Have you ever siad the wrong thing???? A wedding reception a few weeks back I made the annoucement (knowing the groom was Jewish) " Ladies & Gentlemen, its now that important time in this evenings proceedings involving a sharp knife!!!!!"

I mentioned this previously, but a Roadie of mine once played:-

"You'll Never Walk alone" as the last track at a Disco for the disabled!.

LOL-in a sad way

Ahhhh but did they see the funny side?

Just starting out as a dj, played a wedding disco, turned on the strobe and the brides father dropped dead, was about to change records,the next song Viola Wills "Gonna get along without you now" Also was MC at a concert venue and tripped over mic lead and fell off stage with mic in hand while introducing The Who to 6000 people ! The list is endless......

The longer you DJ the longer the list, wouldn't know where to start...........

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The longer you DJ the longer the list, wouldn't know where to start...........

ADS, is this a nice way of saying you've made a quite a few c**k ups! -LOL

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QUOTE The longer you DJ the longer the list, wouldn't know where to start........... ADS, is this a nice way of saying you've made a quite a few c**k ups! -LOL

Shaun, you've not shared any of your embarrassing moments with us yet???

If you don't i'm gonna call your Mother and get the gossip from her - and perhaps post up those embarrassing Baby & School Photographs of you that you thought were hidden in the Loft

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If you don't i'm gonna call your Mother and get the gossip from her

Oh no-

She'll dig up quite a bit, I'm perfect-LOL

Apart from when I slipt over infront of 150 guests on the dancefloor-dawn bubble machine-LOL

I think a lot of us at one time would have announced the wrong artist to the tune playin'.

My fo pars......
asking for the Grooms BLEACH 1991
Introducing Adam Faith at a charity function as Fadam Aith 1998
There are others......I will NEVER EVER MENTION!

Anyone heard where Saddam Hussain has his breakfast?
Where Terec Az-ezz!!!!!!!!

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Anyone heard where Saddam Hussain has his breakfast? Where Terec Az-ezz!!!!!!!!

You heard where he keeps his Cd's ?

You guessed it in A Rack or is that Iraq.......

I've only ever said one thing than got me into "trouble" with the venue...and I was bricking it for an hour or two...

Some lady...well woman had asked me to play Madonna..Like a Prayer...I had the 12'' inch (this was back when I only had vinyl) the 12'' goes into all this breakdown stuff 75% of the way through, as most extended tracks used to. So, anyway...we played it, she came up to the floor, with 4 or 5 others from her table, the rest of the floor cleared.... the 5 or 6 of them dance, enjoy themselves, until the breakdown...The woman starts moaning at me too quietly for me to make out, then ushers her friends back to the table...I abandon the record and move onto the next tune...as we'd been inundated with requests and time was tight.

Ten minutes later, that woman comes up to me asking for "Like a prayer" again. I point out that I've only got the version that she didnt like, and besides we had lots of requests from people who hadnt even heard their request once yet...but she keeps on and on and on....and starts getting into threats..."you're here to play what we want...blah...blah.." everytime I try to start a sentence (off mic) she interupts me... one sided conversation you might say...

So anyway...I announce (on mic) that we dont normally dream of playing a request twice, but that one lady was being MOST insistant...that hers gets played again...EVEN though only her and her 5 friends danced last time... etc...etc... and announce "heres madonna again, especially for the lady there, with the black dress, blonde hair, and dark roots..."

All 5 dancers looked at me and murmurs started amongst them...they danced until the breakdown again, and sat down...next record/request went on...loadsa people dancing...

End of the night...THe venue manager comes up to me...big smile on his face...saying that the woman was the wife of the BOSS of the entire company that I was entertaining...and that he was supposed to be telling me off (I started getting worried at this point)... Then he told me how the same woman had been an absolute pain in the neck to all the staff, wanting them to cash cheques, take cheques without a bankers card, charge drinks to her room - even though she wasnt staying that night, and trying to start a tab at the bars with no credit card...etc...etc... so luckily nothing happened...she was just one of those devil trees...you know; The Birch from Hell (with dark roots)

I remember one evening, we started playing a track by wet life, everyone sat down and just glared, we obviously changed it ASAP. We were informed after, that a death in the family had recently happened and that was the song they played at the end of the ceremony. I could not belive it i felt so bad,,,

Or another one we introduced the wrong name at a wedding, that did not go down to well. Nothing major other than that. O have been known to get fairly drunk at a few of the discos, but that goes with out saying!!!

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O have been known to get fairly drunk at a few of the discos, but that goes with out saying!!!

Not for me, when working I have one pint of Guinness at the beginning of the evening before the guests arrive, after I have set up, then coke all night, normally out the back somewhere so the paying customer does not see me drinking allnight, never drink in front of them, I just think it looks very unprofessional

Agree with ADs here (and I know Mikee will back me up, oh no maybe he won't it was my birthday) I will have a drink with the customer if they offer, but other than that its soda water and blackcurrant all night.

Iced water for me, I almost drown with the stuff but it clears you out, a bit like colonic irrigation in reverse

A couple of years ago i did 16 gigs at the same venue over Christmas and about half way through the bar man asked me if the iced water was for the smoke machine. He didn't believe it was all for me. A recent article in the paper about someone almost dying from drinking too much water has made me cut back a bit though.

