Oh My God, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOOOOD NYC!!! I thought I had very few good and fun gigs in NYC so far, in my 8 years of DJ career, but after yesterday night I know I didn’t… until yesterday………!!! I played at ARC, this club which, for a very long time, I had heard of and had never played at or even been to. This club which, for a while, I’d be hearing various good and bad comments like: “they don’t serve alcohol in there so it’s a really ravey place!”, or: “there’s no alcohol there so it’s hard to get it packed up, but at least the people who go only go for the love of the music!”. Anyway… all these talks you know… I don’t hear or believe much anymore. Better not to, as I’d be crazy already. Too much people talk BS all the time. Besides, opinions are opinions and I do respect that. So, basically, I was looking forward to go there and finally judge by myself what that club was all about. Let me tell you, I really didn’t know what to expect… And I don’t know if it’s because of the very bad luck I had lately and so I needed to go and lose my mind by playing records, or if it’s because I had been brain-washed already about ARC and of how it’s difficult for that club to be jam-packed, but anyway… It was the first time in my entire life that I didn’t mind playing for a not-so-full-dance-floor, without feeling sad or thinking that there is something wrong! I got in there about 20 minutes before starting my set, with my big coat and my hat and my gloves as I was just waking up from my sleep and I was feeling very tired and very cold. When I got in there and I looked at the place, I liked it right away. I liked the sound, I liked the size, I liked the space between people (it wasn’t packed as I said but it was just perfect!!), I liked the smiles of the people who were looking at me passing them by, I liked everything! So I get in the DJ booth, take off my coat, place my records in the box behind the decks and, before starting that nice bottle of Champagne that the promoters got me (thank you!), I finish a big bottle of water as I was feeling very de-hydrated from my exquisite Valentine dinner with my lovely Christian… and then, I start!! Played for 3 hours, felt like 1! Every time I was cutting that bass and smashing it back in I felt feelings in my stomach that you can’t even understand! What a sound in there! And what a crowd! It was my first time ever, in NYC (a part from the Monday nights at Tronic Treatment), that I didn’t feel the need of paying little candies here and there not to scare people away. Yesterday I REALLY didn’t have to do this, and I loved it because of that! And the people! They were just SO HAPPY!!! I don’t know if it’s me, I mean I know I AM PARANOID!, but I felt like everyone who was in that room had been reading my TRUTH posts lately and they were all aware of all that happened to me and it’s as if they were scared that something would happen again at the last minute and I would not be there, and maybe that made their excitement even greater! I don’t know, obviously, and I will never know, but I really felt a lot of happiness yesterday, and A LOT of support! I have never had people screaming as soon as I plug my headphones into the mixer in NYC. In Montreal, in Quebec, in Spain and in Latin countries yes, but not in NYC. But yesterday, I felt something special in the air… It was simply fantastic! Or, who knows, maybe it was a very normal gig and it was me who needed to play and make people dance. All that happened to me lately hasn’t been very great. I am a very sensitive person and I am very honest and dealing with such dishonest people lately has hurt me a lot. Anyway, to get back to ARC, I really had fun and I am so sad that the club is just about to close. What a shame! But I hope they move somewhere else soon enough with that same sound system and then I hope that I can go play for them regularly! To everyone who was there yesterday, thank you for making my night a very memorable night and spending Valentine there with me! 🙂 On a final note, I hope you all know I have left my management in the UK (Cosmack) and that I am not involved with them at all anymore. Soon you will find a new contact page in the site and find in there all the necessary contacts to get in touch with the right people concerning my work, my bookings and my personal management. It is much better like that! I took control back! Barbara x
