Obviously, for most DJ's the music ratio between old and new music will be different for every gig, based upon the audiences requests (6 year olds asking for Bon Jovi, 80 year olds asking for Kylie etc) but for the sake of this poll, think back to your last gig.

100% oldies!!!

Is there anything worth playing thats less than 2 months old anyone????

When I visited Andy in Exeter and Nantwich it was amazing that what he played was virtually identical to what I would usually play.

Same Songs - just played in a different order

Both functions were Weddings, which are again, the majority of my workload.

I wonder how many times all over the country Dancing Queen, Come on Eileen, Uptown girl, I will survive etc etc are being played on any given Friday or Saturday Night.

When I worked a night at a club, I would spend anything upto £50 a week on New CD's, and most of it would be played at some point in the following weeks.

However, now i'm 100% back to private functions, I rarely get asked for any new stuff at a gig, and when it is played it rarely gets the dancefloor reaction that the older stuff has . Of course 16th / 18th Birthdays are the exception to the rule, as are teens and kids parties which do get booked from time to time, and usually require the purchase of a Dance or RnB compilation to catch up. However it's cheaper for me to do this than to buy CD Singles as they are released.

Music + memories = good time

Jimbo

Interesting discussion

Yes for weddings and functions most of it is oldies, with a bit of Beyonce and chart stuff throw in towards the end

I must say the song that still goes down so well after a few years, is Reach by S Club 7 still goes down a storm!

I mainly do Private "Do's" so the only chart stuff is early on to keep the younger lot happy,
while the oldies are talking and at the bar, after the grub its oldies all the way....well maybe the odd couple if it suit the punters on the night.

Spot on.
It's a trip of nostalgia for most people, and the new releases haven't got that edge.

I voted 100%, but I did play Pussycat Dolls, Sugarbabes and Leo Sayer.

Thunder in my heart must be only one "under 2mths". As a %age less than 1%.

What a good post Gary and something that has been nagging away at me for a while now (Apart from the Wife that is ).
Being one of the older members of this forum and trying not to be too stereotypical I try to to play a good selection of current chart stuff at all my gigs but even at the last gig that I did (18th Birthday) I found the stuff that really worked was the older stuff 60's 70's and 80's and Classic disco. I have decided to tailor my show round the older music as I feel it is really what most of my functions are about and my clients seem to expect.
One of my clients said that she likes my style of music and I think maybe that is why they book me as an older DJ. By the way I do like current music trends, a lot of the hed kandi stuff really rocks my boat as does many of the club tracks that are on albums like Clubland but I play more of this stuff at home rather than when gigging. Maybe it is the type of work that I do, I don't know. I am considering changing the way that I market my Disco, Andy W sums it up Nostalgia, that is what people want, the music takes them back more that a photo ever can. Agree tracks like Reach and Tradgedy are good cheesy tracks at the right time of the evening and I think some of the charty stuff like Sugababes and girls Aloud work well if dropped in at the right time but there are so many good records from the last 40 Years that are worthy of an airing more often.
I think it must be great to specialise in music that you love, as do DJ's such as Ian Stewart and Eskie with their soul. I was a kid in the 60's and 70's (Rock n Roll, Motown Glam etc) and this is the music that I grew up with but I don't think that I would get enough regular work playing music only from this era I would love to give it a go sometime and see .
I have voted for 90% as this is the way I seem to be going - Mick