Hi all its john form the island of guernsey the worst time i had was at a wedding when the bride gave me the cd for the slow dance little did i know that it was a one in a million cd with the track numbers in the wrong order so the mood was set and i called them to the floor told everyone to get the cameras ready and wait for it on came this up tempo song ive never had a sweat on like it. plus trying to explain that it was her cd that was wrong but i suppose it was down to not having used my phones and taking the brides advice well after all it was her disc so she of all ppl should have known...

Yes, I bet there is more than one D.J visiting here who has played the wrong track at some point - and "Roadies" are always good to pass the blame to!!. Speaking of which I remember a Wedding not so long ago where I *Foolishly* left a trainee to start off the night. This hapless guy, refering to the information on the booking confirmation kindly announced to everybody over the P.A, the "marriage" of the Brides Parents instead of the "real" bride and groom!!.

Yes, thinking that the names on the confirmation were that of the bride and groom he read out the names of the Brides Mum and Dad who had BOOKED the function!! - kindly marrying them again - 29 years on!

Several Whiskey's later - I felt that I could return to the stage

I am extremely professional and have never done anything bad ever...



I wish.

QUOTE (Tom @ Feb 19 2003, 07:45 PM)

I am extremely professional and have never done anything bad ever...

That's because you never have any gigs!

I was playing a gig a cple of weeks ago and went to change the track and it was destinys child, never heard the song in my life! fair enough but i hadnt cued that track up! still played the next song ok and went back to the other deck and again destinys child! what is going on? no matter what disc i put in same album, no im worried ppl are gonna get sick of this! whats going on??? then i realise im putting each disc on top of the destinys child album!!!!! the album was the same clour as the cd player in my defence!

HAha, it's funny when you look back on it, but i bet it was not on the night..

One of my worst was a wedding last September.
The Best Man got into a fight with the Bride`s brother and went home. And that was before the function had even started.
The Groom came up with a play-list and while I was trying to accomodate, the Bride`s father came up to tell me that he used to be a DJ... " a GOOD one!!!" .. and that I was playing all the wrong music
All of the Best Man`s family went home leaving a really tense atmosphere.
The Bride`s sister asked me to announce the Bride and Groom`s first dance, which I did, only to be told that they didn`t want to dance.
The event was a disaster with arguments and fights all night long. I was glad to say goodnight!!

I misprounced the brides name as I introduced them for the first dance. Unfortunatly my mouth was not co operating with my brain, and although I was thinking the right name, my mouth thought it would be jolly fun if it said something different. I GOT THE LOOK

It seems no matter what venue or gig you do , there is always a better DJ than you on the guest list !!

I do a christmas party ever year, and a couple of years ago, this chappie came up and said, I'm a DJ and Tony Prince is my cousin, yeh right. At the end of the night, and a few bevvies later, he came up and said that I was quite good, ah! a man of good taste. I didn't think any more about it, the following September, on my annual day out to PLASA, I meet this chap, yes you guessed, working with Tony Prince on the DMC Stand.
Well you never can tell.

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I do a christmas party ever year

well ur not gonna do it on a weekley basis are you!!

Looks like Dan's getting some confidence and giving some cheek to our "Respected Member"

just talkin the truth

I'm surprised it made any sense, if you check the time of the post
But i know you are all clever buggers on this board, and you know exactly wot I's mean't.

It's always the same! - these youngsters start off with zero post's, all quiet and polite, then when they get 3 post's to their name they start getting cheeky!.

I hope Dan puts the same level of enthusiasm into D.J'ing

And Mikeee WHAT are you doing on here at gone 2AM? - even I 'm tucked up in bed with my ovaltine at that time

Whilst doing the 2nd room in perhaps Scotlands biggest club, I'll just never forget the time when i lifted the needle off the wrong turntable...............if looks could kill.............

This has got to be the mother of all DJ Nightmares - a DJ covering a wedding for me had just played the first dance for the bride and groom, then followed up with bride dancing with father - began rock n roll set when the brides father keeled over - and died .......... I dont think you could have a worse DJ nightmare than that!!

