We’ve covered more than our share of stage fails here at Tone Deaf. Live gigs can be volatile and unpredictable and it’s almost inevitable that someone is going to do something stupid and, frankly, hilarious.

However, one contingent of the “live music” world that’s equally if not even more so prone to failure is DJing. It makes sense if you think about it, there’s only one person controlling the music and people are accident-prone.

To celebrate all of the hilarious, cringe-inducing glory that is the DJ fail, we trawled the internet and compiled what we reckon are 12 of the best, i.e. funniest, DJ fail moments out there.

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