Reply to I've heard it all now...

... apparently, my two associates are "too good" to play at a venue.

2/3rds of our three-man DJ project had a 30 minute audition at a local club (I was playing at my residency down the road but popped up mid-way through for moral support), and after their set the manager took us outside for a chat. I quote, verbatim:

"It's quite difficult to say this really because you're probably the best DJs I've heard here, but you're basically 'too good' to play here."

The guy had a valid point tbh, they went in there and played a banging electro house set with some awesome tubular bellcore remixes of chart stuff and some esoteric bits and bobs as well, and it was technically FLAWLESS; but the whole way through, people were coming up writing on the request sheet things like Jackson 5, Jason Derulo, Wayne Wonder, etc. And basically, his point was that it's too much of a "cheese" venue for stuff like their set.

But still... "too good" for a gig, 'tis ridiculous.