worst gig ever

[prozac]

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.

[Aratron]

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.

nice one mate
i'll be in touch about playing a gig at the Leopard in Doncaster.
we need men like you

[teknofilth]

lol, picture the scene, at a houseparty - in the middle of a mix - ushering in Hydraulix 9, waiting for the bass to roll the people - then:
"have you got any Jamiroquai"
only house parties I play at now are my own..
(even if the attendance is just me myself and I ;-) )

[audioinjection]

good god, i hated djing house parties or anything that electronic music isn't expected or wanted, all you get are people requesting the latest rap tune haha

[MARK ANXIOUS]

oh man i have been in this situation so many times it's not even funny.

my usual trick is to go as mental as possible, break anything within a 2 meter radius and stay on as long as i possibly can. usually works tbh hahaha

[Tiptoe]

ha ha i remember playing at this garedn party once they were all playing baseline house and funky stuff. I turned up and started playing mulero surgeon and all the dark stuff lol. to say it didn't go down too well would be an understatement!

[robin m]

I've been asked if I've got any rnb in a club once or twice, dunno what you're supposed to say to that really :whoops:

[The Overfiend]

good god, i hated djing house parties or anything that electronic music isn't expected or wanted, all you get are people requesting the latest rap tune haha

Agreed.

[Jay Sanders]

I was offered £10 to play a "12 Inch Thumpers" record whilst playing a progressive house warm up in a club!!

For anyone who doesnt know who "12 inch Thumpers" they make possibly the nastiest Hard House ever i found out after.... No thanks!!

[Mucky Beats]

i must admit this has happend to me many a time years ago!!! many a birthday party or wedding i have turned up and had the old "have you not got something we can dance to" from the pissed old women trying her best to dance but just carnt handle the techno he he. best thing to do to really piss um off is find ya one tune with a cheesy tune sample in break down or somthing stop everything drop the sample and watch the fat cow jump up to dance then watch her face as the shranz beat drops ha ha ha ! then do what mark said and wrecked the gaff!!!

[Louk]

I was offered £10 to play a "12 Inch Thumpers" record whilst playing a progressive house warm up in a club!!

For anyone who doesnt know who "12 inch Thumpers" they make possibly the nastiest Hard House ever i found out after.... No thanks!!

Ha ha ha! I bet you £10 I can guess where that was as well! ;)

I've had lots of idiotic requests. One asking me if I had special D - come with me, I think she genuinely thought that there was a likelyhood of me playing it. Wish I did have it though as she was really pretty.

There is a particular track that was a big anthem at a club I was a resident at (Dance Academy), called 'Cruising', it rips off nalin + kane's beachball and adds abysmal vocals on top. The main resident there played it in every one of his sets and it was quite vomit inducing. Every set I was asked to play this tune and I really hated it. I found a sample of it here http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF242737-01-01-01.mp3

Someone once asked me to play Eminem, so I played the triple D remix of one of his tunes (funky rolling techno).

Worst yet has to be the YMCA... I'm sure that was a pisstake though!

Louk