Take time out
Being a DJ doesn’t really leave you much time for a social life, bizarrely. It doesn’t leave you much time for anything, to be honest! I’m not yet famous or successful enough to be able to give up the day job in the record shop where I work, which means on the days when I have a gig I don’t get home until after 6pm and often have to be out again by 8pm to set up. Only two hours to put my feet up with a nice relaxing fruit tea in one of my Pantone mugs!
Sometimes I feel like I’m never going to be able to get myself motivated for a gig if I’ve been working all day but it doesn’t take me long to shake off whatever has happened in the shop and start feeling that buzz that I always get performing. And once the music starts it can be difficult for the bar owner to get me to stop…
Of course, that feeling doesn’t last forever and when the alarm clock goes off on a Saturday morning to wake me up for work, I sometimes wonder if I really have the energy to be a DJ. After all, I’m not getting any younger. Luckily my boss is a big fan of mine and tries to give me weekend days off as much as possible – or at least lets me just hide out in the back office doing the paperwork. Besides, I’m sure most Saturday mornings I look an absolute fright which is hardly going to encourage the customers!
I always knew making it as a DJ was going to be hard, but when I upped sticks and headed for the bright lights of London, I had expected I’d have a little more time to chill out and enjoy my new home, rather than rushing from one job to another, snatching a forty winks in between.
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