Miss Kittin's technical rider

[Skim]

Eh? She's very good.

I haven't been so keen on her recent mixes, and I wasn't into her album. But Radio Caroline remains the best mix I've ever heard – just sublime.

Never mind your po-faced superstar DJ bollocks... she's got presence and style and plays some damn fine tunes.

As for all the stuff she does on the mic, like the narrative and the singing over tunes – some of it works, some of it doesn't. But there's a sense of occasion in what she does, and that's fine with me

 

[bang]

Bit gutted to read all that
And surprised..her website reads like she's quite down-to-earth and keeps it quite real..
..ARGH surely she has some input on it and it's not a branding jobbie??
At Sonar last year she blew me away - stage presence, tune selection, building up the crowd, some filthy electro..damn sexy as well..the singing was a bit hit and miss though..
..I always wondered how her act would translate in a small place though, the way she likes to come from behind the decks and dance..couldn't really see that working in a lot of places

 

[killer b]

yeah, she's a class dj. it's always kicked off whenever i've seen her...

 

[Skim]

I've only seen her once, at Haywire a few years ago. She doesn't play London that much, I think the last time was at Fabric.

Would love to see her at Sonar. I've heard the mixes... there was one from two or three years ago (billed as Radio Caroline part two) where she's on the mic chatting away about how she's sorry about her set has gone a bit pear-shaped. It would be DJ suicide for anyone else, but she manages to make it quite endearing, and the crowd doesn't care because she's been playing some wicked music anyway.

And there was the Sonar set that got released for sale last year, where there's a royal fuck-up in the middle of her set when a record skips and she has to play something else. But she handles it all very well and just carries on without much of a hitch.

 

[milesy]

DJs are not musicians. They are not 'creatives'. They play records.



One more time - DJs are not musicians. They are not 'creatives'. They play records.


**runs away**

 

[clandestino]

I saw the original Scratch Perverts line up play Scratch when it was at the Crossbar ten or so years ago. Absolutely stunning. I felt like a trainspotter, but you just had to stand and watch them in action. Amazing stuff.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Erm. Help me out here, as a person who loves live music...this is a rider for a person who plays other peoples records, right?

DJs are not musicians. They are not 'creatives'. They play records.

yawn, who cares what yer call'em, they turn up and do a job & sometimes get paid. It's bit like saying they're a scaffolder not a bricky.

 

[ohmyliver]

Sounds like she has done too much sniffing in the vip area

 

[Gromit]

I'd rather listen to a cat vomit than DJ's scratching. Stop pissing around and just play the damn record.

Its like Maria Carey and Witless Houston, stop wanking around with all that unnessesary embelishment and just sing the damn song.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

When it comes to writing riders for "big name" artists, a lot of what looks like people being wankers is put in as a quick test to see if a venue/promoter has read the thing properly - if they miss the fact that you want 274 red M&Ms, it's fairly safe to assume that they haven't read things like stage size/rigging points/power requirements properly either.

 

[Gromit]

if they miss the fact that you want 274 red M&Ms

Have you killed someone with their own shoes by any chance?

You are Del Preston and i claim my £5

 

[lights.out.london]

It's hardly KK Downing ripping through Sinner, is it? Not exactly the same rush as Rollins roaring Liar! at the first 50 rows.

Mind you, to be fair - what that fella is doing with his "decks" is rather similar to what I used to do with my old ma's saucepan lids. Gawd bless 'er.

I'm impressed with the way he puts two 12"-ers on his right hand deck at 2m 39secs.

I got bored and slipped into a coma at that point.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Have you killed someone with their own shoes by any chance?

You are Del Preston and i claim my £5

The M&Ms thing comes from a genuine rider from the 80s, IIRC it was Van Halen....

 

[Skim]

It's hardly KK Downing ripping through Sinner, is it? Not exactly the same rush as Rollins roaring Liar! at the first 50 rows.

Oh go and strum yer ukelele, will ya?

 

[lights.out.london]

Oh go and strum yer ukelele, will ya?

I'm leaning on a lamp-post at the corner of the street,
In case a certain little lady comes by.
Oh me, oh my, I hope the little lady comes by.
I don't know if she'll get away, She doesn't always get away,
But anyhow I know that she'll try.

Let's rock again!

 

[pagan]

Who the fuck is Miss Kitten anyway?

 

[William of Walworth]

Who the fuck is Miss Kitten anyway?

 

[Skim]

Tofu Love Frogs gig this way, move along >>>>>

 

[twistedAM]

Anyway, respect to miss kitten for spelling it out! working on shit kit sucks! and if your show sucks because of it punters will not blame the equipment!!!

out.

BUT the promoters fulfilled the tech rider so what are you on about???

Seems the problem was that she didn't look up where Derry was or checked the capacity of the Nerve.

Still, I liked her insistence on no JBL!

 

[Paul Russell]

What an aggressive kitten. I don't get all this fuss about DJs.

All they have to do is play some lively ones at the beginning, like Hi Ho Silver Lining, and a few slow ones at the end, like Lady in Red.

It's not rocket science is it.

Anyway, why is she called Miss Kitten? Does she dress up as a cat or something? And wouldn't that make it harder to change records?

 

[Skim]

Does she dress up as a cat or something?

Sometimes...

Fortunately the claws stop her from pulling Hi Ho Silver Lining out of her record bag

 

[Orang Utan]

I think the tech rider she has is mostly reasonable but the account of her behaviour in Derry doesn't do her rep any good.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

I think the tech rider she has is mostly reasonable but the account of her behaviour in Derry doesn't do her rep any good.

Persactly.

 

[Onket]

I'd make sure there was coriander in her food.

She sounds like a cunt (and looks like one too, from the pics that have been posted).

 

[Orang Utan]

Allergic to coriander? Bollocks - she just doesn't like it!

 

[tarannau]

I know. That coriander comment made me snigger too - such a precious porky pier.

The rider's pretty ridiculous really - I've seen way better and more inventive djs play without a moment's thought, albeit they tend to be hip hop guys who've practised their skills on crappy equipment for years and years.

I've seen MsKitten once - I would never have guessed she had all that equipment tbh. She sounded flat, her vocals were twee/trite and the records were a bit meh. What she need all that stuff for? You're going to fuss about the type of needles (hell, I love Shures so I'm biased) and then sing that badly? Get a grip...

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

What an aggressive kitten. I don't get all this fuss about DJs.

All they have to do is play some lively ones at the beginning, like Hi Ho Silver Lining, and a few slow ones at the end, like Lady in Red.

It's not rocket science is it.

Anyway, why is she called Miss Kitten? Does she dress up as a cat or something? And wouldn't that make it harder to change records?

Dont forget 'Come on Eileen'

 

[Paul Russell]

Having had a quick look at her website (like the diary) she seems to be a bit up her kittin arse.

I'm going to send her a huge bunch of coriander. That'll teach her.

 

[Skim]

I read on another forum that, for a gig in Macedonia, Dave Clarke demanded a Blue Gatorade drink which someone had to drive 350km to Athens to fetch for the gig, wanted the decks to be no more than 110cm off the ground (which required building a new DJ booth) and a private jet from Spain. And then he complained that the decks were too high and didn't touch the Gatorade...

 

[Paul Russell]

What a dick. And they haven't had a hit since the 60s.

I read on another forum that, for a gig in Macedonia, Dave Clarke demanded a Blue Gatorade drink which someone had to drive 350km to Athens to fetch for the gig, wanted the decks to be no more than 110cm off the ground (which required building a new DJ booth) and a private jet from Spain. And then he complained that the decks were too high and didn't touch the Gatorade...