Ok so this is a bit of a rant but i had to get it out..
On thursday night i was asked to give a Dj an hour of my set as the owner wanted to see what he was like for a night in one of his other bars. No problem at all with doing this, it means i can have a few beers and chill out.
Anyway the fella turns up & cocky as you like, I said hi to him, and introduced myself and he didnt even tell me his name. I carried on for two more tracks and asked him if he was ready to go on, his response: "ready when you are", brilliant, so i move my things out of the way he plugs in his laptop and boom! somehow theres a surge and blows my power supply and cuts out my soundcard?? luckily i always have a 3.5mm - phono plugged in as backup, so sound was out for less than a second, then no sound from his cable, i look over and he's running a trial of vdj through his internal soundcard! once we eventually got him playing the sound was absolutely awful, no bass whatsoever, the system sounded like really loud laptop speakers! his cpu was completely maxed and the whole screen froze for about 5 seconds everytime he typed a letter and to top it off on his trial he was actually sitting down the whole time! after twenty minutes the manager asked me to go and take over as we were losing customers very very quickly.
Please dont think by this im trying to say that im a superstar, worldclass, millionare dj because im far from it, but come on youre either ready to play in front of people or youre not, he has invested absolutely nothing into this and thinks he can make a living out of it! christ i do one of my nights for free because i love doing it!
anyway rant over, i feel better now
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