What type of person is the most annoying during your set?

Gadabout, post: 1337 wrote: “Can you play the ‘Birthday’ song!!…..you know….the one with 50 Cent”

Ohh, “In Da Club”. That took me a minute of frantic mental searching.

double.deez, post: 1549 wrote: The most annoying for me is the one that ask if you can hook up their iphone lol. …

Oh I so hate these folk.. and to top it off, if your setup is open like mine, they would proceed to bring the mp3 player to you so you can, basically, stop what youre doing so you can hear this amazing request that’s not in your library… ugh!

DJ Peixinho, post: 1762 wrote: Depending on the night, there is always a handful of people at a venue that annoy me always with the same requests or acts.
One of them is a guy who tries to offer me drinks for making me to play trance, with this request he also says that he can get a cd from his car to play from my hard drive. He even asks if I can go on youtube. Now imagine this in a venue where most of the dancefloor is female.
Another is a girl who keeps on asking for the same songs and if I say I don’t have it they ask if I can go to youtube or download it, through the wireless hotspot.
But worst of all was a group of girls, and this happened in my second to last gig, where they entered the both messed up with the controlers and even unplugged them. After that I had to play the rest of the night with keyboard and mouse.

OMG! now that is bad. Personally i would have done my nut at them. turned everything off, hooked it allback up and started it back from there.. if people got narky… you can point ur finger and say if it wasn’t for those lot…..

I wish I could but I managed to push them away of the booth, restarted traktor to at least have the soundcard working and do it as I said: mouse & keyboard

Another request (similar to what is said above) that I couldn’t believe once was: “What do you suggest to us?”

As though I was some waiter in a restaurant recommending specials!

Instant Automatic Cue: put headphones back on, concentrate on finding tunes and never ever even make eye contact with them again, ever

Matt Challands, post: 1968 wrote: Another request (similar to what is said above) that I couldn’t believe once was: “What do you suggest to us?”

My answer would be “Um…everything I’ve just been playing”

I still think many make requests for the sake of making requests.

Many times. Whenever ANYONE claims they’re “close” with some member of the management, I tell him/her to bring the manager here and tell me. I usually do this ONLY when the requests are totally conflicting with the overall vibe.

Sometimes I’ve told trixies who claim they know the owner that the owner isn’t in charge here tonight…that it’s the promoter. They get mad, but the promoters were glad I didn’t destroy their night to please a trixie. Even when the owner comes over and asks me to play the girl’s requests, I’ll simply and politely say that I would be happy to, but I do not want to wreck the promoter’s night and thus they should make sure it’s ok with them.

I just think people get into this “me me me me me me” mode and forget it’s not about just them. The worst was when a promoter told me to play whatever BS some trixie wanted to hear because he wanted to lay her later. You can see why his event didn’t last very long and got labeled “lame” very quickly.

Bar owner’s son is no different. If his requests are going to make a mess of the night, then I insist I get a green light from whoever is in charge. It sounds like a lot, but if playing some brat’s request is going to cause 1/4 or more of the crowd to leave, then one has to ask what’s more important.