Gig log Swansea Jan 2015

0:01 Very quickly, the Gig Bar

Alright ladies and gentlemen, on my way to Swansea to do a wedding in I think it's Morgan's Hotel. So I've got light console, I've got projector, I've got a spare projector, I've got PA system, I've got a spare set of powered speakers, I've got the Pioneer SX, I've also got the Wego as well, I've got a set of CDJ-350s. What I've tried to do I've got some lighting from Cam and Chauvet as well, including the Chauvet Gig Bar, which looks very interesting. Very quickly, the Gig Bar. I wouldn't class that as pro lighting, as in something that the professionals would use for stadiums, but definitely for mobile purposes it's just ideal. It looks very good, but we will check it out. The weather at the moment is...

The DJ Tutor is a mixture between hail, sleet and snow. Well, not really hail, it's sleet. Very windy, but there you go. Right, the camera, the level of light set slightly lower today for one reason. I'd like to have a look outside and hopefully you'll be able to see fields and the like, trees and... Okay, so now... Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that you should take drugs or try drugs or anything like that. What I'm doing is I'm trying to give my thoughts on certain subjects, one in particular about drugs. Now I had this conversation with my partner Yvette yesterday and it hit a note. I want you to open your mind and imagine this. Just picture a farm. That farm has been there for 300 years.

They've been owned by the same family and the farmer may produce wheat, barley, dairy, lamb, sheep, eggs or just have it as a lovely farm and arable land. Now let's imagine that that farmer all of a sudden finds a patch of magic mushrooms. Now bearing in mind this farm is owned by this farmer and he or she picks the mushrooms, takes them home, dries them and then eats them.

2:39 Do you find the sense in that?

What the law says is that the law states that that's illegal and you could be done for class A or B, whatever. I don't know what class it is. But what I'm trying to explain here is that you have a farmer who owns his or her land, who goes into their field, picks something that's grown on their land, eats it, and someone can say you're breaking the law. Do you find the sense in that? Now also, not all drugs, but a lot of natural drugs give a high. They give you a sense of euphoria. What are they doing? They're actually opening parts of your mind and your brain. It's already there, okay? It's there, but they're opening parts of your mind to give you that feeling. So, you need to ask yourself, is it the drug

4:52 Yet, how many times do we hear about the amount of drugs taken?

The DJ Tutor, the DJ Tutor. You have keys to every single room. Every single room is locked. You and you only can open the doors. But for one of the doors, you need something to attach to the key. So you attach that thing to the key. The key then puts it open, you know, you put it in the lock, open the door and there you go, you step inside. And it's full of colours and life and joy and happiness. But apparently the governments and people that beat can say, well no you can't do that, I'm sorry it's illegal, you're not allowed to. Now I don't get that either. Also, we hear on the news of, again, it's terrible if it happens to one. We hear on the news about someone dying from an E or someone dying from something, from a drug. Yet, how many times do we hear about the amount of drugs taken?

For example, let me give you, let's say if the news was correct. Today there was a death. A young person of whatever age died from whatever drug. Yet today 40,000 people in the United Kingdom, I don't know, took magic mushrooms. You never hear that do you? Yet you will always hear the bad news. Again, it's the bad news they're giving you. Where's the good news? Cannabis. I know doddly squit about cannabis. But what I do know, or I'll explain what I know. It's a natural product. It grows in a lot of places. Again, if that was all of a sudden, you know, you had a plantation somewhere in some hot foreign country and picked up a plant and started eating it, and it was cannabis, and it was illegal there, someone would say, oh, you're breaking the law. I don't know, but it's tough. Yet...

6:34 Apparently, cannabis in its different forms is anti-carcinogenic

You need to read into this. Apparently, cannabis in its different forms is anti-carcinogenic. It's very... I can't say it's good for you, but it does serve good purposes and it will help you naturally. Now again, please do not take this advice on board and all of a sudden go and buy this stuff. I am in no way suggesting that you go into a field and eat magic mushrooms or you go... To some guy down the road or lady and go buy half a pound of cannabis. I do not suggest you do that. What I do suggest is you start to open your mind and maybe look at what's going on. Don't believe everything you hear. Don't. Anyway, that's enough of me. Let's go check out the wedding. There's the kit ready and the room is in there. It's now about quarter past six. Bit of a wristwatch, innit?

