gig gone bad

[DjDennis]

not gone bad but power outages happen all the time at some venues - I have had them happen

especially in a wild storm and the light pole is hit by lightning

no one dancing? Thats just a shit dj lol

I have seen radio Djs have that happen - because they dont beatmix and talk between each song

(people want music not a babbling Dj)

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[gcdj]

ontopic: the only major issue i've had (luckily no equipment failures) is not allowing enough time for set up.

At every gig, getting the music right for the crowd is the mobile DJ's toughest job, hands down. No matter how many weddings, 18ths, school gigs, 21sts, or 40ths you do, the tastes of each crowd are never predictable.

The hardest thing to do sometimes is bite the bullet and ask the crowd what they want if no one is dancing, and be prepared to play things you would never have dreamed of just to get the dance floor going in the first place. A DJ who is a wank and continues to play music the crowd dislikes will be remembered (and his business name shamed) for it.

Even if it means playing shitty r&b all night when you thought that 16 year olds generally like top 40 / dance music.

So True. Every crowd is different. Last week i did a 14th birthday party where the kids wanted me to play metallica and other heavy metal songs from the 80's

[DjDennis]

You live for whats to be done - and as you say you cant be there for you

you have to be there for the Client and what THEY want...

@Pill: you havent been shut down for noise in a private party YET!

there will be times that you will - but you have a long way to go in perth .. trust me some suburbs they hate noise after 9pm! any day of the week

[SourceRaver]

Seem there is two levels of loud

Dance loud that is tolerated by neighbours up to 3am in the morning,

And loud loud that is the favourite with 16-18 year olds that gets closed down by the cops at about 11.30-12am.

I'm sure some DJ's phone and complain about their own music so they can go home early if its a shit party.

LOL!

[DjDennis]

Source havent you yet ?

you are in Perth - just go out the back and say you live down the street and want some quiet

then say dont worry about it I have a baseball bat and i'll go there and hang up the phone

now that gets the cops to a job faster than anything when that happens

I know have done it once in my days because all they wanted was heavy metal and I knew I didnt have enough to last till 3am...

[dapimp]

got a gig to play hard trance at a 21st, mom wanted 80s music.

spent the whole night between the both of them

[Jaz]

hardcore beegee's?

[DJ_Shiver]

you are in Perth - just go out the back and say you live down the street and want some quiet

then say dont worry about it I have a baseball bat and i'll go there and hang up the phone

now that gets the cops to a job faster than anything when that happens

Hahaha very nice.

[DJ_Raptor]

First time i ever touched equipment, i kept moving the pitch slider the oposite direction.. kept trying to make it faster and it got slower and slower and slower hahahaha was so embarased...

Happy to say, the dj at the event gave me another go next event and i did very well... he was shocked.. he thought id be just as bad as the first time lol

[FabDJ]

No one dancing all talking and sucking piss.

Told them if no one dances I'm packing it in right now.

Got a reasonable crowd on the floor very quickly.

Turned out to be a good night.

[CBG]

I was doing a transition the other night and my hand slipped and pushed the pitch nearly all the way up on the left CDJ. I spent the next 30 secs absoloutely molesting the platter trying to get it back in time LOL. Luckily I hadnt brought the song in yet

[djpete]

I will add a few more here as didn't see this thread.

Note in 15 yrs of mobile djing prob had around a dozen major incidents and from each one you learn...FAST lol.

Wedding I was mcing, had done all the formalities speeches and bridal dance luckily.

Main amp blows during a set. Silence nothing I could say on mic either as no sound.

The blood just drains from your face when these things happen.

Try and fix for 5 mins before I decide I will have to drive 20 mins each way home to get a backup.

Asked if wedd venue could play some music through their house system after I explain to b and g what I need to do. They are just in shock but I say I have go. Venue owner says they dont have a house system!

So that just adds more stress to my insane drive home and back.

Get back and they DID have a house system and thanks god SOME music was playing.

Got the system fired back up again and finished the gig.

This is the only gig I have ever done where they were not charged.

DO NOT under any circumstances fuck someones wedding. They will NOT forgive you.

:-)

Lesson learn. I always take a backup amp to every gig I do.

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Wedding out in Romsey area.

Get there nice and early to play it safe as things can go wrong. :-)

All good almost all setup when I notice that I have not brought my mixer which is normally in one of those silver hard carry cases.

PANIC! Check time left, 1hr will take me 40mins each way to get back to Melb.

Talk to function owner she says they can delay people coming up from predrinks for 30mins if that helps.

Quick calculations and I reckon I can do it.

No time to take trailer off back of car so drive both ways averaging 130kph. Stupid I know.

Trying to keep calm thinking this IS A WEDDING!!!!!!

Made it back and gig went ahead with just a 30min delay to come up from predrinks.

B and G didnt even know the full story and dint know any difference.

Lesson learnt.

My case with mixer used to be in my study, so it could be forgotten.

It's now kept altogether with the lighting effects in garage so it always goes into car with lights.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I do not like stress.

Another tip I have learnt is that if you have a wife or other half and need to save time get them to grab whatever bit of kit you need and either bring it to you or meet meet you half way somewhere.

[DJFluffy]

Did a gig on Saturday night for a 21st, all Kiwi's, only people dancing had been the kids, people asked me to play songs they wanted so I did thinking they would dance but no they just stood around tapping there feet while getting drunk for the first few hours I felt like a jukebox, comes 1.5hr before home time and the floor is full with drunk Kiwi's and we went over time by 1hr.

[djpete]

there ya go. you just never know. You do what you can do but in the end it's up to them. IMO there's nothing worse than a pushy dj overusing the mic to get people up.

Usually they'll get up if you are doing the right thing music wise, but they have to be ready, in this case 3/4 drunk. lol