Booking · Austin, TX
Two kinds of people book me. Pick the one that sounds like you and skip the rest.
Every button on this page goes to the same place, which is my Instagram DMs. No form maze, no quote request that sits in a queue for a week. Send me the date, the room and roughly how long you need.
If I am open you will hear back inside a day, with a straight number rather than a range I plan to move off later.
That is the whole job, and it is the only thing a booker actually needs from a DJ. Everything else is detail.
01 / Bars, clubs, residencies
Weeknights, weekends, weekly residencies and guest slots. Three to four hours on house gear, or I bring mine. Happy to warm up for someone bigger and happy to close.
Tell me the night, the room and the slot. You will have a number the same day.
02 / Ticketed shows, festivals, brand parties
Opening sets, features, festival undercards and brand nights. Out of market shows are quoted with travel included. If there is a door split on the table, say so and we will talk about it properly.
Tell me the date, the room and the lineup and I will tell you what I would do with the slot.
READ THE ROOM · BUILD IT SLOWLY · DO NOT COAST THE LAST HOUR
Your real fear is not the music. It is the CEO picking up a microphone that cuts out in front of four hundred people. I plan for that first and the party second, and the party still happens.
Congress
Right for you if you need a room that sounds intentional for a happy hour, a mixer or a client reception.
Red River
Right for you if there are speeches, awards or a programme to hit and the party still has to land afterwards.
Sixth
Right for you if this is a launch, a brand build or a night the marketing team will be judged on.
These are shapes, not products. Most nights land between two of them. Tell me what the evening actually has to do and I will tell you which one it is.
Procurement, handled
W-9, certificate of insurance naming your venue as additional insured, a signed agreement, net 30 on request. One flat number with no hourly creep.
Your AV team will like me
I coordinate load in, power and microphone frequencies with the venue directly, and I arrive early enough to solve problems before the room fills.
SXSW and multi-day
Quoted separately. That market runs on lead time and relationships rather than a template. Send me the brief and the dates.
One named DJ, and it is me, every time / a real conversation before the date / a do-not-play list I will respect / full backup gear on site / setup and breakdown / early arrival / coordination with whoever runs the room / and a straight answer whenever you ask me one.
| Extra hoursAgreed up front, not negotiated at eleven at night |
| UplightingWireless fixtures, colour matched to your palette or your brand |
| A second sound zoneIts own speakers and its own programme, for a welcome area or an afterparty room |
| Custom editsA bespoke intro, a transition, or a walk-on built for the moment |
| A monogram goboYour name or logo projected on the floor or a wall |
| Ceremony or presentation audioA separate system with a lavalier and a handheld, away from the main room |
Photo booths, cold sparks, dry ice and full staging are subrented from Austin production companies. I will source them, quote them at their rate and manage the booking. I would rather bring in a specialist than own a fog machine that fails with my name on it.
01
A DM with the date, the venue and roughly how long you need. If I am open you hear back inside a day with a straight number.
02
An agreement and a deposit is what makes a hold real. Until then a date is a conversation, not a booking.
03
We talk through the room, the timing and anything that has to happen at a specific minute. Then I show up early and you stop thinking about it.
It depends on the room, the night and the slot, so I would rather give you a real number than a fake one on a page. A Thursday warm up and a Saturday headline are not the same job, and a two hundred person brand party and a private birthday are not either.
Send me the date, the venue and roughly how long you need. You will have a straight number back the same day, and it will be the number, not a starting point I plan to move off.
Direct message. Every button on this site goes to the same place, which is my Instagram DMs, and that is genuinely the fastest way to reach me.
Tell me the date, the venue or the address, how many people, and what you want the night to feel like. If I am open you will hear back inside a day.
Deep house and tech house is home base. Groovy, warm and rolling early, tighter and punchier once the room commits. Club energy without treating a set like a playlist on shuffle.
I am not a purist about it. If the room asks for a bassline record or four minutes of a disco loop at the right moment, it gets one. What I will not do is throw the biggest track in the box at you in the first twenty minutes.
I will listen to them. Whether one gets played depends on where the night is and whether it helps or kills what is already happening on the floor.
Send me a do not play list ahead of time and I will respect it without argument.
For bars, clubs and most shows I will use the house system when it is good enough, and I will tell you before the night rather than on it if I think it is not.
For corporate and private rooms, sound sized to the space is part of what I bring, along with wireless microphones and dance floor lighting. If the room needs more than that, I will tell you what it needs.
There is a spare of everything that matters on site. A second controller, a spare microphone, backup cables, and the music on two drives plus offline.
Everything fails eventually. The only real question is whether there is a second one in the bag, and there is. Nobody in the room should ever know something went wrong.
Yes. Corporate and private bookings are invoiced, with a W-9 and a certificate of insurance naming your venue as additional insured.
Most serious Austin venues will not let a vendor load in without a COI. Worth asking every DJ you are considering for one. It shortens the list quickly.
Corporate and private events are usually four to eight weeks out, and longer if it lands in a busy stretch like SXSW or ACL weekends.
Bar and club dates I will often take on a week or two of notice if the night is right. If you are further out than that, even better. Ask anyway. The worst case is I am busy.
Yes. Central Texas is routine, and anything further gets quoted with travel included so there are no surprises after the fact. Tell me where it is and I will tell you what it takes.
Power at the booth, a table or booth that will hold the gear, and someone I can reach on the day who actually knows the room. That is genuinely most of it.
If there is a house engineer I will coordinate load in, power and microphone frequencies with them directly and get there early enough to solve problems before the doors open.
Instagram is where I actually am, so that is where booking happens. No form, no queue, no autoresponder.
Send the date, the venue or address, how many people, and what you want the night to feel like. Venues and talent buyers, lead with the room and the slot and I will come back with a number.