Music : House
This is a daytime event (e.g. starts late morning or early afternoon - see below for times).
All DJ's need to turn up at 1pm, the draw of names will then take place at 1:30pm from a hat for your set times for that day. Everything will kick off at 2pm we encourse everyone to come down early in order not to miss your DJ. The competition will carry on till 10pm, the wild cards from the last round will then play for a place in the final and the winners announced at 11pm! The venue will be open till 4am. If DJ's are not there at 1:30pm for the draw, your slot will be forfeited - DJ's turning up late will not be given another chance to play. If for any reason scheduled DJ's don't turn up, the length of your set may be increased, initially set times are only 30mins so you need to plan this very carefully you may get an extra couple of minutes to play and extra song or 2 depending. So each DJ gets around 30mins in the HOTBOX, the DJ's will be playing tunes that are HOT in their BOX. DJ's taking part in the 3rd and final Heat are :
Spin -Spider - Spin
Digital-D
PeteBruce (PBS)
Tyrone Liffe
Scott Free
Daddy C
Si Mac
Sugarshaker
Millsy
Dave Joyce
Danny Marx
Aaron le Doubles
Ben Lafone
DJ's will play in front of a panel of judges selected by myself who are well respected within the industry and you will be scored according to technical ability, track selection and crowd response there will also be a facility set up on DSI for people that came to the event to vote for you after the event has taken place.
From this
the Hottest 3 dj's will be selected to go forward to play in the Final. The top 3 DJs will also automatically go through to the final play off where the winners from all 3 rounds will play alongside the 3 wild cards chosen through voting.
It would be good if you everyone entered could get down to all the events even if you are not scheduled to play that day as it will be good for you to see what you are up against. We have representation from record labels, DJ agencies, media (Mixmag, DJ mag and dontstayin.com) as well as club owners and promoters. So it will be a good chance for you to network, meet other DJ's and promoters and potentially get bookings off the back of this competition. So bring demos down to distribute accordingly.
The venue has a great new roof terrace which has proved, summer on summer, to be the place to be. Think of it as an Ibiza in London. You will be playing on state of the art equipment 2 x Pioneer CDJ 1000's, 2 x 1210 Turntables, and Pioneer mixer, on the newly fitted £30k turbo sound system. We will occupy the whole of the upstairs of the venue including the roof terrace which is perfect for afternoon cocktails and lapping up the summer sun, be sure to bring your shades!
The final will take place on the 23rd September over the whole club, upstairs and downstairs where DJ's stand the chance to be
crowned King / Queen of the HOTBOX.