I need a bit of help with this one, I've taken on this a job as a favor to a landlord who's having a thin time at the moment, I'm hoping to drive a bit of trade his way. The gigs on Saturday evening. the venue's a smallish pub just off town center, mostly a youngish 18 - 35 old crowd, who usually call in early evening on the way down town and then tend to return later in the evening around 10 to 10-30'ish, definitely 'blue collar' not the sophisticated type. It's not the sort of gig I usually do, so any suggestions are welcome.

Seems to be a bit of an 80s revival going on at the mo, so a good dollop of 80s new romantic and classic pop should do the trick from 9.30pm, plus there's some great 80s rock you could add for good measure. From 10.30, why not throw some old skool dance, 90s indie and top dance anthems, plus the odd 70s and 80s classic right through to the end of the night with a Saturday Night Fever finish!

Plenty of modern chart r&b/dance then some old skool late 80's/90's dance later on in the evening.
The younger people round our way tend to go down town in search of this sort of stuff.
You need to try n keep them in there for as long as possible, this can be done with the right music.

Care to name a few tracks? It's a genere I know little about, it seems to mean different things to different people.

OK - here's a selection sent over by my nephew. The one's in bold are tracks I'd feel happy to play at a gig as these are likely to be more 'known'.
There's still a lot of tracks not listed here which would probably go down well.
I'd suggest look up some '89 classics right through to around '94/'95 which will cover the 'known/popular' early rave and of course commercial track releases.



