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Guest Dirk Tiggler
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Get down and dance yourself! I've seen that happen. Ade

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You are either at the wrong event, or you are a shit Dj.  :lol:

 

Or just looking for amusing stories. Like Tony Rounce at the 100 Club sometime the early 80s

 

'You lot need your legs chopped off if you won't dance to this!'

 

Or a bloke who actually went and sat on the dance floor as some sort of protest at lack of interest.

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Has to be "Panic and start looking for sure-fire stuff in your box " but without the panic. 

 

Berating the audience is not a good idea and bursting into tears is just unseemly.

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Guest Ivor Jones
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Playing what you consider to be some great stuff to an empty floor surrounded by people talking and drinking. Do you:

 

Carry on and just play what you want to hear

 

Panic and start looking for sure-fire stuff in your box

 

Get on the mic and berate the crowd for their lack of taste

 

Burst into tears, storm off stage and vow never to DJ again

 

or...?

 

The last one !

Guest Matt Male
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Or as a certain DJ used to say I think, "Dance ya fu**ers!" :lol:

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‘Panic’ ……..‘Burst into tears' (Internally)……’Carry on and just play what I want to hear’……then - 'storm off stage and vow never to DJ again’……

 

……..Until the next time…….. :D  

 

All the best,

 

Len ‘I may have a window’ Dopson :thumbsup:

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I would love to see a DJ burst in to tears :lol:

 

....Watch this space..... :( 

 

:elvis: 

 

:D 

 

Len :thumbsup: 

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I've said it before it isn't always the DJ's fault.  You/they could be booked to play a particular type of set but it is totally worng for the crowd, or much of the crowd but it is what the promoter wanted.

 

Halleluiah! that's it - 'Focus' Len........ :lol: 

Len :thumbsup: 

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Guest Soultown andy
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I agree with chalky the promoter should know his club and his audience,pointless booking djs that dont fit the bill.But equaly, good djs should be able to react to most crowds on the soul scene.

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Pull the best 20 or so out, place them in any turn on the turntables.... "And give it em" :thumbsup:

 

........Still may not work - You still need that 'somat else' :wink: 

 

Len :thumbsup: 

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In my experience over the years you would travel to hear tunes that certain djs would play.Now anyone can take a bunch of played out oldies & fill any dance floor.Surely the scene wasn't based on this ?or maybe it suits the masses.

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Come on Len.... educate us all please! :)

 

I wouldn't know 'where to begin' my friend :) 

 

I just know that it works for some with 'seemingly' the same records, whist it simply does not for others - I couldn't explain why, but I know when I see it  :wink: 

 

It's 'magic' init?

 

All the best,

 

Len :thumbsup: 

 

P.s - Apologies if I come across as trying to be a clever tw*t - I'm so not, but I do know when it works.

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It must be a Scottish thing !

Having grown up listening and travelling to see Keb Darge , Colin Law and the Walls Brothers I fully expected as a paying punter to be heckled, bullied and blatantly told to " Get on the f******g dancefloor " to which I duly did. , no questions asked !!!!

Can you imagine that nowadays !!!

 

I've heard 'these tales of old', and I envy those times. Jocko said to me once that he comes from a time when an empty dance floor was actually seen as a compliment - I fully understand that statement.

 

Good on ya mate :wink: 

 

All the best,

 

Len :thumbsup: 

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In my experience over the years you would travel to hear tunes that certain djs would play.Now anyone can take a bunch of played out oldies & fill any dance floor.Surely the scene wasn't based on this ?or maybe it suits the masses.

 

NO they can't. 

ML

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I would love to see a DJ burst in to tears(nothing but tears) :lol:

Chalky

Would that Lee Roye's version,might be a good idea if your records you are playing aren't working  :lol: 

Look forward to a rendition tomorrow night :wink:

Cheers

Martyn

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Think Steve got the answer on No 4 of this thread.

 

No 4 - “As a Dj surely your there to play what the punters want not what you want to hear”

 

I say think again (meant in the nicest possible way) If anyone goes over the same ground (nice ground that it may be) over and over again, they will get bored of it in the end (human nature) So people trying to make things more interesting are just ‘trying to make things more interesting’

 

Whilst keeping it entertaining of course :wink:

 

Creativity is what makes things last.

 

All the best,

 

Len :thumbsup: 

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Simples. If you wouldn't dance to a record yourself don't play it

Steve

 

Mmm. OK. But my dancing wasn't anything that was a joy to behold. I'm too tall and gangly and for some reason I can't seem to co-ordinate that well to a fast rhythm, so the dancing thing was never that crucial to me. But I get your point...:)

 

Ian D  :D

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Playing what you consider to be some great stuff to an empty floor surrounded by people talking and drinking. Do you:

 

Carry on and just play what you want to hear

 

Panic and start looking for sure-fire stuff in your box

 

Get on the mic and berate the crowd for their lack of taste

 

Burst into tears, storm off stage and vow never to DJ again

 

or...?

 

 

 

or ?

 

Give Julian Bentley a ring as he has extensive experience of the phenomena you describe.

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Guaranteed to get a reaction every time

 

Love it - Saw him live at The 02 last year! (FFS don't tell anyone though!)

 

:lol: 

 

Len :thumbsup: 

 

P.s - Nina's Dad's Birthday treat, but he couldn't make it at the last minute so I used his ticket, and yes I enjoyed it! lol We did have a f*ckin' laugh - Couldn't help but dance! :D 

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Remember Butch at Bretby clearing the floor with Dennis Edwards 'I didn't have to' then saying something along the lines of 'that's the best record you'll hear all year and you must be a bunch of dickheads for not dancing to it' - something of a tumbleweed moment  :lol:

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