Question for DJ's / Club Promoters

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    Sorry, did you say the OTHER guy is the promoter ?
    He wants you to come up with a concept, promote it, get people in, AND DJ ? Just exactly WHAT is he going to be doing ?
    Saying that, coming in a the ground level you need to do the apprenticeship of talking to a million people and handing out fliers in the rain, when you don't want to, and you haven't got any money - it's part of the business, and you can't skip it. Hours and hours of slog and talk and talking to twats who don't share your vision of what a night could be, and just a smattering of cool people that do...
    Ideas about making people want to come ?
    Play something original and unique, from the heart - music you love and that you'd want to hear played out. Forget trying to be popular and please everyone, learn you craft, find exactly the music you love and learn to put it together. It'll take time but if you've got talent and vision are prepared to put in the hours then a core of people that like what you do will come back and tell some of their friends and if you can manage the expectations and income of the club management you might hold on long enough to get something decent going. It might (it will) takes months, then years to move up gears and start calling the shots.
    If you do it right it will take over your life, age you 10 years and break your heart time and time again and you'll want to pack it all in as you sit there without the rent sometimes, with only your visions and a few loyal skinny friends. Then, if you're very lucky, it'll all come together by magic, and you'll be at the center of a hugely wondrous event, with hundreds of people having the time of their lives, and everyone will love you and for a few hours it'll all be worth it. It's a fickle mistress who keeps a tight score on what you do - have faith, work hard, never lose sight of that talent that makes you 100% sure that the next record you play will be just the perfect choice, and the next and the next..cause that's what it's about - the right records at the right time - that's why people go out to clubs, that's the glory, do the work, be the man :)

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