Hi. Just  a quicky this week as I'm off to another gig this Sunday afternoon. Just want to say thanks to James and Donna for looking after me last night. Great gig. They set the room up like a night club and I used the uplighters around the room to enhance the pink theme.

I started out by smacking my head on the door frame as I manhandled a bass bin in. I only realised I was bleeding after I went to wipe the sweat from my head. "Things can only get better" I thought. Which was one of Donna's song choices and went down a storm. (sorry, tedious links are for Dave only) The great thing about the night though is that there was no song list. Only three songs were asked for and one of them got canned due to a change of direction at the request of the host. All that was asked for were certain musical directions at various points in the night ie: start out with swing/big band/rat pack, after the singer guitarist had done his hour go into a motown/soul set, then disco 80's, then 90's piano house etc moving up to modern Mr. Saxo beat type funky house and finally some trance/house right at the end (one of which was a special remix by yours truly for Donna). This is so much better than a mile long song list, as you get to choose the classic tracks that sound great and work well on the floor. Any requests on the night just get fitted in with the plan and the BPM so no gaping holes in the dance floor. As I've said before. I will do a song list if you want, but having a long list is like having sex with your self. It may be reliable in your eyes, but it's never as good and there are rarely any nice surprises.

Anyway, Donna and James were over the moon at my set and told me so several times (Donna had to come up and kiss me to say how "amazing" I was - read latest feedback here) and this is the point! Request a few in advance of course if you like, but you're shooting yourself in the foot (and "locking me in a cage of no creativity") with a long song list!

Take care, have a great week and feel free to re-post this blog if you're another DJ or have some related site. (please credit me Mike Stryk: cloudandsun.com) Let's put that monster (song list) back in it's cage and go back to the days of real fun on the floor!!!