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I havn't done too many Disco's yet so I can't say what percentage i give myself, but as I have been doing Karaoke sessions for the last year I'll give 100% for them, they are so much fun and the fact that the puinters do most of the work is even better, i.e. they choose the music and then they sing it, loads of banter over the mic's and hardly anyone ever dances but the atmosphere is fantastic. Disco's however I'm finding real hard work, but still rewarding mainly at that point where the whole dance floor is packed and everyone is jumping and singing at the top of there voices, the feeling

Years ago I used to work as a techy in Cinema, and worked in many Cinemas across the south, but there was one in particular were I picked up a habit that has never left me, the Chief was a real worrywart and insisted we carry little leather pouches that contained 2 spare fuses for every type we had in use, a flat head screwdriver, a phillips screwdriver and a small roll of insulater tape! So how many of you out there carry and keep close to hand spare fuses for your kit? http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/533.gif

Last saturday I was asked to play Ace of Spades, and thus began my problem cos the person asking for it was the birthday girl, but I could see from the crowd there that it was gonna kill the party, and things had been a bit slow all night and more to the point what the hell was I gonna to play to back it up? finally I thought sod it and put it on half way through the track which had got a mixed reception I suddenly thought about putting on Are You Going My Way by Tom Jones and Robbie Williams IT WORKED. As for playing inappropriate tracks then you could end up in all sorts of trouble cos m

Hi, Just want to add a few things that I've found out over the past year from just doing Karaoke's, First is to do with looking proffesional, you could go out and brake the bank spending on a lot of kit but at the end of the day you find that you just can't do it, and more to the point it's what you do and not wether your kit looks the dogs http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/censored.gif, I'm sure that if some of the DJ's here saw my kit they would think I was total loser! but I now have a reaguler spot thats turned into a real hit! Advertising is more word of mouth than anything

http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/thumbup.gif Thanks everyone for your advice, Which has been taken on board, From all the Karaoke stuff I've been doing over the last year I know I can work a mic and I got to know use that on the disco. Once again great advice, and I can't belive how quickly you all respond it's great most other forums are full of little groups of people that never talk to any one new. So tell me have any of you done Karaoke Gigs before, as I have found it's a totaly different ball game, in fact I now think that Karaoke sessions are way easier than disco's.

http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/oops.gif Think I wasn't clear, I don't want some per recorded annoucement from some boooming voice over I was refering to a fanfare of some sort with me then introducing myself, I'm fully aware of the roll I will play as DJ and the importance of entertaining the guest's, other wise may as well have a getto blaster playing away in the corner. I just need some help with the opening cos I think you can alot of what happens during the gig can be affected by the way you open up, if it's weak and watery no-one will notice and it's gonna take awhile for them

After reading about what are the best ways to go from fast to slow tracks and switch from modern to oldies, I got to wondering if there is a track that all D J's aviod like the plague http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/fear.gif cos it just wont fit into the flow of any set? http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/sterb188.gif http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/sterb188.gif http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/sterb188.gif

Hi Everyone, I Jioned this forum yesterday and found great advice on my first visit, so me thinks i'll be here alot more in the future, and thankyou to all those people that posted responces to my own posting about my first Gig that went very wrong, and thanks for your kind words and support. I have been in and out of the entertainment business since i left school, many moons ago!, but since starting my own mobil karaoke and disco I have found my self asking alot of questions of myself, mainly have I gone mad! http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/wacko.gif I want to build up a m

Hi I've just started D.J'ing and I found your guide very useful, could have done with it two nights ago! I started out over a year ago doing karaokes at my local pub ( just a bit of fun at first with a player i got from Argos!) as time went by I replaced everything with better equipment and then found that while I was sorting out the next disc for the karaoke that i really needed to be playing some music and so began my first steps into Disco. Two nights ago I did my first Disco with no karaoke, and it was a birthday, I had worked out a plan of action for the party but it all went wrong b