Kiss Me, Hardy
January 17th, 2006More exciting news comes with the new year… We will have a new franchised English pub in my town, and I am to be the resident DJ.
t's all under wraps right now so I can't blab the name (although the clue's in the title, Admiral). They expect to open in mid february, so I'll get details up in advance for my local readers. The venue is sweet – spacious central bar, enclosed beer garden out back and plenty room for comfy seating.
The DJ booth is all brand new equipment and will have sofas beside it so my groupies don't get tired. They're also planning wireless internet, which means I can hang out there in my spare time too!
Music style will be mostly Brit-pop, indie and alternative but I foresee a lot of requests for cheesy top 40 and classic pop which I'll have to slide in between the good stuff to keep the girlies jumping. It will be a process of education, refusing to play the truly awful shite while conceding to a few pop-hits and following them with quality tunes to drive the point home.
This will be a lot dfferent to my previous residency which was a nightclub and involved early-morning 8-10 hour sets which were exhausting and stopped being fun after about 4am.
I won't have to play any Latino music either, one of my pet hates! Another of those hates is being asked to operate the microphone… I hold the firm belief that DJs should be silent, all communication coming from the discs they spin – even spoken word. But a bar environment is not a club, so I'll be needing to make promotion announcements and birthday shouts to the crowd. One of the ideas forming in my head is to create a soundboard and some idents to use, like we do on the radio.
I'm also looking forward to remixing some of my favourite club tracks to work in a pub environment. Should be fun! More information as it becomes public ;-)