Some Possible Reasons WHY People Don't Dance at Your Mobile DJ Event Wedding Party

0:00 First and foremost, this video is definitely 100% DJ related

Right, ladies and gentlemen, first and foremost, this video is definitely 100% DJ related. Secondly, the B on there has got nothing to do with the Buffaloes or any form, I believe, of football team or anything like that. It's B4. It could be bollocks. It could be ballistic missile. It could be Babylonian Boozer's bedroom. Who knows? Anyway, video number one on why people don't dance at your gig. Video number two, I'll be explaining how you can make people dance at your gig. So in this video, I'm going to possibly put your mind at ease why people do not indeed dance at your gig. Now hopefully they do eventually, but maybe not to begin with. Maybe when you turn up, you set your lights up, your massive PA system and you start banging out some wicked tunes that you know people are going to love.

They just sit there and look at you as though you're an idiot. I'm going to explain and put your mind at risk why this could be. Now, first of all, if you are a wedding DJ, predominantly a wedding DJ, you will, depending on where the venue is and what time you've got to start, you'll probably turn up to the venue midday, early, mid-afternoon, set up for an hour or so. Keep out of the way, background music, you know, or they finish their wedding meal, they do all the speeches, then maybe you have to set up then, maybe you set it beforehand. I don't know, that's entirely up to you and the management. But let's take a sort of a random average where, you know, the DJ sets up... After the main meal and the speech is finished, then everyone, all the staff are rushing around clearing the tables. That's generally when I will set up and then I'll turn up to set my kit up within about an hour. It's all good to go. I do a test and I can put some background music on now.

2:28 That could be partly one

What you probably find at that point, people want to just disappear out of that room. They've probably been in there three or four hours and they now want to stretch their legs, maybe if they're in a hotel, go up to the room, change, I don't know, just walk outside if it's a nice day, start talking loads of fodder to other people they have no idea who they are, never met before. What you've got to remember as well... is you have two families at a wedding and i will explain why that could be partly one of the reasons why people don't dance anyway towards the early part of the evening then maybe there is a buffet so of course people will eat and then they'll sit down again but by this time if you're a new wedding dj you're probably scratching your head thinking how come no one's dancing well let's take it from their perspective

Apart from the bride and groom, a lot of the members, or sorry not the members, the people who've turned up, the guests, not members, they're guests, sorry. They've been at it all day. Now don't just think that they've turned up and they're ready to rock and party. Well in a way they are, but you see some of them may have traveled a great distance. Some of them may have got up very early in the morning and it's been a long day for them. So already By late afternoon, early evening, they've had a day full of it. Of smiling, being nice, wearing this dodgy tuxedo, walking around in high heels and they just want to chill out and relax. So that's one reason why they probably won't dance straight away because they've had it up to here with all of this wedding stuff and all they want to do is sit down, have a drink and talk. So that's possibly one reason why people don't dance early evening.

The second one is because of the buffet. The buffet. Now, ask yourself this question. Would you really honestly want to get up and start doing the boogaloo after having a big Sunday lunch? I don't think so. Because you want to let it just relax and you just want to sort of sit there. And enjoy the fact that you've eaten and you do not want to get any digestion problems. I don't know, you don't want to start feeling sick while you're trying to do some break dancing on the dance floor. So of course, when the buffet's finished, people will again sit down, talk and relax. It's very unlikely, sorry, you will see someone finish their meal and get up quickly and start dancing. It's possible, but it's not going to happen.

All right, now if it does happen at your venue and at your gigs then well done because once people have eaten again they like to chill out and relax so if people do not dance after the buffet don't worry it's not you it's the fact that they have eaten and they just don't want to get up. Now earlier on I mentioned about two families now if you imagine if you have a birthday party which is completely different to a wedding The person whose birthday it is, maybe it's twins, maybe it's a joint birthday party. Generally, even if it's a joint birthday party, the people they invite are going to know everyone else. If it's just one person's birthday, then of course they're going to know practically every single person they invite. It's their party, they should be allowed the opportunity of determining who turns up and who of course doesn't turn up.

5:38 You've got a lot of people who know each other

So you've got a lot of people who know each other. They all know each other, they all get on, maybe some do, some don't. But you haven't really got any strangers. Now in a wedding, you have. You may think that's really weird, but let me explain. You have the bride, her family. You have the groom, his family. Now locally, if they live next to each other or very close, they've grown up together. Then, of course, the family sort of will know each other. But when you start talking about second cousins and far distant relations and someone who lives in Australia who's just turned up for the wedding, that's when you have people in the room that have never met some of the other people in the room. So you do tend to have this, who's that, who's this. So people sometimes are embarrassed to get up and dance in case they're looked at. I know it sounds bizarre, but...

People don't feel comfortable because they feel as though they're being watched by these strangers. So that's another reason why people possibly don't dance. Now, another reason why people possibly don't dance is simply this. It's a wedding. So you have your aunties, your uncles, the people over 70 and 80, and generally just run-of-the-mill Joe blogs. who's turned up at the wedding now these are not ravers these are not your party goers these are not the sort of people who go to a fun bar fun pub and as soon as the best tune comes on they're on the dance floor they probably only go out once or twice a year and that's if they're lucky to be invited to one or two weddings other than that they probably don't even go out therefore they're less likely to dance because they're actually not used to it you see

I know this sort of sounds a bit strange, but it's pure logic. So when you're doing a wedding and you want people to dance, I'm going to explain that in the second video. All right? So don't forget any questions, any comments or should I say any questions, put them in a comment underneath this video. Let me know what you think. And also possibly in a comment Give a reason why you think people don't dance, alright? Not reasons to make them dance because that's going to be in the next video. But I would like to know from you why you think members of the public at your events don't dance. Now again, I'm going to finish off with just this, I suppose, logical thing. Logical reason why people don't dance. You're playing the wrong music.

Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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