zhao

there are no accidents
so you did end up playing "summer loving", right? oh so many kodak moments lost for ever...

this list of excuses is not amazing, but decent i guess.

i often think that i actually should make a no-request sign and take to gigs. but girlfriend thinks it's a total dick move.
 
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droid

Guest
A friend of mine was thrown out of U2's club here in dublin after refusing to play the prodigy for Naomi Campbell.
 

straight

wings cru
ive been asked to DJ out for the first time in years this saturday for a mates birthday and i feel like heckling myself in advance.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
hey cool design stuff straight! did you just add that link or did i just never see it before? will show it to girlfriend who is reading Foucault's Pendulum right now :)

now go add something to the typography thread!

(after finish heckling y'self of course)
 

MankyFiver

Well-known member
Me and a mate were asked to play a fetish club once, we were providing the music for the 'playroom', and we spent ages designing what to do for the night - it was a good gig, we thought - only for the lady owner to come over to us about an hour in and go "Our customers have asked that you play what they usually 'play' to" and gave us a CD of, y'know, trance greatest hits which we then had to play on a loop all night.

We still got paid, but had the weird experience of standing over this mix CD that was playing, not knowing whether we should be pretending to DJ or not.

People are really weird.

this is how it should always be
 

crofton

Well-known member
so you did end up playing "summer loving", right?

er, yes.

one time at a squat party my mate was playing a roots set, not juggling or anything, just playing tunes ... the crowd took exception to this and a whole heap of enraged ravers gathered round the decks and started shouting "MIX! MIX!" as loudly as possible, they looked like they might be about to turn nasty ... we had to play d'n'b to calm them down.
 

the ig

Well-known member
me - playing 'there's a woman' by gino soccio in studenty-activisty social centre type place...

girl comes up all fashion-twat electroclash look with irregular haircut, palestinian scarf and probably dayglo leg warmers but that would be embellishing slightly...
sez to me - "can you play less of this industrial minimal techno stuff and play more trash"

me, puzzled (been playing disco all night!), pointing to record bag - "sorry, y'know, i got what i got"

girl, getting pushy - "but i have my friends here and we...[repeats request above]"

me pointing to heaving - honest! - dancefloor meaning 'fuck your friends look at THIS!' - "fuck off!"

social centre compairs - outraged!

guess lesson is gino soccio was just way ahead of his time!
 

Blackdown

nexKeysound
I've had loads of these over the years but the one that sticks with me the most - even more than the largered rugbyTwat who stood an inch from the decks bellowing at me and Dusk "FATBOYSLIM!!!!" - was the girl who just parred us with the ultimate, root-of-all-DJ-pars. This par is just like the KO of DJs pars, the par to which all DJ heckling reduces to, the single unit of heckles. Looking back, it was almost kinda zen.

She just said quietly: "do you have anything good?"

Evidently we didn't.
 

alex

Do not read this.
had to lean into a girl's face down ipswich at a bar last week and shout

"I 100% HAVE NOT GOT WHAT YOU WANT ME TO PLAY"

this was after the 3rd time she had asked, her & her mate were abselutly kaned on the dancefloor, me & my girl even saw her down a wkd at the bar, slam it on the counter, slide over to the barman, who OBVIOUSLY (as you do) opened another for her.

When she came up again, i leant in, real close and shouted

"FUCK OFF"

her face was a picture as she slid back slowly, ashamed and embaressed into her drunken state on the dancefloor, whilst her mate euphorically put her hands in the air, jaw swaying to the sounds of tedwards.
 

joe.dfx

who knows...
I used to play at this lounge/bar type place. It was kind of on the upscale end of things, but still really chill, and dubstep kind of fit the bill. This one night a guy comes up to me, thick foriegn accent, maybe Greek?, and asks me if I have a pitch control, but really really snobby, so I replied NO. (i got a lot of heckling at this place as it was a mish mash of people most nights, some down, some there cuz it was the new place to be, etc). He looks at me funny then asks if I can "slow it down" (im literally playing like 125 bpm dub techno at this point) and play something syncopated. But this guy was such a douche I said NO again. (if he had let me alone I would have gotten into some dubstep which would have fit the bill) anyway...this guy must have been dropping a lot of cash that night as the owner (a douche too) comes up and says "oh could you please play his request, he's a good customer, yadda yadda yadda." so i throw on some tribally techno and slam the pitch control to -8 and this tool proceeds to start dancing some fucking Salsa with one of the girls he's with around the little tables and seats in front of me. it was just one of those, wtf moments.

i played rusko next, and that guy and his party were gone within 3 minutes.
 

crofton

Well-known member
another personal favourite:

"the person who owns this bar - not the person you think owns it but the person who actually owns it - has asked me to come down here and spread a bit of money around, so i'd like to ask you a favour, which is not to play any reggae ... i'll have a look through your record box if you want, i'm happy to play some stuff for you, is that ok?"
 

Blackdown

nexKeysound
When she came up again, i leant in, real close and shouted

"FUCK OFF"

good man! i mean seriously, i'm gonna take the anti-luka position here, but fuckit, if people want shite go to a Ritzy's, buy a jukebox, put the ipod on shuffle, hire a wedding dj... but if you've chosen to go to a club where a dj has been asked to dj either listen or go to the bar.

*hurumph* etc. ;)
 

zhao

there are no accidents
gotta love a good train spotter though.

recently i mixed this real moody dark "industrial jazz" tune on top of some afro house beats to set up for an arabic epic mashup, and this dude came up after was like "i can't believe you dropped ______ ! " i was like "wha?" and he was like "that dark jazz tune! i bought that in 1992!" i myself have long forgotten what the fuck it is or where it came from...
 

Alfons

Way of the future
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got this request handed to me by a weird looking american guy while I was playing a set of dubstep / wonky / grime at a local club, quite funny...
 
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