Hey

Is it me or is this song becomming more and more popular? the last 6 xmas gigs alone have had loads of people requestng it! Even more so at some than the xmas songs themselfs It wont be long and Ill be singing this in my head, argh!

Anyone else seeing this or is it just me down this end of the country? Also what do you lot think about the song, personally I like it, really fast, catchy and well a nice lively dancey tune, keeps the peeps bobbing!


Cyas
Mike

Its not a cover version of the Eric Carmen hit is it? Had it requested loads of times last Sat..........

Haven't heard it / been asked for it

Never Been asked to play it at all, at any point in the last few years!.

Hey

This must really show the differences between the south east and up north (I think). As people have said before DJ'ing across the country seems to vary dramatically, for example lighting doesnt get noticed up north as much as it does down south. Hmm

Cheers for the replys.


Cyas
Mike

Hi MikeH,
Can confirm that "Hungry Eyes" by Eyopener is very much a go-er down here in sunny South Wales as well. It can be found on "Clubland 5" and, surprisingly, "Clubland 6" as well. It has a reasonably long, good beaty intro that you can mix in easilly. I've been playing this track for about 3-4 months now and the beauty of it is that it's a bit of a crossover track - the youngsters are dancing to the meaty beat at first, and then when the lyrics come in, you get the oldheads mouthing along to it as well. There is a bit of an annoying beat-less piano section that cuts it up a bit though....
Also look out for "Poison" on the Clubland 5 album as well. A chugging cover of the old Alice Cooper hit.
Have you all noticed the regurgitation of old seventies/eighties dance tracks into current music? - examples:
Tell it to my heart (Taylor Dayne) - Kelly Llorenna
It's raining men (Weather girls) - Geri H
Oh what a night (Four Seasons) - Clock
etc...etc...
It's as if the songwriters nowadays haven't got an original hit in them.

Clive.

Yeh,

We have been asked for it quite a lot, it is on Clubland five and also a slightly different version on Clubland six. Nice dancy track for the right crowd.

Hey

Yes and No

Other DJ's look at your lights, and if you are just starting up, but if you already have your 'name', its not too important what lighting you have, as long as it is sufficient enough......


If I turned up with 2 x 50w mini moons I would get looked at...for the first 5 minutes, then the music would take over.

I normally use 4 or 6 Chameleon 4's, but quite regually use just 2 of them sitting on the floor.(that is the lights, not me !!)

I could go out every week with 20 effects, 9 speakers etc etc, would do me any good, people don't care as long as you have the music (and it sounds good).

If CP gave me £1000 to spent at CSL, I would invest in sound not light

Hungry eyes - just 1 request for this over all the xmas parties.....generally more of a pub tune than a function track imo

Lighting...as long as you have a 'sufficient' lighting show (which is open to interpretation anyway!) you should not worry about lighting up the full venue....a couple of quality & different effects focused on the dancefloor / ceiling and its then all about your music

I tend to use original versions, too. Especially if Westlife/ boyzone / blue did the cover! If pressed for new version I will oblige but only if I have to.
In London, by the way, lighting is a factor. Even the pubs like a good light show.

Hey

Thanks for that, I was beginning to wonder if it was only me down the south east who has noticed that people love a nightclub like setup in terms of lighting, tbh they cant get enough of it! Oh and that snow machine was the best purchase ever, went down a storm in the pub, they couldnt get enough of it! But oh well no more doing gigs in that pub (cough look for my other post)


Cyas
Mike

Remixes of past hits is nothing new and I love it every time, kids just dont realise
thts its a oldie, not do the teens and dont telle them otherwise they'll hate it.

