Court Tavern Debut and Other Nuggets

I received a call from Matt C at 2 PM on Monday while on official business in Manhattan.  He said that the owner of the Court Tavern had green lighted our electronica night -  for that night!  Great opportunity, but regrettably not a lot of notice to bring some friends and fans along.

 

I contacted DJ Struggler, who as a resident of New Brunswick, was available to join the exhibition.  Normally, Monday nights at the Court Tavern are open mic nights.  A few aspiring artists had shown up to hawk their wares, and were disappointed to see our DJ table in the back.  One 40 year old cowboy with a guitar was visibly disturbed, and asked us to keep it "chill" while he mourned the loss of a bar mate from the Tavern who had passed away over the weekend.

 

Matt C was able to bring along half a dozen friends, plus there were some other locals in the house.  Struggler put on some alternative, indie rock for starters.  At about 10:30, Matt C came on and dropped a solid hour-plus set of funky house.  Song selections stayed within genre and similar tempo, allowing non-stop seamless mix.  Strong finishing song as well.  I sat at a barstool, right in the sweet spot of the music, and enjoyed listening to the music at high volume on good speakers.  Those Mackie 1521s sound nice.

 

Struggler and I finished out the evening, deciding to go with a hip hop set and keep it fresh.  We sensed that some of the patrons were on the verge of bailing.  We played for about an hour and did suffer a net loss of patrons, but it was fun.  Surely, the club scene is far different from the private party / wedding circuit.  The money is the latter, but the glamour is in the former.

 

Over this past 10 days, I booked some more parties:  two weddings (one in Long Branch, one in New Hope, PA), both in the Fall; plus four private parties:  Keyport, East Hanover, Swedesboro, and Farmingdale.  The respective party types are twins birthday party, baby shower, house party and engagement party.  Wasn't it Mike Z who said that "variety is the spice of life?"

 

I ordered 1,000 more business cards, and some Ambient DJ stationery.

 

That's all.  Peace out.

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