worst gig ever

[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:

[stjohn]

its price you have ot pay sometimes tho innit....

used to do 18ths/21st etc, but quickly gave up to save my heartache.....

i think you have right idea mark tho....whenever asked to tone it down, reach for your nearest copy of something sven wittekind or loktibrada or something...really wreck the heads

[Aratron]

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:

thats happened to me before dude

in middle of a really dark acid techno set and some pissed up wanker asking for r n b

doncaster for you

[jk_scowling]

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:

"I didn't bring it with me" usually works. They don't get offended then ;)

[robin m]

"I didn't bring it with me" usually works. They don't get offended then ;)

Didn't you get asked by a promoter in dogma if you'd brought along some chesney hawkes? I vaguely remember something along those lines...

[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!!!

[vadarfone]

Yep. You are not alone.

I got asked to play my mates joint 29th Birthday party in a bar in North Tokyo.

Hmmm..

Well, I arrived and set up.

Played minimal for an hour. No one dancing.

Played harder techy stuff. No one dancing.

Played Techno-DNB ala Phace, Prode etc. 3 people dancing.

The host did a speech etc for the birthday boys (which was really nice to be fair and made me grin looking at all the photos on the slideshow etc)

Played straight Trance for an hour. quite a few people dancing.

The host played kylie minogue's 'I should be so lucky'...

The place went wild. People on the tables, drinks getting spilt etc etc.

Hmmm

I asked the manager of the bar to pay me some money for my efforts. He said no. So I asked him to pay me in drinks. He said no.

Hopefully next week will be better.

[Dustin Zahn]

I'm from Wisconsin...I guarantee I've got all you guys beat numerous times over. After all, we founded the world's first club night to ever feature a fish fry.

Anywho, let's see...top requests:

1. Smashing Pumpkins
Got this one last September at an actual rave mind you. I was tag teaming with another DJ when an innocent kid came up to speak with him. Busy digging through my record case, I wasn't paying attention. All of the sudden I hear the other DJ go, "I don't know. Ask Zahn, he might have some. Hey Zahn, maybe you got some of this!?" The kid comes up to me and very nicely and polietly asks me "Do you have any Smashing Pumpkins mixes?" Remixes? DJ mixes? Original tracks? I didn't know...but it completely blew my mind how sincere he was. It was like he wasn't aware that he had asked the stupidest question I'd heard in quite a while. Anyway, I said no (politely) and sent him on his way.

2. Whitesnake (any songs)
I played at a techno show at a strip club once. Apparently on the other nights there is a sheet for people to write their requests down for the DJs. Within a half hour of an Attack People DJ set (read: hard, dark, dirty music)...the sheet was full with requests such as Nirvana, 2 Live Crew, and Whitesnake. Surprisingly, the women were nowhere near as bad as the musical taste of the visiting patrons. I think Ian's ex borrowed $45 from me for the strippers that night. I can't remember if I was ever paid back, but I think so.

3. Matchbox 20
At another Attack People DJ gig about...5 or 6 years ago we were rockin' out pretty hard. I was playing stuff like Redhead, Skunkworks, doubles of headroom records, etc. and this drunk old 40yr old lady comes up and slurred at me, "C-can you play some Matchbox 20?" I told her I'd do my best to fit some in and kept her waiting all night. An hour later Ian went on and she never got what she wanted. :)

4. Journey
I was playing at a club with Bryan Zentz and it was very techno oriented. From some weird reason, an older guy wandered in early on asked me if I had any Journey while I was warming up for Bryan. Don't ask me why but I always had Journey in my bag for this very reason. I told him I did and two hours later after my warm up set I ended with Journey. The old man actually stuck around. Upon clearing the dance floor a bit, the old man jumped in the middle of the floor screaming "F*ck yeah! That's some real music!" Later that night, Bryan ended with some Fantomas.

Sadly, there are plenty more and probably worse requests that I'd have to sit back and think about for a second. I'm sure Ian remembers some of them.

[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