Coping with rejection - The Last gig

[dallas!]

Well the bar me and my DJ partner play in is doing a new promotion thing and it looks like our days there are over, having played for yearly 10years but only ever as a hobby at bars (and 4 years at this bar) and the occasional club I'd just started to get back into DJing again and really enjoying banging techno/electro.

Now it looks like it's all over.......whats next (suggestions please), what have you done in the same situation? I guess I should really try the production route now, shame, as I'd just bought a pair of CDJ's.

oh well

dallas!

[jngpng]

Find another gig...

I don't know what it's like down in London, but I've never had a problem finding gigs in Manchester or Edinburgh/Glasgow. Surely you must have built up a fair few contacts over the years?

[Sales Dude McBoob]

keep on

[vinny_vinyl]

Don't get into production just because this happened to you... do it bacause thats the direction you want to go in.

As for the gig... whats the big deal?

move on

[Tarekith]

If you've been doing it for 10 years, that;s quite a bit of experience you can use to promote yourself for a new gig.

[hambone1]

It's an opportunity to move forward and be creative!

Make DJing SO much more than simply beatmatching (which my 12 year old can do) playing someone else's music while twiddling cheesy filter sweeps and EQ cuts. Play an instrument or two, write your own tracks, perform video and/or lighting, do live looping, get interactive with the crowd.. there's so much you can do!

Be different... carve your own path...

[evernaut]

Well the bar me and my DJ partner play in is doing a new promotion thing and it looks like our days there are over, having played for yearly 10years but only ever as a hobby at bars (and 4 years at this bar) and the occasional club I'd just started to get back into DJing again and really enjoying banging techno/electro.

Now it looks like it's all over.......whats next (suggestions please), what have you done in the same situation? I guess I should really try the production route now, shame, as I'd just bought a pair of CDJ's.

oh well

dallas!

I know what it's like - from the financial POV too - to lose a gig, but four years is a good run, and you should welcome the news..
I've not gigged much lately (I'm a singer/guitar player) by choice, and I've found that my recordings have really improved...not only do new songs not get over-hyped up in delivery to please a crowd, the latent energy that's not being directed to performing gets down on tape/disk - where it ultimately matters!!

That's the lure of gigs - they ARE great fun ( usually) and you get your jollies for 10 years, but then only have your - and your audiences' recollections.

Take the time to make a rekkerd, I say!

[jasefos]

Well the bar me and my DJ partner play in is doing a new promotion thing and it looks like our days there are over, having played for yearly 10years but only ever as a hobby at bars (and 4 years at this bar) and the occasional club I'd just started to get back into DJing again and really enjoying banging techno/electro.

Now it looks like it's all over.......whats next (suggestions please), what have you done in the same situation? I guess I should really try the production route now, shame, as I'd just bought a pair of CDJ's.

oh well

dallas!

I know what it's like - from the financial POV too - to lose a gig, but four years is a good run, and you should welcome the news..
I've not gigged much lately (I'm a singer/guitar player) by choice, and I've found that my recordings have really improved...not only do new songs not get over-hyped up in delivery to please a crowd, the latent energy that's not being directed to performing gets down on tape/disk - where it ultimately matters!!

That's the lure of gigs - they ARE great fun ( usually) and you get your jollies for 10 years, but then only have your - and your audiences' recollections.

Take the time to make a rekkerd, I say!

I spent most of the early to late 90s doing Live PA gigs which was awesome fun (most of the time).

Nothing really happened until I started releasing my first records which had some decent songwriting (rather than being instrumental, non-memorable blips/bleeps strewn over a bed of trendy beats).
; )