Winding Down After A Gig

[wendyice 0]

after a number of busy weekends and late late nights home i find i have trouble switching off when i get in.

can't relax or get to sleep etc. end up staying up for hours until i can doze off, or even doing a 24hr session awake and working.

how do you wind down and chill out after a gig?

especially if it has been a resounding success and you're still on a high.

[Paul Smith 0]

after a number of busy weekends and even doing a 24hr session awake and working.

 

 

 

smile icon Know the feeling and so do a few others on here who I have spoken to at 3/4/5/6/7 in the morning!

 

 

[Andy Westcott 0]

Load up the van, then sit in it with roadie munching on pasties/peanuts/other tasty stuff whilst joking about the night's various 'incidents'.

 

A nice long drive home afterwards works wonders, I find.

[supersound dj 0]

I get this alot so i used to wind down with a couple of cans of bitter but now I wake up with a banging headach even with 1...so I drink water now when I get in..trouble is I wake up early 4 a wee.

 

You cant win.

 

Paul

[UKHero 0]

Nice cuppa tea and a read on DJU

 

Nik

[alicat 0]

Tinny then check the Pannys HD for something I haven't watched. Friday it was Battle of Britain. last night, the conclusion!!

[Dream Catchers 0]

I tend to have an hour reading the forums, then I make a hot milk chocolate, take it to bed and tickle my beloveds back for an hour while we talk about how the night went.

I am on various prescribed meds that usually kick in after about an hour so then it's dream time.

 

Jim

[DJJEG 0]

Usally out like a light coz i work hard tongue out icon

Friday Coffee then straight to bed, 4am need the loo (too many blackcurrent & lemonade's) up at 5.15am for work

Saturday night two bottles of bud

[aaadisco 0]

I normally come in, raid the fridge and have a beer!

 

Then think I might have some quality time with GTA4 but end up falling asleep on the sofa after 5 mins and waking up with sore neck at 5am :-(

 

It is always a struggle when you come home buzzing as that is when you then want to have your saturday night!

[Spear 0]

Working 20hr days means no trouble getting to sleep as it's usually only 3-4 hrs before I start all over again!!!

Well except Sun - Thursday when I only do 14hrs

[Danno13 0]

Whatever's left of the kebab I've eaten whilst driving back + a couple of beers. Does the job for me!

[Liscio 0]

I normally either go out clubbing or grab some food and watch a bit of TV then crash out!

[eazy 0]

eat eat & eat somemore and watch something on the telly like good old brainiac

[Gary 0]

if its a local gig, then I pack up, drove to a local fast food stall and chat with other DJs doing the same thing.

 

I do quite a few long range gigs and sometimes stay overnight, often in the venues themselves (if they're hotels of course), on which case I'll generally take something savoury up to the room, have coffee while munching and watching some TV for an hour or so - but always try to get to sleep before it starts getting too light outside...I just hate trying to get to sleep to the tweepy sounds of the dawn chorus.

 

if its a local gig, then I pack up, drove to a local fast food stall and chat with other DJs doing the same thing.

 

Edited by Nik Andrews... Duplicate post.

Edited July 1, 2008 by UKHero

[UKHero 0]

Whatever's left of the kebab I've eaten whilst driving back + a couple of beers. Does the job for me!

 

 

:nono: Eating a kebab while driving very naughty indeed. :nono:

 

Nik

[Pete Best 0]

:nono: Eating a kebab while driving very naughty indeed. :nono:

 

Nik

I tend to drop roadie of the come home see whats on telly surf the net make some food drink plenty tea .go to bed forgeting to turn the lights of set the alarm go back down to get my phone a forgot activate alarm wake up the street try to remember code for the alarm and the phone dialer wife comes down gives me earach have another cup of tea several trips to the loo sort dog out (its my fault i woke her up)everyone says. before i know it its daylight and i get up at 8 on sunday mornings to go clay pigeon shooting sunday night i fall asleep without trying.But seriously i go to bed and put radio on low so i can just hear it .It hepls me sleep if that fails take sleeping tblets that helps

[jukeboxdj 0]

a cup of tea , a lot of rubbish on telly.....sod it ill watch it anyway and let my brain die slowly till i fall asleep

 

[Jase Windu 0]

I see a pattern forming here,

 

Get in usually about 1.30, raid fridge and pantry, get a pint of water and then at the moment watch Dr Who on Iplayer, if that's not on it yet then I just channel hop 'til the missus rings me from upstairs to wake me up then I go to bed.

 

Jase

[supersound dj 0]

I see a pattern forming here,

 

Get in usually about 1.30, raid fridge and pantry, get a pint of water and then at the moment watch Dr Who on Iplayer, if that's not on it yet then I just channel hop 'til the missus rings me from upstairs to wake me up then I go to bed.

 

Jase

 

 

 

 

Awww what a caring wife u have Jase...mine pokes me with a cattle prod.

 

Paul

[deejaymitch 0]

When I first started DJing the answer would have been stay in the bar and have a few drinks with the staff, or head to someone's house for a party, or enjoy some intiumacy with an admirer from the evening.

 

These day's though it's food, beer and bad tv. I swear this job makes you old and boring.

[Steve_Mitchell 0]

:nono: Eating a kebab while driving very naughty indeed. :nono:

 

Nik

 

Correct Nik! Its possible you can drop bits of lettuce or even worse CHILLI SAUCE all over your britches (trousers to the younger members)...

 

 

Good thread this one. My wife doesn`t understand why if I finish at eg 12 I don`t get to bed while 2 or 3am.

 

I have a few choices to wind down.

 

1 the all night cafe for a breakie

2 A kebab

3 town for a drink. (usually driving though)

4 a brew at home whilst flicking through the sky channels 900 onwards

5 a beer at home or a Gin and tonic with a bag of crisps.

 

Defo can`t be bothered talking to anyone or using my brain in any way so NO computers , phone calls or X box.

[RonanRaver 0]

Usually I have a sambo coffee and 30 mins of tv that would be monday and thursday nights.Friday and Saturday im home at 3.30 both nites so straight to bed as my son gets up at 7am.Sunday night im home at 12 so usually have a load of cans and download tv shows from uknova:)

[Dukesy 0]

Depending how late I get in, I'll have a mug of tea in front of the DJU forum....or watch Sky News for 20 or so minutes before I turn in. :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

[DJ Foureyes 0]

 

especially if it has been a resounding success and you're still on a high.

Resounding success? What's one of those? :ads:

[UKHero 0]

Correct Nik! Its possible you can drop bits of lettuce or even worse CHILLI SAUCE all over your britches (trousers to the younger members)...

 

Tell me about it the other night on the way back from a gig I had a can of lager in one hand some chrisps rested between my legs and a pork pie in the other, Then the misses calls me on my mobile was hard driving with my head on one side with it wedged between my ear and shoulder.... :dan+ju:

 

Nik