick but we weren't sure who.....nightmare........anyway he starts shouting at a mate of his who he's convinced must have done it....i was still pulling the stuff out of my hair at this point....there were about 10 record bags covered in the stuff....anyway she confessed and we legged it - funny enough we were never asked back....... :oops:
my worst one was at dogma in edinburgh...
had monitor problem --ie ther was none.
totally fuked every mix , and i mean every one.....train wreckin of the highest order.
was playing to a full house- 800 folk were ther, totally packed...and i sucked.
Mind you after it a good few peeps said they luved my set.....shows how much they know.....jimmy saville coulve done better.
Never mind the next time i played i redeemed myself....
I learnt a vauble lesson that night.....walk off if ther are bad tech probs....no point in imbarrassin yersel.
funny you should say thatQuote:
Originally Posted by gumpy green
me and chris have always had this thing about redeeming yourself after a sloppy gig.
normally at the squat party afterwards.
but i don't agree about walking off if there are technical problems
i was brought up to have the show must go on attitude.
ok this isnt really a terrible gig
but its a funny story involving a gig
ok during my set, this guy was just FREAKING OUT. like, screaming yelling the whole bit. he kept coming behind the decks and being generally annoying..i kept saying "hey buddy, this track will sound so much better if you go on the dancefloor where the good sound is" it worked, but he kept coming back everyonce and a while. He came up to me with this record, and asked me to play it about 10 times when he came behind the decks...He even got down on his hands and knees and begged me to play it!!! i might have....if it were a techno record...turns out it was a funky breaks track....
So my set ended and the next guy came on....what does this crazy f.uck do? he puts his record on the turntable! I just grabbed the record off, handed it to him with a nice "F.UCK OFF".
Then he looked at me and starting crying and swearing "f.uck you i hate you f.uck you!!!" ok...wtf....then i came to the front of the dance floor and he was rolling around punching the ground and crying like a 2 year old cause i didnt play his record.
I handed him his record, his keys and gave him a free cd and then he seemed to be ok. then as he was leaving i saw him take my cd and throw it on the ground.
some people just cant handle their drugs...
he found me in the morning to appologize, and i asked him if he had slept and came off his drugs, he said "yea, i woke up in a bush and realized i ruined my life last night!" poor dude...
f.uck
haha i love the filter
****
if is not filtering **** what is it filtering?
yeh see wher your comin from dave but i play because i want to represent my art, not for anything else....if the organisers cant sort me out with the tools i need to perform then from now on i aint gonna.....as an artist i will take the measures to ensure my art is ALWAYS up to skratch....ive turned down gigs becuase i couldnt bring my own mixer and fx...Quote:
funny you should say that
me and chris have always had this thing about redeeming yourself after a sloppy gig.
normally at the squat party afterwards.
but i don't agree about walking off if there are technical problems
i was brought up to have the show must go on attitude
But yeh i do see what yer saying.....its just ive got a different veiw on things.....each to ther own.
Some will prob veiw this attitude as wrong, im cool with that....
Sure the show will still go on, id just let someone else play...
All i can say is- would you expect tiger wood to play with home made clubs made from MDF???would he be able to???would ya want to see him??
this is funny reading :lol: :lol:
i tried to put a period inbetween the f and the u, in f u c kQuote:
Originally Posted by Jimfish
hmm wel i cant call it a gig but a dj experience ...
that was our graduation party in last septemeber .... like in all teh szhcool parties i was heavily drunk ... so drunk that i threw up at around 2am ... then some mates, knowing i am dj , aske dme to play records.
of course they werent mine and this was astudent crowd... so borrowed some bob sinclar, benny benassi .... hahah what a crime, i think the music i playe dis the worst part of the story ..... so i started to drink again while playing, and after a while i realzed there werent monitors and i was using to room' sound to mix . of course my mix ended the same way it began after some more drinks.
teh funny thing is that on the next day i couldnt remmeebr how long i had played, and what were the records. The freinds ive met told me they loved my set ... i didnt know that some people could b more drunk than me on that nite =)
Worst - 3 people - Warrington, has that dog paid?
Funny shit - K-head, lays down in the middle of the dance floor, big lad as well, but I thought, **** me the bouncers will have him over, so I got him up and to the side. Ten mins later he walks thru all the PA and light rigging to shake my hand - booom and silence all round.
Heh, just last night I had a gig at a Student festival and even though the soundsystem was totally bangin' (15 kW), it wasn't really made for a DJ to play (before me, there was a group of drummers bangin' it out on the stage and there were bands supposed to play on other days of the festival). They had a terribly low picnic table for our decks and mixer (not too good on the back) and the electricity was connected via a number of branch boxes so almost every time someone stepped on the stage, the electricity would go outQuote:
Originally Posted by davethedrummer
and the music would simply shut down(!). Fortunately, this was fixed when I was set to play, but nothing could prepare me for such terrible monitoring conditions! I had two floor monitors (which were obviously meant for the drummer), which were way too loud and banging and the high-end was non-existent. I had to rely solely on my two ears and the mixer, but proceeded to play. Even though there were some major technical hiccups later on (like the power going off about an hour and a half into my set and some serious popping noise when the sound engineer tried to balance the speaker levels (?)), I played to maybe ten dancing girls and a few blokes in a tent meant for at least two hundred people (the others were mainly sitting and drinking).
And the point to this long story?
If you're paid to play a gig (no matter where or when), it's your obligation to play under any circumstances, except when the conditions prevent you from performing. If they fcuk up technically, they're gonna get a fcuked-up sounding show and it's their problem! As D.A.V.E. said, the show must go on!
a funny thing happened to me a few years back,i was booked to play from 10 till 1130,me and about 4 mates went along to the place which turned out to be the hall at the back of a working mans club.Pretty funny in its self,so we sat in the main bar getting really pissed,but one of my mates was absolutely steaming!!I got on the decks and unknown to me,my friend was so drunk he decided to trash the toilets behind the stage.Within 5 mins the stage was flooded and the place was evacuated.Of course he denied all knowledge.We had to make a sharp exit and i havent heard from the promoter to this day.
lets say a big bag o' weed, too many pills and no monitors at a party of people who wanted something "lighter and more commercial" than Bam Bam, Liberator et al. well I was laughing at the end and pulled a really cute lady that night. So shit for everybody else - great night for me!
Worst ever gig for me was in Malta, no flight details until 12 hours before, got to gatwick, no ticket for me.. after 2 hours wrangling with air malta they finally found my reservation after many calls to air malta in Malta.. got on the plane, flight was fine, got off plane, waiting for my records, no records... waited another 30 mins and this mangled mess of record box came thru.. luckily records were ok, box was trashed, the lid was half hanging off, it looked like it had been run over by an airport truck, the whole box was literally twisted on its axis.. because of the late plane ticket I thought I wasn't going to make it there, and as a result of this, the news had got thru to other people in malta, so no-body thought I was coming.. so no-one turned up at the club.. as a result of this the club closed by 11pm, I ended up playing in some bar.. went down cool, but didn't get paid my fee.. then had to spend the next 2 days in malta with no money, and I'd borrowed 50 pounds to get to gatwick from nottingham, so I was 50 quid down..
so all in all it sucked...
So if anyone from overseas books me, make sure you get me the flight details at least 2 weeks in advance or I'm not coming...[/i]
Shitty, good thing your records didn't get f*cked up in the process, or I'd say you'd had the worst experience posted!Quote:
Originally Posted by crime
This happened me...
I had after a Gig a crash with my car... and my box was faster than me and my car...
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