Where's the music gone?

A beautiful venue, audacious, stunning, hard working upper and middle class working people, that look forward to putting on their best clobber and getting their groove on only to be duped, yes duped by promoters, the DJ or the organisation.

Let me start with the promoters. In this day and age it is soooo blooming hard to find a venue that will cater for a mixture of black and white people, mainly black people. (Now before anyone says I'm racist, read and not perceive what I'm saying, as I'm far from that and I'm not political at that.), but it's darn true. The venues that are on offer do a disservice to promoters putting some events on. They book these wine bars, charge ridiculous prices with stipulations, which promoters jump through hoops to achieve, only for the Venue to pull the plug on the promoter halfway through night, leaving disgruntled good paying party goers.

Then you have the promoters, who don't give a flying two shites about the paying public. Puts out false advertising and don't deal with the matter after either by over selling or undersold tickets, but let's just advertise take everyones Money, money, money

Some promoters find swanky venues, puts on a ball/function which looks of calibre, with the typical pictures of grandeur to again appeal to the general upper/middle class echelons, who want to have a decent night with or without partner and are expecting what these promotions are saying.

The put a Big DJ line up, saying the cream of the crop, (as I roll my eyes), with top cuisine (double roll my eyes) and entertainment (bull crap, it's either comedy or singing ffs)🙄🤔😤. And sometimes the quality is piss poor, but seems good on paper.

So you fork out 1/3 of your rent/mortgage to get tickets, outfit, transportation blah de blah de da, only for the whole pack of shite to over run, sometimes food that could run a pigs belly, the entertainment drier than a packet of pork cracklings 😖.

Then when the music starts, what is it with Luther Vandross' tunes to get the old foot them moving. Not all of us are in spandex and wearing arthritis bracelets you know 🙈😂😂😳

So these 'cream of the crop DJ's' get on their little pedestals and play flipping Bollocks tunes. You have a room of stunning people shuffling from side to side, cause this so called BIG Dj is supposed to pluck out some gems, like when they play in the house dances or radio, but instead, each one comes on and plays the worse flipping let's get hyped tunes you'"" ever hear. It's like no homework was done, they just assume I'm going to rival the next DJ by playing the same as him, thinking he's got a twist, when the only twist is the knobs he's turning too backside and forgetting the people desperate to feel a vibe.

WHY OH WHY ARE YOU CONNING THE PEOPLE.? Come on do your homework, drop rare grooves, drop current tunes in the soul charts, people do listen to the proper radio stations not just pirate,  mix it up. The poor womens' feet are in sandals/flats within the first half hour of raving!! Why? Cause their standing still and shuffling instead of actually shaking what god gave them.

Last night point in question! A pack Mansion the last DJ for night only played decent tunes 45 minutes before it was to end!!!😳 5 Hours of same tripe in one room until the last Dj, starts to play 45 minutes near the end of good tunes.

The other room was constantly packed, that was supposed to be Afro beat, reggae, well it won hands down and I still thought the music was mind numbing.

I'm not saying I know better, but Promoters, think carefully before you book artistes and Dj's. visualise, not speculate,  don't just pick by names, pick by their crowd pleasing music. Dj's you fluff it time and time again. You carry on like your Pete Tong and you get it monumentally wrong when you hit the decks. What stage fright? Bugger off back to your virtually decks in your bedrooms mate, your nicking my money.

Lastly Promoters, IF you are going to pick decent DJS instead of every named DJ, at least let them play. not go over schedule and we don't get to hear our favourite Dj's when you've let the early drosses come on and over kill and play. Jesus..when will someone put a stop to this?!!!!

I did however enjoy my last hour of the rave, some random DJ kept the music alive till the bitter end in the Soul Room, no idea who you were, but thank f#%k for that.