Wedding function 24,3,07, Not many people but a good Night

0:00 I mean we start off, yeah, I've got the t

Alright guys, right I'm on the way to another function now and this particular function is in a place called Macuncler which is in Powys. It's not very far away as the crow flies from my house but then I suppose there's hell of a distance with regards to the windy and twisty roads where Wales is concerned which is a bit of a pain in the arse but there you go. But anyway, to let you know What I'm taking with me today, if I actually gave you a breakdown from really CD players right through to the last little bits, you'll see how intricate all of this is. I mean we start off, yeah, I've got the twin CD player and then also the Vestax player so there's three. In case one stops working you've always got a third entity which is very important. It's a bit like if you take your turntables to a gig

And you've got two turntables, always take a spare styline. The worst thing in the world is all of a sudden the needle goes that's it and then you're knackered aren't you? So we've got three CD players, we've got the mixer and then from the mixer you have the leads then and of course all relevant cables going into the CD players etc and relevant cables going from The CD players into the mixer, then out of the mixer and output, audio output, into the amplifier. And then two speaker cables going into two speakers which will be on stands. And then I'll have speaker cables going from those into some speakers on the floor. And then I've got a T-bar I'll bung behind me. I've got three MAD scans which are quite nice lights actually. The actual bulbs in them are called discharge bulbs.

And they're not dichroic bulbs, and anyone who knows what I'm on about, the dichroic bulbs is a proper light bulb, and they're always going, they're always knackering, and they're very expensive. The discharge bulb works on the principle of an actual arc, so you've got white light there, so it's very much a better, bright, intense sort of light, and then when you put that through a dichroic lens, and an actual dichroic lens, it's almost like a mirror, a coloured mirror, Or a coloured piece of glass, but it's half mirror and half glass. Well, it's not difficult to explain, but it's a bit awkward while you're driving. So there's those. I've got a couple of Griffin colour changers as well, which I just sort of stick around the floor and they just slowly change in different colours. What else have I brought? A smoke machine as well. And again, smoke machine, I mean, to put a long story short, I bought this smoke machine about 11, 12 years ago. No, probably even more than that.

2:44 It looked as though it had had three rounds with Mike Tyson

And when it arrived in the post, it was battered. It looked as though it had had three rounds with Mike Tyson. So I phoned up the company and they said, all right, very sorry, you've got two options. One is send it back or we'll give you 20 quid. So I said, all right, I'll take the 20 pounds. It only cost 70 quid. So Smoke Machine cost me 50 pounds and it's lasted about 10 to 12 years. But the reason being is because what I do every so often, I'll actually clear it through with deionized water and it just cleans the system. I mean, it is battered, but there you go, it does the job. And then there you go, you know, you've got your headphones, you've got your cables, your four-way adapters, your leads, your microphone, etc., etc., etc. The list goes on. So there you go, there's all the setup. And again, what I have done, I brought an extra amplifier just in case, you never know. The worst thing in the world is to turn up to a gig and all of a sudden halfway through the night the amplifier stops working. But...

Twice now I've actually driven all the way to a function and I forgot my mixer. Seriously, I forgot my mixer. I was like, duh. But there you go, that's life. I mean, it does happen. And to be quite honest, when it does happen, all you've got to do is just think right, just, you know, go along with the flow and if the shit hits the fan then, well, the shit hits the fan, there's nothing you can do about that. You've just got to go with the flow. Okay, right, I'm going to turn this off now and I'll speak to you in a minute. There you go folks, it's all set up.

I actually had to cart everything up those steps around the corner, and yeah, it's up and down, up and down, up and down about ten times. Brian S. Redd will know exactly where I'm coming from, so will a lot of other mobile DJs. It's not a case of walking through the front door and setting up, it's a case of just turn up and find out what the carry is like, and sometimes it can be a bloody nightmare like this one, but there you go.

6:55 It's just going over these speed bumps now

So, it's just going over these speed bumps now. And yes, very interesting evening. The crowds were pretty good. Not that many people there, but the main thing is that they enjoyed themselves. And if the bride and groom ever watched this particular video, they were absolute stars. I'll tell you what, the groom was a bit of fun, the bride smiled all night, enjoyed herself, should I say, and I haven't drunk anything. And it was just a very, very, you know, sort of not an average normal evening because every single one's different. You know, I mean, I have worked there before but I worked in a different room. But this time it was all the way up the stairs. So it was park the van, reverse it up over a wall, through some doors, up a couple of stairs, then turn a corner, through a whole flight of stairs into a room.

And you have to do that 10 times. And then you have to do it 10 times again to come back. So, you know, it's not a case of just, like I've said before, in and out. You don't know. You can turn up and you don't know where you are. I think that's the beauty about it. It makes it interesting. I'm sure Brian knows exactly where I'm coming from here and all the other mobile DJs out there. And that is when you turn up to a new venue, it's a new... Well, it's a new venue. You haven't got the foggiest. You don't know where you're going to set up. You don't know how much room you've got. You don't know where your mains leads are going to go. Anything. And by the way, anyone asking, I've actually got the camera now set up on the tripod. Right, I'm going to play you a tune now. A really good song. If you're interested in it, email me and I'll give you the name of it. I might even give it on the video. But check this out. This is just fantastic.

The only way of describing this, hold on, the only way of describing this is jazz. It's like jazz, but hardcore jazz, alright? It's just awesome. Check it out.

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