NEW VENUE people, if you see this, hi, hey.
Had fun making this mix for you tonight. I remember when your space was (I think) a Moroccan kind of a thing when I first started visiting TOWN. There hasn’t been a dancefloor in TOWN, and I just found out about your place recently because I guess I’m a hermit.
I’m writing to tell you that I will instantly Batman my ass down there at any time with no notice, and play (within reason) any style you want, as chill or as hard as you want, for up to five hours at a time, for very low rates, or splits, or whatever.
I’ll wash dishes AND DJ at the same time. I’d “wait tables” from up there by chucking people’s food at them if that wouldn’t destroy the food.
…I’ve been unemployed for an uncomfortably long time.
* As a DJ-performer and audio dork I have a lot of experience, some as a co-promoter; no-nonsense, direct (blunt?) but affable and fun FOH, (they tell me) eccentric (I call it something closer to “YOLO”)
* As a manager / server / bartender in a service setting (6+ years?), willing to help-randomly-as-needed as is expected in a restaurant/bar, providing oversight and good vibes in customer-facing spaces
* In software businesses (15 years), you know, business things, and retail and marketing, and pricing and positioning and researching, and all this kind of nonsense remains useful in hospitality too, obvs I guess
* Separately, if you’re not happy with any part of your tech world, POS solution, digital signage, ERP, CRM, website, social media, digital ads, I have experience with all that. Media/technology/operations consulting: I will consult the heck out of it.
Regardless of any of that, naturally the DJ’s Oath requires us to Be Vigilantly Sensing (“BVS!” we’ll shout to one another) the sophisticated and attractive people around us — it’s to triangulate a mood, isn’t it; what material will land, which clique or couple or dynamic can we ethically but also for comic effect manipulate?
The point of DJing is helping people find love and companionship. By sharing a traumatic experience. Or more ideally by dancing and flirting and making friends and enjoying therapeutic bass.
The “milkshake,” if I may (.…aaaand already regret having done; if that’s still in the post, I sacrificed that dignity for you, for a laugh on spec; this is me self-flagellating: stet.) … uh would draw PRESTIGIOUS LOCAL MUSIC SCHOOL folks, humanities students, faculty. Arty weirdos, as we’re near enough Vermont to have migratory arty weirdos.
I don’t say this just from a hippy-dippy perspective, it’s stablish periodic recurring revenue. Musicians spend a lot of money in bars at all times. It’s clear that performers plus venues is (are? can be?) more than the sum of their parts in a given ecosystem, until LiveNation extracts any money that’s not nailed to anything.
If the right folks in town feel like you’re Taking Music Seriously (like from a cultural and academic perspective, as a venue and responsible curator/host of events), and offer them something cadenced, reliable, and interesting that they know is happening at XYZ time, those folks will be in there constantly.
You know that book by Bob Putnam that people talk about, “Bowling Alone?” How people don’t have the bowling league or the slot car track or whatever anymore; that we get a lot out of having a third place to hang out and play board games and crap. People want a home base like this. When I lived in Michigan ours was Corner Brewery.
https://arborbrewing.com/location/cornerbrewery/
Relaxed afternoons/evenings with happy hour / cocktail / low-volume loungey vibes and a cool place to hang out. Appealing third space option for the CLUSTER OF TOWNS creator community and all the overlapping communities. Trust me, D&D/board game/fandom folks and music folks (sorry guys) are the best, kindest, most loyal clientele and they also drink a lot. These subcultures all want a big empty sort of a place with long tables to play board games at.
Music students will involuntarily go to any live event EVEN DJs! that they detect, andthey will drink.I have lived it AND I have exploited it.
My claim is that a [one-off | weekly | monthly] night with its own flavor would be interesting, low-risk and not boring. Possibly lucrative.
Long walk, sorry. Maybe you’re way ahead of me and I am just super out of the loop. We should have coffee at least? Hoping I can test drive the sound system and maybe there’s a Thursday night party sometime.
/DC
Tracklist
Mizzo – Shot CallerAnalog Hustlers, Heather Collins, JUZ10-TYM – B*****s Love BassA Tribe Called Quest – Scenario (a capella)Visages – Transhumanism Musicq100 – AerobicaAaliyah – Are You That Somebody (a capella)Strategy, Halogenix – PFTD VIPTrim, Klinical – My ProblemTeej, JD. REID – too much tvBlakkat, Sacha Robotti – The FloodDanny Kolk – Summer DayMPH, AC Slater, Eloise Keeble – Lights OnDennis Ferrer – A Drumstick and a Light FixtureAnti Up – Control The MediaCutty Ranks, Oppidan – Armed & DangerousDateless – Mysteries Of The HouseJamie G (UK) – Hold MeTom Zeta – Oops!Renato Cohen, AFFKT – Acid RollercoasterTruncate – Work Ya Ass (Manao & Elektor Remix)Giza DJs – Acid NachtRobert Hood – TeflonGOUX, Sorley – LightspeedJonny Miller, Kid Fonque, ASAP Shembe – Connected Beings (Jazzanova Remix)Folamour – Fearless
