Benzi, Alison Wonderland, Slushii and More Share Most Embarrassing Moments Onstage

Dance music artists share their best performance horror stories.

Between technological malfunctions, less than stellar transitions, and even spilled drinks on the decks, there’s more ways than one to send a DJ set into a tailspin fast. Yesterday, several of dance music’s biggest artists took to Twitter to rehash their most embarrassing performance moments on Twitter. It goes to show everyone makes mistakes under pressure from time to time, even the top professionals in the field.

Benzi kicked things off sharing a story of his own. During a performance in Chicago, Benzi loaded an edited version of David Guetta‘s “Memories” that included a long pause and fake scratching sounds in the middle of the song he’d forgotten to cut out.

➖Embarrassing DJ Stories Thread➖ i’ll go first. back in the day i used an old version of Traktor to change the tempo/key of a song to make edits, but only drawback was you had to record it in real time (aka listen to the whole song) to export it…. — BENZI (@benzi) June 14, 2019

Aside from the humor in many of the stories, there’s arguably lessons to take from them as well. They say it’s not what happens to you, but how you respond that shows your character. Alison Wonderland shared a story of performing sick, vomiting on herself while on stage, and then continuing to play through the set until the end. Perseverance at its finest.

I was sick & spewed on myself on stage. 2 different times. And kept playing until the end. https://t.co/0ZJ4ch1FuS — ALISON WONDERLAND (@awonderland) June 14, 2019

The tweet prompted Slushii, Snavs, Ekali, AFK, and more to share horror stories of their own. Read through all the stories in the full Twitter thread here.