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What are the legal requirements in the UK for laser use Chris?

I would also say its too much. Try to use the installed lighting and just a few of yours set to sound to light. You only have a short set up time.

Double time plus the extra hours, So if you are normally £300 you should be charging £800

I will let bands go through my PA, but I want to be paid for the liasing, engineering and monitoring that I will have to to do for this to happen smoothly

Last night I had been asked to play Kisstory / Garage all night, plenty of tapping feet and a few dancers

By 9.30 I asked the Groom if he minded me playing a few party tunes, three tracks in and...

I find letting the guests know when the bride and groom are formally leaving keeps some of the guests at the venue and prevents the drift of guests that can occurr especially on a Sunday wedding.
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RCD's and keeping everything off the floor.

Dancefloors will cause more issues, or is that the footwear used on it??

I get on average one a year, while I love what I do, 4 is the maximum charity/friends gigs in any one year

Nice mix of tunes, may find the oldies will want some 60's and 70's though

I find it best to pre-empt the finish, especially if you have been getting other signals during the night.

It is funny how this behavior can come form the most unlikely sources.

Traktor is my favoured tool, it does a very good job. I usually only have to EQ some very old tracks

My prices reflect what the job entails, but also how busy I am as well

Playlists seem to be about more and more and if stuck to can kill an event. I try to limit mine to 10 must haves and get the event organiser to tell me what they defiantely do not want.
Even when...

For me it is a slower start to bookings later in the year and yet I have worked every weekend so far this year which I did not do last year. Could it be people are holding back and waiting to see if...

looks like a typical 18th Birthday playlist if its 10 hours of music, you may even be able to play it all by mixing across the breaks and missing out intros etc.

Hush in Mayfair from 11.00 till 03.00

Sarah Main - resident DJ at Pacha Ibiza

Annie Mac - ground breaking DJ on radio one

I think there is no hard and fast rule to this.

Sometimes its just gut feeling that an enquirey is somebody looking for the cheapest price, in which case they have come to wrong place when...

A sign is the answer, as most people just do not think.

Liquids and elctricity are a dangerous mix and can result in the event ending sooner than the client expected to someones life ending, but
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4 hours is the norm for me, but I have done anything from 1 hr to 16hrs.

I would have charged £300 (double your normal fee). That is how I have costed NYE amd have always got work.

Not my cup of tea at all, but will be a hit.

Great ideas, I also have a Jackson Tribute coming up, Thanks

Try and ask plenty of questions before presenting what you do. One mans?womans ideal wedding DJ is anothers nightmare, the same normally aplies to a wedding organiser

I would take it.