In my career as a pro DJ, I played 1000s of gigs, including for U2 in Dublin, at
Privilege in
Ibiza (the world’s biggest club) and for
Ministry of Sound. Throughout, I always puzzled why some DJs “made it”, and some didn’t.
I saw DJs with
awesome Personal Development who just
couldn’t master mixing. DJs who had
all the tricks, but who
bored the hell out of their dancefloors. And DJs who
I honestly thought were brilliant, but who
got overlooked for “lesser” DJs.
When I compared those DJs with myself, and with other successful DJs, I started to realise that there were five big areas that DJs had to succeed in – and that if they neglected just one, it was game over before they’d even begun!
But most interestingly, I also discovered that a DJ doesn’t need to be AMAZING in all of the areas to succeed – just knowing what they are and working deliberately on them is enough to improve, rapidly!
When I first revealed all of this in my book Rock the Dancefloor! in 2016, it was all very new, but it’s since helped 1000s of DJs understand what they really need to do to improve.