Well, first of all, there is a lot of us who are deejays in here, and surely you had a night when just nothing goes the way you would like.

Put yourself in "their" shoes. I for one would be furious if i come to a club to perform in front of let's say 2500 people and the equipment that should perform well gives me a hard time.

And one story about a DJ most of you hate.

Few years back, Johan Gielen performed at a club. Half an hour or so after the start of his gig, his face changes and he THROWS UP on the equipment. Geez!

It took about 25 minutes to clean up the decks and the mixer, but as a true professional, he returned to the stage and finished his performance LIKE A TRUE PROFESSIONAL.

Also that story about Sasha playing 2 hours more...those are the type of DJs i like

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Tiesto threw up in the booth after his gig @ Cream, a few years back. The guy coming on after him was apparently drunker than Tijs, which was Guy Ornadel, who claimed he threw up halfway to the club.

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Originally posted by torontotrance Tiesto threw up in the booth

I'd say that's a bit different than throwing up on the equipment

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The source of the story never said what his vomit hit tho. He canned an entire bottle of vodka.

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Originally posted by bktballer Has anyone experienced a DJ just walking off in the middle of a set? This past weekend I went to see Yoji Biomehanika spin at Tokyo's Velfarre for his CD release. Lab4 was there and worked a bangin set, then Yoji steps up. He plays for about an hour or so when all of a sudden he starts pointing angrily to one of his monitor speakers. After a few minutes of this he just pushes the speaker over, flips off the record, and walks out. At first I thought this might have been an act but then i see a bunch of sound guys run on the stage to try and fix the problem. After about 10 minutes of NO MUSIC, Yoji comes back out, he goes for about another 30mins and again points to the speakers, and again he walks off for about 5mins. Finally, he comes back out and finshes the last hour and half, but you can visably tell he is pissed and just going thru the motions. At exactly the time the show was to finish, he puts on a loop and walks straight out. Anybody have something similiar happen to them??

Yoji was awesome in Osaka last weekend 8/20. no technical problems, played dumonde - cold... i was a happy camper.

the velfarre story is funny to me for several reasons... 1. velfarre gets alot of hype as having the best equipment in japan. 2. velfarre is owned by yojis record label. you would think that they would have fixed it, or switched him to the main dj booth at the back of the dance floor.... he had every right to walk off.

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Originally posted by torontotrance He canned an entire bottle of vodka.

Now we know who had a good time, do we?



(at least till the moment it all came out )

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HAHAHA any other stories of DJs throwing up?

If I was in their shoes, I'd probably be doing the same thing too hehe.

Anyways, earlier in the year, Tiesto came down to Sydney for a gig. He had so much fun that he kept on playing for about an hour and did not want to stop. Then @ about 6:15am, there was supposedly some sort of commotion happening in the DJ booth which involved Tiesto, his manager and the DJ that was supposed to be on after him. I was there but pretty far back so I didnt have a good view. There have been so many stories and debates on what really happened but what did happen was Tiesto's Adagio being suddenly stopped half way.
Sources say he got pissed and stormed off.

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Nickleback (not a DJ, but a performing artist nonetheless) were in portugal and they were on their second song and they kept on getting rocks and food thrown at them.

then the lead singer got on the mic "are there any Nickleback fans in portugal?" then he throws his glass of water in the crowd and walks off the stage showing the finger.


i saw this video on the net and laughed continously for a long time, if i find it ill post it

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Originally posted by dj_lane Nickleback (not a DJ, but a performing artist nonetheless) were in portugal and they were on their second song and they kept on getting rocks and food thrown at them. then the lead singer got on the mic "are there any Nickleback fans in portugal?" then he throws his glass of water in the crowd and walks off the stage showing the finger. i saw this video on the net and laughed continously for a long time, if i find it ill post it

Not too many Nickelback fans in the states either.

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Originally posted by [ groovypants ] HAHAHA any other stories of DJs throwing up? If I was in their shoes, I'd probably be doing the same thing too hehe. Anyways, earlier in the year, Tiesto came down to Sydney for a gig. He had so much fun that he kept on playing for about an hour and did not want to stop. Then @ about 6:15am, there was supposedly some sort of commotion happening in the DJ booth which involved Tiesto, his manager and the DJ that was supposed to be on after him. I was there but pretty far back so I didnt have a good view. There have been so many stories and debates on what really happened but what did happen was Tiesto's Adagio being suddenly stopped half way. Sources say he got pissed and stormed off.

I heard about this.

What happened is that the next DJ (a local resident) was pissed as a mutha, came on and was trying to cue up his record while Tiesto was apparently blowing the roof off with Adagio. Tiesto got pissed at the drunk DJ who was getting in his way, just ripped Adagio off the TT, pointed at the drunk DJ and left. The DJ didn't even realise!

I don't blame Tiesto in this example - I probably woulda punched the wanker out.

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Originally posted by dj_lane Nickleback (not a DJ, but a performing artist nonetheless) were in portugal and they were on their second song and they kept on getting rocks and food thrown at them. then the lead singer got on the mic "are there any Nickleback fans in portugal?" then he throws his glass of water in the crowd and walks off the stage showing the finger. i saw this video on the net and laughed continously for a long time, if i find it ill post it

WTF, What an unthankful crowd. They should be shut up into a barn and burned inside.

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Originally posted by dj_lane Nickleback (not a DJ, but a performing artist nonetheless) were in portugal and they were on their second song and they kept on getting rocks and food thrown at them. then the lead singer got on the mic "are there any Nickleback fans in portugal?" then he throws his glass of water in the crowd and walks off the stage showing the finger. i saw this video on the net and laughed continously for a long time, if i find it ill post it

I WANT it