ABANDONED - The Start Of Something Epic.

So, Friday night saw me attempting to become DJ Pureblood for the first time at ABANDONED! (As a very quick aside, the name is Harry Potter related and nothing, whatsoever to do with anything white supremicist. As a friend of mine pointed out, as a ginger I'm "part of an oppressed minority and therefore ineligible for membership of any fascist organisation", and besides which as a Death Eater I needed to pick something Slytherin!)

I was uber-nervous, as that night was my chance to show the organising girls that I was worthy of a regular slot at the night, and the last time I did anything DJ-related was with my lovely housemate from Uni on our weekly radio show back in 2005. Luckily for me, the wonderful Luke had agreed to help me, and together, we totally rocked it!

Obviously, there's a huge difference between "being a DJ" and "DJing"; at the moment, we are very much attempting to do the later. Hopefully, we'll learn how to be the first with practice ;)

There was a good turn-out at the club, despite the already-established Malicious running at the same time. We even had a hen party of goths and metalheads turn up specially! Drinks were cheap, people were dancing, I was coping in my mini-skirt and tightly-laced corset, everyone was looking gorgeous!

Luke and I took over at about 12.30. It didn't start too well, because I'd forgotten to un-mute my laptop, but luckily we already had cds cued up to go. Seriously, my laptop is such a sight to behold, old and covered in stickers :) It did the trick though. Other incidents of note:

• Both CD decks turned themselves off half-way through Manson's mOBSCENE.
• Having a version of Chop Suey which was missing a chunk off the end, which prompted one enthusiastic dancer to call me a "c*nt" when I had to fade into another song - to be fair, I'd have been pissed at me too!
• Causing the fire-alarm to go off in the hotel upstairs, waking 140 guests up at 1.30am, because I discovered that the smoke machine worked! Ooops! Luckily, the security manager thought it was rather funny, and requested a song rather than telling me off!

The absolute highlights were seeing the dance floor fill up, and stay busy, while people were queuing at the bar to get served. Hearing people cheer when you play a tune they love is incredible. Being able to play requests that people want = amazing (and we'll be armed with even more next week). Being brought beverages because you shouted "SNATCH!" as promised = ace. The best thing, by far, was that by 3am when we had to wrap it up and the lights were already on, the dance floor was still full and people were shouting for more when we finally had to to turn the music off!

Luke and I are back on Friday and every Friday until we get told to stop. ABANDONED isn't going anywhere.