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    Had a gig in a pub 15 miles away from me, It was covering for a local Dj who double booked.
    Got there at 19:15 for a 20:00 start, All going good till 20:30 cortex decided to lock up on me when someone requested "rude boy" from Rihanna, oh dear so 2 mins later back up again went to put rude boy on again ooops cortex crashes again.
    Anyway to cut a long story short nice packed pub (I dont normally do pubs) everyone dancing away then all of a sudden at 21:30 everyone gets their coat and the pub is a ghost town, What have I done I thought, The landlady comes up and pays me and says "you may as well go home now they have all gone into town. My kind of gig

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy Goodtimes View Post
    Got in just on 6.30am from a young farmer’s thing way up on the moorlands between Leek and Buxton, feel on top of the world but know I’ll have to try and sleep as I have Weddings tonight and tomorrow night.

    Those people are amazing, talk about knowing how to party. There must have been way over 500 in a massive barn open at one end with a make-shift marquee as an extension. I put in a 7.8k system made up of all RCF active 4 x 902, 4 x 710 and 2 x 322, sounded good but my mixer was getting a bit hot by the end, I used 11 lasers of varying types, 4 wizards, 4 kam LED harvesters, 6 8-way spectra banks and a visio arch of 7 straight and 2 curved pieces, looked and sounded awesome.

    There was a proper mobile bar from a local pub and people bought their own drink too, no one minded, in fact it was a good job as there were 5 bar staff and they didn’t have a moments break, I got plied with various home brews of beer, wine and cider. There were 3 whole pig roasts and I think I have prob eaten way too much too…the Wife just said did I want any breakfast…she’s joking of course…lol.

    I started off working for this group of folk about 5 years ago, did a girls 18th, then her mum’s 40th, her step father’s 50th, her mates 18th, her Wedding, the best man’s 21st and his mate’s 21st and a few young farmers and local fairs in-between, got a joint 21st for 2 of the local lads on 5 March too. We never finish before about 3am but think this one is the record holder now, they’re fine paying and treat me like a mate.

    We got really busy after about mid-night and between about 1 and 3.30am I was feeling it a bit and did a lot of mixing, I’m not the world’s best mixer but tonight I did get pretty lucky at times and got standing ovations and felt like a superstar club DJ, dropped on with an eighties mix of Sex Crimes 84…Let it all blow…Together in electric dreams…Never ending story…Wild boys. A bit later it was OMG…One…We no speak…Riverside and then All these things…Common people…Rocks. Also Ride on time…Show me love…Boogie tonight…Everybody dance now-rock this party…Hands up for Detroit. Bet I couldn’t do them that good again though. We gave up trying to put a floor downas we couldn’t get it to lay flat but it didn’t matter, they were dancing all through the night. Loved every minute, just gotta come down off the high now and get some kip.

    No pictures?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Solitaire Entertainments Ltd View Post
    No pictures?
    It does sound pretty awesome.

    Glad you had a good one. Must have sounded and looked amazing.

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    Well last night turned up to do a Golden Wedding Anniversary. 50 Years of Marriage.. Wow..

    However the venue "which I did not know" had a sound limiter which I was not happy about and it cut me off twice during the night.. Will be buying some class D's to do these venues in the future I have 2 now..

    But also only 25 people in attendance in this massive room predominately 65-75 year olds 35-45 year olds and 15-19 year olds.. Musically jumping from Elvis to BEP to Erasure lol it was testing my patience.

    But actually got 2 confirmed bookings with deposits paid last night for family members parties this year and gave out 10 more cards.. So all ended well just me being frustrated again..

    Rick

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    How on earth do you have time to take deposit and confirm a booking when you are working?

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    Default Circus Themed 18th

    A good night for me last night. I did a postponed 18th Birthday party (Girl) for a group of 80 with only 6 responsible adults present. The parents hired 2 bouncers just in case

    The pre-requests were very "clubby" and I was advised to keep it that way for the majority of the night.

    The Bombs of the night were

    Chris Brown - Yeah 3x
    Katy B - Lights On

    The Flops were

    Wyclef Jean - Perfect Gentlemen
    Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me

    It was a typical mess fest of young people getting rather drunk my kinda gig Having said that, some tool spilt a drink over some plug sockets in another part of the building which tripped all the electrics and put me out for 15 mins or so.... But it was pretty much avin' it all night.

    Perfect in almost every way


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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscosMobile View Post
    However the venue "which I did not know" had a sound limiter which I was not happy about and it cut me off twice during the night.. Will be buying some class D's to do these venues in the future I have 2 now..
    I'm sorry, but while it's well known that I'm an enthusiastic supporter of these cabs, I fail to see the correlation between sound limiters, and Class D cabs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Excalibur View Post
    I'm sorry, but while it's well known that I'm an enthusiastic supporter of these cabs, I fail to see the correlation between sound limiters, and Class D cabs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Excalibur View Post
    I'm sorry, but while it's well known that I'm an enthusiastic supporter of these cabs, I fail to see the correlation between sound limiters, and Class D cabs.
    Ditto


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    Quote Originally Posted by ppentertainments View Post
    Oi, , it's no problem setting limiters off with my Class D's. Been there, done that.............................................. ........................
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