I recently attended an event at Orsett Hall as a guest, and I am often critical of DJs when on the other side of the DJ booth, but I have to say that it was the worst DJ performance I have witnessed for a long time. During dinner the background music was far too loud and totally inappropriate for the crowd. I could easily read the guests faces and knew what they were thinking, the DJ however was happily eating his food, until someone on my table complained.

Onto the party the music selection was ok, but very badly put together, and on the odd time when two tracks could easily have been mixed being the same BPM and key, it was painful for the 10 seconds he took to crossfade. I was intrigued why he couldn’t mix, and a closer look saw his headphones round his neck, erm how was he cueing, a closer look discovered he was using a free ipad app to DJ at what was a black tie event in a 4 star hotel. To top it off the jeans and t shirt look might be ok for your local pub, but was certainly out of place for a DJ at this event

I then discovered there was another event going on at the same time, I was dying to know whether the DJ there was any better. Well unfortunately not, although nicely dressed, the DJ was just sitting reading a book, and when one tune was coming to an end another was randomly faded in, again no mixing skills whatsoever, and a DJ who was totally uninterested in the crowd, the sad fact was the crowd looked a little bored too.