2008...new year for clubs to integrate international djs?

[@mr]

[Genesis]

Good topic! I'll be back to drop my line on this.

** Moved to The Music Room **

[TranceFusion]

Whether it's clubs or larve venues, the crowd is the same: ing. So personally i don't really care as long as i see the DJ live in the mix
I think that it's a positive thing for the clubbers. They have a choice like this. I guess that clubs are cheaper than big events. And we all know how important money is. I can't imagine buying the ticket for Ferry's event at 15$, not in Lebanon. I'll give an example, check Sunrise Festival topic in News & Events section. 3 days event, 47 DJs, and i can give the statistics of the 2007 edition so you see how huge this looks like. The cheapest ticket is at 54$! Whereas the VIP ticket for Ferry's event is only 16$ more expensive. Does this make sense? NO. I'm convinced that large scale events can be very well organized at lower costs. I hope for the sake of clubbers that there will be more DJs playing in clubs.
It's good that organizers other than the radios bring international DJs (less known and as much talented as the big ones). Great work Amr keep it up!

[Genesis]

It's not only about expense.

Clubs' ability to book a DJ is an important step towards educating clubbers
onto EDM on a more approachable level.
Large scale events (everywhere) have a pay-and-get-in system. Meaning
that anyone that can afford a ticket and is within the age requirement of 18
can get it. You have a lot of space to fill and mainly organizers want to
provide as much space to hold the crowd as possible. This is not necessarily
bad but on a club level it's different.
Clubs are selective of whom to let in (at least in Europe - don't know about
Leb as I've never been around to see). Where they do have the same
system as large scale events and festivals of pay-and-get-in, they have dress
codes & regular clubbers that attend the club every so often. The club is also
there all the time so the bar is fixated, the sound system is properly
engineered, and every corner of the club is known and designed for the long
term by the promoters and owners. On a large scale one-off event that doesn't
happen. Where there are exceptions were promoters make up the venue to
surpass clubs, many venues (indoors & open air) fail to deliver and equip the
venue to the occasion as it's not made for that kind of aural display. It's made
for capacity, but not audio madness.
The main approach for large events is to fit as many (which is easy) and deliver
to the best (which is a struggle - that doesn't necessarily fail all the time).

With clubs it's different. You're approaching a limited number of clubbers that
passed the obvious criterion, that located the gig despite competition with other
clubs and not-as-large of an ad campaign as a large event, and who might
potentially be regulars getting exposed to new sounds by a DJ that they haven't
seen playing yet. I'm no stage performer, and I could be wrong here, but you'd
enjoy a club where you're music is received and making a huge impact more
than in a massive open air event were your message might not get through.

I personally favor clubs. They have a more personal approach, the sound is
almost always better, they're more affordable, and it offers you more options
despite the limited space and capacity.

[@mr]

[A-Cube]

Genesis's post says it all...

The problem in Lebanon is that people go to a certain club expecting a certain kind of music...I think we all saw what happened when De Hey played at Basement...the club was empty shortly after De Hay started...we still have a long way to go in matter of having international DJ's in clubs...

[DIONYSOS]

[crow]

I hate you Gen! You always say it all!!!