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Posted by Saint John on Oct-19-2010 13:32:

Would You Ever Mobile DJ?

Subject says it all. Just wondering if would ever consider taking it up or not.
Me Personally, I don't think I ever could.

Posted by Zak McKracken on Oct-19-2010 14:26:

u mean bring your own PA? no fucking way.

Posted by Stu Cox on Oct-19-2010 18:53:

Did it for several years. Easy(ish) money if you've already got all of the music, but some gigs can be a real pain - dickhead customers, having to lug all the gear away etc. But some are great fun and are made even better when someone crosses your palm with a few hundred quid at the end.

It's REALLY good for practice reading crowds and responding to what the crowds want.

Posted by djdk on Oct-19-2010 19:21:

what stu said. ive had some amazing mobile gigs and some absolute nightmares, plenty of stories tho haha.

The first 2 years of my djing career were spent doing mobile gigs and i reckonz the experience was invaluable not just in terms of crowd reading but dealing with shit (dickheads, faulty equipment, odd venues, flooding venues, fighting wedding guests and having to pull out an entire night of 70s music with 10 mins notice are just a few of the things i encountered). Yeah it can be very stressful but i'm fairly sure that im far more able to take problems i come across in clubs etc. now in my stride because of it

Posted by UXC on Oct-19-2010 21:14:

quote:
Originally posted by djdk
what stu said. ive had some amazing mobile gigs and some absolute nightmares, plenty of stories tho haha.

The first 2 years of my djing career were spent doing mobile gigs and i reckonz the experience was invaluable not just in terms of crowd reading but dealing with shit (dickheads, faulty equipment, odd venues, flooding venues, fighting wedding guests and having to pull out an entire night of 70s music with 10 mins notice are just a few of the things i encountered). Yeah it can be very stressful but i'm fairly sure that im far more able to take problems i come across in clubs etc. now in my stride because of it

+ 1

Posted by djsaekone on Oct-19-2010 22:34:

I used to do mobile gigs....if the money is good why not? Only thing is people requesting weird shit and sometimes the customers can get a lil pushy.

Posted by PivotTechno on Oct-19-2010 23:44:

I worked for a mobile company for about a year and a half when I moved to Toronto in the late 80s. They did weddings and such, but my job consisted of being assigned to a rotation of bars and nightclubs at all ends of the city; some quite fun, others more akin to having fingernails pulled out with pliers. I was eventually let go after one too many venue owners complaining that I wasn't playing the music expected of me - we had a record pool which we used to stock the clubs, but I'd get bored on a dead Monday night and start dropping stuff out of my own crate like Public Enemy. P.I.L. and Nitzer Ebb. Didn't go over particularly well when being played at a sports pub stationed out near the border of suburbia.

Oh, and the pay was absolute shite.

Posted by discobiscuit on Oct-19-2010 23:48:

If it pays ill do any gig i dont give a flying f where it is whos there or what im playing.

Posted by Tony Morello on Oct-20-2010 01:47:

quote:
Originally posted by Stu Cox
Did it for several years. Easy(ish) money if you've already got all of the music, but some gigs can be a real pain - dickhead customers, having to lug all the gear away etc. But some are great fun and are made even better when someone crosses your palm with a few hundred quid at the end.

It's REALLY good for practice reading crowds and responding to what the crowds want.

quote:
Originally posted by djdk
what stu said. ive had some amazing mobile gigs and some absolute nightmares, plenty of stories tho haha.

The first 2 years of my djing career were spent doing mobile gigs and i reckonz the experience was invaluable not just in terms of crowd reading but dealing with shit (dickheads, faulty equipment, odd venues, flooding venues, fighting wedding guests and having to pull out an entire night of 70s music with 10 mins notice are just a few of the things i encountered). Yeah it can be very stressful but i'm fairly sure that im far more able to take problems i come across in clubs etc. now in my stride because of it

+1

i also did mobile gigs for years, a great way to learn to read a crowd and how to deal with faulty gear on the fly

i did the weddings and school dances, moved on to big video dance productions with 2 24 foot video screens, 2 story lighting scaffolding and over 30,000 watts of sound, then when finally done with touring moved on to the club residencies

far too many stories and memories

Posted by DJ Willyson on Oct-20-2010 03:07:

I did it for 2 years, good money and fun. But i experienced public shows and gigs, i 100% prefer not to do mobile.

Posted by Zak McKracken on Oct-20-2010 09:45:

quote:
Originally posted by discobiscuit
If it pays ill do any gig i dont give a flying f where it is whos there or what im playing.

its not about that at all, its about owning, traveling and rigging your own PA which is hell to do alone. the insurance-cost itself makes it unworth it.

Posted by Brandt Slater on Oct-21-2010 07:40:

This is how I started out. 1991. I was a mobile for a couple of years. I wasn't 21 yet the company I worked for wouldn't allow me to work the club gigs. So I was mostly on the wedding circuit. It's a love/hate relationship with me. It did train me in the mixing capacity, which eventually introduced me into studio work. But some of the music I was forced to play was sickening and drove me away.