As mobile DJs, it’s very easy for us to fall into a routine that goes something like this: set up our kit for an event, perform the event, tear down the event and repeat again at the weekend. Of course, we strive to give every client an exceptional experience and engage every guest. However, we can get caught on this repetitive roller coaster of peaks and valleys. Someone make it stop!

I’m here to do just that. In this series of articles, we’ve been working our way thru The Perfect Host Part 2: Making Perfect Sense. Now we’ve arrived at the last ‘Sense’ on the list, and I firmly believe it’s one we don’t allow ourselves to feel often enough – our Sense of Accomplishment.

I’m very passionate about being the best possible mobile DJ I can be. There are very few things that get this Perfect Host upset, but recently a guest at one of my events implied that being a DJ was ‘easy’. Of course, in the moment, I smiled politely and steered the conversation elsewhere. Driving home afterward though, my blood began to boil.

Easy? Is being a DJ really ‘easy’?

Absolutely not!

• An experienced professional mobile DJ can ‘easily’ read a dance-floor by watching for the subtle signals and body language of the crowd.

• An experienced professional mobile DJ ‘easily’ takes music from different decades, genres and styles and mixes it beautifully into a cohesive whole that has every guest on their feet.

• An experienced professional mobile DJ ‘easily’ remembers the title and artist of every popular song released over the last 400 years, from Bach to the Beatles to ‘Bad Blood’ by Taylor Swift and everything in between.

• An experienced professional mobile DJ can ‘easily’ juggle a dozen elements at once - commanding the attention of an entire function room full of guests when introducing the wedding party over the microphone while simultaneously running the sound board and other production elements.