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Yes just back from my first ever gig! It went eh ok started off by plugging my fecking out into my in on the soundcard, pressed the cue button and the music dissapeared LOL Then I realised, Id never do that at home, was panicking at the start as I had set the soundcard to the wrong thing and nothing was working but realised the obvious after a couple of restarts, wasnt especially nervous was just doing stupid things then the guy goes play something happier, I was playing quite up for it house music so I played this, really happy I think:

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Though they werent impressed I thought so changed it to the style I think they like, well what little I have of that style, they call it vietnamese house, its like cheesy dance meets hardstyle, ended up playing for an hour and it went pretty well. Luckily I had a load of shit tunes imo backed up.

All the djs sounded the exact same, some of them played the same songs they were ok just not my sort of music and imo its sometimes seemed like the human record playing show, some ok mixing and stuff just some nights id go to in scotland you could tell what dj was playing, each one would have his set and style or it would progress through the night till its totally banging, or the headline dj is playing. It would be like one piece of music not a bunch of songs stuck together. I didnt see any progression just a bunch of same same djs but now I know what to do and what sort of music to search out. with my tools, the faderfox dj3 and the dnsc2000 with traktor I feel I can do a lot more than 2 cdj’s and a two channel mixer.

So Im not sure if they will call me back, see I didnt know, lesson learned, do your homework as I didnt. Id gave them 7 cd’s of lots of different styles kept asking what style you want me to play they kept saying house, perfect but well my idea of house and their idea of house is a different thing, im right their wrong LOL I think because im western it may go in my favour but now I know and its a big place, not the only club and done a good bit of networking, all the vietnamese wnat to be friends with the westener so heres hoping it takes off, going to keep trying, clubs everywhere you know.

Going to get my card sorted this week hopefully ill post a pic of it or something, thanks again!

Cheers guys appreciated, and your probably right about lying about experience. I have played at partys and stuff so maybe ill stretch the truth a ltitle to make it sound bigger than it was. I have played in front of 150 people playing guitar over a track on cubase for charity and that was terrifying so good chance I could freeze, but well it was 10 years ago and I wasnt that confident, now im pretty confident because Ive been mixing for years and well I dont have to match beats, see I neevr owned technics and could match beats perfectly on my direct drive numarks and my mates vestax but I always struggled with technics for some reason, now I just hit sync and can mix 3 tracks etc. on traktor. Good advice appreciated!

Hey folks so thought id give you guys a wee update here rather than starting another thread on my progress or lack thereof!

So was all prepared with a 20 minute hiphop and house set drove for miles to get to the place and we got there and it was closed, then this gang of about 20 Vietnamese shouted us over to this juice bar across the street. Ive not yet seen vietnams equivelent of a gang but this seemed like one, the girls had hotpants and addidas tracksuit tops the guys looked pretty rough, one guy had his shirt unbottoned half way down with a big chunky silver cross chain and all these rings, he was doing most of the shouting.

So we sit down and I start thinking oh no there going to steal my equipment this is bad the angry guy continues ranting at everyone and everyone looks kinda scared of him. he then says to the girl im with I must study vietnamese, as an example of the difference he says vietnamese say dah when they feel pain whereas english speakers say ouch, everyone laughs! Im thinking how to escape because im convinced that they are discussing how to dispose of my body and live like kings with my controllers LOL get talking well through my interpreter to a dj next to me and he seems really nice and I finally chill a bit, then she interprets what the main dude is saying, hes the clubowner and everyones there to get a job hence the respect, hes saying there will be no fighting and no swearing in his club, which put me at ease but them im scottish so im basically fucked LOL

They told me there will be me this dj and someone else so looks like I will get some gigs without the need for competing. I gave him all my most recent sets on disc and he shook my hand and said we will have a staff party to do sound checks etc. This was supposed to be tonight I knocked back some work to do this and it got cancelled today but to be expected here and it should open the next couple of weeks, I hope, in the meantime im going to hit the local bars/clubs and coffee shops in my area and see if I can get anything. Cheers