DJing nightmares...

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discoplayer

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so you know the deal...

your mixing it up & ur dancefloor is rocking it..... 8)
then some twat comes up in the middle of ur HOUSE set & asks whether you've got any RNB? :roll:

& u respond as nicely as possible with...

"um... no sorry dude. this club plays HOUSE music"

& he goes....

"so u dont have (like) one RNB track?"

& proceeds 2 look @ you like you are from another planet when u say u dont own ANY RNB tracks @ ALL!!! :lol:

2 which he then responds with....

"what sort of DJ doesn't have any RNB music?"
& walks off in a huff and puff.... :lol: :lol: :lol: :roll:

so give it up people...
i wanna know funny dj stories, worst requests and whateva else...

disco :D
 
robo will back me up on this one.. I was playing house and some jamiacan badboy wants me to play some rnb.. After i told him i cant play that at the moment andi dont have his tune anyway heasks me to play bob marley. Bare in mind i couldnt even work out what he was saying at first. Then he wants to come into the dj booth and look through my tunes! I told him he couldnt. Later on he comes back askin me why i hadnt played his song. Then he starts talking to me while i have my headphones on. After i take em off and start mixing into the next track he's talkin to me and asking me questions. After a while he starts harrassing my friend and her mate, then they tell him where to go. He replies 'u white women don like ta be touched'. Later on he comes back and starts telling me how i'm not playing his song because he's black! After having a go at him because i was funked off at what he just said i thought about getting him chucked out. However the idea of him waiting for me when i left made me change my mind. In the end i played a crappy rnb song after my set just so he'd funk off. Fortunately he did and i never saw him again!
 
I've never had any strange requests when playing in clubs, but I et all sorts of weird requests when I play my weekly residency at the Southwark Rooms bar. I've had people asking me to play:

1) Songs (what the funk????) and then said R&B
2) The Darkness!
3) The Pogues
4) The usual chart stuff like Kylie, Justin etc
5) Salsa

Even when you tell them you only play House music they still seem to think you have an entire catalogue of every song that exists in your bag. If you go to an Italian restaurant you ain't gonna get curry. So why should a house dj serve up R&B??!!
 
Hehe i heard about some geezer was dancing arround with his glowsticks one flew straight out of his hand n landed on the decks big needle jump !!
 
Doing a mate's party ten years back another load of his mates turned up wanting sex pistols and various other punk stuff (not what I usually take with me when djing) they got fed up with my response - which looking back probably wasn't the best one and they tried to throw me in his pond. A big row erupted and all 25 or so of us ended up rolling around in the street.

joy...
 
Most nightmares i've had have revolved around equipment.

I had to dj the other week with a deck that wouldn't pitch up between 0 and +2, meaning I had to make sure the other record was fast enough to bypass it. Took some work and some very dodgy mixes !

I've also done warm ups with no monitors, having to mix all through my headphones.

I've been asked to say "Happy 21st" to a guy on the mic before. (he was so persistant that I had to ask for a bouncer to remove him from the dj box).
 
I could fill this thread with a load of stories. I'm resident at a late bar, half bar, half nightclub sorta. I'm primarily there to play requests, which can get weird sometimes. Currently have a customer who always requests George McCrae - Rock Your Baby from the 70's, don't mind playing that, it's when she also asks for the Osmonds! 8O She knows I'm gonna say no, but still asks anyway. :roll:
 
Marco Baily .. I love Techno (pretty old) There is a huge Techno scene in Belgium and a huge trance scene. Techno isnt really my style but will try to look up some songs ...

My funny story ... I was minding my own business .. watchning my monitor and suddenly a guy falls of the stage next to the booth (dont ask me how he did it) into the booth .. he trashes my tv and i end up standing with a flatscreen in my hands and the guy all over the LJ-panel ... He was sooooooooooooooo :oops: we were so :twisted: sicne then i'm kind of scared when someone dances on that stage :-)
 
I was once playing in a club and it was my first night, I'd been on for about 1 hour and just finished a mix, took the record off, and turned around and bent down to get the next track. As I did this the sound went off completely. I was bent down thinking "8O **** what happened?"
So I jump up with my next record, bang it on the deck and start shrugging my shoulders whilst trying every knob, connection etc
Then another DJ who was playing comes up to the booth after about 1 minute, which seemed like 20, and we both still couldn't figure out what was wrong. Then he moves the platter on the right deck which had been stopped by the mixer, as for some reason the mixer wasn't screwed down but rested on each edge of the two decks. I had pulled the headphone lead as I had turned around. Did I feel stupid, yes.

Another quite humourous story was once when I was playing at a beach party, as I was mixing in another record I could see someone pouring petrol from a jerry can on a fire we had going. Then a flame shot up the petrol into the can and it exploded covering the guy in fire, it was like something out of a film where they set people on fire. So a load of other lads rugby tackled him into the sea after chasing him about 50 yards doen the beach with his arse on fire. Needless to say I fluffed the mix from laughter.
 
Some good advice I once got from an 'industry professional'...

When people ask you to play something, simply ask "What's that?". If they ask again, reply "Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about", and turn away ;)
 
Aundee said:
Neither of us had ever heard of belgium techno. So if anyone out there knows of any belgium techno tracks please let me know and i'll put my order in at eastern bloc
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Belgium has by far one of the best techno clubs in Europe FUSE and i think Filterheadz are belgian ... and we have 2 large techno festivals
 
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