Strangest Location/Venue You've Ever DJ'd?

[Corabar Steve]

I've done several gigs at London's Regents Park Zoo,

Me too

Piccadilly Tube station main ticket area for Capital Radio's "Help a London Child" fundraising back in the late 80's with hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood

When was that then? I worked there in the late 80s.

[funksoulbrother]

Steve, it must have been about 1985/6 as far as I can remember, not a bad day, I remember trying to get the gear in was a nightmare, having to try to park the van and trolley the rig down. B y massive bass bins, amps and console with Matamp mixer and 3 1200's. I was lucky though as, I had to get away early, before we broke the rig down, to get to another evening gig with bags of Capital Radio freebies and a whole load of WEA promo records, courtesy of Fred Dove the WEA A & R man.

[Ajaysdisco]

I think mine aren’t that strange compared to some of yours but some of the ones that stick out are a fire place and a very small round beach hut.

[Corabar Steve]

Steve, it must have been about 1985/6 as far as I can remember, not a bad day, I remember trying to get the gear in was a nightmare, having to try to park the van and trolley the rig down. B y massive bass bins, amps and console with Matamp mixer and 3 1200's. I was lucky though as, I had to get away early, before we broke the rig down, to get to another evening gig with bags of Capital Radio freebies and a whole load of WEA promo records, courtesy of Fred Dove the WEA A & R man.

Must've been a complete pain. How did you get the gear from street level to the concourse?

[funksoulbrother]

Sack barrow to the stairs then all carried down by hand, then set up between two of the stairs with portable barriers between the equipment and the public. If I remember rightly, it was a 3Kw rig, well over the top of what was needed, but Mr. Westwood had insisted on it to Capital.

We had also supplied another rig the same day near Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove, for their Reggae DJ, at the time. Can't remember his name, but one of the nicest guys you would ever meet, wish I'd stayed there, as there was less ego/attitude!

[sleah]

Totally forgot but I've also DJ'd at Marwell Zoo too.
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We had a V.I.P. tour (part of their wedding package) and had photos taken with the monkeys and giraffes.

Oh there's some fun to be had tagging those pictures on Facebook

[Corabar Steve]

Sack barrow to the stairs then all carried down by hand, then set up between two of the stairs with portable barriers between the equipment and the public. If I remember rightly, it was a 3Kw rig, well over the top of what was needed, but Mr. Westwood had insisted on it to Capital.

We had also supplied another rig the same day near Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove, for their Reggae DJ, at the time. Can't remember his name, but one of the nicest guys you would ever meet, wish I'd stayed there, as there was less ego/attitude!

Nobody told you to use the lift in the Trocadero then

[funksoulbrother]

25 years on, now I'm told that there was a lift, a lot of the London Underground staff weren't exactly friendly towards us. They were probably p g themselves laughing at us struggling with all the gear.

I knew there was a good reason why I didn't like using the Underground!!!!!!

[DJ Teknovibe]

Well it's not really a strange place, but my kitchen was a kind of unusal place for gig I suppose, alebit a mini gig lol. I used to have 8K of Peavey and JBL in there, my next door neighbour used to bang doors, be aggressive and constantly scream and stuff before I even ever had my sound system on. So in the end I njust thought "ok, if she wants to make noise, I can too" and so I hooked my sound system up and we had full blown parties in there. I'm talking fog machine, 8,000 watts of sound system full blast, dmx scanners, the works, and all my mates used to come round for a party, lights off, scanners and fog machine on, sound system on full, it was great.

I even had people come round who I didn't even know, and one time we had 15-20 people in my kitchen dancing, we went from about 8pm-4am every saturday night. So...I guess in a way you could call it the strangest venue I ever did parties at.

[kieran Griff]

Sounds a little immature if I'm honest.... although I've done a fair few of them myself in my younger days