And yeah, hopefully they will move soon so I can start to set up. Yeah, there you go. Just about finished and that was difficult. Need to sort out the projector, just straighten it up. Got the 10 power bars, the gig bar IRC from Showbay that's looking pretty funky actually. I didn't have time to put the foot switch on. I mean when you're doing everything by yourself You haven't got time to do everything. And they've literally come in and said, how long? I said five minutes. I could have done with another half an hour, but there you go. Jumping back home now. I always do apologize, and I'm going to apologize again. I'm sorry you don't get much footage of the actual gig, but 99% of the time it's me on me Todd, and it's very difficult to film. Had a lovely lady today who was...

9:43 Completely off her box

Completely off her box. Alcohol. Talking stuff to me. And, you know, you've got to be polite and you've got to sort of smile and wave and hello but you've still got to do your job. Which brings me on to a little subject. I've seen these posts on Facebook, I'm sure you've seen them. You know, 10 things or 20 things that you don't say to a DJ. Well, it's one thing that if you're You're not a DJ, I want you to take this on board. If you are a DJ, do a thumbs up to this video please. Never ask, but I'm sure you will. Is you never interfere with a DJ, well, you've got to do that, while they're setting up. You never stop and ask them questions. You never sort of, oh by the way, excuse me, can you help me? No, because while a DJ is setting up their mind

He's concentrating on the job at hand. Alright, slightly different if the bride wants to have a word with you and whatnot, but general public, staff at the venue, you don't stop the DJ or the person setting up and start having a waffle out of them saying, oh, did you watch that film last night? Or, oh, what's your favourite tune? That's a no-no. You just do not mess around. I was by myself, and as anyone else who's worked in Morgan's Hotel in Swansea will know. It's a friggin' nightmare carry. The term carry, by the way, is what DJ uses for the distance in between the vehicle and the setup place. That's the carry. The carry could be long, short. That one, from a scale of, in my experience, 1 to 10, that's getting on to an 8.

12:29 Earlier on, in the beginning of this video, I was talking about drugs

That is an 8. 7 to an 8. The worst one I ever did was in Welshpool, in Mid Wales, in a place, I think it's like the centre of the town, where you have to go in through a door, into a lift, up the lift, through a corridor, through another door, another door, into a big room and then through the room onto a stage and set up. That was a 12. Anyway. Okay, digressing slightly. Right. Earlier on, in the beginning of this video, I was talking about drugs. Now, I do not condone, I don't suggest people should use drugs, alright? I'm not saying, go on, go and take them. What I want you to understand is behind why they're illegal and why they are and shouldn't be and whatnot. Now, of course, there are different types of drugs. There are...

Drugs that have been made by chemicals and drugs that are natural. I personally, and this is personally so again don't say oh well Jonathan said it's fine. I'm not saying it's fine. I'm just saying this is my personal opinion. I'm allowed my personal opinion. Look, it's dark. That's my personal opinion. You may think it's light but it's dark here. Actually it's light now because we're going past the lights. Look! Oi! There it is. See? Told you. Right. But... For me, you have product that grows naturally. Oh, there you are. Sorry. If you have a product that grows naturally in the ground or on a tree or on a plant, then why is it that that should be if it doesn't do you any harm? Okay. Now, if all of a sudden magic mushrooms start killing people, it's highly unlikely because they haven't for centuries.

Then you would think, yeah, you know, okay, don't eat them. And they'd be classed as some mushrooms that are a little bit dodgy and you didn't want to eat them. But, alright, yeah, I've gone on a bit too much about that so it's not that. It's alright, I'm on my way home and it's very, very windy. It was a great gig by the way, great gig, but just an absolute flipping nightmare. Oh dear. I'll tell you what, we keep fit I don't know of many DJs who are not fit. They may say, oh bloody hell, I'm knackered and whatnot, but you've got to be fit in this job. You've got to be, unless of course you've got flimsy 6-inch speakers and one tripod and a laptop that folds out into a huge console, I doubt it. So what else can I say? Great night, good crowd, enjoyed themselves. The video is...

15:12 I highly recommend you consider getting video

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And maybe consider, considering going into DJing. Because it could be another string to your bow. Excuse me, we'd like to book you as a DJ. How much are you? I am this much. Oh but we can get a DJ down the road who's cheaper than you. Or the same price. What can you give? I can give you video. Think about it. Practice.

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