Sep
2
2010

“Why haven’t you got it?”

by Dave Evans on September 2, 2010

As DJ’s we have a duty to our customers to ensure the night goes well and that we do as much as we can to ensure people have a good time.

But there’s always one punter who approaches you to ask “Have you got xxxx?” and when you reply “no” the retort is invariably “well, you’re a **** DJ then aren’t you if you don’t have that, why haven’t you got it?”

Now I may not have entered the digital age of PC DJing yet, but I would hazard a guess that in my 2 full UDG cases and the bag with various stuff that I haven’t filed, I carry about 8000 tracks around with me (some other DJs I know are more than confident just to take their Professional and Decades Sets with them to a gig). This is normally enough for a gig… but not for these particular punters.

I like to classify them into three main types:
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