If you yhink its just hungary eyes that has been remixed what about Daddy cool,
Scooter -Shake that, a few of Depeche mode's tracks remixed (very good)
California dreaming, Pink Lagoon - Break my stride, Duran Duran-Reach up,
Born to be alive, even Ghostbusters didnt escape ,it is good, FR David- Words,
Novaspace-Dancing with tears in my eyes, bloody marvelous, nice female vocals.
Funky town sounds better too nice and easy to mix into and mess with,
Deep purple-Hush, Gimme gimme gimme is ok and last BUT not least
Two 4 Pop - Maria Magdalena (Radio Hot Mix) is brilliant and gets the girls all mmm
but thats not all, ther's tons to choose from and best get yourselves down to those
sales thats on the go but buy wise cos there's lots of crap out there too.

Lights do play an important part along with everything else you have, good quality
of sound always 100% brings comments every time without a doubt. peroid.
Dangling wires and a tatty loking setup wont get you buss. neither will bad music
selection/mixing but there's so much more, end of the day we all have our own
unique way of doing things and all I can add is to be proud in what you do, no
matter ehat..

Cheers

Have to admit that the snow machine went down really well at all the christmas parties (apart from the DM who sent someone out for a mop!!)


PaulS

Due to the new Eyopener version, I have played the original Dirty Dancing version a few times over Christmas gigs, but not actually had either requested.

Hmmm two, if not three topics running in tandem here and too intertwined to split one topic off from the other.

Eyeopener - Hungry Eyes: I got 2 or 3 requests for this over the last month - so it was still hopelessly outnumbered by the requests for more (dare I say it) "traditional" party favourites, such as Kylie: Outta my head, and even Robbie: Rock DJ etc. However, on the few occasions that Hungry Eyes did get played, in amongst things like "DJ Sammy: Heaven" and other up-tempo dance favourites, it held its own in the middle of a couple of better known tracks. Probably wouldnt have led/started a dance set so well though - not in terms of pulling an audience onto the dancefloor.

Cover versions in general. Yes, there do seem to be a good few cover versions of well-loved classics from the 70's and 80's. You almost get the feeling that a load of 20 year copyrights must have run out every so often and not been re-newed by the original artists and so rights to the song have been snapped up for less than the cost of paying a writer for a new song. However, a lot of 70's songs seem to go through a "remix of the original artist" stage, before they get to the "covered by a totally different artist" stage.

Sometimes the remix of the original can be a good thing, so long as its differences are subtle and none of the original essence is lost. For example: I've got a very subtle DMC remix of Sister Sledge: We are Family, which I'll play whenever I, or the audience think that "we are family" should be played. Its seems to high-light the originals good bits, without adding new drums, new st st st stuttered lyrics or overly long instrumental breakdowns etc all over it, like the 1984(?) re-released mix of it did...

One good thing with bad covers or bad remixes, is that they give the perfect opportunity for the original version (or in your opinion the "Best" version for "that" particular crowd) to be played. One example here is "Car Wash". Christina and that angry noisy lady( ) released their cover of it, complete with lots of chatter about fishy sharks tales all over the beginning, and a rough rap breakdown in the middle, and I didn't even bother buying it. Just played the original with the pitch nudged up 2% - went down really well everytime.

As for how much lighting should be piled into a venue...we've got several threads providing most "illuminating" insights into that, and whilst I'd agree that turning up with three identical lights and just leaving them running all night would be terrible and might get some negative feedback, I've found that once you've got enough lighting, and the right sort of lighting to provide a non-white atmosphere in a venue then theres no benefit, to the public, in buying, transporting, PAT testing, hanging, and servicing anything more.

I paid the price (literally) early on in my days, of spending upwards of £800 on a single lighting effect, which totally relied on smoke and a good vantage point to be effective. I ended up swapping it 2 years down the line for a top of the range radio mic system, which gave more benefits. It's not wrong (or right) to have more lighting than the guy, or pub down the road, but switching on light no.6 rarely does anything to the atmosphere that lights no. 3,4, & 5 didn't do already - unless theres another DJ (or landlord) watching.

Not veryoften something stuck on the end of aNow album makes it to request lists is it? I hadn't even listened to it