
09/09/2025
📖 Diaries of a Function DJ – Part 1 🎧
Venue Owner Etiquette (or lack of it…)
Oh, the things we see…
🏡 Air B&B Owner
Books their lodge out for a wedding weekend. Great idea, right? Until they gate-crash the actual wedding with prospective clients for a show round. Then complain they “can’t see the full potential of the venue” because of… you know… the wedding they booked. 🤯
👉 That’s like renting out your flat on Airbnb then turning up with strangers to “view the kitchen.” Absolute madness.
🎳 The Bowling Club Special
The venue: smells of damp, carpets older than your gran’s curtains, roof leaking optimism. One week before the big day, the bride gets told: “We’ll have to cancel… unless YOU find staff.” 👀
And when the bar opens? £9.50 for three cans of juice. No glasses. No garnish. Just daylight robbery served in tinnies. 😂 Michelin star prices, bingo hall vibes.
🎶 The Music Policy Venue
Clients pay for a hall. Clients pay for a DJ. Venue decides they’re the DJ. Suddenly it’s “don’t play this, don’t play that.” Then they threaten to chuck me out because some guests dared to sing along to a song that wasn’t “politically correct.”
👉 My advice? If music and fun offend you, maybe wedding venues aren’t for you. Try stamp collecting. Or taxidermy. Anywhere without humans.
This industry is wild and it amazes me daily. The night hasn’t even started yet and I’ve already got enough material for a Netflix special. 🎤😂