For anybody who’s interested — the gig went amazingly well! People were dancing for the entire two hours. The event promoter was very happy, and wants me to be a fixture at the event. Even one event guy who was (initially) unfriendly started smiling during my set, gave me a fist bump, and later asked about DJing for him at other events! I could post some pics, but that’s probably tacky.
Ironically I didn’t play very much 80s stuff at all. I was playing soulful house for most of the time, and decided to switch it up to progressive and breaks after 1hr. That’s when I got a few Brits asking for me to go back to the “classics” I was playing earlier but I had no idea what they were talking about. Maybe that was the expat thing. But it didn’t matter in the end.
Thanks to the DDJT community for answering all my specific questions. But thanks everybody for also for being a great online community where I could talk and figure all the different issues as I returned to DJing in public after a 3 year hiatus. It was great fun!!! And it feels good to get out of the bedroom.
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