DJ Tutor Vlog September 2009

0:02 I'm going to do some sort of a vlog, I suppose

Right, I'm going to do some sort of a vlog, I suppose. I literally sort of thought, frig it, I'm going to put the camera on and see what happens. And there you go. Right, got a cat who's been a bit mad at the moment. That is Bobby Socks. People seem to say, great, he's always got kittens around the place. Well, I like cats, I'm a cat person, I love them. And they love me. Right, just listen at the moment to him, right?

You can't hear anything. Right, check this out. I'm going to pick him up. Right, a new watch. Right, check this out. Right, here we go. There you go, Purs. That cat is amazing. He's just Purs. He's beautiful. Right, okay. And then we've got Madagascar. Where's Maddie? Maddie, come on. Madagascar. Right, here we are. Where are we? September 2009. And yeah, it's all good. But it's getting a bit stressful, really. I think the reason being is because people ask you all the time these questions. They continually say, should I buy this? Should I buy that? Can you advise me here? Can you advise me there? And I'm no friggin' expert at all by far. I think the irony is... is that um you know when you start something and then um you start this sort of new concept people and then the people who start watching you they see from the beginning so they know how it started but then the people who say start watching a year or two years later they automatically think that you're just god's gift because theoretically you should know everything but i don't

2:54 Play with anything, any bits of kit etc

You know, I've never said I'm brilliant. So it's difficult, you know, it's very psychological but it's very difficult to sort of try and keep on top of everything and keep everyone happy. And there's always hundreds of emails that I don't answer which is such a shame because I haven't physically got the time. You know, I mean, I am possibly the luckiest person in the world because, you know, I could... Play with anything, any bits of kit etc. But then that isn't my life by far. My life is my family, my kids and it's trying to earn a living. And what I'm actually doing here now is almost in a third dimension because it's time that just seems to appear and I'm able to do this sort of shit. I think the reason I continue doing this is because there are people around the world who watch and maybe there is one person, even if it's just one person, who is inspired from something like this video. Then I'm happy. It makes me feel good inside and that is what it's all about. And also, it's up to you. It's up to every single person.

To do the same. It's not just me. It's not just like, wait, watch Jonathan and he'll tell you what to do. It's like, that's bollocks. It should be you who should be able to show people what to do as well. Even if, you know, the irony is even if you started DJing sort of like yesterday and you know how to put a needle on a record, there could be someone next door who doesn't know how to do that. So you can actually show them, put a needle on a record. And you in a sense have become a teacher. You know, from, you know, what I've always wanted to do, I've wanted to get from the stage of, let's say, people saying, no, bugger off, you know, you find out yourself, to someone saying, well, come on, I'll show you how to do it. Because, you know, what you're doing is you're inspiring them to do the same. It's almost, in a sense, you know, you're driving, I might have said this before, I've done so many bloody videos, but you're driving along,

5:18 You know, again, it started off with tutorials and demo

And, you know, there's a queue of traffic and you just drive past that queue of traffic. You don't let anyone through. Well, if you stopped and let one person through, there's a very good possibility that one person you've let through is in front of you. They will then stop and let someone else through because you did it to them. This is it. It's a snowball effect. Now, again, there are a lot of jealous people out there who look at me and think, oh God, he's got this, that and the other. And I can't help it, alright? You know, again, it started off with tutorials and demo... No, sorry, it started off with loads of tutorials, etc., etc. And then it got to demos and kit.

7:42 In a sense, the likes of what I'm looking at Web 2 at or

But you see, it's just a natural progression. I mean, what the hell am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to just sit there all day and do this is how you beatmatch this into that and this into that? You know, you've got to carry on. I mean, I don't know where this is going. It could stop now. It could stop tomorrow. It could stop in a week. On a shore somewhere and sit there forever. Alternatively, I could be travelling around the world on the waves going all over the place so that... Hello? They've all gone to bed. For all I know, they're probably waking up thinking, what the hell is he talking about? But, see again, this is my wacky life.

So, um, I mean, another thing I'm so pleased about is like the 10 minute mix. I mean, friggin' heck, I know there's been problems with prices and stuff like that and... Admitably, a part of it is my own fault. I put my hands up to that. But when you're dealing with people around the world and you're dealing with trying to get A to B, B to C, and all of a sudden you have this wacky new concept because let's be honest, quite often a competition is just in one country, one state. I mean, frigging heck, this competition is worldwide, 24-7, 365 days of the year. There's going to be problems.

Please, bear with me. But, you know, I mean, before the 10-minute mix, a DJ would be sat in his bedroom or her bedroom, jiggy-jigging away, and apart from their friends, that's it. Now, you can compare mixes, you can compare tunes, you can compare decks, mixers, have fun, liaise, Facebook, Myspace, just go for it, that's what it's about. You know, in other words, this is exactly what I've done. The whole... The way I've looked at what I'm doing is someone said, Jonathan, here is a huge football pitch. And what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to do a similarity here between the web, Web 2 as it's known, and let's say a football pitch. And Web 2 is the video sharing, the vlogs, the Facebook, MySpace, etc. So in a sense, the likes of what I'm looking at Web 2 at or...

Right, let's go back to the football pitch. If someone said to me, let's say, alright, here's a football pitch, go in there and do whatever you want. So I've got this huge area and I can just do anything. I can physically do anything. The only things I'm not doing is taking the piss out of people, being disrespectful, let's say, to religions and, you know, just being obnoxious because that is not how it should be. You should respect... Thank you for watching. And yeah, I'm having fun. It's hard work. In fact, the web and stuff like that and the videos are hard work. But if you are a parent and you are a mother looking after kids or you are a house husband looking after kids and a family and everything, then believe me, you will know as I know, that is hard work.

So practice and enjoy. And thank you very much for watching. And let's just hope that I can carry on inspiring, teaching and all that sort of stuff. But in a sense, I want you to do what I'm doing. Maybe you'll get bored of me someday. I don't care. Really, really don't care if you watch 10 videos and think it's shit. Just go for it. But maybe one video you watch, you'll think, I like that. Do you know what? I'm going to show my mate next door. And before you know it, you've inspired someone else. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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