Best excuse for a let-down

[Corabar Entertainment]

We've all heard about DJs committing to a booking and then later backing out / letting people down etc, and I'm sure we've all frequently heard about the DJ breaking his leg (that seems to be the favourite one around here), but what's the best / most unbelievable / most incredulous excuse you've heard of?

The best one I recall was a DJ who had agreed to do a gig, but a couple of weeks before the event backed out because his parents needed a lift to the airport as they were going on holiday. He couldn't understand why that wasn't acceptable because "Family always comes first" !!!!!!!!

:jawdrop:

Over to you...

[ukpartydj]

I've not heard a lot of these stories the only ones I have covered/know are true are -

1)DJ didn't turn up because he couldn't find the venue and didn't think to check where it was before setting out, he just went on the directions he was given.
2)DJ phoned 4 hours before to say everything was fine and then never showed up and turned his phone off.
3)Van Broken down, although I believe this to be the truth and not a ploy to get out of a gig.

[lazersounds]

Only had one this year, took a call at 6pm from a friend who was attending a party and the DJ had not shown and noone could get hold of him.

Luckly was only a mile away and was not working so agreed a fee and done the job. Was told the DJ originally booked was "a friend of a friend of a friend" who was doing it for £30 :zip: Later found out that the DJ Booked was in town all afternoon drinking and was too drunk to bother turning up :mad:

[dj foureyes]

I don’t have a DJ related poor excuse story but I do have a work related one. My sister-in-law worked in an office with a strange woman, who did EVERYTHING routinely. She ate her meals at the same time everyday, had her bath at exactly the same time every day, and so on.
Anyway, she turned up late for the office one Monday 2 hours late and her excuse was that the Tesco's car park on the Saturday morning was temporarily closed for two hours, which meant that her shopping started two hours later.
She thought that her coming in later was quite reasonable:daft:

[ppentertainments]

The DJ couldn't drive and when the taxi turned up they refused to take all his kit.

[Fullforceeventsltd]

I had a call out a couple of years ago when their resident DJ did not show for a gig, to make matters worst the gig was for a ex girlfriend and her husbands family. Found out about 3 weeks later, the reason the resident guy did not show was because he died, apparently commuted suicide.

[alphawave]

Years ago i planned to take a rare NYE booking off........So over the years i trained my roadie on how to set up and what to play etc so i could have a year off.....
All set up on the big night as i crack open one beer and sit back and chill..........Phone rings....."My girlfriend has been ringing me non stop,i am going to have to cancel tonight's NYE gig"!!!......... Cut a long story short i told him to go and i had to then step in and complete the night......Never used him again....And always since then i do all my own gigs....

[Corabar Entertainment]

That's reminded me of another one: "My girlfriend's fed up with me going out to DJ and never being around on a Saturday night, so she's run off with the car & I can't get to the gig."

Thankfully, he was only a trainee, so it didn't really affect the gig as the DJ was going anyway.

[ukpartydj]

That's reminded me of another one: "My girlfriend's fed up with me going out to DJ and never being around on a Saturday night, so she's run off with the car & I can't get to the gig."

Thankfully, he was only a trainee, so it didn't really affect the gig as the DJ was going anyway.

Sounds like :BS: excuse to me, surely if she took the car she's not seeing him anyway!

[DazzyD]

The DJ couldn't drive and when the taxi turned up they refused to take all his kit.

Just to make it clear, I was not this DJ!! :eek:


That's reminded me of another one: "My girlfriend's fed up with me going out to DJ and never being around on a Saturday night, so she's run off with the car & I can't get to the gig."

Thankfully, he was only a trainee, so it didn't really affect the gig as the DJ was going anyway.

Again, I'm pretty sure that this wasn't me (although it does sound like my previous relationship!!!). Can't be me - I didn't have a car and don't drive (see previous excuse above!!)

;)

[djdj]

My regualr Karaoke cover guy
phoned me about an hour before he was due to collect the gear and told me his wife had gone into labour a week earlier,
My wife and sister ended up stepping in to do the gig.

:)

[DiscoPromotions]

Let you know when I get good one.

[SoundONE]

I have had a call like this at least two times this year, I was unable to help, but passed her to another DJ. It goes something like this:

"I dont' know if you can help us the DJ we booked for Saturday has let us down"
- Really what hes just told you the day before your wedding, who was it. -
"I don't know his name it was a friend who booked him apparently hes double booked".

[chrisj]

Ha Ha it's another Tom Jones, you know, not unusual as I have had many like this in all my years (44 years of disco). Nearly always the friend of a friend.

[soundtracker]

"I can't make tonight's gig mate, my girlfriends horse is ill, and she's so upset I need to stay with her!"

Needless to say, binned!