Just getting round to doing this write up, has been a busy week-ish in the world of brokenhomes.
That Was... took place last Thursday at one of the best styled venues in NW London, The Gallery, Hendon. Location is probably lacking but you cannot fault the interior. Anyway, due to some unfortunate circumstances, Lazy Eye from the Black Vinyl Crew had to pull out. (we with you brother). I called the venue and let them know that I would like to start the event at 8pm. I got the all clear so got everything set.
On reaching the venue, I wrote out the guest list for the evening downstairs whilst having a cup of tea and going through the texts and emails from the week with names.
After all that was done, I popped upstairs to check the system. Technology seems to have something against me at the moment. The left deck had no slip mat and then on further examination, it was only pumping out the left channel. So to remedy this I made both decks play one channel and pumped the volume up. DJ Leisure brought a spare slip mat which was lucky and we sorted out the CD decks whilst no one was in the venue.
As it stared early it stayed empty for a while. My brother, Greedykid/Louis/brokenhomes v2.0 turned up. He wanted to have a quick clang/mix so I decided to let him take over. Turns out that he did the first set up until 9pm. His first ever play out. I stepped up from 9 and luckily as Louis and I were working from the same bag, he didn't play all the A-Sides. From the DJ box I could see the venue slowly filling up. It wasn't going to be a road block affair as I hardly promoted it. It was a Facebook and word of mouth thing only. By the end of my set, just after 10, we had hit maximum which was 60 people. Pretty good for a venue which is normally closed on a Thursday and just a local word of mouth promotion. I was told by the head doorman that a promoter came in and brought 3 people the last week. #epicfail.
Next DJ was Grumpy aka Steve James aka Solo G. He provided the soundtrack up until 11pm. DJ Leisure stepped up after going home to get more CDs! As he was playing CDs, he played last as he was going to be the loudest DJ of the night. After some unplugging and plugging back in we got the CDs working again. I don't know how they stopped working. It was a good plan as by 12 we had some people on the dance floor.
Feedback from the evening was it was a real good get together and people were asking me if I would do another one. I probably would but I think for that venue to be a success, there would have to be a compromise in my music integrity and I'm not sure if I could do that. We shall see, its a big moral question.
Big thanks to everyone who came through.
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