first nightmare gig !

[dj-jaym]

Today i did a gig for a mate free at the local lesuire centre,

Get there for 12:30 for a Start of 14:00

Get there to find venue is in use till 13:00

13:15 the karate class finaly leave.

So rush to rig up for a roller disco.

Manager comes in to say youre only playing for 45 minutes i was like what ????

Client had booked till 4 !!!!

So come 3:00 the party goer's get turfed into a small room in the centre to carry on basicly a meeting room !

And the duty manager arrogant ******* ! Tells me i have 10 mins to derig !!!! and be out as they have another disco coming !

The only good thing other disco turned up ! And he was a very nice chap and when i left we had exchanged cards ! Bit ****ed of but ending on a positive

Realy annoys me tho that the venue do this

[soundlad]

it's all rush, rush, rush! Did a gig about 1 month ago they were carrying my gear out into the trailer then shut the doors!!!:eek: :eek:

[dj-jaym]

it's all rush, rush, rush! Did a gig about 1 month ago they were carrying my gear out into the trailer then shut the doors!!!:eek: :eek:

He wanted his staff to carry it out !

Told him politely woulnt want to void our insurance would you !

Make me angry they realy do bunch of *******

[Dragonfly]

i like the .... you have 10 mins to take down and be out brigade lol ...or what???

youll lock me and all my gear in for the night ..... i dont think you will though will you lolol.

[spin mobile disco]

Unfortunatly you get the occasional venue like this, I had one a couple of weeks ago. They wouldnt reset the power so I could plug in equipment (the sound limiter had tripped power off previous night apparently). Spent 45 minutes just trying to power up because they kept messing me around.
In the end I ran a 50 meter extention lead out of the room down a hall and into an empty rooms socket, all because the manager wouldnt press the reset switch.
Still there are some nice ones out there, played in a concervative club the other day and the manager kept giving me free drinks and crisps from the bar, really nice guy checked that i was ok and didnt need anything every hour on the hour.

[iany]

It's exactly for occations like this why you MUST visit the venue before hand to sort thing out.
If they tell you at the visit you can take an hour, that's fine - you can tell Mr. Grumpy where to get off.
If they say you've gotta be out in 15 mins, you take it back to your client and point out that your terms and conditions state you require an hour to set up, and an hour to break down.
Put the ball in their court.

[dannyboy]

Had simlar thing not so long back.

All I did was asked the DJ if he would like to use my rig for £** rather than cart his in than out. Plus it gave me more time to clear at the end of his gig.

[dj-jaym]

It's exactly for occations like this why you MUST visit the venue before hand to sort thing out.
If they tell you at the visit you can take an hour, that's fine - you can tell Mr. Grumpy where to get off.
If they say you've gotta be out in 15 mins, you take it back to your client and point out that your terms and conditions state you require an hour to set up, and an hour to break down.
Put the ball in their court.

Point noted however,

3 visits were made to the venue !, For different reasons as was v large and needed some serious pa, And was told hour was fine ! on day they changed it