Drinks on dancefloors

[Silver]

I'm starting to see an increase in the amount of drinks being brought on to dance floors. Women, with a concern they could leave it and it could be spiked I have certain amount of sympathy for.

However blokes have no excuse. They leap around and their beer goes everywhere. I have told people to put their drinks down and it really is funny watching blokes dance with both hands free... they can't! http://planetsmilies.net/tongue-smiley-8855.gif

Is it a problem for you and how do you handle it?

[djsteve10]

Last night i had this to a bad extent where aload of drink came flying all over me and all over my laptop and mixer, i pulled the volume right off and told them to take their drinks off the dancefloor and that if any more beer came into contact with me then i would be ending the fucntion, I wasnt having it and through the night as soon as someone got to the dancefloor with their drinks i was on the mic reminding guests so they got it into their head, it was a rowdy 18th and the dancefloor was that drenched we had the bar staff out with mops and buckets and i was out drying the floor as quick as i could.

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

I stand there getting more and more annoyed at people's stupidity and then eventually have to say something.

The trouble is, you could be telling people all night.

To take this a step further, people then come and lean on my S&H booth with their drink hanging precariously over my gear....

[thex-faders]

This is where having two of us helps!! One can keep the music going and the other can be in charge of crowd control!
People leaning over your gear with a beer or drink, you can see it slowly tilting towards your gear as they talk!!!:eek:

In terms of it on the dancefloor, thats usually not our responsibilty unless the venue tells us to make suren o guests have drink on the dancefloor. But when it comes in contact or near our gear, we make sure we tell them to move away or ake their drink off the dancefloor.

If it persists thoughout the night, tell the person incharge that if it continues we will stop the music, and make it their responsibility.

Should it be in terms and conditions?
liability for any damage from guests spilling drinks etc?

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Should it be in terms and conditions?
liability for any damage from guests spilling drinks etc?

I wouldn't have thought you'd have to be that specific and mention drinks, but it should be covered.

[geoffrey]

To take this a step further, people then come and lean on my S&H booth with their drink hanging precariously over my gear....

That does give me the hump, Big-time.:mad:


Drinking on the dance floor is dodgy. You can just imagine someone dropping there pint, Glass breaks and someone slips and falls. Doesn't bear imagining the distress it would cause.:eek:

On a happy note I get most of them to mop it up when the gap band goes on :rolleyes: :D :D

[rob1963]

I'm starting to see an increase in the amount of drinks being brought on to dance floors. Women, with a concern they could leave it and it could be spiked I have certain amount of sympathy for.

However blokes have no excuse. They leap around and their beer goes everywhere. I have told people to put their drinks down and it really is funny watching blokes dance with both hands free... they can't! http://planetsmilies.net/tongue-smiley-8855.gif

Is it a problem for you and how do you handle it?

Luckily, this isn't much of a problem with me, although I can think of one exception in particular. A few years ago I was doing a wedding at Epsom racecourse with the Counterfeit Stones.

It seemed that everybody was dancing with their drinks, and the dancefloor ended up completely covered. It was so bad that the venue officials got me to stop the music so they could get everybody off the dancefloor while they mopped it up & dried it.

Nightmare.

All we can really do is make announcements asking people not to take drinks onto the dancefloor, but how many of them will listen? Apart from that, the ones who DO listen will probably try & put their drinks on our gear...so it seems that we can't win!


Should it be in terms and conditions?
liability for any damage from guests spilling drinks etc?


I wouldn't have thought you'd have to be that specific and mention drinks, but it should be covered.

I agree that you need something in your terms & conditions, although something more general which you could also apply to this if need be.

I have this: The client will ensure there is adequate supervision of guests, customers and staff at the venue, and will be liable for any loss of, or damage to, our equipment, vehicles or personal belongings, whether caused by the client, guests, customers or staff.

I think that should cover it!

:D

[leighinstoke]

I always ask them to move away should they come near the gear with drinks.

As for telling all of the crowd - must be the teacher in me as I usually ask/tell once and it works!

Leigh.....

[Excalibur]

I stand there getting more and more annoyed at people's stupidity and then eventually have to say something.

The trouble is, you could be telling people all night.....
Amen, Brother!:bang: :bang:



To take this a step further, people then come and lean on my S&H booth with their drink hanging precariously over my gear....

May I refer my honourable friend to the imminent arrival of the Chobham MK9, eight foot tall, last two foot perspex, with moisture sensitive windscreen wipers. ;) :D

( Just so there's no confusion, that was a joke. It won't have windscreen wipers.)

[Sam]

I let people get on with it.
Until they come near the equipment with a drink.. at which point I ask them politely to move the drink away.. and they normally do.

As for drinks in general on the dance floor.. I don't see it as my business.

[Penfold42]

I let people get on with it.
Until they come near the equipment with a drink.. at which point I ask them politely to move the drink away.. and they normally do.

As for drinks in general on the dance floor.. I don't see it as my business.

:agree:.......but still watch things from a distance......otherwise we get branded Mr Grumpy Gut's....IMO

:)

[nigelwright7557]

I'm starting to see an increase in the amount of drinks being brought on to dance floors. Women, with a concern they could leave it and it could be spiked I have certain amount of sympathy for.

