An aspiring DJ who has been working as a cloakroom attendant at his local clubnight for the past six months has claimed that he’s “just happy to be involved” in the industry.
Glasgow based Peter Coates, a.k.a. DJ Jack-It, took the menial job during the summer claiming that it was “the foot in the door” he needed to finally break into the city’s burgeoning house and techno scene.
“The job really seemed perfect for me at the time,” explained Coates. “I thought working in a nightclub would open all sorts of opportunities for me but so far it hasn’t really worked out that way but at the moment I suppose I’m just happy to be involved at some level.”
“I’m always giving my mixes and sending Soundcloud links to the promoters I work for,” continued the twenty three year old bedroom DJ. “They always say things like “I’ll give it a listen tonight” and “we’ll have you behind the decks in no time” but I’m beginning to think they’re just cunts who don’t care about my DJ career at all.”
“But at least the job’s got some perks, the money’s good,” claimed Coates. “Well actually that’s not true the money is shit, I could probably earn more begging outside the club in the amount of time I work in the cloakroom but I suppose the fact that every so often someone leaves a really nice jacket behind and I get to go through the pockets and keep the change before giving it to my bosses kind of makes up for that.”
“I also get into the club free any time I want,” said the cloakroom attendant, “although I work every Friday and Saturday and they’re the only nights that it actually opens but I always get into the main room for a few minutes and you can kind of hear the bass from where I work so that’s something.”
“I’m happy enough to give it another couple of years but if I don’t get a chance to play a set by then I’ll have to consider my options and maybe even apply for a job working on the door, in the toilets or even another cloakroom role in a bigger club.”
According to unconfirmed reports from Glasgow Mr. Coates has quit his cloakroom job since giving this interview and taken up a position as a steward for Glasgow’s Celtic Football Club in a bid to live out his life long ambition of becoming a professional footballer.