PaulS

Never, Never ,Never Alcohol when i work,i stick to coke

In the summer - I allow myself one pint of lager - shandy at the start of the evening, and then it's the J20 fruit juices for the rest of the night

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J20 fruit juices for the rest of the night

Do you spent most of Sundays 'sitting down'

Hi, just thought I'd stick this in here. It was a case of bad choice of music rather than speech. We were doing an all day event in Harrogate, playing a few tunes like you do, when suddenly I turned round to see quite a few people in wheel chairs, and guess what song was being played----Jump Around by House Of Pain!!! with lyrics like" get out of your seat and jump around"!!!---oops!! Luckily I don't think they twigged.

Im with u guys on the no alcohol front - sometimes if they offer and when i refuse they insist then ill have a pint but never more than one. I usually just take a 2litre bottle of evian and drink that out of sight whenever i need some fluid - saves the hassle of going to the bar.
How much was this man drinking 5star?? sounds crazy that you could die from drinking tooo much water!!!

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I usually just take a 2litre bottle of evian and drink that out of sight whenever i need some fluid

& why aint you filling it up with all that free beer to take home??????

I saw that article too apparently the Dr's worked out he was drinking about 24 pints a day.............which is quite worrying as I have been known to do 8 or 9 pints of soda water during an evening!

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I mentioned this previously, but a Roadie of mine once played:- "You'll Never Walk alone" as the last track at a Disco for the disabled!.

I have to say Chris the last time i played Youll Never Walk Alone (which was about 5 years ago) there was murder glasses getting flung, fighting the whole club went crazy and that was alesson learned

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I have to say Chris the last time i played Youll Never Walk Alone (which was about 5 years ago) there was murder glasses getting flung, fighting the whole club went crazy and that was alesson learned

What was the do that this happened at Wesley??

It was a christening at a pub in kirkby town centre and was a good lesson learned

Right then. im new to the scene and i was doing this wedding and the guests wanted a kareoke and i didnt have so i got 1 of my mates to bring some of his gear in.
so. we all start having a singsong and so on and they was only a few ppl singing so my mate started rambling on about how the ppl in the room were boring twats and wouldnt you know it the mike was on and we had a Q of people at the dj box wanting to beat us up

I'll normally have one pint of ordinary strength lager at the very beginning of the night. (Note to all at Plasa: CARLING )

But after that its my trusty 2-litre bottle of Diet coke. Partly due to it being refreshing etc..etc.. but also the bars at some places are so packed, you wont get served before its time to start the next track...so having your own supply of refreshments is a must.

Staff parties, after the punters have gone, is another matter, expecially if I've got a free room for the night...

One venue that I do regularly (hotel), the barman brings a drink out to me hourly, and I make sure that its only pints of "kalibar" or Red-bull, coke etc.


Back to topic...Hmmm I do recall that at one particularly lengthy do, I completely lost my place in the toasting/Master of Ceremony annoucements about who was supposed to toast who after who had said what about who...(exactly ) and of course, everyone turned to me as I announced a request for silence for a reply from the wrong right honourable be-chained whoever....

I covered it with something like "Well, to err is human, so at least you know Im not a robot, where did we get to?" and someone got me back on track.

An old fellow agency DJ, who I worked with years ago, once announced "Jazz funk" over a cheap mic, and promptly got verbally "poked" by about 3 old dears...telling him not to swear...

oh and never ever get roped into introducing "Mandy is wearing the latest Jaeger silk blouse, in peach blossom white..." etc at wedding fairs...you normally end up going through ALMOST the same speil 3 times per afternoon, only to find that some bridal wear manageress has changed the running order of the girls she's sending out to the catwalk, but hasnt told you.... I now verbally check the running order with the heads of any participants prior to each catwalk display...this eliminates you saying "Janice is showing us this fine green satin...." etc....when someone struts onto the catwalk in a pale BLUE outfit...." DOH!

Worst thing I've said!!!!!!!!

"Yes, I am available to do your wedding"

Last night was probably my 1st mic cock-up

Announced "Busted" over a less than perfect PA system and promptly had a few people asking why I have just said "Ba***rd" over the mic

One tip for Gazza.

If doing a fashion show, try to orgainse that the girl as she comes out carries a card or sheet describing the dress and hands it to you. That way, no slip ups.

We've all made gaffes but frequently get away with them, but I do remember one that killed a party stone dead.

21st birthday party, atmosphere was poor enough anyway. During congratulations everyone kinda stood on the floor and left the birthday boy stranded next to the cake.

Middle-aged to elderly woman walks onto floor and grabs his hand and starts dancing with him. At this stage I was pretty desparate to get the atmosphere going. "Well done mum, you show him how to dance!", I chirpily announced over the mike.

Looks of death everywhere. Atmosphere went even worse.

Girl comes up to me...."That's his girlfriend. He's a toyboy and none of the family and friends approve. That's why you can cut the atmosphere with a knife"

Oh well

Did a nice one last night....

Ruby Anniversary.. Loads of older clientelle...

Doing a kids party session for the forst 30 odd mins as loads of kids there and after playing the last one said

"And now some music for the old people" rather than "And now some older music for those that know how to dance"

Tried to get the correct sentence out but still managed to dig myself further in as that came out wrong too....

Decided to shut up and play the song at that point and got the audience back on myside during the next link....

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