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LONDON - HEY MR DJ - FUCK OFF, YOUR'E NOT EVEN FIT

I am not the best DJ in the world, I pretty much keep the crossfader in the middle, slide the volumes up and down and pay no mind to petty conventions like finding songs of similar bpms or cutting out really long intros. My skills were called into question last Saturday. I was playing my usual eclectic mix of dancehall songs downloaded off of Skreemr and Death Row rap from 1993 at Bar Rumba to a crowd made up of burly girls who looked like they worked as mental health nurses and drunk Indian men with boundary/grinding up against girls issues.

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I was there because my friend had the brilliant money-making idea of putting on a night in a West End club, not thinking that West End club types expect a certain amount of top 40 music, R&B, and a certain standard of DJing. What they got instead was whatever dancehall mashup I had on hand fading out two-thirds of the way through, a moment's silence, and then "Bitches Ain't Shit" played slightly too loud.

These poor people paid a fucking tenner to get in and have a good time and all they got was me chatting away to my buddies and not noticing the end of a song had come—and other assorted illegal DJ moves on my part.

Anyway, about half an hour into my set a pretty girl came up and sheepishly handed me a folded piece of till roll. I was pretty excited and thought that maybe this was going to be the first night ever I got laid from DJing, but alas, instead of a phone number or a "meet me by the toilets in ten minutes" all I got was the cold hard truth.

However, a little later on I got this note, which was a little more positive even if it was off a big mental health nurse, so it all evens out:

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