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Posted by andrewyates on Feb-06-2009 18:40:

If you were given a venue...

...well that's basically what has happened to my friend and I. We have been running a sound and dj company for 11 years, and now have been given a venue to use for weekly events. We will be booking more dj's in the coming weeks and months, but are our own residents for the time being. Doc Martin, Jason Blakemore, Josh Allen, Nicholas Bennison & Marques Wyatt will most likely be first on our list because we have booked and done events with them in the past.

We are providing all the sound, lighting and dj's for the venue; and all the nighty decisions are ours...thus we're open to suggestions. As a lurker of these forums for about six years, I realize I may be opening myself up to some unpleasant responses, but for those who wish to help - I thank you.

So far we've had some great nights, and some dead nights. The main problem has been the under 21 guys..which seem to just be obsessed with pointless fighting and take everything WAY to personally. The venue has a lot to offer, we mostly just need massive promotion, of which we are slowly figuring out. As of right now here's how it's breaking down:

3-Sixty Lounge [wednesday-saturday]
*Orange County's ONLY hookah lounge with a full bar
*Ladies FREE every night
*Parking FREE every night
*Live DJ's every night
*Dance floor / big sound / video projections / lasers
*Food menu all night
*18+ for ladies, free // 21+ for guys, $5
*Heated & furnished outdoor patio

Thoughts? Honestly we want to make this a user friendly venue. After all I'm just one of you all who's been doing this for a while, but now has a venue at his disposal. I'm not about promoters and greediness, my friend Jay and I just want to make it work for all of us and provide a chill place for ta's and edm fans to hang out. We set up and spun at the biggest room at the OC Hilton NYE party in front of 3000 people, and were on KUCI [small station, but still cool] a couple weeks ago playing on the radio. So it's been an exciting few months, and we want to take it even further.

Perhaps some tranceaddict promo nights or something should be in the works. I'm sure some peeps on here would like to spin too. We have a venue, let's make it work!

Our current Saturday Nights:

Posted by Waterproofpaper on Feb-06-2009 19:03:

Need more EDM in OC in smaller venues. Ill check it out when i hit 21 in july.

But if you need a DJ with two thumbs and has been drinking, its this guy right here

Posted by Dj Blurr on Feb-06-2009 19:24:

Hey Andrew,

Congrats on the new venue. Would love to help out and have sent you a PM.

Look forward to hearin back from ya when you get a sec.

- Blurr

Posted by djjoshuaallen on Feb-06-2009 20:07:

So nice of you to think of me on your short list of ideas for DJs. Send me a PM brotha, Id love to play in the OC.

Posted by andrewyates on Feb-06-2009 23:05:

quote:
Originally posted by djjoshuaallen
So nice of you to think of me on your short list of ideas for DJs. Send me a PM brotha, Id love to play in the OC.

Of course we would love to have you come play Josh. I understand you and Jason were communicating today, so hopefully we can get everything set up for a March event. This is such a good opportunity in front of us.

Posted by macky4546 on Feb-07-2009 00:16:

mu buddy is a bouncer there
decent little spot

Posted by SVGmethod on Feb-07-2009 01:11:

nice name... I had a party in Santa Barbara for almost 2 years called ELEVATION. Its all good. Kind of a cliche name anyway.

Posted by jonmitz on Feb-07-2009 03:15:

If you're ever pressed to find DJs, there are definitely quite a few on here.

I'm willing to play, and I know of a few other TA DJs who'd be willing to play too. Just keep me in mind I guess! My website is here: www.awesometownradio.com/jonmitz , just so you can see that I do know what I'm doing.

Posted by able.h on Feb-07-2009 03:57:

Andrew, congrats on your new venue!

My partner and I have just started a production, and we're willing to make some deals if you'd like to We have only a few events in the past, but our biggest one just came around last November with a little below 1,000 people came to our party. Check out the website

http://www.indopartyla.com

Our crowd is half hip-hop and half EDM, and basically we've been doing a monthly event where we can get around 100-200 in Hollywood. If you like, we could work out a deal and bring some of our crowd and get them exposed to your venue, since some of them do live in the OC area. On the brighter side, we have a few resident DJs (including myself) that we could also bring for you, from minimalist, electro/prog house, psy-trance, all the way to trance. This is definitely a win-win situation for us

And if you want to check out our facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54566234318

PM me if you're interested

Posted by Waterproofpaper on Feb-07-2009 05:49:

quote:
Originally posted by jonmitz
If you're ever pressed to find DJs, there are definitely quite a few on here.

Haha theres a lot of DJs on here for sure. Its like everyone who posts on here is a DJ.

Posted by SexySmart666 on Feb-07-2009 05:54:

what an awesome opportunity.
18+ is a drag.

stay away from trance and adopt a 'spoil your customer' mentality.
good luck.

Posted by Waterproofpaper on Feb-07-2009 06:00:

18+ for girls only is the new trend to start getting girls in clubs so i dont really blame them.

Posted by andrewyates on Feb-07-2009 19:28:

For those who have contacted me and are interested with dj'ing or promotions for the venue, thank you! We (Jay or myself) will be getting back to you in the next couple days to start to work something out.

Tonight we will be there, feel free to stop by! The promoters have really let us down, and are not taking their job seriously at all; so were doing the best we can by ourselves for the time being until we get it all properly promoted.

Posted by andrewyates on Feb-09-2009 17:39:

Just as a quick clarification to anyone who may have showed up Saturday for our night: There was a last second private event, and we were not able to play. Apologies. This was unfortunately a total misunderstanding with communication between myself, my partner, and the promoters for the evening.

I really dislike it when something like this happens, so again I'm sorry if anyone showed up looking for electro house and edm...and found Persian music instead! Also, the venue will be expanding soon, and the official sound system will be going in. Thanks again for the support!