Now this makes sense to me... People don't want to stop dancing so either
the DJ keeps playing despite the clubs protests or something like this
happens.
I guess my confusion over it is more about the DJ as "rock star" thing
which I guess is the case in Europe but is not so much here. To have a DJ
expecting an encore seems to me to be just a huge ego thing. And in the US
I guess that while people often go to clubs to hear particular DJs the DJ
is not the focus of the evening (with certain notable exceptions). The DJ
is still providing music for people to dance to - not acting as a performer
for people to watch.
I'm also assuming that the headlining DJ will not be the last DJ of the
night, which I usually find to be the case with exceptions in clubs where
the headlining DJ plays all of the next day (like Tenaglia at Vinyl and
Vasquez from back in the Sound Factory days). So the thought of a DJ
stopping the music when they are done to give the crowd a chance to ask for
an encore rather than letting the next DJ continue to play music and not
breaking the groove strikes me as slightly egotistical.
Probably just a cultural thing I guess.
On a related note is Body & Soul still going on? I know that Shelter closed
and then moved and reopened or something but is Body & SOUL still going on
or has that ended?
Eric
At 12:47 PM 2/27/2002 +0000, Kerr Graham wrote:
I had the pleasure of attending Body and Soul a few years ago on the night
of Francois K's 40th birthday - it finished bang on the stroke of 11pm so as
not to get in trouble with the authorities over the licence.The crowd
weren't having it though - everyone was screaming and shouting for an encore
(such was the quality of the previous 8 hours) but no way was it
happening.So what did they do?First someone started drumming out a beat on
top of a speaker,then a few more joined in,then someone started singing and
before you knew it people were dancing again! I've never seen anything like
it - it was 11.20 before they managed to get us out......
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