How many PAID gigs do YOU personally do a year?

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How many events do you PERSONALLY DJ each year?

  • Less than 10

    Votes: 32 100.0%

  • 10 -20

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 20 - 40

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 40 - 75

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 75 - 125

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • more than 125

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    32
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Papa Deuce

Mac Daddy DJ
Aug 8, 2006
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Just curious.... I am limiting myself to just 10 weddings / corporate / other big gigs a year, but expect I might do 50 bubble parties this year. My FT job totally screws up my chances of taking many big $$$ events.

I'm going to say 20 - 40 though, as I haven't booked these Bubble Parties yet.
 
20 - 40 but I'm probably just above 20. I think you need more specific choices.
 
As it stands right now Ill personally be doing 54
 
I counted bar work,,, if you do a bar gig once a week, that's 52 gigs right there.... I did 36 "bar" gigs coving mostly for some buds here that needed nights off... I had 6 nights where a bar was trying karaoke but decided that the singers were too annoying to keep it up... LOL
 
ALL of 'em!

But seriously folks...... I do maybe 45 or so private events, but around 250 bar shows/year. I have 7 bar venues ( 4 permanent weekly nights plus 3 that rotate sundays- one Sunday off out of four). The only reason I can even do that many private events is that I have a large shift-working ( Nurses, cops, etc...) clientele whose "weekends" can be anytime.
 
We'll end up doing over 30 this year and most will be weddings with a few private parties.

We're not really marketing ourselves for bar/nightclub work. I'll leave that to the younger guys and gals.
 
If I do not pick anythng else up for the year, it will be 30 total. 27 weddings, 2 50th anniversary parties and 1 bar.

I am still trying to meet my goal of 30 weddings for a year. I did 29 2 years ago and 26 last year.

Karl
 
I would have to break out the books and look it over, but I'm guessing @ 40 - 50. I'm hoping to get more guys on staff with skills so I can cut that number in 1/2. Ideally, I would like to only work Homecoming / Prom / Christmas and have a few weddings just to stay on top of my game :)
 
i average around 50 shows for myself a year. i've been trying to cut that down some and focus more on bookings and managing.
 
I'm out personally on about 100 jobs a year.

I don't DJ by myself anymore. I usually go out on the jobs as the MC or program and run our big light shows as well as run our video set-ups.

Last weekend we did a benefit dinner/dance on Friday night.

Saturday and Sunday we provided 3 plasma screens for the VIP Hospitality tent for the musicians, sponsored by Monster Energy drink at the "Bamboozle Festival" at the Meadowlands in NJ. They had 120 bands performing on 4 stages (a whole lot of punk rock bands). You could not escape the loud sound. I was there from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm as the "techie" in case there was a problem with the plasmas and to change DVDs every once in a while. My ears were still ringing on Monday...LOL.

A couple of the bands were "My Chemical Romance" and "Linkin Park".

Tonight we had out 4 plasmas at a corporate function.
 
Averaging 85 private events annually for the past 5 years, 95% weekend stuff. Add 8 more to that total if including benefit gratuitous performances.

No clubs, no karaoke, no school dances (except for a huge prom in two weeks on a Thursday night); primarily weddings and other family-like functions (birthday, anniversary, etc)
 
Almost 100% bars...

I have only two weddings this year. I raised my prices to discourage weddings, but still got two. The rest are my bar gigs. Every Friday and Saturday, then Sundays during the summer. I love being able to leave my gear set up all the time. The total is just over 125.

I'm now moving outside to the dock for the summer. Next year, the dockside will be totally different since the construction of the new club this October.
 
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