Things you should not have done.

[Excalibur]

What have you done that you knew was wrong, either before you did it, or very shortly afterwards?!

1) Playing " Oops up" at a wedding reception full of kilted Scots!

2) Playing " You'll never walk alone" at one full of Everton supporters! ( I survived that one)

3) Opening a fire door to get the gear out ( without getting the alarm disabled) and thus summoning the fire brigade!

If I remember any more. I'll post them. Come on, own up folks, I can't be the only one!:o

[Tony Scott]

Setting a fire alarm off so I could get out of a dire function. :eek:

Just 5 guests turned up to a hall that could hold 300. Them staring at me and me staring back.

Got the roadie to blast the detector at the back of the stage with the smoke machine.

Worked a treat, we all went outside and was told to pack up by the client as he was going into town to salvage something from his birthday.

No, I never lost any sleep over it................not my fault he had no mates! :D

[Excalibur]

Setting a fire alarm off so I could get out of a dire function. :eek:

Just 5 guests turned up to a hall that could hold 300. Them staring at me and me staring back.

Got the roadie to blast the detector at the back of the stage with the smoke machine.

Worked a treat, we all went outside and was told to pack up by the client as he was going into town to salvage something from his birthday.

No, I never lost any sleep over it................not my fault he had no mates! :D

Now that's evil! Clever, but evil!

[Penfold42]

What have you done that you knew was wrong, either before you did it, or very shortly afterwards?!

1) Playing " Oops up" at a wedding reception full of kilted Scots!

2) Playing " You'll never walk alone" at one full of Everton supporters! ( I survived that one)

3) Opening a fire door to get the gear out ( without getting the alarm disabled) and thus summoning the fire brigade!

If I remember any more. I'll post them. Come on, own up folks, I can't be the only one!:o


Setting a fire alarm off so I could get out of a dire function. :eek:

Just 5 guests turned up to a hall that could hold 300. Them staring at me and me staring back.

Got the roadie to blast the detector at the back of the stage with the smoke machine.

Worked a treat, we all went outside and was told to pack up by the client as he was going into town to salvage something from his birthday.

No, I never lost any sleep over it................not my fault he had no mates! :D

LMAO.......still crying now...soooooooo funny....:D :D

[Dragonfly]

1. Played summer of 69 at double speed .......

2. several times cued up a track on the cortex on the same side as the one playing ..... it doesnt like it!!!

3. played we didnt start the fire after the guests at the wedding i was djing at got us evacuated no less than 4 times for playing the set the table cloth on fire party game.

4. have a dead battery on my camera phone the only gig in 10 years where the birthday boy had a stripper

[Penfold42]

1. Played summer of 69 at double speed .......

Would like to have seen that....:rolleyes: :D

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Throwing a vase of flowers at a night porter in a Hotel many years ago....

Don't ask - I was young and silly....

[Dragonfly]

Throwing a vase of flowers at a night porter in a Hotel many years ago....

Don't ask - I was young and silly....

did you fancy him? :D :D :D :D :D

[Excalibur]

1.

4. have a dead battery on my camera phone the only gig in 10 years where the birthday boy had a stripper

Don't start that one, Pal! On the handful of occasions where the Birthday Boy (as opposed to quite a few birthday girls) had such entertainment(s) :p :D
they perform with their backs to you! Bitter? Moi?:bang:

[Twinspin]

Ok my roadie swapping lamps (One of the venues we did had some 250w halogen lights. I had run out of spare lamps. Checked the toolbox. Whilst doing that my roadie was undoing the lamp holder in one of the installed lights in the venue and swapped it with our blown one. (Afterwards telling the manager that the lamp had blown in the light.

Very naughty.

I didnt know he had done it. because the roadie said to me. I found a spare lamp to replace it. during the gig.

Then on the way home he tells me that he swapped it.

:D :D :D First of all i was gonna kick off at him. But i giggled.

[DMX Will]

My current residency is in a nice 2 function room country hotel, which I suppose you could say is family run.

The owners are very specific (and fairly old) about the volume of the disco, so as they're helping the buffet in they stand facing the audience with their hands behind their back making a "turn it down" gesture.

Once the buffet is all set and the door is closed (I.E. They've gone off, and I won't be seeing them again that night) volume goes right back up again at the start of the next song.

I'm afraid it's not very naughty....but the best I can do...

OH! And I seem to collect 4 ways from bands, schools and other performers....I never actually realise until the next time we're out....so I suppose that's not my fault!

[colint]

I had a venue knock me for a nights money they said I didn't pull enough punters in (only about 4-500!) it was a club with a really nice EV 4 way MT active pa system so before I left I took the trouble to rewire the amp rack for them, 5k of sub bass into each of the mids and 5k of bass onto the really nice 2" compression drivers!

so they wern't really so smart! and I bet they didn't do it again either!

not something I'm really proud of and it was a long time ago! but what goes around........

[PropellerHeadCase]

In the case of some strippers the rear view is the better view ;)

I "borrow" roll upon roll of gaffer tape from pro light companies :D

[flatliners]

i set the smoke alarms of in a football staidum in the northeast ( that isnt as good as newcastle united ) cleared the whole building

[electricnite]

at a large racecourse using smoke machine when told not to , setting off fire alarms and a standard 7 appliance call out if fire alarms go off . nice bill to pay for that night. hence if i'm told not to now then I DO IT

[buster38]

i put on a 30 minute mix i did at home so i could go for a fag, left my rodie in charge, well i though i put a 30 min mix on, after 3 mins i heard chants of WHERE IS THE DJ, thank fully i got away with it as they saw the funny side of it when i came back and explained what had happened, i even believe it or not got a £50 tip from organiser at the end of the gig.

[Candybeatdiscos]

i put on a 30 minute mix i did at home so i could go for a fag, left my rodie in charge, well i though i put a 30 min mix on, after 3 mins i heard chants of WHERE IS THE DJ, thank fully i got away with it as they saw the funny side of it when i came back and explained what had happened, i even believe it or not got a £50 tip from organiser at the end of the gig.

Hope roadie got sacked for not doin much lol

[buster38]

could not sack roadie as the roadie i have is my wife lol

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

i put on a 30 minute mix i did at home so i could go for a fag

You must smoke big cigarettes! :eek: :p It only used to take me about 5 minutes...:p

[Corabar Steve]

I once put an incredably powerful smoke machine under the wheelchair of the local care in the community nutter while he wasn't looking. I will remember his reaction when I fired it until the day I die http://planetsmilies.net/vicious-smiley-1862.gif (http://planetsmilies.net)

Could have been worse, I used confetti cannons in those days too.

[TONYTIGER]

Letting my roadie set of some pyros in a large town hall on the south coast only to get home and have the bill waiting to tell me it had been burnt to the ground 30min after we had left, ive all ways wondered nah nothing to do with us constable TONYTIGER

[Corabar Steve]

A company I used to work for set fire to a venue in Hatfield at one of our rock nights, with some pyros. No options other than to hold their hands up & admit fault.