Im currently helping host an end of summer electro themed event and minus all the problems with the event itself that we're running in to (our event is the night before the first day of school for some schools, this rival club company is trying to torpedo us, etc) im freaking out on the musical aspect because i have to coordinate all the other djs performing, and none of them are responding to me so far for some reason, and also this will be my largest performance yet (over 300 people) and so ive bee practicing my set list for the past week (and i till have several weeks to practice) and i just picked up the book "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" to get a little history on my little hobby, and within the first few pages, i came across an interview with fatboy slim that states this:
"For me, its whether they look up or not while theyre playing...a good dj is always looking @ the crowd, seeing what they like, seeing whether its working, communicating with them, smilng at them. and a bad dj is always looking down at the decks and just doing whatever they practiced in their beroom, regardless of whether thercrowd are enjoying it or not"
after that i immediately found myself under this second catagory, because for the couple other gigs ive done, my eyes were glued to my computer or controller, making sure everything went the way i planned, not paying attention to the crowd at all (which is weird because all the djs thatve inspired me have alway been very crowd friendly and charismatic). and now i have a bad feeling about this pre-planned setlist, because its all full of its and it has a bit of room for flexebility, but now im just so stressed about everything thats going on that im just kinda mindblanking. so can anyone help point me in the right direction for any of the issues i have with this? all i really wanna do is just get up and spin some mixes and have a good first club performance, but at this point i think pretty much everythings gone to hell, at least in my mind
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