Funniest DJing moment

Newportdj Drew, post: 5594 wrote: voice over…… ‘You’re listening to W,Ay,En,Kay Stereo, 69.9 Off your dial….. Never failed to raise a smile from those who could spell… 8)

haha, very nice

I don’t have yet a personal “funniest moment”, but anyway i’ve only had about 7 or 8 gigs until now, but in my last one(last Saturday night) i finally did it live for the first time: stopped the wrong deck. I find it funny because I remember Phil commented here somewhere about doing it something like “We ALL did it”, and the first thing that came to mind when I did it, even before i started the deck again, was that comment. So I was just smiling when pressing play again, remembering the capitalized “ALL” in Phil’s comment. Just so true 😀

Funny enough, it helped me both to concentrate but also to relax a bit; it was early in the night, spinning Lounge, just 20/30 people there having first drink, so it didn’t killed any mood.

I had one guy come up to me and he was requesting some 70’s track.

Bearing in mind this was a house and electro night, I explained (politely) that there was a set theme, and whilst I would play that track any other time, tonight was not the night. He stands arguing with me for a good 5 mins. He gets increasingly irate and takes my pausing the argument to mix for me being arrogant. He then proceeds to threaten me with violence, so I grab the closest bloke to the DJ booth and ask if he could go to the door and get security for me. He returns with our head doorman. I explain the situation to security and has the offending male ejected. The bloke who went to get security looks a bit confused as to why the man was removed and so follows him out of the club.

It turned out that the man I sent for security was the offending male’s best friend! I did have a little laugh with the door staff.

DJ Max D., post: 6155 wrote: Well, two moments come to mind..
First CDJ gig, connected the players to the wrong channels (A to B and B to A).. When I figured out what I did wrong me and the other two DJs couldn’t stop laughing for a few minutes..
🙂

And that’s why they gave us the Hamster switch on mixers: :p
Yeah we all must have done that one, and the Hamster has saved me from my own gormlessnes a few times once i worked out why the channel i want to bring in is going quiet

Last time I was DJ-ing in the UK, I was playing mostly remixes and mashups throughout the night (that’s my style and I had built up a little bit of an audience during my time there). Near the end of my set, around the 2nd or 3rd to last song, I hear a voice from behind the left stack of speakers rise up over the music: “I FUCKING HATE THESE REMIXES. BOOOOOOO REMIXES! BOOOOOO!” I couldn’t see the guy, but I could see plenty of people’s faces looking in his direction in confusion and little bit of disgust. I found it really entertaining because for me, as long as I’ve managed to get a reaction out of someone – good or bad – I feel like I’ve done my job. Indifference = failure for me. I’m proud that my set was so provoking that it caused this guy to cry out. 😛

I used to have a laptop that opened AOL every time I’d switch it on. Joanna Lummley never sounded as lush as she did over a funktion one.