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.