I would go to that
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 10 March 2024 03:49 (one month ago) link
i'm playing at the italian club tomorrow, on the big dancefloor. there's a sit-down dinner that's happening first so the evening will basically be a social hour, followed by dinner, followed by dancing, and the whole evening is a charity fundraiser for an animal rights org. i'm pretty excited about it all, buuuuut...
the host of the party gave me some ideas of things he'd like me to play that i'm feeling a bit stymied by, tbh - like a lot of things he suggested i'm happy to play (madonna, gaga, blondie, etc) but he also mentioned this one current-day italian rock band, i listened to some of their songs and i think they're awful. he also mentioned neil diamond and asked if i could play "murder on the dance floor" as the last song of the night (tbh i'm at a point now where i just never need to hear that song ever again, and i like the damn thing). idk, just feeling vaguely annoyed by his requests - but also maybe i'm just being a brat, and it'll probably all be fine.
had my usual happy hour gig a couple days ago, not as well-attended as the last few i did but still fun. had a few ppl ask for song IDs, and the guy who runs the bar's kitchen (who also occasionally DJs) proposed we play out together sometime, which was cool - don't know him super well but he always says really kind things about my sets. maybe i'll take him up on it! feeling very "seize the day" about things in my life lately.
― donna rouge, Sunday, 7 April 2024 04:33 (two weeks ago) link
you're not a brat, i'd be more than vaguely annoyed
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 7 April 2024 06:47 (two weeks ago) link
yeah I am done with Murder On The Dancefloor as well. Can you play all the Neil Diamond/Italian rock stuff at the start of the night so it's out of the way? Or save it til the end, and tell him you're leaving it until everyone is drunk and ready to sing and dance along? That way you don't have to think about this stuff as part of your set in the same way
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 7 April 2024 07:07 (two weeks ago) link
there's always Neil's synthpop phase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b9bWNA1dKs
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 7 April 2024 07:37 (two weeks ago) link
ok glad it's not just me lol
yeah i'm def gonna start out the night on the more rock end of things, and the dinner may start out as quieter ballad-y stuff that slowly builds into a groove by dessert time or so, leading into the disco bombs portion of the evening
i believe i have found a way to breach the neil diamond impasse at the very least:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msWuL-g_KA4
― donna rouge, Sunday, 7 April 2024 08:09 (two weeks ago) link
(i would rather eat glass than ever, ever play "sweet caroline" in any of my sets, for the record)
― donna rouge, Sunday, 7 April 2024 08:14 (two weeks ago) link
oh there's an italo disco version of that one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUA2rVQ-feE
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 7 April 2024 09:00 (two weeks ago) link
ha! nice find
― donna rouge, Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:45 (two weeks ago) link
so my bar closed in march and forfeited their liquor license (weird utah alcohol laws).
i've tried two other gay bars. one basically shooed me away. the other expressed some interest but now they're ghosting me.
i'm tired of dead ends. fuck this city into the ground. can't wait to ghost this place after it's ghosted me so many times. i don't vibe with anyone here at all. such a lame scene, juvenile and not for me anymore, i never fit in with those douchebags anyway. ready to hang up my hat for a while. i've been mostly listening to metal and rock lately anyway. time to drop all the frustration and move on with my life.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Sunday, 7 April 2024 19:07 (two weeks ago) link
xp to NickB - I thought you meant an italo cover of 'Sweet Caroline'. That would have made my day!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 8 April 2024 08:23 (two weeks ago) link
Ewww lol no! There is a Fun Fun version of I'm A Believer though. It's... not great
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 8 April 2024 09:48 (two weeks ago) link
sorry things are so dispiriting map <3
tho tbh your post flashed through my mind at my gig yesterday after a woman not once, but TWICE, requested that i "play music that people know"
and someone did, in fact, request "sweet caroline." i told him i didn't have it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 05:18 (two weeks ago) link
DJ Ötzi version is the only one you need:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFq2v5MC4YA
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 08:52 (two weeks ago) link
SO GOODSO GOODSO GOOD
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 08:54 (two weeks ago) link
haha ty dr. i'm ok with it tbh. sort of just want to be a fan and not feel like i have to 'keep up on electronic music' all the time. i'm thinking seriously about a pretty radical career change too. if i ever want to dance i'll probably try to find an amateur modern dance troupe or something. no pressure no social scene bs just move around emotionally to music some time before 9 pm lol.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:54 (two weeks ago) link
and hmm yeah i can see that gig resulting in some dispiriting requester situations. good luck and godspeed.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:57 (two weeks ago) link
got another one tomorrow, all I know is I'm gonna start with Cups by Underworld and at the end blam Rydeen
― frogbs, Thursday, 25 April 2024 03:31 (two days ago) link
ok this one was kind of sweet, basically my deal is if you bring in vinyl I'll play it almost no matter what it is. I'm the "professional DJ" so I'll figure out how to make it work (or not). anyway this one guy came who was mentally handicapped and maybe looking for an excuse to get out, so he came out for this because he had exactly one thing on vinyl - a boxset of Bitches Brew by Miles Davis. he won it in some raffle. he was pretty excited we were playing "his" record, apparently unaware he'd brought in one of the greatest jazz recordings of all time lol
― frogbs, Friday, 26 April 2024 16:55 (yesterday) link