303abuser I have no idea what happened here, but I’ll toss in my opinion anyways. If you take money to do something, you should probably know how to fucking do it. Especially if that something is to perform in front of a large crowd who paid way too much to be there.

Is this not the responsibility of the promoters for making these bookings in the first place?

I’ve heard of producers getting booked for DJ sets and accepting the offers because the money was too good to turn down. One producer said they were watching Youtube ‘How to DJ’ tutorial videos on the train ride to the gig!

      Smallman1 All of the worlds problems could be sorted with wrecking ball prog, Ed.

      We’d have peace in the Middle East by just rocking up to the Gaza Strip with disc 2.

          303abuser who couldn’t be bothered to learn a skill as simple as digital dj’ing

          This. Digital dj-ing is so straightforward (all the dj’s on this board have mastered it!). To not have a handle on it / to not even bother to prepare speaks volumes.

            Don’t know about the djing, but I’m a big fan of her live performances (on YouTube) and catching all the subtle variations while she’s running around and working all her gear on the fly.

            Having skipped through this I actually feel sorry for her, she’s obviously having a reg from the start. A sound engineer briefly appears then fucks off again staring at his phone. A good engineer would of stayed up there and botched a workaround (ie give her a pair of cans and point at where the crossfader is.) No one there would of noticed or given a fuck)

            Anyways the wheels start to compeltley fall off at around 30 mins in, but fair play to her she carries on and attempts to explain the problem with a bit of humility. Others would of just walked off stage at this point I reckon.

              SM001 We’d have peace in the Middle East by just rocking up to the Gaza Strip with disc 2.

              I doubt it - the bloomin’ Palestinians will probably try to argue that disc 1 is better.

                I haven’t watched, or listened.

                But it’s a total disgrace!

                The worst thing about the whole debacle is a load of gatekeeping DJ’s on social media saying I told you so

                  mono-stereo A good engineer would of stayed up there and botched a workaround (ie give her a pair of cans and point at where the crossfader is

                  I don’t know why she’d been trying to use sync to begin with anyway - it’s not as if she was actually trying to mix any of the tracks together on beat.

                  mono-stereo , but fair play to her she carries on and attempts to explain the problem with a bit of humility

                  Yeah, though also after the first couple of times jumping on the mic to explain what was going on not sure she had to keep doing it between every single track.

                      I don’t suppose most of you have ever heard about the only other time I think Grimes has ever done a streamed “DJ set”?

                      In 2013 she played at a Boiler Room show filmed at a pool party in Richie Hawtin’s Ibiza villa - yes you heard that right. She was just playing tunes from her laptop - including the infamous moment below.

                      Boiler Room deleted her set from Youtube a few days later, and the below is the only existing clip of her set online. It’s pretty baffling that the set got removed and has never been re-uploaded since; maybe at the time Boiler Room thought it was too uncool or not underground enough for their image, but if anything now it would be the reverse. Or maybe copyright issues? Regardless it would have had millions of views by now I’m sure. There have been lots of people who have tried to lobby Boiler Room to put it back online but to no success.

                      Richie Hawtin’s set from the end of the same party/Boiler Room stream is still online though and Grimes can be seen occasionally dancing in the background:

                      SM001 I guess, but their primary job is to sell tickets. The results reflect on them obviously, although I’m sure they won’t be hurting next year because of whatever happened, but maybe they assumed she’s put in the most minimal effort to be semi-competent?

                          303abuser I’m sure they won’t be hurting next year

                          Idk about that. Supposedly attendance was down by like 30,000

                              zackster Good. Seems like over-commercialized garbage, but what do I know, I’m old and mostly boring now.

                                Looks like it’s more like 50,000. Seems like there was a real disconnect between the promoters and the festival attendees. Blur getting booed off stage and the Anime Singer not being able to appear in hologram form as two non Grimes examples.

                                I guess that’s the inevitable timeline when you overcharge, oversell, and the acts are mostly shit.

                                They are booking Blur and Will Smith for a bunch of zoomers who want to see Tyler the Creator. Bunch of Gen X idiots running it I would guess.