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Topic: Was It The Crowd Or Did You BOMB!

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Ok so last weekend i was fighting an ear infection/sinus infection. I had a gig at a club i usually do, but this time was a little different.

The crowd simply wasnt into anything i was playing, i was pretty much going by previous sets i had done there that really got the crowd going (obviously i was mixing it up), but nothing seemed to work.
Tried latin, top 40, dance, hip hop, etc... and nothing

not sure if it was me and my feeling like i was beaten with a bag of potatoes, or if it was simply the crowd. Will be back in two weeks, we'll see how that goes...

Have you had any experience like this that left you scratching your coconut? lets face it, you didnt "kill" at every gig...
 
geposted Wed 12 Jan 11 @ 1:20 pm
It happens ..... some nights in the club where I am the dancefloor will be full at 11, other nights people just sit there and look at you.

After 26 years of DJ'ing I have learned to live with it, but it demoralising all the same :)

Keith
 
I think it happens to all of us and we all love a packed dance floor to make us feel like we are doing our job. I know if I have a slow dance floor night I just feel bad afterwards. Sometimes it is a case of just nobody showing up to the bar/club. If it is a slow night for the bar/club then you will find people do not want to be the only ones out on the floor.

Don't beat yourself up, it's not you there are just those nights.
 
yes about this time for the last ten year ,i look to pick it up for feb 14 and then the next holidays for happy days.as post christmas bluess
about this time credit cards bill & looking back at the last weeks you and club must push forth as muchas you can things look good in the club and you and staff must stay in a happy mode and things will pick up as people be booking holidays and whitch makes them happy and will make your club go'ers
 
Just had that this past Friday.

New Year party for a financial firm of 180 or so.

Early on, my usual mix of classic jazz and standards seemed fine. Started a Motown set. Nothing...

Host came to me and suggested new stuff for the 20 somethings. Well, I mixed in pretty much everything current and what ALWAYS seems to work. Nothing...

Ok, some gal asks for the slide. I play it. A few come out then follow up w/ something awesome. Floor clears.

Was that way the entire night. It was a very long 5 hrs.

Also that day. I forgot my dress shirt and needed to buy one from a next door shop for $150. Parking pass expired resulting in a $25 ticket. Not having a great day.

But, I got to test my rig rebuild from XP to Windows 7 and complete new configuration - which was flawless. That to me was most important.
 
I feel your pain.

The club I work at is never open Sundays, but since Xmas Eve and Xmas fell on a Friday and Saturday, they decided to open Boxing Day and offered me a decent bonus to work the night that nobody ever works. I figured why not since I was losing 2 nights of income due to the holidays.

The customers slowly came in, and by midnight we had a mediocre crowd of 200. I tried everything, mixed it up, played top 40, 80s, 90s, kept it between 115 to 132 bpm for 2 hours and had a dance floor of 12 people max. Not a single request all night, and I was left to scratch my head most of the time. The crowd just wasn't into it. They were more into being social than dancing.

The staff felt sorry for me because nothing was working, and they were also pleased with the set I laid down.

As I was driving home, I couldn't help but question what I was doing wrong. It was spiritually devastating to say the least.

I received a text msg from one of the door staff in the middle of the week suggesting to lay down the same set for New Years Eve and figured why not? Laid down an almost identical set (love the history browser btw) and had a near perfect New Years Eve. The crowd loved it, it felt good, and certainly made up for Boxing Day.

We all have bad nights regardless what the culprit is. And anybody that says they don't, is an ego maniac that can't come to grips with their own imperfections. Keep doing what you're doing and learn from your mistakes.

I'll drink to that!

Adam
 
Could be the time of year, everyone is partied out from holidays. No energy... you'll get em next time. And then don't let em off the floor, make em dance till they drop.
 
Unless people were complaining, I bet you did a stellar job as usual. I have had gigs like that too. I thought it was me until afterwards people came up and said that they had a great time and they really enjoyed the music. I thought about it more and as I had looked around the room earlier, I remembered folks were tapping their feet, or bobbing their heads to the music. They were having a great time, they just were not dancing. I guess we have to remember as DJs we not only make them "Dance to the Music" but on occassion we just supply the backing track to their social experience. It's not always about us.

-DGee
 
"on occasion we just supply the backing track to their social experience. It's not always about us"

Exactly. :^)
 
I have done many weddings where it was more of a drinking crowd & hardly anyone danced, but I got the best references from them as people had a great time & loved the 'Background' music. Sometimes I get more word of mouth from those gigs lol

As for the clubs I have the odd night when my sets are loose but people are going crazy & sometimes you can lay down the best set you ever have & people aren't into it as much. When you figure out humans let me know.
 
Look ive been around the business long enough to know this sort of stuff happens more often than we like.

In my case one of the things i found was that management got a little too greedy. They had booked 4 birthday parties on that same night.

Party 1 - Brazilian - promised Brazinlian and Latin
Party 2 - Caribbean - promised Reggae, dancehall, etc.
Party 3 - Russian - promised House
Party 4 - was the owner who didnt care about the music just wanted to add a 4th bday party to the flyer...

I may have looked bad in the eyes of the crowd, but, the owner looks worse for not delivering and being too greedy...
I had many requests and i played them all, thats what i was hired to do. Maybe it was that simple, the crowd was partied out because of the holidays...

I guess the bummer is that nights like that seem to last a very long time... but before i left the building i was hired for the 29th and the 5th... go figure...
 
...And the moral of the story is, that's what it's all about...getting hired again..good performance equals future dollars period.

I've been through that type of Mix before and sometimes it's not easy, so I try to limit the request to what fits.

Joey..
 
DGee wrote :
Unless people were complaining, I bet you did a stellar job as usual. I have had gigs like that too. I thought it was me until afterwards people came up and said that they had a great time and they really enjoyed the music. I thought about it more and as I had looked around the room earlier, I remembered folks were tapping their feet, or bobbing their heads to the music. They were having a great time, they just were not dancing. I guess we have to remember as DJs we not only make them "Dance to the Music" but on occassion we just supply the backing track to their social experience. It's not always about us.

-DGee


Well said.
 
OK, watch the crowds body language. Are heads bobbing up and down? Are toes taping? Are people patting their legs? Can you see them singing to themselves, along with the music? If you answer yes to any of these questions, you might be a redneck...oops wrong forum, its nothing your doing wrong.
 
TearEmUp wrote :
OK, watch the crowds body language. Are heads bobbing up and down? Are toes taping? Are people patting their legs? Can you see them singing to themselves, along with the music? If you answer yes to any of these questions, you might be a redneck...oops wrong forum, its nothing your doing wrong.


yes. yes. yes. yes. and yes and no (by then they're drunk and havent a clue what they're singing).

...and ya had to play the redneck card. the shame of it all.


Bomb nights are bad. but not the worst. i've had nights with heavy floor rotation and everyone having a blast that i would have traded for a bomb night in a heartbeat. those of you been at it for more than 5 years know what i'm talking about.
 


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