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...I'm DJing at the worst gig of my life. Equipment failure, awful crowd. People requesting things, then not dancing when they're played. I'm trying desperately to DL Sean Paul - Like Glue, which has been requested seven times so far this evening. Who says laptop DJs aren't checking email/on MBs eh? So, a Q. for those of you who play live, what was your worst gig and why? |
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Get back to it, you slacker!!!! :P Worse things happen at sea! Just juggle or something! |
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Ha ha, it's going to pot while I'm away... I can see people leaving the Marquee. Oh well, it'll be over in two hours. Maybe by then "Like Glue" will be downloaded on this awful 56k link :P |
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Just tell them, due to technical faults (or the DJ can't be arsed...) that the show is over....pack your stuff up, and go home! :) |
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speed up that process: play Billy Ray Cyrix/Merzbow |
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or some 'vile' Autechre :P |
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fy :P |
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fyt :P |
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wait... you left djing, to go download the song? ahahhaha! |
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no he's downloading WHILE DJing :P |
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He he, I've been granted 15 mins reprise, whilst my deputy is fully deserving of a "can't mix" t-shirt, he is at least keeping the music playing, so those who are so drunk they'll dance to anything are still dancing. Only 10 mins till I can harvest kazaa's sweet rewards and give the kids what they want. Come on Sean Paul, get the dance floor full so I can play nannou2 and kill the party once and for all >:D |
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I'm actually skipping between a net pc and a machine with traktor that I have queued up :D By the sounds of it that has run out and the person watching it has taken over. They're now playing Tatu - Not Enough... I'd better get back ;) |
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Good Luck! |
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Shove some venetian snares up their gulley holes. |
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Fookin' A got it... time to burn a cd and get back to it. I'l let you know how it goes. I still can't understand a word sean paul says, but the electronic organ on his track is groovy. I can't believe I'm being payed to do this. |
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Yeah, I reckon "Faust" would really fill the floor. Mabe I could project the find candace video onto the ceiling on the data projector? >;) |
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Neither can I, I would have fired you! Have you been paid yet? Don't get your hopes up yet? :P |
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Find Candace! NO! Personal Discourse video!!!!!!!! |
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we were doing this thing at a guys party and hes like notorious for being a total arse when intoxicated, and yeah he was, but that was fine cause we were too, but some stupid alco-raver girl started harassing us wanting us to play trance music and we only wanted her to fuck off forever. |
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Sounds familiar, them: can you play some cheesey dance? me: Yes. (under breath) if you step into the shadows so I can slit your throat... CD just failed so I'm back. This one had better work... |
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Sounds like you should just forget it all, and leave...............quickly! |
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down load my new song! it's called and you should make them listen to it :D |
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some fucking drunk idiot came up to me and requested a song by Nazareth...(i was playing Squarepusher when he asked me)....same night, i was gonna put AB3 on, and of course, i put it in with the wrong side and everything just shut down...i couldn't even get CD out, caus eit was some kind of lock mechanism on the cd-player. also on the same night; the bouncers there told me it was too loud, so it had to lower the volume at least three times....so, yeah, i've been there. |
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I second Nigel's request. |
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it will get people moving (maybe away from you) |
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Worst gig - part of the WAMI (western australian music industry) official gigs (which is like really cool) I got up onstage and then PC I borowed from The Last Ninja to play on was fucking up, and then someone who frequents this board managed to pull thge plug on it due to a misunderstanding and then I was told by the owner of the local label who ran the show (the "other" IDM label in perth, ie the one I'm not affiliated with) told me I have 10 minutes. That's it. When the Pc boots back up its completely fucked. You know how computers are. And they booted me offstage. I left the cluib. About 15 od my friends made a huge effort to come and see me for moral support (which was damn cool coz none of them are really into that kind of music) and I was a very very dark kid when I left that place. Another gig I managed to fuck up something in the ver of FL thius dude had on the laptop I borrowed for the set and I played off mp3s and some shithead reviewing the gig was nosing around the laptop and saw I was playing mp3s and wrote it up in a review. I've also had people heckling me telling me to play some fucking gabber which sometimes I think is really cool, but sometimes it just totally discouraging. I've only ever been paid for one gig (I think) and that was like 20 bucks or something. This is why I never bother playing live. Also it's just too much shit to set up. |
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I could tell you about my worst gig playing the drums. but I'm not cool enough to be a DJ |
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The Last Ninja? Ahh yeah I met him 2 weeks ago at a gig called NOIZEKLUBB and also at uncomfort 3 days later! err. we have the same phone .. hehe |
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"I've also had people heckling me telling me to play some fucking gabber" heckles from a drunken princo no doubt ;) I love gabber when I'm really pissed! |
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I played a few shows with him, truly a great guy. I borrowed his PC usually to play sets on. If you see him tell him od said hi, that might spin him out a bit ;-) Oh and that gabber comment thing happened when I played this show pissed out of my brain....ugh I did beatboxikng on the mic infront of a crowd of about 30ish ppl. Damn I am dumb. |
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I didn't speak with him much, but I remember he wasnt even on the flyer for that NOIZEKLUBB gig, but there was a spare spot for him so he got it. He's with "8-bit" or something is he? |
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...This was at the 'uncomfort' gig that 'passenger of shit' was playing at, i was hanging with him (POS) most of the night there. really cool guy! |
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Yeah he is and I think the story with that gig was that he kind of showed up and he is good mates with Wayne (NOISTRUCT) and kind of managed to squeeze into the lineup at the last minute. 8-BIT recordings is the deal that I'm on. Sort of. |
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Yeah, a heap of aussie artist were in Melbourne recently for the SOUNDCLASH event. SYDNEY VS. MELBOURNE. (which I missed sadly) |
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Do you think it's a conspiracy against the welsh mate? |
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worst gig was in a pub with my mate. they turned the volume down on us so many times that we could barely hear ourselves mix. all we could hear was the sound of a drunken gang in the corner laughing and joking about how they were gonna steal my records... :S |
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wouldn't surprise me! |
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Now don't come all "I don't know what's going on...." you know damn well, we discussed all this weeks back with precision planning! Everything went as it should have. ;) |
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eXXailon: Nor me. Bloody welsh! ;P "Now don't come all "I don't know what's going on...." you know damn well, we discussed all this weeks back with precision planning! Everything went as it should have. ;)" *cough*quiet!*cough* :D |
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Bloody Welsh, indeed!! Hahaha! |
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There was this one time I played the piano in front of my piano teacher and it was fucking terrible man. |
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:D |
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That gig is finally over, it went on for too long for my liking. My back is aching at the moment from over 7 hours on very low tables. Probably the least receptive crowd I've played to, but at least floor fillers worked. Quite a few people were interested and watching me mix, but it became annoying when they were trying to talk to me all the time and wouldn't let me concentrate. In the end I put my headphones on and just ignored them till they walked off. It got quite nasty after I finally went to bed, a guy who fell asleep in the bed of the girl whose birthday it was kept on refusing to move even when several people tried to move him. He ended up breaking one of their noses before shouting "Fuck off!" loudly enough to wake everyone in the house. At least he had the decency to stick around the next day and apologise. |
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if its gonna be that kind of party i'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes if in doubt, play rapper's delight |
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He he, I did actually have rappers delight with me but forgot to play it. I managed to get about 4 drum and bass tracks in before there were only 6 people left on the dance floor. |
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Everywhere you go, you attract trouble like a magnet! Or at least the people around you end up in some form of grief! I think you are jinxed! :D |
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