Charlie Brown
18-05-2008, 12:34 PM
Well as most of you know there where a few problems regarding a 60th and 50th this weekend...
Friday night:
Started off around 8ish playing Jack Johnson and Frank Sinatra. Around 9.00 I pumped up the music and started playing all the 50's to today, and not once was any less than 20 people on the dance floor. This gave me a great buzz, and soon had the confidence to speak on the mic etc. I could see people were a bit tipsy now, so we decided to sing happy birthday to the birthday girl,
I used a children’s party song that was so cringey went really well,
bit more of songs, Delilah etc, then I decided to do something a bit different for me:
I explained to everyone that we are going to do the hokey cokey, so everyone quickly got into a circle, including me! and we all did the hokey cokey!! Next was Love Train and Amarillo, around the cricket field, which again I was asked to join in! Finally, we did barn dancing to 5,6,7,8, again I joined in! For the rest of the night we returned to normal disco and many people asked me for my business cards, and every time I went to the bar for a drink, somebody would pop and say, "I'll get that, you doing a cracking job!" So all in all, didn’t finish till 1.00am and towards the end, the laptop had a little panic attack but I soon sorted that out:D
Saturday I set up around 12.00. The woman ignored me although the man did say "You have missed the band." As I thought, they had a Mackie speaker system set up either side, and I was given a very small space to DJ, and was told the goalpost had to go right to the back of the garage(we were in the garage and the marquee lead on from that. The trouble was all the lights where hitting the garage and not going into the marquee.) For 3 hours, I took my time setting up and not once was I offered a drink by the woman or man! The woman came and apologised and explained she doesn’t like parties etc, and that she was stressed. I was then given a cup of tea, and invited into the house to watch TV! I was expecting the boy to be in, but he was at cricket.
Come 8.00 the guests start arriving, very posh, everyone in suits etc and the band are playing, around 9.00 the band have a break and I play Jack Johnson etc till 8.45, and the band come back on till around 11.00.
I start at 11 and soon realise that I'm not going to be able to do the hokey cokey etc! Start off with Dancing in the moonlight then Livan'La'Voca.
Everyone gets on the dance floor for a good hour and half, and the comments were brill! A coach comes and takes a lot of people home, at around 12.30
Everyone said they had a really good night, and again where very impressed!
Hopefully I have a few 60th's out of it AND a wedding reception on the 7th August. What do you think, they want me to ring them today..... Do I do it..or do I dont
Many thanks Charlie
Friday night:
Started off around 8ish playing Jack Johnson and Frank Sinatra. Around 9.00 I pumped up the music and started playing all the 50's to today, and not once was any less than 20 people on the dance floor. This gave me a great buzz, and soon had the confidence to speak on the mic etc. I could see people were a bit tipsy now, so we decided to sing happy birthday to the birthday girl,
I used a children’s party song that was so cringey went really well,
bit more of songs, Delilah etc, then I decided to do something a bit different for me:
I explained to everyone that we are going to do the hokey cokey, so everyone quickly got into a circle, including me! and we all did the hokey cokey!! Next was Love Train and Amarillo, around the cricket field, which again I was asked to join in! Finally, we did barn dancing to 5,6,7,8, again I joined in! For the rest of the night we returned to normal disco and many people asked me for my business cards, and every time I went to the bar for a drink, somebody would pop and say, "I'll get that, you doing a cracking job!" So all in all, didn’t finish till 1.00am and towards the end, the laptop had a little panic attack but I soon sorted that out:D
Saturday I set up around 12.00. The woman ignored me although the man did say "You have missed the band." As I thought, they had a Mackie speaker system set up either side, and I was given a very small space to DJ, and was told the goalpost had to go right to the back of the garage(we were in the garage and the marquee lead on from that. The trouble was all the lights where hitting the garage and not going into the marquee.) For 3 hours, I took my time setting up and not once was I offered a drink by the woman or man! The woman came and apologised and explained she doesn’t like parties etc, and that she was stressed. I was then given a cup of tea, and invited into the house to watch TV! I was expecting the boy to be in, but he was at cricket.
Come 8.00 the guests start arriving, very posh, everyone in suits etc and the band are playing, around 9.00 the band have a break and I play Jack Johnson etc till 8.45, and the band come back on till around 11.00.
I start at 11 and soon realise that I'm not going to be able to do the hokey cokey etc! Start off with Dancing in the moonlight then Livan'La'Voca.
Everyone gets on the dance floor for a good hour and half, and the comments were brill! A coach comes and takes a lot of people home, at around 12.30
Everyone said they had a really good night, and again where very impressed!
Hopefully I have a few 60th's out of it AND a wedding reception on the 7th August. What do you think, they want me to ring them today..... Do I do it..or do I dont
Many thanks Charlie