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I suppose we play records for 4 or 5 hours each club, including the gaps between bands and have about 40 bands on our flyer (more on the site). If we don't play one song by probably 2/3 of those (given that most of them have done 3 or 4 or 5 albums) and weren't willing to play something by any of the rest if we were asked on any given night I'd feel like I wasn't being honest, given that that still only adds up to about an hour, maybe an hour and a half so there's plenty of time to play other similar but not the same records.

And it doesn't mean that you have to play the same songs every time either. We do end up playing a few songs a lot, maybe we have 10 songs I'd be surprised not to play at least every other club, but that's cos people ask for them and we try and honour requests, unless they're for a band I hate, when I'll politely exlain we don't have anything by them. Other times we play a different song by the same band that's been requested but that can annoy people so we try and balance giving them what they ask for and playing what's best for everyone else in the club (and a bit of selfishness too, what's the point of being a DJ if you don't get to pick some of the songs?)

I think for me it depends on how many bands you (not directed at slashclub) have on your flyer, if there's 40 bands listed and only 5 of them got played plus 3 hours of northern soul or some other completely different genre to that listed I think that's being misleading. We've been to clubs and requested a handful of the bands listed on the flyers and found out that none of the DJs has any songs by any of the band we asked for with them, and they've clearly just listed them because either they think it makes them look cool or to make people come in! I think if you're advertising something on a flyer (which is exactly what it is, an advert) you should damn well try and play mostly what you said you would. If you bought a flaming lips album and half of it was actually by coldplay you'd be pretty pissed off so I don't see the difference personally. If you just want to give a general idea of what you want to play list 8 or 10 bands and give some genre descriptions, then nobody can say you're misleading them.

But that's just an opinion.

I get what you're saying about guest DJs, I'm sure people ought to be able to be patient for half an hour or an hour and open their ears to new stuff (it's also good cos we can steal the ideas of whatever they play that people dance to ha ha).

Our flyer has changed loads of times over the years to reflect what we're actually playing at the time rather than what we think we should say to make people come, and had a very radical overhaul a few months ago, I wouldn't dream of putting anything on it that I wouldn't or couldn't play (andy added kasabian to the flyer a while ago and I had to take it off again as i'd rather rip my own ears off than play them). We also lug around the world's biggest collection of records and CDs everywhere we DJ to try and cover all bases, we probably have enough records to play for 2 weeks solid.

I just don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to play what they say they will. But that's obviously just my opinion.

And if I hear Step On once again............

Michael Diver you are SO dead. Kindly retract that at once.