Reply to Landed my first Gig!! Possible issues... tips?

What's up Tech Tools family?!


I am so happy to say I've landed my first PAID Dj'ing gig for next weekend. It's an after party at a new bar for a girl's roller derby team.

The stipulations were $100 plus free beer, and if all goes well they're going to pick me up as their "resident" DJ!

Crazy right?

I got the gig from going in to the bar (it was EMPTY as they've only been open a week or so) and chatting with the bartender and getting a feel for what their music situation was. I noticed they had a huge PA system but someone had an iPod plugged in only... chatted it up with them and found out the following:

Turns out they hired a "DJ" to come in and play an indie evening a week or so ago, but the dude had no car, said he only wanted to play for beer, brought 1 friend, and played super loud dubstep the entire evening ignoring the staff and ended up taking off his shirt and swinging it around etc etc.

So that's what I'm up against! Haha

The people I'm playing the party for are giving me a playlist of stuff they want to hear- plus I have around 300 songs of old school hip hop, indie dance, 80s, 90s, a handful of mashups, anthems, plus my PERSONAL music (hundreds more songs) selection which is way less traditional (psybreaks, psystep, down-tempo, nu-disco, etc.).

The only problem's I foresee are that

1) I'm getting an S2 in the mail on Tuesday- and the gig is Saturday! Till then I've been working on this ghetto-rig here:

2) Them getting their playlist to me in time (prob on a USB stick or something)....


So I was hoping to get some advice from you all- they want me to play from 7pm-2am- a super long set for my first time out I know, but I've got the tunes, and definitely feel confident that I can give them what they want (and probably a little bit more!)

Any tips appreciated!

PS: I'm already working on beat-gridding my indie playlist I've got set-up, and have everything analyzed with Mixed in Key for some creative mixing if I get ballsy ;]