difficult crowds world wide/ your worst gig experience

[sash]

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.

geez i can't really imagine someone doin the 'worm' while listenin to hard trance....?

yeah i've seen this
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!

Maybe there's a new genre on the cards here:

Hip Trance?
Acid Hop?
Hipno?
Acid Hipno?

[GAMMA303]

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.

[DJMAYA]

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.

i must go back there sometime.

[TripleX]

:lol: there used to be pictures somewhere, they showed weird looking american ravers breakdancing with glowsticks :lol:
i need to find em :lol:

[waldhaus]

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

[Buttman]

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

[Buttman]

carola and vigorito were playing down the road ..same night and they got about 40 people!!!!!.

Promising!

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!

A hahahhahaha what a wanker :lol:

[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?????
:roll:

[TripleX]

muhaha :lol:

[Jimfish]

hahaha, great thread

[Si the Sigh]

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?????
:roll:

Funniest thing EVER!! :lol: :clap: :lol: :clap: :lol:

[lunatrick]

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.......

[gumpy green]

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.

[davethedrummer]

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 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.

[anx]

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...

[anx]

f.uck

haha i love the filter

[Jimfish]

****

[Jimfish]

if is not filtering **** what is it filtering?

[gumpy green]

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

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...

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??

[dan the acid man]

this is funny reading :lol: :lol: