something deffo needs done...

[Stella Boy]

obviously when he askes what type of night it is whilst we are in the car, im gonna tell him... which wasnt in a funny way.

anyhow i told speedy in the car that Joy is NOT a minimal event

You didn't mention speedy asking you in your initial post. The way the post was written implied you simply told him. This was my interpretation so apologies for the misunderstanding

Anywho, thanks for your comments dude

[Kells]

You didn't mention speedy asking you in your initial post. The way the post was written implied you simply told him. This was my interpretation so apologies for the misunderstanding

Anywho, thanks for your comments dude

i kind of thought i may have not explained properly, i was just really talking about speedy in genral and not how i make bookings for joy so didnt go in depth with it.... no need to apologies tony, was easy to miss-understand.. :)

Speedy was a reserved character, you can tell he plays alot of gigs all over the world.

he mentioned he is doing alot over in the states, im not sure what they are into over their but as i said before we booked him for his good stuff, although we did have to deal with 3 booking agents in total do im not sure what info he was told..

As i said before he delivered what i wanted, Cisco was pretty shocked, he didnt expect speedy to play how he did, and even comented on this to speedy, whom i think really fed off the crowd, was good, i enjoyed it alot and the crowd were really spot on and knew exactly what they wanted/were listening to, i like that, alot of the club nights in leeds now are just full of un educated crowds who are their just to look good in their new clothes...
but i guess you already know this..

anyhow, speak soon :)

[The Overfiend]

Keep doing your thing Kells, people around here have a knack to want to take stabs at peoplein the mix from outside of the mix.

[RDR]

Keep doing your thing Kells, people around here have a knack to want to take stabs at peoplein the mix from outside of the mix.

Im not sure thats the case antonio, just a misunderstanding i think..

But, yeah man, keep it going Kells! Some cracking events indeed!!! Hi to brad and angie as well :)

[The Overfiend]

Im not sure thats the case antonio, just a misunderstanding i think..

But, yeah man, keep it going Kells! Some cracking events indeed!!! Hi to brad and angie as well :)

Not you, my man fifty grand.

[Kells]

Im not sure thats the case antonio, just a misunderstanding i think..

But, yeah man, keep it going Kells! Some cracking events indeed!!! Hi to brad and angie as well :)

Thanx for the support guys, always nice to hear good things, im actually brad btw :), i notice you are from Selby, i visit their quite a bit, do i know you at all? i also notice you know Ange so im guessing we must have met somewhere along the line?

[RDR]

Thanx for the support guys, always nice to hear good things, im actually brad btw :), i notice you are from Selby, i visit their quite a bit, do i know you at all? i also notice you know Ange so im guessing we must have met somewhere along the line?

Indeed brad...

Its chris :)

I do still have your phone number you know... and we're still looking for gig swaps at Pure Techno.

[Kells]

Indeed brad...

Its chris :)

I do still have your phone number you know... and we're still looking for gig swaps at Pure Techno.

Ahh makes sense now, Hows things hope you are doing well?

[Aratron]

thinking about Speedy-DJ the other night.

just got it, play on words Spee - DJ OR summat like that anyway.

tell him come and play a free party up at my neck of woods. at -5 in the morning.

[Jay Pace]

There's loads of people we'd love to book but we know they wouldn't fill the place. Need to know your market - what people will pay for, who will pull a crowd. Then you need to balance that with putting on people you actually like.

Seen loads of nights die because they book their heroes and get frustrated when the public don't turn up. Its really sad, but you need to put on a party first and foremost (IMO) and without people you ain't got a party.

Problems we've had is that bar trade is wiping out club trade - late licences, better provision for smokers - there's less incentive to go to a club and pay a load of money and have to queue to have a smoke when there's a bar closer by that plays decent enough music and doesn't charge.

Meh. Reckon Mark's got it right - book smaller names or up and comers and build a night that way. The legends of stadium rock aren't always the best option.

[Aratron]

The legends of stadium rock aren't always the best option.

:lol:

[RDR]

:lol:

I reckon slash might pull in more than mills though.

Id go and see him at a techno night :)

[dirty_bass]

Seen loads of nights die because they book their heroes and get frustrated when the public don't turn up. Its really sad, but you need to put on a party first and foremost (IMO) and without people you ain't got a party.

Had that problem a few years back.
Got skoog in (pre-agaric), always wanted him at our events.
Promoted like mad, as we always used to.
Got a really low turn out, apart from a bunch of japanese who obviously knew who he was, london punters as a whole, all though they had all danced to his tunes as played by other DJ`s, they just didn`t know who skoog was.
Bad crazyness.
London is extra difficult though, and the crowds are super fickle for the biggest names only.

[Darkmode]

Had that problem a few years back.
Got skoog in (pre-agaric), always wanted him at our events.
Promoted like mad, as we always used to.
Got a really low turn out, apart from a bunch of japanese who obviously knew who he was, london punters as a whole, all though they had all danced to his tunes as played by other DJ`s, they just didn`t know who skoog was.
Bad crazyness.
London is extra difficult though, and the crowds are super fickle for the biggest names only.

Thats the problem in the UK when promoters hold nights people will only turn up if a big name is playing & don't show their faces when it's an artist they haven't heard of which I think is very closed minded. They seem to think coz it's a big name artist they think he or she is gonna be good even though they probs haven't seen or heard them play. I think the whole Superstar DJ thing has a lot of answer for as the majority of people who only turn up to see the big names play are just sheep with no mind of their own.

[RDR]

Thats the problem in the UK when promoters hold nights people will only turn up if a big name is playing & don't show their faces when it's an artist they haven't heard of which I think is very closed minded. They seem to think coz it's a big name artist they think he or she is gonna be good even though they probs haven't seen or heard them play. I think the whole Superstar DJ thing has a lot of answer for as the majority of people who only turn up to see the big names play are just sheep with no mind of their own.

The original post that started this thread said exactly the opposite of that.

Perhaps what you are saying has resonance with big trance or 'pop' dance music events...

[Darkmode]

The original post that started this thread said exactly the opposite of that.

Perhaps what you are saying has resonance with big trance or 'pop' dance music events...

Sorry if you miss-understood in what I was saying basicly I was saying in general that some people that go to Techno nights held in the UK only go to them when when a big name Techno artist is playing & don't turn up when it's an artist they haven't heard of.

[FuK-NuT]

There's loads of people we'd love to book but we know they wouldn't fill the place. Need to know your market - what people will pay for, who will pull a crowd. Then you need to balance that with putting on people you actually like.

Seen loads of nights die because they book their heroes and get frustrated when the public don't turn up. Its really sad, but you need to put on a party first and foremost (IMO) and without people you ain't got a party.

Problems we've had is that bar trade is wiping out club trade - late licences, better provision for smokers - there's less incentive to go to a club and pay a load of money and have to queue to have a smoke when there's a bar closer by that plays decent enough music and doesn't charge.

Meh. Reckon Mark's got it right - book smaller names or up and comers and build a night that way. The legends of stadium rock aren't always the best option.

read my posts ;)

[Jay Pace]

read my posts ;)

hehe, all on the money mate. Heard edinburgh was the place to be not so long back. My only experiences of clubbing up that way were going to 'rezerection' at the royal highland showground when I was a wee bairn. Although I have an enduring memory of 10k charged up hibbs shouting along to 'toytown' (hixxy and sharkey, you know da score...).

Thems were the days.

We're doing a residents and friends party at our next night. Be interesting to see how many we pull compared to the headliner gigs.

[barry_fyasko]

tricky one. if u get a reputation for putting on a good party, after a while u get a big regular crowd in each month whoever is playing. if u get on a superstar dj-booking tip, u can pack em in if u get the booking+promo right or u can bomb if it goes wrong. when it goes right tho... awesome

but bombing on a 400quid budget is different to bombing on a 2 grand budget...

end of the day, people will go to what they think will be a good nite. if youve done the groundwork and put on a run of smallish, low-budget, wicked nites with great local/cheap djs, you dont need to go and book mills or dave clarke and risk a crapload of money on a bunch of fickle punters.

i reckon leave the big'uns to the promoters with cash to burn unless ur certain ur on a winner. or got cash to burn.

all about the grass roots maaan ;)

[RDR]

get a reputation for putting on a good party

Thats stop No.1 on the road to having a long running event.