I agreed to play a college gig last night. It was supposed to be promoting electronic and indie music. Two friends were playing down stairs.
One played a minimal ableton set, from 10:30 to 11:30 to which 6 people were present. The other guy played sleazy italo and disco for the next hour. And in fairness he did get the place moving.
So, I start playing upstairs at around 12:15. The place was pretty busy (upstairs and downstairs).
Since it was to promote electronic music I brought a real mixed bag of music (surgeon, oscar croma, andrea parker, ellen allien, blackmass plastics, tipper, 30Hz, milanese etc)
An hour later a 1/4 of the people were actually still there. A group of girls actually pulled the electricity on me 3 times!
"we're doing you a favour, we might actually get some music we can dance to"


moral of the story. Never dj to college kids.