I haven't killed any one yet, But I'm working on it LOL

I had a wedding where the Bride knocked out the Bridesmaid so the Mother went home and refused to come back, so Dad lost his rag and was shouting at the bride.

But my favourite.............

Good Catholic wedding in SE London a female priest (who shall remain nameless) attended the reception said grace etc. Then a little while later She passes out in the middle of the dancefloor!!!!!!!! Paramedics arrive and ask me to turn music off so they can work on her, great worry for both families till grinning medic comes up and says "carry on chaps she is only drunk out of her skull" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aah she drank the wine, no communion on Sunday then LOL

Hey I never typed drunk!!!! LOL I typed pi***d

What's ***

Well P*****......... won't it let me type that or did somebody mod my post??

Not me! - Admin

Ooh you naughty boy - you swore (snigger) I'm telling daddy LOL

You do and I'll tell him what i saw you an Paula doing at Hever Castle when you thought noone was lookin so Nuh!!!

Have you noticed, once it gets past 2.00am, it gets silly

and I thought it was only cos you were here! Mind it would be good if the forum clock read the right time too!!

Mine does, go to My Controls, and set it for BSE, eh, I mean BST

Aha thank you kind sir, I thought it was something Chris would have to do or something

The forum works on time zones, otherwise the the yanks and the aussies think it;s the middle of the day, or the day before they typed their last message, or to put it another way you are repling to a message you haven't yet typed, the day after the day before, there makes prefect sense. i think I need to go to bed

Ok I know what you mean, you do realise Chris is gonna moan at the old farts for taking up space when we could've pm'd each other........... lol I'm going to bed goodnight !

QUOTE (NineLives @ Mar 13 2003, 02:54 AM)

It seems no matter what venue or gig you do , there is always a better DJ than you on the guest list !!

and of course I always wonder why they are not doing the gig or they are not working that night!!!!

Welcome Nige........ always nice to see a fellow DJ from Essex here to balance up the 'North v South' divide, feel free to browse at your leisure and jump in as necessary.

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Chris is gonna moan at the old farts for taking up space

Why would I moan? - I believe in "Help the aged", and glad the forum can keep two lonely old insomniacs occupied

Mikee you grab his legs and I'll help you throw him somewhere warm wet and smelly............... oh no sorry Canvey Island is full already!!!

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Mikee you grab his legs

I think given the choice I'd rather have Paula grabbing my legs!

Spin, you grab one leg, i'll have the other - and make a wish

These are all very funny, my nightmare gig began with a call from the manager at the hotel where I was due to gig at half an hour before I was due to leave the house, the conversation went something like this:

HIM: Scotty are you doing this wedding reception here tonight ?
ME: Yes mate.
HIM: Well ive got the bride with me and she wants to know if you've got any Arabic music.
ME: Arabic music are you having a laugh !, ive got Holly Valance Kiss,Kiss does that count ?
HIM: Do you know anyone thats got any ?
ME: Do you ?
HIM: Errrrr No

As it happened I'd checked with the hotel and Bride but there was no mention of Arabic music ! I ended up playing tapes from a hi-fi system the hotel had that I set up to my system.

Love it - We are now, more than ever a multi national community and as professionals we should be able to play anything at the drop of a hat. The only thing that stands in our way is.........The Music Industry, the grey suits that decide we don't need this.

Box time , again

if youre unsure of the bride and grooms names, never ask a guest as they can wind you up and give you the wrong names for a "laugh". it happened to me !!

Many years ago i was doing a night in a miners social club south of Edinburgh with a well known Radio Forth DJ.
The crowd were terrible it took me about 2 hours to get them moving then it was time for the "professional" to take over.
His first song "The Last Waltz" Englebert H !!
He then informed me that he was "presenter" and only played what he was handed.
What a nightmare I had to babysit him for his 2 hours.
He got nearly 3 times my money and told he was great.
I was informed that my music choices were rubbish and should take a leaf out of his book!