Got a question. How pro are you folks, how much drama do you put up with, staff and patron wise and what do you expect from your DJ's?

The reason I ask is that i've been dying to start DJ'ing again, only I'm soooo tired of dealing with unprofessional club owners who are either too 'yay fun' and not enough pro, or nazi's towards staff. If you need an experienced DJ (I've worked at Club Radjins, IYC, Club Fortaelia, a pile of big clubs that went under lol I can probably scrounge up a reference or two but i'll be honest, I generally worked my tush off, only to have someone elses drama end up causing me to have to walk, and most of the people I worked for turned out to be really scummy people).

To be honest, it's probably not the best idea for me to ask this kind of thing but you've always seemed like a really decent person. If you're needing help let me know. I don't work (i'm disabled) so my schedules pretty flexible and i've probably spent a total of three years out of the past five DJ'ing on a 12 hour a week basis.

That's more than one question! ;) I'll do my best though.

As for how pro we are...well, that one's a little tough for me to answers, since obviously I'm a little biased. Most of our management staff have worked several clubs before, almost all of us in management roles, at small and large clubs alike. Personally, I'm an ex AX dancer, and was the head dancer at Serengeti, a smallish club that was very successful until our owner went off the deep end (well, was always off the deep end, but stopped hiding it). I think we've got a good bit of experience spread among us, and a lot of great ideas. We're taking the club very seriously; we know it's going to be small at first and a slow start, but we all very much want it to succeed. We do lean towards "fun", of course, because that's what a club is all about, and we want it to be that for the staff as well as for the patrons, but we understand that there has to be some business in how it's run to succeed. It's going to be a balancing act. I think you'll find that we're all -far- from "nazis" though.

As for drama, the entire reason we started thinking about opening our own club was because drama ruined all of the others we were all involved in. It drove me away from AX, it completely destroyed Serengeti, after I invested so much into it, and it's been the same for all of us. We will -not- tolerate drama. We're spent a lot of time discussing rules and guidelines and general ways to keep it out. Our core management team is also a group of RL friends that have stuck together for many years now, through things that would have torn a lot of other groups apart; we're family now. We know we're not going to be dealing with splits in the management like we've all dealt with elsewhere; we can deal with anything and stay together. We're looking to assemble a full staff that that sense of family can extend to...and we're not going to tolerate people who break that up.

What do we expect from our DJs? As a dancer, I'm not that qualified to give more than a basic answer to that. I'll see if I can kick our head DJ over here to give you a good answer for that though!

Beyond that...the easiest way to see what we're about is just to come visit, of course! Right now we're only going to be open weekends, and slowly expanding from there as we build up our staff and patronage; tomorrow should be a great time to see if you like us though, if you can stop in!

And thank you! I don't mind you asking at all, I'm glad to have the interest!

Thank you for answering what was a very clumsily asked question >.< I really do appreciate it. I just really miss hanging out in sl, dj'ing, taking requests, all that jazz. I'm considering getting back into it. The one drawback I can think of is lack of tunes. I lost the majority of my music due to hard drive failure and would have to rebuild my collection. Due to the new Six strike thing a lot of ISP's are enforcing, I'm worried about torrenting/downloading music.

I'll definitely check you folks out and hang out. If sounds like you really know what you're doing and I miss hanging out in sl. I'd like to find a place where I can chill and maybe get to know folks. I'll let the few friends I have who still hang out in sl know about your club. Thank you again for taking the time to answer. I feel like I came off really blunt and entitled and that's NOT how I would have put it if i'd just taken some time to phrase things a bit more politely.

Heyo, head DJ here. Point one, blunt is pretty okay with me. I'm not much for dancing around subjects. Not to mention I've dealt with all the sorts you talked about and I've got just about the same lack of patience for them, so I very much understand. Rai covered most of that pretty much like I would have, so I'll just deal with the DJ stuff. What I expect is pretty simple. Be there when you say you'll be there, don't be an ass, and don't suck. By don't suck I mean: 1.) Don't stand in the middle of the floor saying nothing while your tracks play out. We're hiring DJs, not jukeboxes. 2.) Put some effort into your sets. People notice when a set sounds like it's just random tracks picked from your collection that happen to fill the right amount of time. I don't mean to say I expect days and days of work into every set, but a bit of effort does go a long way. That's about it really. If you're okay with that, drop on by and fill out an application (it's not long, I promise) and we'll take it from there.

I will definitely stop by. I just hope whatever happens that you guys are successful.

I really didn't see it as clumsy or blunt at all. Really, the interest is very welcome! I hope to see you at the club soon!

Why does no one tell me when things start happening? .m.;