STEP THREE

STEP SIX

Our comparison

UK DJs vs. and Italian DJs

Engineer

Disk Jockey

Forensic Investigator

Student

REPORT ON DJs

Our Group, made up of Antonio Mennella, Pier Luca Carpinelli, Stefano Romano, Antonio Terlizzi and Francesco Giannoccari, had to outline a comparison between the Italian and the English world of work and we picked up about Disk Jockeys as our sphere of interest. In the first part of our work, started out in Salerno, we interviewed up some disk Jockeys in our city and then we found other contacts in Torquay, where we would spent three weeks, for our interviews. In the second part, completed in England, we met other disk jockeys and we got the interviews we needed to begin our comparison about this original and funny Job. When we had completed all the necessary files, we were able to compare the interviews about disk jockeys of different ages.

1-All the boys interviewed both in Italy or in England agreed that being a DJ is a hobby but in time becomes a work when you work for a club or a disco.

2-They nearly spend the same amount of money for their equipment: the English disk jockeys spent about 1200 and 1350 euros but sometimes disco management provide them with turntables. The Italian DJ’s spent more than about 1000 euros and about 100€ a month to buy discs and others materials.

3-Young English and Italian DJ’s often work for their friends but they don’t take money and they take their personal equipment. Sometimes they also work for clubs, discos and pubs but they always take their equipment. Older DJs obviously think about their work such as about a profession and they take engagements from discos and clubs, they take money for their performances and the disco you play in could give you the equipment.

4-Young DJ’s also earn the same money: an English DJ earns a minimum of about 20€ per hour and a maximum of about 40€ per hour and an Italian one earns 150€ for his performance. This mean that in Italy DJs are paid for the whole night and not per hour and we think that it’s fairer to pay someone for the hours he played and not for the performance in the night. Old DJs earn a salary per month of about 1500€.

5- An English disk jokey works from two to six hours a night but they work more in the clubs, while an Italian one works three hours a night.

6-About their future some of the DJs we interviewed, think that is better to keep more options open and not just this kind of work. Other DJs, above all in Italy think their work as a professional job and they want to continue to play music in discos and clubs.

7-Quite obviously all the boys said that a dj needs to be eager and enthusiastic and he can’t play just his favourite kind of music but he has to be interested in all kinds of music.

8-In England they like above all Hip-Hop, R&B and all the music close to hip-hop. In Italy house music is the favorite such as hip-hop music.

9-English Disk Jockeys dream to play in San Francisco and in London while Italian Disk Jockey in Ibiza where is the most important Club in the world: Pacha

10- English Disk Jockeys think that it is very important to know the right people to enter this world but there may be different helps. The Italian Dj’s prefer to rely on their skills to become famous.

11- For the English Disk jockeys a club should close at 2 o’clock so they agree early disco closing times. Italian Djs would like that the discos close at 3 o’clock in the winter and one hour later in the summer.

12-About the spread of drugs in discos the DJs we interviewed have got mixed opinions. One of them thinks that people should have free choice to do what they want but they should avoid mixing alcohol and drugs because it could be mortal. An Italian one thinks that the use of drugs begins out of the discos and it reaches its peak there. Anyway, even if they have got different thoughts, they are all sure that the spread of the drugs is a dangerous problem to solve.

13-All the Dj’s we have interviewed think that the age is very important for their work but for English Disk Jockeys you must be eighteen otherwise people don’ respect you.