Went to see Coldcut yesterday....fucking great act , but the audience just sucked!

Jeanie Escribi�:

Went to see Coldcut yesterday....fucking great act , but the audience just sucked!

It's true. 98% of people here turn up to anything just to stand around and get pissed. :(

i had to dj at a wedding at a chateua in france weekend just gone. frankly this was 1 millino times harder than playing to a sweaty backroom to a bunch of pilled up loons.



at one point i had:



lesbians demanding diana ross

request from the best man to keep it 'mum and dad friendly'

an italian itching for some pendulum d n b raggamuffin

a request for the killers

my mates wanting ghostbusters



plus the usual girls crying, guests 'oh i dj, can i have a go please', and the mornic staff (disco double decks dave or something) who after being requested that we turn it down a bit from the bride kept turning it up :S



and on top of this i managed to polish off an entire bottle of rum, plus shots all day drinking etc



however, theres was always a room full of people just dancing and having a good time anyway :P



(oh i managed to get all of the above in as well, except for the killers bit :))



fucked tofay though, 5 hours sleep all weekend - badabing!

Well in, Mips! The Wedding DJ! heh.



I just zoned through my morning Pharmacology class, so I've decided to blow off Microbial Disease and enjoy a morning and afternoon on the couch. Rest and repair, I think.

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mippio Escribi�:

i had to dj at a wedding at a chateua in france weekend just gone. frankly this was 1 millino times harder than playing to a sweaty backroom to a bunch of pilled up loons.



at one point i had:



lesbians demanding diana ross

request from the best man to keep it 'mum and dad friendly'

an italian itching for some pendulum d n b raggamuffin

a request for the killers

my mates wanting ghostbusters



plus the usual girls crying, guests 'oh i dj, can i have a go please', and the mornic staff (disco double decks dave or something) who after being requested that we turn it down a bit from the bride kept turning it up :S



and on top of this i managed to polish off an entire bottle of rum, plus shots all day drinking etc



however, theres was always a room full of people just dancing and having a good time anyway :P



(oh i managed to get all of the above in as well, except for the killers bit :))



fucked tofay though, 5 hours sleep all weekend - badabing!

that explains your text then. I'd tell the people asking for the killers and pendulum to hop it and cut up diana ross 'my old piano' with the ghostbusters dub in a 3 click flare/crab/sssssscratch pervert type way*



















* I can't scratch





responding politely to requests and fending off would be dj's is a great skill....and something I don't miss from doing bars on a saturday night for cash.



top five requests

"have you got any garage/R&B mate"

"can I have a go I'm a dj"

"can I look through your records"

"have you got anything vaguely welsh"

"can I have a vodka and coke please"

wedding dj's are horrrible usually. thought a friend of mine did manage to slip in delta sun bottleneck stomp in to a wedding set.

hahaha chebbers i think i told u i loved u in a txt at one point didnt i??? :P its amazing how dj'ing with some else always reaffirms my belief that you are clearly the best dj that i ever have the pleasure of dj'ing with - and u can make a good rollie (if slightly tampony occassionally) to boot - plus you arent a egotistical arse who is playin records for the cheer of the crowd rather than the love of the music - mentionuing no names oops greg oops did i say that? (sorry i shouldnt bitch but when he cuts blue monday off right before the second verse kicks in when the whole place is rockin to drop axel fuckin f to audible boos and moans i start to get a bit you know... adgit ;))



irish - sadly thats what most people want at weddings - somethign they know and can sing along with. even if your playing wicked funk/disco tunes if they dont know it they wont like it, espcecially the oldies.



having said that, did manage to play hey boy hey girl into jaques your body, and also it began in africa into josh wick higher states of consiousness - at which point the best 'woman' (theyre very boho this couple ;)) came up and shouted 'its a fucking wedding!' at me and greg hahaha classic

M'Chebne Escribi�:

"have you got anything vaguely welsh"

Would that be The GLC?

toomuch'stash Escribi�:

M'Chebne Escribi�:

"have you got anything vaguely welsh"

Would that be The GLC?

no not GLC..I'm not sure what they would have made of that!!



they were being clever so I pulled out burly chassis 'spinning wheel'...



maybe that could be the next concept. dj's who pack their record bag by country. axis presents 'jeff mills deep serbian-folk' THE DVD







:?

