Disco DJ's // [RANT]/[ADVICE]

[dj matt blaze]

Something kind of similar happend to me years ago. I used to work through a mobile company, they would book the jobs, I would contact the client. This was an easy Sunday morning/afternoon party, I think it was a Birthday party, this was so long ago, like 16-17 years ago. So it was written on the contract that they wanted a little bit of everything and they wanted some Irish music. So when I would see that on a contract it meant that they want a few irsh songs along with everything else. So I had my DJ Tools CDs that had a maybe 3 Irish songs altogether. So I get to this party and its an Irish themed party. Irsh decorations everywhere, they have Irish dancers coming in to perform and here I am, the DJ, with 3 Irish songs. Luckily 1 of the people putting t his together lived 5 min away and had a bunch of Irish music cds and was able to get them for me. The client of course still complained to the company that I wasn't prepared, didn't have the music and that I looked messy which I had to agree with considering I got home at 3am from DJing the night before and had to be at this party at like 10am, an hour away from my house to set up so I know I loooked like death lol.

It was a lot harder to get music back then and a lot more is expected in this day and age. I would say that whenever you are doing any mobile gig, any party, you should have at least 50-100 songs in all the popular genres in case of an emergency so you don't run into a problem where you don't have the music. In this case though, it doesn't seem like you had a chance, you were given the wrong information by no fault of your own, you can't be expected to have this obscure music that some 18yo and their friends listen to that most people never heard of.

[firebr4nd]

Don't beat yourself up. It sounds like you handled the situation well considering the resources at your disposal. I guess the lesson to be learned here is that you can never have too much music with you, when the need arises.

[DjZzeless]

So no Disco story in here?

[Shishdisma]

I was really hoping to hear about some disco...

[oliosky]

Here's some new disco. Not to be confused with nu disco.