So last night i got asked if i wanted to play an 18th birthday party, at 5:30, the gig was at 7. Works been dry recently and i wasnt doing anything so i did it. I was told just play party music/cheese for a few hours, then a bit of well known trance at the end. so i bought a few party albums from iTunes and downloaded some recent charty remixes from soundcloud (i havent played a charty gig in over a year).
The plan was, as usual, go to gig, play what i was told, go home. turns out the promoter (some of you will have heard about my rants about him before) got the gigs mixed up. so i was playing chart tunes to an 18 year old hip hop knowitall who wanted dubstep and dnb as well (only the commercial kind though).
i got an hour and a half into the gig and i had played out ALL my hiphop, and i only have a handfull of dnb and dubstep tracks, let alone anything she would know. so i texted my pal who is a dubstep DJ and he brought up some popular tunes on a usb stick for me to use for the night, that lasted me another hour and a half, an hour to go and i was completely dry, she gave me a playlist of stuff to play and i hadnt heard of a single track on there nevermind owned them so i had to just start from the beginning and play out my hiphop tunes again, and for the first time of the night the dancefloor went empty no matter how many bangers i played. gig finished early as they wanted to go out clubbing so i packed up my stuff and went and seen the parents, who refused to pay me a penny because i didnt play any 'requests'. Luckilly the booking was a family friend of the promoters and he's eventually managed to get the money from them.
So say this was you? what would you have done? i had tried asking at the bar if they had wifi (with no luck) and i couldnt get my record pool website up on my phone (i had a usb cable if/when i had to transfer tracks over).
I was thinking of getting one of those internet anywhere dongle thingies (but they cost a fortune for not much downloads) or pending my girlfriends new job, if she gets it, ill get a iphone on the cheap and use itunes straight from that.
any other ideas?
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