DJ JOHNNY HiHAT ENTERTAINMENT

BOOKING INFORMATION

	Visible Time Horizons Are Clear Near-Event-Booking-Dates-Normally-Rule! THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS FOR MULIPLE EVENTS & TRADE SHOWS.   "I Can See Clearly Now" JOHNNY NASH #1 for 4 Weeks --Top 40 for 14 Weeks First Charted 10/07/72 -- #1 Adult Contempory 4 Weeks Bob Marley's Wailer Backing Band -- Solid Gold Sales -- A MONSTER HIT--    (covered by) JIMMY CLIFF #18 for 1 Week -- Top 40 for 14 Weeks First Charted 12/04/93   There are DJs who know where they are going to be spinning a year from now... even longer. Some boast of their bookings in self-absorption, others are more cool.    Either way... distant future bookings are normally not for me.  I hold to a close-in booking policy.  Here's why...   I like to work in niches fulfulling the needs of a select segment, in this case, people and events that need a quality DJ entertainment at the relatively "last minute" - and perhaps the literal, last minute! There are many reasons why life events are spontaneously born, besides the one most people talk about.  One such example might be a Marine, who is about to be shipped into harm's way, needing to protect his/her fiance/e with government benefits, decides to get married, quickly.  I desire to spin at these events, and other near events.   I may rather BE in Margaritaville than SPIN "Margaritaville."  And, if this happens, I don't want to have to either return from paradise... or find a substitute. For me, DJ-ing is a "personal services" entertainment, with the emphasis on personal. My entertainment is not a service where X number of other DJs, carrying a company library, are sitting at-the-ready-to-be-substituted, if necessary.  I work diligently to provide value added services and features to my engagement. Perhaps immodestly, I assume that people who initially choose me... want me... not a substitute. For these and more reasons, I customarily like to see engagements on a time horizon which I view to be about four months... perhaps more if the engagement is in the late spring / summer / early fall when Margaritaville is stiffling hot!  Despite the above, while not actually booking a distant event, I will "pencil-it-in" with the understandings (1) that it has first dibs on that date/time and (2) that 90 days from the date I will confirm whether I will be able to honor the date. Inevitably, some one, questioning this policy, asks the question, "Well, don't you miss engagements because of it?" YES I DO.  But then again, I have my own life events, too.