Beerland

So I had a pretty good weekend. Saturday, 3 of my friends had a birthday party at the Tiniest Bar in Texas (on 5th street). The staff and the regulars were NOT prepared for the bar to be over run by hipsters and trannies… SURPRISE. In spite of overwhelmed bar tenders, they asked my friends to come back and throw more parties. Of coarse they did, the place was packed. I’ve been asked to DJ the next party, so keep your eyes peeled for that.

Then Sunday I slept in and got ready for my DJ set that night at Beerland (7th and Red River). It was an after party for the TX Roller Girls… always a fun group. Most of the girls seemed to be really into it. But I knew not everyone was going to be ready for an electro/ house set at a place like Beerland. I got several older dudes and stupid girls asking to hear 80′s… and even HIP HOP! I had already been throwing in a little 80′s here and there but that’s really never my focus. I wanted to tell them to go next door to Elysium where Sunday nights are actually devoted to playing the same 80′s jams that have been playing for 30 years. And PS… hip hop was totally out of the question and wouldn’t have fit at all. Hip hop girl laughed at me when I told her I kinda had a set list. My set wasn’t carved in stone, but I did have a few things planned out. Hip hop was obviously not on the agenda. After my set, I went next door to Elysium and ran into a friend that told me all his friends had scurried over to Beerland from the gay bars because they had heard “it was really happenin’ over there”. I was glad he told me that because I had really let 3 people with no taste bring me down. I had just forgotten how frustrating it can be to get “requests”… I’m not a wedding DJ, sorry. Next time I spin for the roller girls, I am going to bring in my old DJ partner b/c he’s good at pleasing those kinds of people. We work well together, mixing in his top 40′s with my beats. So, also be on the lookout for that set… probably in about a month.

Ps. I played a few POSR reworks and they definitely kept everyone dancing.