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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery And you're an idiot - stay in the COR.

Both of you ruin our buzz in the booth.

Just don't react to each other and do us all a favour.

I'm just going to delete any unhelpful posts otherwise. Something i've held back from doing and to be honest don't want to start.

Share advice like the others or give constructive criticism otherwise don't bother.

you need to be out and make yourself a fixture, support the nights, be out and meeting people, both clubbers and djs/promoters

if you're going to give your cd out, give it to the clubbers

you want everyone to know your name

it always helps if you can drag a crew out with you as well, you showing up with a group instead of by yourself speaks volumes to promoters, shows you can pull a crowd

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Originally posted by Tony Morello it always helps if you can drag a crew out with you as well, you showing up with a group instead of by yourself speaks volumes to promoters, shows you can pull a crowd

This, absolutely. ^

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it but to get gigs you really need to focus on your promotions rather than your music. You need to sound amazing yes - but that only counts once you're behind the decks. In order to get the gig you need to show the promoter you can bring people, it's just that simple. It's certainly a balance of course, but I'd say promoters look 75% at how many people you can bring and 25% at how good you sound behind the decks. Case in point - we all know terrible DJs that get booked again and again simply because they get the word out and can fill the room. We're all in this for the music of course, but promoters are putting a lot of their money on the line and all things being equal, they will always go with the DJ who works harder to make sure they don't lose their shirt.

The problem is that this is the worst chicken and egg problem you can imagine since you need gigs to build that crowd My advice is to work harder than anyone else at expanding your network of people. Don't be one of these DJs who only shows up up to play - make a big effort to get the word out and give a detailed proposal (either spoken or written) to the promoter of exactly how you intend to do that. Once you start looking for gigs, you're in the music business so your best bet is to treat it as so. List out how many people you can reach and in what ways (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Email, Podcast, Skywriting etc..) and even more importantly - try to build a strong selling point behind your name of why people will come out specifically for you. I guarantee if you can walk up to a promoter and point by point show them how you will bring 30 people to their club at 9pm - they will give you a shot. Of course it's up to you to follow through

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