Mine was a colourful night. I took my entire PA rig down (Mixer / Speakers / Lights / Smoke Machine, etc) to a club in East London. The guys who run the place have only just bought it and are pretty clueless about running a big venue (but they paid well, so fuck it).
At about 9pm I set everything up and started playing. The lights looked kinda lame without the smoke, so I said shall I blast the fogger (Smoke Machine). Management said yeah despite me asking them about any smoke alarms. They said it would be fine.
Long story short… The alarm started screaming and they didn’t know how to turn it off. The fire brigade had to come out and deactivate the alarm. This took 20 minutes and cleared THE ENTIRE building out.
From 9:30, I started with zero people and gradually built it up again. What a fucking disaster…
Strangely, they invited me back to play next week.
Oh my gosh! My New Year Gig story is less interesting then yours.
I played for the first time at a “friends” house with traktor and my new VCI 100 B with Zac Kyoti tsi file(Thanks Zac Kyoti). Everything was okay. The crowed was dancing I played for about 2h something. Started at 0:30.
I used Live before but I have to say that Traktor provides more functionallity and a better workflow for me.
my night went well, I have a weekly at a dive bar in a Colorado ski town. Plenty of tourists were in. This was the first night i went with four decks (two controlled by a Trigger Finger and two controlled by turntable). Setup went great, and no tech issues all night.
it was hanging out after the bar closed that was my problem. jager/crown/well whiskey and whatever else i was drinking led to a rough morning…
I spun last night. It was a weird night in general. Almost had a fight, lots of ‘old school’ guys too cool to dance, little bits of drama, no shockers there.
I’ve realized two decks isn’t enough for me. I was spinning on just my VCI-100 and Traktor 3. After building this new setup I’ve found I need a bit more with me for cue juggling, and sample dropping. New laptop comes in tomorrow and I have very few gigs coming up, so I have time to start putting everything together
But yeah, in general the gig didn’t blow. I spun, all that matters to me. Happy New Year again to all.
it was held at a resturant…and there was prolly around a total of 15 people with a real diverse crowd…persians,asians,mexicans, and americans…and every one was like way older so there wasnt much danceing
and to top it off my stupid numark djio kept snapen and dropen the music for a sec or so
I was opening for a friend of mine at some small club in Woodbridge (just West of Toronto) and things where going well, as I was just supposed to warm up with some minimalistic techno. While I was playing, the bouncer in front of the booth got told by management to let some hot chicks up. So just as I was finishing my set at around 10:30, one of these drunken tits pores 1/3 of her beer onto my MacBook. Don’t ask me how it came to this, as my MB was on a stand, but managed to protect the computer from a good amount of it… but as usual with the first version of the MacBook, any little bit of liquid kills it… So some fell on the trackpad, but nothing else happened until closer inspection I note that my trackpad is no longer working. Manage to finish up my set with my MB tiled to one side to let drain the beer.
When I started trying to close down the programs and the computer, it just died on me… and by that time all of the chicks had left the booth (my apparent large amount of swearing is a turn off), so no chance on finding the girl that pored the beer.
Right now, my MB has no battery in it and is drying under multiple fans for the next 48. I haven’t bothered to even try and turn it on and will have to open it up and clean it with pure alcohol.
Me and my friend DJed a rather large(for a while) house party. I started the night off around 9:30ish. No one was there at this point. I worked until 10:30 (we went back to back hourly). Still no one there except the 5 original people of the night. I was starting to think that the party was a bust. I was asking the throwers whats up and they just kept shrugging. Also I was using my custom midi controller for… 15 minutes before it started bugging out on me. So me and my buddy decided fuck it lets get drunk.
As soon as 11:20 hit the house got packed fast 5 new people in every 5 minutes. I guess they were waiting for the last possible moment to come in. Everyone hurried up and got some champagne and toast to the new year. Not one person had danced yet btw. No dancing started until 12:45 and then everyone had left by 2. So 1 hour and 15 minutes of fun which I only seen the beginning of that. Lame. But it was moving when it was. Bad start, good middle. bad end.
Starting about 5PM, got drunk and stoned and hit the wrong pads on my padkontrol a few times, hot-cueing to the start of the current playing track instead of the one i was cueing.
I did this twice and decided i should not be mixing anymore.
It didn’t matter cause not many people showed up anyway.
I drank and smoked some more, jumped in a pool, threw up in a garden and was put to bed by my mates sister at about 2:30AM.
I didn’t do anything major went to a small party (like 15) at an apartment, the guy (who owns the apartment) djs also, but was playing downtempo ambient, or very relaxed house I am not sure. I was like don’t you want to pick it up before midnight? but he didn’t and he was a friend of a friend so I figured it wasn’t worth it. Then I played some rap remixes, and some house which was met by dancing, by about half the people. It was fun, I usually focus to much on the music and don’t take time to enjoy myself, like I try to do to much complicated stuff (not having a controller). This time I decided that I was going to interact more and just let the song choices and transitions with adjustments be enough and it worked out well, so I am happy.
Well, after leaving it to dry under 3 fans, it started working again today, but it does not recognize the battery and the space bar sticks most of the time.
If after cleaning the insides with alcohol, it still does not recognize the battery, I’m probably going to get the club to pay for repairs. I’m not sure I can claim the insurance from them, as it was my friends name under the contract, but I will probably end up getting him to do it for me.
Sucked but still good. Spent countless hours over the last few months fixing the club lighting and enticing more people to attend the joint overall. Retuned the club amp which is way to small for the system n the speakers are @#$%. Did half the advertisement for the club by word of mouth and internet posts. They put too hefty of a cover charge on, then decided to drop it all together last minute, couldn’t organise a shit in the woods. All they had was a few radio adds that no-one i know heard except me 1 time. Hence by 10pm no-one turned up so they decided to shutdown and hit the piss at the other pub who screwed us over by ripping our ideas. Went to the other pub and got blind rotted drunk. Made a mess of their venue. Sang karaoke like a true champion and got everyone going better than the host (i’m a musician which helped haha). Found out later that all the people that were turnin up at our club turned up around 15minutes after we locked up and left… Is it just me or do they really need to think about what they’re doin and put me on as PR and promotions officer… Considering the next night no-one turned up again so i dragged my guitar out and played a live acoustic set instead and got tipped money and drink by the few patrons who i’d never even met before, plus lifted their patronage by promoting myself when by internet and txt msgs, repaired their @#@#$ up lighting and sound system as much as i can without funding (although i did a damn good job with a $20 mirror ball and swapping a few bulbs around and cleaning things). Also just found out they have a full karaoke setup just sitting goingto waste because “we don’t have anyone who can sing”… I believe i will get the joint going a bit further hit them for a pay rise, if they refuse i walk away and watch it all turn to shit again… Gotta love this industry.
Happy New Year to all the community. Let us look forward and embrace technology!!!
Everyone has bomb stories, some bad some good, but eventful nonetheless.
I ended up playing at a house jam for about 25 people, i got sloshed by 7pm and simple shit like beatmatching becomes a herculean task (was just using turntables and mixer directly to the amp and dj-ing off my cds). I don’t know how i pulled it off, everything from finding the cd the song, the cuepoint was just a mess. at about 11:30 i put in a pre-recorded set on cd on 1 deck and let it play for about an hour so i can party it up. Noone noticed and/or cared, good times though. Did it all over again on the 1st and came home today at 11 still drunk from the night before and slept like a baby.
(Made out with my friend’s younger sister and got slapped for it)
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I played for about 2h something. Started at 0:30.