A young British man has today decided to become a promoter after failing to become a DJ.
22-year-old Gary Shortall has been trying to become a DJ for the last month and a half but opted to quit this lifelong ambition, which he has had for a “year or so”, after struggling to master the art of DJing.
“I still want to be involved in the scene but I just don’t want to put the years of work in,” admitted Gary who says that he found beatmatching “too difficult, trying to match up different beats in your head” and that “buying reams of records and sitting down listening to them sounded too much like hard work”.
“I figured the best way for me to still be involved is to become a promoter,” continued Gary. “All they do is book acts, take money and live vicariously through the real DJs.”
“Plus I’ll get to have power over guestlist, which makes it all worth it when I’m trying to impress women, or blokes who I want to share their drugs with me,” he added.
Gary claims that from his four seconds in the promotion game he was able to deduce that almost 100% of the fellow promoters were failed DJs themselves “except for the female ones who viewed putting on the gigs as another thing that being good looking suggested as a career path”.
“Most of the promoters I’ve met seem like people frustrated with their inability to DJ so decided to throw parties in order to control the session and feel good about themselves,” he concluded. “It’s seems like a perfect fit for me to be honest because I don’t much care about music but being perceived to be cool is important to me.”
