What everybody wants to hear.

Quite an eventful evening DJing down at the uni last night. I won’t go into too much detail about how hugely unorganised it all was as it all worked out pretty well in the end. The CD decks I was using were verging on the comically bad though and the vinyl I optimistically brought with me remained unplayed in my bag due to the lack of anything to play it on. It was also a freshers week night so I had to endure lots of young and enthusiastic students talking to me asking questions like “what are your top 3 bands ever” and the being informed that “the arctic monkeys are the best band in the world”. Obviously I’m far too jaded for that kind of thing these days.

Me and Nome were supporting DJ Lucio and I have to be honest, I’m not sure who he is, but he was a nice chap which was actually a bit of a shame as we were hoping for a diva tantrum over the state of the equipment. It was slightly annoying because with the gear we were using it really was just a case of play/stop on the CD players and Lucio was obviously getting paid a lot more than we were for doing exactly the same job.

As I said though, it all worked out as a pretty great night. Nothing much to shout about in the way of tunes played, but it’s nice to DJ somewhere less familiar and get a rammed dancefloor. Especially as it was a non-specific music event which meant the crowd were in no way a specialist indie audience. Some days it’s pretty fun just to appeal to the masses.