Last night I headed out to a gig right past the border of Durham. It was a sweet 16 party for my good friend’s sister.

Setup

Unfortunately Nick was away on vacation so I had no van to bring all my gear to the event. My friend (the one throwing the party) came to the rescue and drove his truck all the way out to my house to pick up the equipment. We loaded up quite well started driving to his house.

About half way through the drive it started to rain. Now, this truck didn’t have one of those cool cover things. Luckily I did bring a tarp, so we went ahead and covered everything up. Thinking that all was going to be OK from that point forward we got back on the road and continued our trek to his house.

About 10 minutes after we covered the equipment the tarp started to flap everywhere and equipment started to get wet so we had to tie the tarp down. That worked for about 10 minutes, and then we had to get out of the truck again and re-adjust.

This same thing kept recurring over an over again. Eventually we did arrive at his house and I was able to start setting up. They wanted me to set up on top of the bar in the basement which was perfect. Once I got everything set-up I started jammin. I was actually encouraged to play the music at a pretty decent volume which was very nice because the room was quite small.

Guests arrive

After some appetizers, the guests started to make their way downstairs. Most of them were very surprised that there was a DJ there. This got the crowd excited, which in turn got me very excited. All through the night everyone danced and danced it was awesome.

At about 8:30 PM everyone went back up stairs for the cake cutting. The cake was actually very good! After cake they all once again came back down to party. They all were really getting into the music by this point.

After about 5 tracks I started to lose people to the couches like crazy. I got kind of worried for a little bit. Then I found out it was just a matter of everyone really tired from eating cake and dancing so much. So from that point on I just was taking a whole bunch of requests.

Conclusion

At 10:00 PM the music finished up but most of the kids rides weren’t here yet and everyone was getting quite bored because the music did stop. So I had the brilliant idea of getting on top of my subwoofer and doing a little bit of funny stuff. This little addition was greatly welcomed the kids absolutely loved it. This was an awesome event and I had loads of fun!

Below is a little footage I took of the event. You may also view this video on YouTube.