Dalen Wrote:
Z,. where's your night at, and what's the crowd like? The fact that someone requested The Paddingtons kicks ass!
it's at smartbar in chicago, underneath the metro. the crowd varies a lot, even throughout a night. it's billed as britpop/indie/alternative, so we get a good amount of people that are pretty familiar with current trends and whatnot. the guy who requested the paddingtons and most of the other britpop is a medical student in italy, so i know to bring fresh stuff for him and his friends. we'll occasionally get a night where a group of people just want to hear 80s, which is more what the resident dj likes to do. (he's been out of town, which is why i've taken over the last few weeks.) and then after 2am, everyone from the neighborhood bars that close up at 2 come in. that's usually when i start putting in more punk because one of the punk bars basically empties into smartbar then.
it's been a good time and helped me tremendously on my confidence in front of bigger crowds. i'm used to doing small nights with a few dozen people instead of a huge club with sometimes 100+.
