Mark Ronson

In fact, you don't play any big records when you're the opener.

Yeah, any of the big club records.

I remember opening for Funkmaster Flex and being so nervous to play anything.

I didn't play anything from literally the past seven years or something.

And then the idea of playing huge records to an empty room, trying to ignite a room before it's ready.

That's why they call it the expression reading a room.

I don't know if it literally goes back to DJing, but it's like reading the floor, reading the room, reading the dance floor.

There's so much of it that's just, yes, it's the interplay between you and the crowd.

You could be in the best place.

nightclub in the world with the best sound system it doesn't matter if you if it doesn't if the crowd isn't with you and you don't have a relationship with them that's that's what it's that's what it all comes down to certainly for a great night mark ronson it's such a pleasure to talk to you and thank you so much for this fun read thank you so much

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Tanya.

Thanks for having me.

Absolutely.

2 a.m.

You're at a house party, packed with people rolling up from the club, all trying to squeeze a few more hours out of Saturday night.

It's not wild, but it could get there.

In the kitchen, bodies huddle around a counter mixing bottom-shelf vodka with whatever's in reach.

Capri Sun, kombucha, maybe both.

Out on the terrace, the diehards are smoking cigarettes like it's still 1999, ashing into a cereal bowl that's been sacrificed for the occasion.