Booking and Business
DJ Booking Deposit and How Much to Ask For Upfront
A couple books you for a Saturday in June, you turn down two other enquiries for the same date, and in March they email to say...
Working club and wedding DJ, page 3 of 9
Reo plays more than a hundred events a year and hauls his own gear to every one of them. He reviews equipment the way he would warn a friend before a gig, not the way a press kit describes it.
Booking and Business
A couple books you for a Saturday in June, you turn down two other enquiries for the same date, and in March they email to say...
DJ Equipment
You can hear the next track fine in your bedroom, then you get to a loud bar or a wedding with a 2,000 watt PA and the cue mix...
Genres and Crate Digging
It is 10:40 at a wedding, the floor is full, and the bride's uncle asks for "something like that Motown one from earlier but...
Club and Nightlife
The worst sound in a club booth is silence after you plug in your stick and the player says "No file".
Genres and Crate Digging
Put "Livin' on a Prayer" on at a wedding around 10pm and you will have aunts, groomsmen and a nine year old flower girl all...
Games
Any DJ who has held a room until closing knows the job is mostly judgement, when to build, when to drop, when to let a track...