Your very first gig?

[Matty_neal]

Okay, I'm pretty new to dj'ing, and I'm totally obsessed. Had a fairly large party on the weekend, and I did a two hour electro set. Went awesome! every mix went off without a hitch except the third song I played, Right before I started playing my mate fed me way too much alcohol and I couldn't tell if the song I was mixing in was too fast, or too slow! anyway, apart from that It was unfknblvble. I made the crowd get up and dance, dropped one song into the next that made people cheer and to top it all off, we had an awesome setup. Had the decks, a hired sound system with a huge sub, two big club speakers, a laser (see vid below), two smoke machines, a 1500watt strobe light and a few little disco lights. Can't get over how good it felt to be the one they were cheering on! anyway, here's a vid of the laser we had below.

So, how was your first set? good? bad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26E7YPVbhso

edit: btw, trance is playing because my mate was dj'ing at that point, and he was doing trance. Not sure why it sounds so bassless in the vid, definately wasn't at the party. also, the weird effect u hear at the end was a backseat dj mucking with the mixer effects...god those people are annoying :|

[Offbeat]

Pretty shit overall.
Had a set of banged up TT's with the monitor about 5 metres away and facing the other direction. Playing in between 2 bands and after they finished. Couldn't hear a bloody thing so had to guess work pretty much everything. Due to what I was playing it came off all right, but yeah, just chalk that one up to experience and move on please.

[kurtisthomas]

Yeah mine went surprising well to. However I fell into the trap of getting really drunk and as the night went on the less tight my mixes became. Mine was at manning bar. Worked out pretty well as I got plenty of other gigs from it.

[Insufficient Funds]

Mate my first gig was new years eve last year. about 300ppl. no lighting just music! it was so good but there was a few haters but apart from that everyone loved me!! anyways i ended up getting myself some lights after that. Ps check out my vids at my myspace page /djinsufficientfunds
that was the 2nd party i ever did but the first one with all my lights and shit! I played witha good friend DJ HIGH PHI aka WINSTON FOX who now plays at Breaks and enter and the GPO in brisbane. So he was really good and supportive we had a good fun time doing some experiemental stuff and just letting loose. ps Dj high Phi is the guy with the dreds


DAVE

[Miss Mel]

My first gig was at 'The Storm Club' in Dandenong about 12 years ago. It involved me practicing my set to the point where I knew exactly where I was gonna mix and I wrote my set down and even recorded the speed that the turntables needed to be on :lol: I had it all planned till the DJ that taught me said 'yeah but what if one of your tracks clears the floor, how you gonna get out of it?' I pretty quickly did away with practicing my sets after that!

[Bill]

had my first "proper" gig last month supporting someone else here in perth. i was playing with traktor3/midi/mixer and really flying when *pop* the laptop crashes about 40 minutes into a 1 hour set. cue deathly silence for about 3 minutes as i attempt to reboot. :(

managed to pick it all back up again, but it put a bit of a downer on the evening.

[marksound]

My first gig was in '99 dj-ing for a fund raiser for the kosovo war. Set went down a treat, even got the local vicar up dancning to a drum'n'bass track with an eminem accapella dropped over the top. Out of all the people I've got to dance i reckon he holds the fondest memory.

[Miss Mel]

My first gig was in '99 dj-ing for a fund raiser for the kosovo war. Set went down a treat, even got the local vicar up dancning to a drum'n'bass track with an eminem accapella dropped over the top. Out of all the people I've got to dance i reckon he holds the fondest memory.

Nice work!

[DJSketch]

had my first "proper" gig last month supporting someone else here in perth. i was playing with traktor3/midi/mixer and really flying when *pop* the laptop crashes about 40 minutes into a 1 hour set. cue deathly silence for about 3 minutes as i attempt to reboot. :(

managed to pick it all back up again, but it put a bit of a downer on the evening.


tis alright mate, that happened to me at the red sea,, picture that crowd with no music :stroke: wasn't fun. always keep a cd cued now even 3 years later just incase

[skank]

my first real gig was 2 weeks ago. sadly one of the other djs left early meaning i had to on my feet for about 8 hours straight! but it was all good :)

used serato and bought records just-in-case. thankfully the computer didnt crash and their was only 1 mixing fuck up the whole night. all in all it went very well.

some things i realized is:
=> bringing your own equipment means staying the whole night/day (DUH!)
=> if you are up the whole night, you may not be in the best condition to drive (even if you didnt drink anything), consider a taxi home
=> dont drink too much (most people here when writing of their first gigs seem to regret that)
=> you cant change the music direction too much, UNLESS, you have the crowd in your hands. (i once made this mistake and cleared half the dance floor!) on this particular event, once i knew that i had the "trust" from the people, i went from banging-it at 130bpm to grooving it at 120bpm by tuning one turntable off and putting another record on. and it worked! and then built it up again to ~130bpm in an hour or so
=> knobs who think its funny/cool to scratch your turntables should be shot and hung up-side down by their nuts!
=> when people request stuff and i have it and it fits as the next track, i played it, a small section of the crowd went wild, but it was worth it :)
=> i waited a long time collecting records, learning how to put a set together, listening to how others djs do it etc. before playing out. while others i know just seemed to put one hit after another and . i would say it paid off. lots of peeps were coming up and asking "whats that track?". a melb dj once told me start collecting records, when you have about 1000, you are ready to play out. i would say he is right

[creagh1986]

had mine about a month ago at candys apartment and had a few gigs since. best feeling ever being up there playing for a crowd. very very different playing on a big system though really threw me off at first and also the conversion to xone scared the hell outta me too. my hands wouldn stop shakin for the first lot of mixes. but once nerves settled it was an awesome night

[thamainfactor]

even got the local vicar up dancning to a drum'n'bass track with an eminem accapella dropped over the top.

is that the forgot about dre drum n bass song? if so please tell me what its called. heard it a couple of times in the clubs and have no idea what the dnb remix is called. sorry, i'm a noob when it comes to genres such as electro/trance/dnb etc. lol.. too focused on hip hop these days..

[Funkedub]

i'd say my first "gig" would've been a house party ... i've done so many since ... and will continue to do more !!

[marksound]

is that the forgot about dre drum n bass song? if so please tell me what its called. heard it a couple of times in the clubs and have no idea what the dnb remix is called. sorry, i'm a noob when it comes to genres such as electro/trance/dnb etc. lol.. too focused on hip hop these days..


Nope. This was just a drum and bass track I had going, can't remember what it was, and i put the eminem accapella of "my name is" over the top. Not sure what bootleg your thinking of sorry! ;)