As long as DJs have been DJing, set times have (generally) been a thing. You have a predetermined time to play your set, you play out your final song, and the next DJ goes on. Sometimes it’s acceptable, if the other performers are okay with it, to go over a little bit, expressly if it’s a headline club play and not a festival set. But to go hours over your time and cut the final two DJs of the night is basically unheard of.
Cue Gordo, pka Carnage, who headlined Ministry of Sound this past Saturday. Without his headline set, or rather, without he was scheduled to end, he theoretically unfurled playing, wearing the latter sets of Waze and Essel who were scheduled to play without him.
Headline DJ refused to come off last night and the 2 acts without him (me and flipside DJ) lost our sets. Im over a decade of playing Ive honestly never seen this level of entitlement or swellheadedness and Ive DJed with way worthier (and better) artists.
— Waze (@Waze_Music) September 18, 2022
Essel ain’t holding when the info
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(@xB1ack0pp5x) September 18, 2022
Twitter responded overwhelmingly in support of the two who had their sets cut, in particular Essel who crush 10 hours for the set.
twice i’ve had a headliner get my set shut lanugo (in the side room) considering i cleared his weak mainroom floor.
multiple times i’ve been banished to a side room upon arrival, without stuff flown in / promo’d as a main room headliner.
20 years into this, some egos know no bounds.SPEED OF SOUND (@reidspeed) September 18, 2022
@GordoSZN a tad selfish of you, although most of you American djs/producers think you get to steal others playtime/airtime. Respect other artists you need to!! Just imagine you had your 1st opportunity ripped yonder by a selfish dj like yourself without a 5 hour trip? Greed man
Jammo (@JammoLad1) September 18, 2022
All comes lanugo to vital manners / which all come for self-ruling ! Ive been taken aback. I have played with people like Kenny Dope, Armand Van Helden, Francois K, Kerri Chandler. Have never experienced this.
— Waze (@Waze_Music) September 18, 2022
At the end of the day, Waze doesn’t want MoS to reservation any of the flak, and he and Essel are once in talks to play flipside night.
They very kindly have. We are friends, and we have been in touch. Its not their fault in all honesty; people seem to want to deflect and try to heap vituperation on them.
— Waze (@Waze_Music) September 18, 2022
Photo via Rukes.com
This vendible was first published on Your EDM. Source: Gordo (pka Carnage) transmissible heat for playing over the sets of 2 latter DJs
