RE: (313) DJ Agents / Agencies

2010-03-08 Thread Odeluga, Ken
LOL. I agree partly with Klass Jan. [Many] booking agents are evil! :-) -Original Message- From: Placid [mailto:pla...@acid-house.net] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 3:21 PM To: Marsel van der Wielen Cc: 313 Mailinglist List Subject: Re: (313) DJ Agents / Agencies thanks for the input

RE: (313) DJ Agents / Agencies

2010-03-08 Thread Odeluga, Ken
Apologies I meant *Klaas* Jan. I should know how to spell it by now. Ken -Original Message- From: Odeluga, Ken [mailto:ken.odel...@dowjones.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 4:21 PM To: 'Placid'; Marsel van der Wielen Cc: 313 Mailinglist List Subject: RE: (313) DJ Agents / Agencies LOL

Re: (313) DJ Agents / Agencies

2010-03-08 Thread kent williams
People start booking agencies without the slightest concept of what it takes to do the job properly. They are inexperienced, they might be incompetent, they might be dishonest, and they might be insane. Only the first of those 4 possible attributes are curable. Many people get surprisingly far

Re: (313) DJ Agents / Agencies

2010-03-05 Thread Klaas-Jan Jongsma
Well i am a producer and in the almost 20 years i am making music, i came to the following conclusion: Booking agencies are evil. I tried to avoid them as much as i could, all the times i had to deal with them i ended arranging stuff myself because they just did it wrong or flat out

Re: (313) DJ Agents / Agencies

2010-03-05 Thread Marsel van der Wielen
like every where there are lot of idiots, semi-profs and profs around, including bookings agencies. i think you only need a booking agency, if already have several lot of gigs requests and need someone to arrange all booking requests for you. not to other way around - they won't give you a

Re: (313) DJ Agents / Agencies

2010-03-05 Thread Placid
thanks for the input guys... Ill just keep doing what I doing..i think seems to be ok so far. p On 5 Mar 2010, at 14:02, Marsel van der Wielen wrote: like every where there are lot of idiots, semi-profs and profs around, including bookings agencies. i think you only need a

(313) DJ Agents / Agencies

2010-03-03 Thread Placid
Good Evening List Suppose one wanted to raise ones profile a bit and possibly do a few more gigs in slightly more exotic locations around our continent. Whats the deal with agents / agencies. Having perused the www for a bit, my conclusions are that there are alot of 'DJ' agencies set up

Re: (313) DJ Agents / Agencies

2010-03-03 Thread Frank Glazer
i'd be interested in this kind of info too. it's rough out there for a (non-producing) dj On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Placid pla...@acid-house.net wrote: Good Evening List Suppose one wanted to raise ones profile a bit and possibly do a few more gigs in slightly more exotic locations