Wedding at Nanteos Mansion Aberystwyth

0:00 Nanteos mansion, ipod

Hi folks, it's Jonathan here and as you can see I'm actually not wearing a hat today. Well the reason being is because it's the summer time and to be quite honest I'm completely virtually bald anyway so who gives a monkeys? Anyway, right, today is very different. It's quite ironic really because a while ago my video on DJ or iPod was featured on YouTube. Now as God is my witness, I had a phone call from a chap I know called Steve from the University in Aberystwyth and he said that there was a lady who initially wanted basically just some PA and lights so she could plug the iPod in. Now I said, well you know, I can do that but I've got to be there anyway, so why don't you have me do a bit of DJing as well?

So he had a word with her, she had a word with me and she said right come along, bring your setup, bring your music and we'll see what happens. So what's going to happen now, this is very good now, I swear to God this is true, okay? They want to use the iPod. They've said I can do some of the disco but it'll be quite interesting to see how well the actual event goes just with the iPod and then possibly with me actually doing some disco as well. So I'm going to pause this now. The actual place is Nanteos Mansion near Aberystwyth, so speak to you in a minute. Alright guys, I'm going to take you around Nanteos Mansion there, okay? Now how about that for a dresser? That is big.

1:55 Imagine having one of those in your caravan

This is the old kitchen, and if you look up, what do those hang things from? How about that? Imagine having one of those in your caravan. Alright folks, here's some of the staff. Right, say hello everybody. Hello! What do you all do? Presumably you're the chef. I'm the chef, yeah. You're the chef, right. Where are you from? Norwich, originally. Right, what do you think of this place then? It's a dive. No, it's beautiful. It's an idiotic place, but I wouldn't want to work in a kitchen again. Fair enough. How about you guys? Where are you all from? Skibby's. Wedding. Cardiff. Sheffield. And we've got a wedding on tonight, haven't we? Are they all going to get sloshed, do you reckon? They already are. Alright then, nice. Here we go. In the kitchen for 2007. Hi, everyone's hard at work. And that is the intercom system.

No one's in this room, but very nice. Of course it is a hotel as well. We've got the usual microphone, we've got the double CD player, we've got the mixer, third CD player, I know the actual mixers only are two channeled, but you never know if one of those stops working, I can use that. We've got the amplifier and we've got the speakers, we've got a couple of colour changes, only four lights today, but then the actual colour changes. Do a really nice effect. Because it is so ironic that I had that feature about the iPod and DJ, and tonight I think it proved a point because the only song I played on the particular iPod that they gave me, changed gear, wrong hand, don't watch that, is Jim'll Fix It. That definitely was the wrong gear actually then. It's alright, I'm on what's known as just a drive at the moment, so there's not any other vehicles coming towards me.

8:07 Oh, there's a vehicle coming towards me

Thank goodness. But, yeah, like I said, the only... Oh, there's a vehicle coming towards me. It's a taxi probably. Right, I'll park in here. The only actual track I played was Jim'll Fix It, which was their first dance. And I did not have that on... In my music selection, should I say. But, I mean, basically, what has proven a point tonight... Is anyone else coming? No. Would have had music, definitely, if they'd have had an iPod. But the bride, the groom and everybody there said that it was a good evening. I mean, yes, it had its quiet patches, but then most evenings do because, you know, one of the oldest sayings in the book, you can please some of the people some of the time, you can't please all the people all the time. Let me tell you it right. A DJ goes into a nightclub, a professional big superstar DJ,

Gets driven there, takes a bucket, well in fact they don't even carry the records in. Someone carries possibly the records in for them or the CDs, they do a set, they walk out, alright? Maybe that is draining and maybe it is hard work, which it is, but when you're in the mobile trade, and I'll tell you what, every single mobile DJ will be nodding their heads now and agreeing with me, after a night you are mentally and physically knackered. Okay, you really are because mentally you're stressed and you're just on the job continually all the way through that evening trying to please people. Physically you are tired because you have to take everything out of the house in their vehicle, out of the vehicle in the venue, out of the venue back in the vehicle and then out of the vehicle back in the house so it's hard work alright thanks for watching I'm going to post this I may have to edit the middle of it because I want to get this to ten minutes but

Basically, practice and enjoy. Take it easy and don't forget to do your DJ Mag Micro Mix.

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