Ahhh weddings! Where all the stupid questions come out!



Our usual Dj for most weddings (If they haven?t decided to go with a band) gets paid shit loads or whacking on a burnt cd choosing a track then fades in and out with another one. No mixing at all required and he gets a free meal for just sitting there. We don?t even get that. But all the family love it. All the usual classics at weddings come out like Dirty Dancing?s ?Time of your life?, Lionel Richie?s ?All night long? and of course New York New York. If you know what all the family is going to like then I suggest just shoving an Ipod there and pressing play, heaps cheaper.





The one thing I hate about weddings is the per dinner drinks where we direct people to the first floor (usually at around 6.30) for an half an hour cocktail service then we send them down stairs again to the ballroom for the reception. Every week someone will come straight up and try to give me their coat/jacket to give to the clock room and I?ll be there holding a tray for drinks and I?ll have to send the guest down stairs to give it to the concierge. Then they?ll come back up again and ask ?so the toilets are around here??

?No Sir/Madame, They are actually down stairs? and they?ll crack the shits like you did the plumping in the place. Though the most annoying thing I get asked is about the drinks I have on my tray. Like I?ll have a red wine in a wine glass not that hard to recognise but every week someone will come up and ask if it?s coke. Damn Stupid. Then you get the wankers who point to the glass and think their smart by going ?that?s a champagne!? well done! No one could have guessed that when it?s bubbling wine in a champagne flute, oh no. Though the one thing I can?t stand the most is when they request ?Can I have something soft?? No you can?t! This is a wedding you either go hard or go home!! I don?t know why but a guest asking that just irritates the hell out of me so much. Damn Softies!

:x

Text from Mips :



Lesbians Hassling for diana ross and the supremes! House. Ha!



BWAHAHA!





























Fucking Legend , i say.

kwiddle Escribi�:

Ahhh weddings! Where all the stupid questions come out!



Our usual Dj for most weddings (If they haven?t decided to go with a band) gets paid shit loads or whacking on a burnt cd choosing a track then fades in and out with another one. No mixing at all required and he gets a free meal for just sitting there. We don?t even get that. But all the family love it. All the usual classics at weddings come out like Dirty Dancing?s ?Time of your life?, Lionel Richie?s ?All night long? and of course New York New York. If you know what all the family is going to like then I suggest just shoving an Ipod there and pressing play, heaps cheaper.





The one thing I hate about weddings is the per dinner drinks where we direct people to the first floor (usually at around 6.30) for an half an hour cocktail service then we send them down stairs again to the ballroom for the reception. Every week someone will come straight up and try to give me their coat/jacket to give to the clock room and I?ll be there holding a tray for drinks and I?ll have to send the guest down stairs to give it to the concierge. Then they?ll come back up again and ask ?so the toilets are around here??

?No Sir/Madame, They are actually down stairs? and they?ll crack the shits like you did the plumping in the place. Though the most annoying thing I get asked is about the drinks I have on my tray. Like I?ll have a red wine in a wine glass not that hard to recognise but every week someone will come up and ask if it?s coke. Damn Stupid. Then you get the wankers who point to the glass and think their smart by going ?that?s a champagne!? well done! No one could have guessed that when it?s bubbling wine in a champagne flute, oh no. Though the one thing I can?t stand the most is when they request ?Can I have something soft?? No you can?t! This is a wedding you either go hard or go home!! I don?t know why but a guest asking that just irritates the hell out of me so much. Damn Softies!