2 Bad Mice - 2 Bad Mice
2 Bad Mice - Bombscare
2 Bad Mice - Waremouse
2 Boasters - The Traitor
4 Mega - Drop This
808 State - Pacific State
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
ACEN - Close Your Eyes
ACEN - Trip To The Moon
Adamski - NRG
AFTER DARK - Cardiac
AFTER DARK - Come With Me Tonight
Alien Eye - Found A Café
Altern 8 - E-Vapor 8
A-Tension - Angels
Awesome 3 - Don't Go
Baby D - Casonova
Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
Back by dope demand - King Bee
Bay B Kane - Quarter To Doom
Bizarre Inc - Playing with Knives
Black men united - Shut Up and Dance
BLAME - Music Takes You
Bombscare - 2 Bad Mice
Break of dawn - Rhythm On The Loose
Bug Khan - 2 Minutes
CEDRIC WINKLEBURGER - Take It Easy
Chad Jackson - Hear the drummer get wicked
Channel X - Rave The Rhythm
Cheeba City - Hardcore Disco
Cloud Nine - Back To Detroit
Cloud Nine - Gonna Be Alright
Congress - 40 Miles
Control - Dance with me (I'm your extacy)
Cubic 22 - Night In Motion
Cubik - 808 State
Cyanide 45 - Notice Me
Deep Blue – Helicopter
Digital Boy - Gimme A Fat Beat (Frank de Wulf Remix)
Dillinja - Deadly Deep Subs
DJ Crystl - Meditation
DJ Hype Feat. GQ – Roll The Beats
DJ Lee - Want Your Love
DJ Peshay - Original Gangster
DJ Rap - Devine Rhythms
DJ Seduction – Dj’s Unite
DJ Seduction - DJ's Unite Vol 1
DJ Seduction - DJ's Unite Vol 3
DJ Ten - E.F.F.E.C.T
DOCTOR OF DANCE - Doctor Of Dance Theme
Dream Team – Yeah Man
DSKF - New Science
Echobass Feat. Ratpack - Weakest Link
EDGE 1 - Compounded
Edge Of Darkness - Come Together
Engineers Without Fears – Spiritual Aura
External Group - Gravity
Felix -Don't You Want Me
FIERCE RULING DIVA - You Gotta Believe
First Project - Right Before
Frequency - Where Is Your Evidence?
Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea (Hybrid Mix)
GLIDE - Alright
Globe & The Hardcore Massive - Anthem
Globe & The Hardcore Massive - Gone
Gloworm - I Lift My Cup
Good life (Midnight mix) - Debbie Malone
Gordon Edge - Compnded (Edge 1 Remix)
GTO - Pure
Headcase - Gravitate
Holy Noise - The Noise
Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid
Incubus - The Spirit
Infiltr 8 202 - Altern 8
Jo – R-Type
John + Julie - Circles (G.T.O.'s Europa Remix)
JONNY L - Hurt You So
Justice & Mercy - Fale Lobsters
Kicks like a mule - The Bouncer
K-Klass - 'Let Me Show You Love'
K-Klass - Rhythm Is A Mystery
Krome & Time – This Sound Is For The Underground
Lenney De Ice - We Are I.E
LFO - 'LFO'
Liquid - Sweet Harmony
MANIC - I'm Coming Hardcore
Manix – Feel Real Good
Marc Smith - Pump Up The Noize
Marc Smith - Techno Dup
Mark One - Hoovers And Sraycans
MC Lethal - The Rave Digger
MICKEY FINN - Some Justice
Moby – Feeling So Real (Ray Keith Remix)
Moby - Go
Mr Kirk's nightmare - 4 Hero
M&M feat Rach Wallace - I feel this way
N-Joi - Anthem
N-Trance - Set you free
Nasty Habits – Here Come The Drumz
Nexus & Blowback - Dinky Dink
Nicky Blackmarket – Geese Toon
Nightmares On Wax - Aftermath
Noise Factory - Breakage 4
Nookie - Give A Little Love
Nookie - Love Is
Nu-Matic - Hard Times
Oceanic - Insanity
Omni Trio – Renegade Snares (Fp Remix)
Only you - Talizman
Orca - 4am
Origin Unknown – Valley Of The Shadows
Pascal & Sponge - Just Rollin' A Fat B
PHANTASY & GEMINI - Everybody Is Under 'T' Influence
Praga Khan - Rave Alarm
Pragga Khan - Injected with a Poison
Project One - Smokin
Psychotropic - Hypnosis (Lee Coombs Remix)
Q Project – Champion Sound (Alliance Remix)
Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia
Ratpack - Brothers & Sisters
Ratpack - Captain of the Ship
Ratpack - Clipper
Ratpack - Searching for my Rizla
Rebel Mc – Tribal Base
Renegade – Terrorist
Report to the dancefloor - Energise
RHYTHM FOR REASON - Grand National (remix)
Rhythm On The Loose - Break of Dawn
Rhythm Quest - Closer To Your Dreams
Rhythm Section - Feel The Rhythm
Rozalla - Everybodys Free
Satin Storm - Out Of My Head
Scientist - Excorsist
SEDUCTION - DJs Unite
Set Up The System - Fairy Dust
Shades of Rhythm - Sound Of Eden
Shades Of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation
Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode
Shamen - L.S.I.
Shamen - Move Any Mountain
Shut Up And Dance - The Green Man
Skool Of Hard Knocks – Kan You Feel It
SL2 - DJ's Take Control
SL2 - On A Ragga Tip
Slipmatt - Breakin' Free
Sly T & Ollie J - Help Me
Smart E's - Sesame's Street
Smith Inc - Jungle
Smith Inc - Music And Life
Smith Inc - Palomino
Son’z Of A Loop Da Loop Era – Far Out
Sound Corp - Dreamfinder
Sound of Eden - Shades Of Rhythm
Sound Of The Future – Lighter
Spinback & Storm - Heartattack
Spinback & Storm - Total Confusion
Stakker - Humanoid
Stand up - Rave Nation
Storm & Euphony - Get A Move On
Suburban Delay - Energy Rush
Sy Kick - Upside
T.T.F - New Emotion
T99 - Anastasia
Terrorize - Such A Feeling
THE BROTHERS GRIM - De Ja Vu
The Brothers Grimm - Field Of Dreams
The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea
The House Crew - Euphoria
The House Crew - Keep The Fire Burning
THE JOKER - Yeah Yeah Yeah
The Moog - Jungle Muffin
The Prodigy - Charly
The Prodigy - Everybody In The Place
The Prodigy - Outta Space
The Prodigy - Voodoo people
The Prodigy - Your Love
The Rhythmic State - No D.S Allowed (Live)
The Rhythmic State - Soap On A Roap
The Source feat. Candi Staton - You Got The Love
Tom Wilson / T.T.F - Give Me Your Lovin'
Top Buzz - Living in darkness
Tribal Instincts - Comin On Strong
Tronik House – Uptempo
UK Apachi With Shy Fx – Original Nuttah
Ultimate Buzz - Rock Da Bass
Ultra-Sonic - Check Your Head (Delegate Mix)
Ultra-Sonic - Obsession
Urban Hype – Trip To Trumpton
Urban Shakedown - She's Breaking Up (bionic man mix)
Urban Shakedown - Some Justice
Wax Doctor - New Direction
Wots My Code - Dubplate
Xray Experiments - Take No Chance

I would have included Blue Pearl, Zero B, Atlantic Ocean, KLF and Livin Joy too.

Thanks, I'll certainly try some of those, I've not played anything by the Shamen for ages, there's some good stuff in the list I'd forgot about.

charts r&b and Commercial dance always good with a little old skool threw in somewhere late on , altho thats pretty much my idea for everything lol

but you may find no matter how good your music is or great unique mixing i find most young people are pub crawlers and are hard to keep and are in search of somewhere with plenty of available members of the opposite sex !!!

I forgot to add Crystal Waters (Gypsy Woman)

Also DJ Miko - Whats Up

I love old skool dance music:

Bellissima - DJ Quiksilver
Brothers and sisters - 2 Funky 2
Hideaway - DeLacy

Na na de da da da............

If the land lord is struggling I would suggest do something different to attract a crowd. With those suggestions above it reads like your playing to the crowd which is already there!.

Not that your sets are predictable