However blokes have no excuse. They leap around and their beer goes everywhere. I have told people to put their drinks down and it really is funny watching blokes dance with both hands free... they can't! http://planetsmilies.net/tongue-smiley-8855.gif

Is it a problem for you and how do you handle it?

I once went on the dancefloor during a gig as a woman asked me to dance with her.
I felt a bump in to my rear and I turned around to see a bloke with a drink obviously drunk. He said,"Its a good job you didnt spill any !"

Spilled drinks cause more fights that anything else !

So far I havent had much trouble with people leaning over with drinks but I have people lean on speakers and because they are on castors the person has almost fallen over when it moved.

[gaza]

On saturday night, there was a bloke dancing with a pint in hi hand, then he came over to ask for a request, and was leaning on my light boxes and holding his pint near my gear, so i just pointed at his pint and then looked at him and said, " do you want to move that mate ".
He said oh sorry, and moved the drink away, then asked for the request.
This seems to work for me a lot.

Perhaps the people that dance with drinks in there hand, cant dance verry well, so they think that holding the drink makes them look coool.:D

[nigelwright7557]

I dont think people know just how dangerous liquids and electricity are.

The classic is dropping the electric fire in the bath and it killing someone.

A pint in an amplifier could kill someone if the liquid hits the mains transformer or the mains socket.

Its possible it wouldnt blow the fuse too.

[Sam]

:agree:.......but still watch things from a distance......otherwise we get branded Mr Grumpy Gut's....IMO

:)

Exactly

[Spirits High]

A pint in an amplifier could kill someone if the liquid hits the mains transformer or the mains socket.




If it was mine they dropped it on there's a fair chance it will cause a death.....theirs :D

[Twinspin]

I always have to tell people to take their pint glasses off my subwoofers. My subs are active so i tell them there is mains electricity going through it.

i wish they would stop it.... if it was a passive sub i would have turned the bass up to knock their glass off. as there is no electricity to worry about

[Sam]

And of course by the time most people have consumed a few... they don't give a monkies anyway.
It is a fact of life... but I wish more people would drink within their limits. I like to find a happy medium between being merry and out of it... I still want to be in control of my actions and look out for others (I stopped someone from being run over last week when they decided it would be a good idea to walk out into the road... in front of a car)

[Corabar Steve]

I usually make a few announcements about it & say it's down to H&S
Drinking on the dance floor is dodgy. You can just imagine someone dropping there pint, Glass breaks and someone slips and falls. Doesn't bear imagining the distress it would cause.:eek: Yep, had a bride ignore me once & she slopped her own drink onto the floor, silpped on it & landed on her glass. One nasty gash on the hand later & blood on the dancefloor....

I really felt like saying I told you so.

[leighinstoke]

After reading more threads, I must admit I don't worry about what's going on too much - but I will stop or lower the music if things are getting dangerous and the party spirit is taking over. Happens a lot during 18ths when a lot of jumping about goes on or the crowd move as a surge, often towards me, meaning there is nowhere for the people nearest to me to go, except into the kit.

I have stopped gigs when things have got volatile and things have kicked off - but usually the people who do take things outside or their mates get the message and stop.

Best one I had was when a woman fell and broke her leg, so we stopped everything while the ambulance was called. Just found it remarkable that others came over and told me to put the music back on - despite the fact the woman was blocking the dancefloor as she didn't want to move.

"Sure.....enjoy the music folks, just please dance around the cripple!"

[Javlingames]

Last year I had the CLIENT, of all people, put her drink down on the turntable as it was going round!! So to get her back, i said nothing, picked up her drink and drank it, all of it!!

[theoloyla]

Thank God they no longer come onto the floor with lighted cigarettes as well! At one venue I do regularly the dancefloor is quite small and it gets crowded; so the management ask me to announce no drinks on the floor.

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Last year I had the CLIENT, of all people, put her drink down on the turntable as it was going round!! So to get her back, i said nothing, picked up her drink and drank it, all of it!!

Not sure that's a great idea. You had no idea what was in it and yet you drank it anyway? :eek:

[Javlingames]

Not sure that's a great idea. You had no idea what was in it and yet you drank it anyway? :eek:

it was a glass of white wine. I was staying the night in the hotel so no driving was invloved..........

[Sam]

Last year I had the CLIENT, of all people, put her drink down on the turntable as it was going round!! So to get her back, i said nothing, picked up her drink and drank it, all of it!!

How stupid!:mad: :mad:
People doing things like that is why we get a bad name - just move the bloody drink to the side like any normal person! :(

[Javlingames]

Well we dont always think logically when someone winds us up do we? I deeply regret what I did.

[Sam]

Yes true... for the people who end up in jail because someone wound them up.. so they punched them.. and then the person hit their head on the floor and died.

[Javlingames]

Sometimes I feel I am too long in the tooth to put up with peoples attitudes and stupidity, so in return I dish out the same grief they give me. Totally un professional but it made me feel a **** sight better, and slightly tipsy!!

[rob1963]

Sometimes I feel I am too long in the tooth to put up with peoples attitudes and stupidity

At 28?

:jawdrop:

[Sam]

Sometimes I feel I am too long in the tooth to put up with peoples attitudes and stupidity, so in return I dish out the same grief they give me. Totally un professional but it made me feel a **** sight better, and slightly tipsy!!

You should be able to deal with it.

[Javlingames]

Been doing gigs almost every weekend since I was 13, 6nights a week since I was 22!