DJs booking and very helpful info

We are very booked up.

If we agree to host you, any opening bands or guest djs HAVE TO BE APPROVED. Communication gets fuzzy when you subcontract, and we have no problem pulling the plug on someone.

Music licensing companies companies charge our little bar $1,200 a year for the right to have you dj or play here. Please help us justify paying this fee by promoting.

Because of this, we do not and will not play/promote/ or book any music licensed by SESAC. So we will not play Christian rock, blazing hip hop, or cutting edge college crap. If SESAC can improve their customer relations and fees, this may change in the future.

If you don’t make a flier, what’s the point of a show?  I can’t help if you don’t represent. No flier = no drink tickets. Why should we take you seriously and give you free booze when you don’t take yourself seriously. If you need help I’m sure someone can make you a flier. If you don’t promote, don’t be surprised if NO ONE COMES TO SEE YOU.
                                           Promote!

The deciding factor for any DJ/band/performer’s return is their manners, professionalism, and the amount of promoting they personally do (but not who actually shows up). If I see no effort made towards promotion I lose faith, if you luck out and it gets slammed then that’s what it is - luck. If you promote the hell out of it but no one shows, at least you tried. If you promote the hell out of it and it’s slammed, then you have loyal, good friends and your promoting has paid off with a fun party. I never expect a promoter’s success to depend on the loyalty of their peers, but the effort makes the difference. If you are rude, a prima donna and/or you don’t tip the bartenders, don’t be surprised if when you ask to play again we say no. If you are a drama queen or publicly critical of other performers of this venue, don’t be surprised if when you ask to play here we say no. If I say no - it’s your fault. :)

  1)    We welcome all, but prefer you have experience and a fan/friend base. We have faith in you but if you do not draw a crowd, either through lazy promoting or simply not having a loyal fan base, you may not be asked back. Competing events will be taken into consideration. Out of town DJs - the 90s are over, Portland is very into native pride and does not care if you’re from New York City or New Jersey, they really just want to dance to Joy Division and Q Lazzarus, not obscure genres that are only popular in the suburbs of Germany from 1994 or your friends’ cousins’ neighbors’ band that once almost opened for Combichrist. Sorry.

2)    Not supporting the venue. Why should we book you if you don’t even hang out here? It helps to research the crowd anyway. Most of our DJs frequent here, and their lack of presence is noted. DJs that don’t cater to their audience, either throughstubbornness or oblivious, shouldn’t really expect to be invited back. Taking realistic requests enforces a positive relationship between customer, DJ, and venue.

3)    If you are asked to turn it down, please do. Blame our legal decibel level restriction put on us by the city, not us. We take decibel reading regularly. Legally it cannot be louder then 65 decibels on the edge of our sidewalk/property. If you do not turn it down when requested, we will turn you down. And stop serving you. And you will not be asked back. And you will not get paid. And we might just ask you to leave and put on Itunes. It’s your choice, noise complaint tickets are expensive and you don’t have to pay them- we do.

4) NO bands or songs licensed by SESAC are allowed to be played here due to strained business relations.

5) PLEASE RESPECT THE EQUIPMENT…Turntables may seem obsolete to you, but we love them and they are not cheap and they are delicate. And if you “customize” the sound board, please reset it to default when done.