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They do say first is the worst haha.

I had my first gig tonight, felt confident. When I got there, there were many technical difficulties setting up, after getting that sorted I noticed a tonne of sound bouncing back at me due to the acoustics of the room etc. This made it near impossible to mix with one ear, I had to do it entirely through headphones.

The mixing was alright, as far as I know and what other people told me. I mostly played a lot of mainstream remixes due to the type of audience, tried rocking out some dubstep but just didn't go off.

End of the day, it's a learning curve. I enjoyed the most part of it and even got offered more gigs.

How did your first gig go? Do share.

Was playing the warmup set at a club in Windsor, left the smoke machine on by mistake, looked up a bit later to see the entire club filled to the point I couldn't see more than a couple of feet in front of my face.

Smoke alarms started going off, fire brigade got called, club got closed for 20mins and we all had to wait outside until it cleared.

Oh man, sounds like a mish.

my first gig i had 2 sets, first was in the bar area. played relatively chilled dubstep, went down really well people were enjoying it. 2nd set in the club room i was after a load of DnB guys and as the guy before me finished about 3/4 of the room left. my mixing was good and the people who stayed said they enjoyed the tunes.

Well that's good. I'm getting a lot of good feedback from the people that enjoyed the music (I played a lot of progressive house/electro as well as the mainstream stuff) so Im pretty happy about that.

Sucks seeing shit all people dancing though, there were 40ish people there :/

My proper gig (not just at house parties or w/e) went well.. I mixed good enough (considering i'd only been DJing a few months) one of my vinyl skipped and I got panicy but it worked out alright; got offered a residency because of it haha.

wub had a proper start

my first gig was a dubstep event i organised myself with a friend at a local venue couple of years ago. we had a decent soundsystem and everything was working perfectly. i had been practicing with my friends gear (i still own just 1 technics myself, practice only at gigs ) and the mixing was alright, i still have the night recorded as an mp3 somewhere.. only one thing: it was a wednesday and there were like 20 people attending the whole night of which 10 were our friends or people we know and half of them didn't pay themselves in.. the guy who was running the place told us to piss off like 2 hours before we were supposed to quit because there weren't enough people and they wanted to close the place down and go to sleep. i've organised two more clubs at that venue after that. both went down pretty much the same. but it was nice, good times

1st gig was a morning set at an outdoor psytrance party.
Roughly 7 oclock business.
I played a 2 hour techno/psy set to maybe 15 people on the dancefloor and another 30 or so sitting next to the river along side the dancelfoor.
Nothing terribly exciting but still a great start.

2nd gig I played was to 2000 plus outdoor at a psytrance party
It went off really well.
At the time I was playing a totally more techy side of Pystrance that folks were just craving.
I destroyed the place at 10-12 in the evening.
Folks were coming up to me afterwards and saying it was soo f-ing hard but they couldn`t stop dancing.
It was a great feeling.

Everything developed from there.

The most memorable was playing at a private party once again next to a river.
Maybe max 70 people on and off the dancefloor.
Maybe 30 max on the dancefloor at one point.
It seemed like loads of the folks had never been to the outdoor psy parties so I educated them.
8 hour set from 11 at night till the morning.
It was truly immense and amazing.
Soo many happy faces sitting on the grass watching the sun coming up just bopping to the beat with their drug filled eyes.
The organiser walks up at the end super happy and asks what I want for the set.
So I jokingly say pay for the rig and give me everything else you made
He smiles and says ok.

Wub - I played at a club where the owner loved the smoke machine.
It went from seeing clearly to not even being able to see the readout from the cdj.

First gig was at The Tube in Bristol during Freshers week. It went well.......I think. As had done a shed load a drugs and alot of beer. There wasnt too many people there tho, so couldnt have been too bad.

2nd gig was with Tek-One and the venue had not pioneer CDJs, only one top loading gemini deck and some other next deck that I dont think had a jog wheel. The mixer was trash too, you couldnt put a headphone with a jack into it. Had to unscrew the jack and use the little input. Was terrible as you can probably guess.

wub wrote:Was playing the warmup set at a club in Windsor, left the smoke machine on by mistake, looked up a bit later to see the entire club filled to the point I couldn't see more than a couple of feet in front of my face.

Smoke alarms started going off, fire brigade got called, club got closed for 20mins and we all had to wait outside until it cleared.

That is fucking class haha what a story. Mine was about 2 weeks ago, just a little tracktor set for a small group of people for a friends leaving party. Was pretty good, most of the mixing was tight (no sync), a few flops but I enjoyed it enough to carry on with it. Serato and 1210s the next step for me. Production will always be no.1 tho.

These are some great stories. I hope to play out at least twice by the end of the year...pretty hard up here where I live though. Fucking no one gives a shit.

My first gig was in a small local club with not too many people.
I was checking out the dj booth only to find out the decks were in battle mode
Was my first time ever i did that and fuck me that sucked. Although it wasn't too bad.....i hope, haha.

apmje wrote:These are some great stories. I hope to play out at least twice by the end of the year...pretty hard up here where I live though. Fucking no one gives a shit.

I feel you.

My first gig was a warm up set @ a dubstep night a few years back... to encourage my friends to rock up I said anyone who rocked up with a fake beard got in for free. I had like 15 people in fake beards walking around...

howzer wrote:My first gig was a warm up set @ a dubstep night a few years back... to encourage my friends to rock up I said anyone who rocked up with a fake beard got in for free. I had like 15 people in fake beards walking around...

HAHAHA. I should fucking remember that.

You lot going straight in ... my first gig was a high school party

Khazm wrote:When I got there, there were many technical difficulties setting up, after getting that sorted I noticed a tonne of sound bouncing back at me due to the acoustics of the room etc. This made it near impossible to mix with one ear, I had to do it entirely through headphones.

Sounds like you didn't have any monitors, that or a shit soundboard guy. Hate it when that happens...sometime ya gotta adapt.

I have video from my first time playing out...hat over eyes, head down, hardly moved or made any contact with the audience...quite different from these days where I'm bouncing around and shouting at the audience whilst sporting some gun fingers!

howzer wrote:My first gig was a warm up set @ a dubstep night a few years back... to encourage my friends to rock up I said anyone who rocked up with a fake beard got in for free. I had like 15 people in fake beards walking around...

are you for real?

profound wrote:My first gig was in a small local club with not too many people.
I was checking out the dj booth only to find out the decks were in battle mode
Was my first time ever i did that and fuck me that sucked. Although it wasn't too bad.....i hope, haha.

That's interesting I never thought about that, I normally set my 1x 1210 (getting the other one tomorrow as it happens) in battle mode due to scratching in the past and it being a great space saver. Is it really more difficult to DJ if your used to one setup (normal or battle)?

Promise One wrote: Is it really more difficult to DJ if your used to one setup (normal or battle)?

yeh i was wondering about this, never had any issues either way.

frizzwah wrote:

Promise One wrote: Is it really more difficult to DJ if your used to one setup (normal or battle)?

yeh i was wondering about this, never had any issues either way.

I grew up around Hip-Hop scratch Dj's so Battle Mode has become the standard for me...