I survived my first gig!

[lsmith]

I have completed my first gig. I have written a lengthy summary of my findings on my blog:
http://ifnotwhynot.me/i-did-it-i-survived-my-first-gig

Some of you might have also noticed a flurry of questions posted on the forums, which I have all linked in the above mentioned blog post. I hope that this post will be helpful for other DJing n00bs. Feel free to reply with suggestions, questions and anything else here or on my blog.

[Krome]

Congrats on the gig Just out of curiosity, how did you get it?

[lsmith]

I play a lot of Ultimate Frisbee and every tournament features at least one party. When I posted about my interest in DJing in my blog and facebook organizers of Frisbee tournaments started approaching me if I am interested in DJing at their tournament. Note that this is non paid stuff and I know about 70% of the people personally. Still its DJing in front of a 100-200 people crowd that comes from all over Europe with totally varying degrees of interests. So its the perfect way to learn I think as the crowd is demanding in the selection of songs, yet forgiving for slight technical mistakes and most importantly they will give me feedback during the event and afterwards.

I will see if I take this further than this. DJing and still playing 6-7 Ultimate Frisbee games on a weekend is damn hard. A friend a this weekends tournament is working in a club where they usually have some live act and then a DJ starting 2am. I might try that once I feel my technical skills have advanced. Not getting paid much, but enough to pay for a months iTunes bill

[lsmith]

here is the playlist:
http://ifnotwhynot.me/track-list-force-lake-2009

kinda funny i ended up with exactly 100 tracks (*).
the last 40 minutes i was constantly told my the organizers to mellow things down and "harassed" by the dancing crowd to put on some more power tracks, so things started going a bit back and forth (and there was an elvis fan in the dancing crowd)

(*) i must be missing a few tracks since I know I played Jailhouse Rock towards the end as well ..

[Karlos Santos]

Anyone who plays the Beach Boys is alright with me

[JesC]

Anyone who play Elvis over the Beach Boys is more than alright with me! But wait? M.I.A. before Elvis, is this against the law? j/k Good setlist man.

[Kaon]

elvis over beach boys!? im impressed

[lsmith]

heh .. would be cool if we all made it a habit to publish our playlists. the export in traktor is a bit wierd, but does work more or less. i wonder if this is what richie hawtin is basing is custom app of. some applescript that just exports to the desktop and that then parses the information.

[DvlsAdvct]

I almost always put up my playlists (now that Traktor has stopped crashing)

[JesC]

I was going to try lastnite to post my tracklist on twitter song by song when I was playing...But I only posted 1. Too much booze.