Mobile DJ Advise on a Play List for New Years Eve Gigs and a Vlog

0:02 First of all I'd like to give you season's greetings

All right ladies and gentlemen, first of all I'd like to give you season's greetings. I hope you have a good Christmas and a very happy new year. In most of my videos or practically all of them I will never say you've got to buy this or got to buy that but the three companies I would like to say thank you very much to are Chauvet, Cam and Vimoda. So Chauvet, Beth, happy Christmas and thank you very much for helping me out. Cam, Emma, Frank, Jack, Matt, Paul, Graham, the whole bloody lot of you. You're a wonderful group of people, very sort of warm family kind of environment you've got with Cam Lamber and if you're not familiar by the way with Cam Lamber they make affordable DJ products, lighting etc., the whole lot.

Vimoda, so to Carl and to Val thank you very much for looking after me with product and it's a pleasure to use your product. They are wonderful bits of kit, well items should I say, the M100 especially because what Vimoda have done is they've thought people want to be different, people want to be unique, they want to have something that is theirs completely. So of course what you can do is you can get your own shield. So you can have your own designs on the shields of your headphones, so you don't have to be Carl Cox to be a brilliant DJ. Well he is a brilliant DJ but the way I'm going here is that you know you can be unique by having your own motif, your own image, your own name on the shields of your headphones.

2:27 People dance

Right now also this video is about New Year's Eve and giving you information on how to get your set ready for New Year's Eve. Now a lot of the time I will say you do not want to get a set ready if you're going to work in a nightclub or on the road, the last thing you want to do is get a playlist because you may go half way through that playlist, the dance floor could completely vanish and if you stick to that playlist you may not get people back on the floor but there is a slight difference with New Year's Eve. People are ready to party, they want to enjoy themselves, they're probably already oiled up with alcohol prior to getting to your event anyway. So only a muppet, only a complete idiot DJ will not be able to get people on the floor.

3:27 The emphasis of New Year's Eve is vibe

You have got to be absolutely crap to not get people on the dance floor on New Year's Eve because they're ready to go, they want to enjoy themselves. So that's the one night, possibly the only night in the entire year when you can pretty much guarantee if you get a playlist together and go through that playlist people will dance. The playlist. Forget your run of the mill pop songs from the charts, by all means add them in but what I have found in over 20 years that I've been doing New Year's Eve, you can pick out the classic tracks from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and noughties up to the present day and play them. You can put them in some sort of list, play them and people will dance. The emphasis of New Year's Eve is vibe.

Now normal nights you need to have the vibe going up and down, sort of a flow. The vibe for New Year's Eve is very simple, it's up there. It's full on, it's intense, it's party, it's just 100% energy. So I want you to go through your playlist and pull out the tracks that bring energy to the dance floor. You don't want any down times, it's got to be full on. Full stop. Of course here in the UK we have a track called Au Lang Syne which is 12 o'clock. Another tip for you, take some form of radio or something where you can get Big Ben's chimes. This in the UK is something that has to be done. You need to be in control and you need to have the Big Ben chimes ready. If you've only got your mobile phone. Don't worry about it.

Very simple. Have the mobile phone on, I've done this as well. Have the speaker on your mobile phone on. Get your microphone, stick it by your mobile phone and away you go. That's the very least you can do. Better still is get a mini jack into RCA and plug it in to the back of your mixer. Stick it in to a separate line and then you have got the audio from your phone directly out there. You get Big Ben's chimes. And then you come in with Au Lang Syne. Au Lang Syne straight after that. And then bung something in like, I don't know, Celebration Kool and the Gang or YMCA or The Macarain or something. Keep it cheesy. Keep it commercial. Keep it fun. Keep it vibrant. Alright? That's pretty much it. I will say practice and enjoy.

Thank you very much for watching all of my crazy videos. Some have been interesting. Some have been exciting. Some have been informative. Some have been downright boring. But I don't care. I don't give an absolute shit. I am thoroughly enjoying myself. Thank you very much. Practice and enjoy. And to all my family and friends who are with me and who are not with me, I love you from the bottom of my heart. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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