Thursday, 7 April 2011

Music at your party

We understand that if you pay for a disco at your party whether it be a wedding, birthday or any other occasion that the music is one of the most important elements of the night. Many of our clients send us a request list to give to the DJ to use as a guide for there taste in music. We welcome this but any DJ worth his salt will tell you that this should only be used as a guide. The DJ should always be given the freedom to judge the crowd at your party. You wouldn't tell a  barman how to pull your pint!!! As a company we only employ experienced and proven DJ's. We have a good reputation with our past, present and ongoing clients that we of course we want to maintain. If you want to send us a request list then it's no problem. However, please keep it to a maximum of 20 to 30 tracks.

If you average most tracks at 3 mins then 35 tracks is 105 mins of music. In reality by the time people arrive, have a couple of drinks, chat to their family and friends, have something to eat and start to dance it is normally about 9pm before the party really gets going. Taking into consideration other requests that the DJ will have coming from your guests on top of your request lists the DJ will have about 3 hours of requests to work through. This is a big ask! There will be other tracks that he will need to play to keep people dancing as well as the ones the get requested, for this reason, it's best to keep the list short and sweet and give the DJ the freedom to work.

If there are any songs that you don't want to be played then they are the ones to tell us about. For example, if you prefer to stick away from the cheesy music like YMCA, Macarena, Oops upside you head etc then let your DJ know beforehand. What NOT to play is probably important than telling him what TO play. The DJ will judge the crowd when he arrives and providing the company you book is experienced 9/10 times will know what to play straight away.

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