Beginning this weekend the popular Herb Williams Band at Red Coconut Club will begin and end their shift an hour earlier, per club manager Dan Burns. Up until now they played multiple sets from 8pm to midnight on Thursday, Friday & Saturday nights. Beginning tomorrow night they will play from 7pm to 11pm on those nights. The thought behind this is to move their first set into a time period when some of the happy hour crowd might still be there. And then some of them might stay longer. At the other end, the late night crowd seems to enjoy the DJ-driven dance music. That will now begin at 11pm instead of midnight, giving revelers an extra hour of it. I like this; I think it's a win-win for all concerned and should make RCC more popular than it already is. The Herb Williams Band has been playing at RCC since January, 2009.
I feel they should start at 6 end at 10
ReplyDeleteI think they would be able to keep more people to stay a little longer and or get more to come listen to DJ music! the only way to make it more "hood" is to play "hood" music! LOL
ReplyDeleteI think if they play 8TRAX/Mannequins kind of music that will bring it on!
ok I was responding to something that WAS on here! I guess it got deleted. but i was told nothing gets deleted unless there is ad's or wrose!???
ReplyDeleteI think the problem with RCC on the weekend is that Bob Marley's fills to capacity and the crowd that wanted to go there ends up coming up to RCC because it's the closest club. The DJ usually plays Mannequins/8 Trax music until he plays a hip hop song. As soon as he plays a hip-hop song, the dance floor gets packed and he continues to play it all night long. I love the RCC, but sometimes it gets so crowded and "rough" on the weekend. I think we will continue to go early and leave early....
ReplyDeleteI don't disagree. It does to a large extent depend on who the DJ is up there in the booth. And even if you stick to the Top 40 play list, some Hip Hop is going to get played because there's quite a bit of it in the Top 40.
ReplyDeleteI played there this last Saturday; the 16th. I got wind of this change from the sound tech. I'm not scheduled back in there till Nov 13 so they'll have been doing this new schedule for a few weeks by then.
ReplyDeletea comment on the "hood" music. from the Dj point of view, you see the center of the dance floor, a little bit of the downstairs by the staircase to the second floor and that's it (obviously you see all of the second floor). It's hard to see people leave the floor when you switch genres and not want to change it back to keep them on the floor. Since I've been playing there (almost a year), most of the crowds have wanted the T-Pain, Usher, Flo Rida stuff compared to the Swedish House Mafia, Edward Maya, Lady Gaga, etc. stuff.
ReplyDeleteKingBob is correct, it's very hard to do top 40 and not drop into the hip hop stuff; just look at the playlist for radio stations like XL 106.7; that crap is everywhere and we can't seem to get rid of it.
Universal sources tell me that there are management concerns at CityWalk about the crowd that is being drawn by some of the music being played. I can't really say more than that on the subject.
ReplyDeleteDJ Smooth is correct on the music. CityWalk has a high percentage of tourists and they are looking for Pop = Top 40 = a lot of Hip Hop hits. When a Dance or House song is played, many don't know what to do with it. That's why they need a regular House night out there at least quarterly when the only people who would show up would get what they showed up for!
A regular "house" night anywhere requires two things: 1. Management that has the guts to actually stick with it (this is the important one) 2. The crowd to actually give it a chance. If you could take listeners from Sirius Channel 81 (BPM) or Radio Danz and bring them in, you'd be ok. Most of the visitors to City Walk are tourists and have no idea what house music is. It's the classic deal; they hear something unfamiliar and immediately go looking for someone to request hip hop or some other over played top 40 track.
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