:x

X-D hahahaha, a day in the life of kwiddle!! That's one of the best posts I've read all damn week! So true about some of the obvious choices dj's play at peoples' weddings. And your "crack the shits like you actually did the plumbing in the place" good lord, that's great haha.



There's nothing quite like dealing with the general public. It's enough to make a person quit a job because of client stupidity alone. I propose on your last day at this job you actually do say, "No you can't have something soft. This is a wedding you either go hard or go home!!"



Thanks kwiddle that was a great read!

Saw Lottie last night, absolutly rocked it! At one point during her set, I was the only one on the front section of the dance floor (kinda hard to describe the venue, but there are 2 parts to the dance floor, with a podium between them), but I didn't care, the tunes kept me there. And I was sober, and on my own - that's how good the tunes were!! Highlights were:



Moby - Go (Unknown electro house remix)

Audiojack - Robot

Royksopp - What Else is There (Trentmoller remix)

Tiga - Louder Than a Bomb

New Order - Blue Monday



Plus a couple of familiar electro house classics that I can't name (or Shazam, as there was no signal!!)

chemicalfan Escribi�:

Saw Lottie last night, absolutly rocked it! At one point during her set, I was the only one on the front section of the dance floor (kinda hard to describe the venue, but there are 2 parts to the dance floor, with a podium between them), but I didn't care, the tunes kept me there. And I was sober, and on my own - that's how good the tunes were!! Highlights were:



Moby - Go (Unknown electro house remix)

Audiojack - Robot

Royksopp - What Else is There (Trentmoller remix)

Tiga - Louder Than a Bomb

New Order - Blue Monday



Plus a couple of familiar electro house classics that I can't name (or Shazam, as there was no signal!!)

I think that�s probably the Trentmoller remix, really good.

strange weekend. my last in this place. i've stayed here three yrs now, buy it's time to move. tried stayed out most of the night last night to avoid this place, but well, it's just a few hrs now i guess, suddenly. i didn't know till last evening that i'm movin out so fast.

Moving is... unsettling to say the least. I hate having my life in boxes - I don't like it when things aren't in place. We moved out of our old place after 3 years back in March and we simply moved to another unit one building away - but it was the most grueling, back breaking move. But it's worth it. We love our new place so much more. I hope your move goes well and that it's for the best.



Now for the weekend - tonight we're going out for a friend's birthday to a Cuban restaurant which means mojitos are in my near future. And tomorrow we're making the family rounds and going to visit stash's batty old grandmother. After that we're stopping by this place called Old World Village which is this ultra cheesy faux German-esque mall that's dead all year yound except for this month because of Octoberfest. I'm not excited about the beer, but I am excited about the dauschund races. I don't know why, but I've always wanted to watch a bunch of weenie dogs racing around this cheesy village, I think it'll be funny!

Didn't know what thread to post this in, so here goes.....



Anyone in London the first weekend of November and is willing to put up with the crowd at Fabric, should check out the following:



RADIO SOULWAX WEEKENDER @ Fabric



Sat 4th Nov 06

10:00pm - 7:00am



�17 (�15 nus & Fabric First)

Advance tickets available



Room One:

nite versions (Live)

2manydjs

Tiga

Riton

Our Disco



Room Two:

Vitalic (Live)

Zombie Nation (Live)

Headman

Simian Mobile Disco

Does It Offend You, Yeah? (DJ set)



Room Three:

DFA Records...

The Juan Maclean (DJ Set)

Shit Robot

Tim Sweeney



Fantastic lineup if you're into that whole electro-disco-indie scene. Tiga, Riton, and Headman as well as a twinned live Soulwax set and a 2manydjs set. Some classic Chicago house with The Juan Maclean as well.



If you're willing to subject yourself to crowding, groping, and being asked for drugs, I recommend this night heartily.

Yep, me and Rich will be there!! Wonder how many cigarette burns I'll get? I guess ... 3 - wait and see if I'm right!

Anybody heard of the Wighnomy Brothers ?!