super-hero
18-04-2010, 10:05 PM
I was booked to do a 40th birthday party last Saturday. It's been booked for months, and I have been in regular contact with the client. He sent me a last minute playlist for the evening, which contained all 80's music. A lot of it was not really mainstream so I had to do a fair bit of downloading. Not a problem as it all adds to my music library.
Got to the venue with plenty of time to set up, as I was using a slightly differnt setup, and wanted to uplight the seating area near the bar. Everything was setup 30 minutes before the guests were due to arrive, so had a play with some of the evenings songs to get a feel for some of the ones I was not familiar with.
Anyway, the guests finally start to arrive and guess what, it's a 70's fancy dress party.
How the client forgot to mention this I don't know.
So in the end I didn't play a single song from his playlist.
Luckily I use a laptop as my main playout system with backup form cd's. I usually carry about 50 cd's with me to cover most genres, but I would not have been able to fill 4 hours with 70's music.
As it turned out, it was a fantasic night with dancing from start to finish.
Got to the venue with plenty of time to set up, as I was using a slightly differnt setup, and wanted to uplight the seating area near the bar. Everything was setup 30 minutes before the guests were due to arrive, so had a play with some of the evenings songs to get a feel for some of the ones I was not familiar with.
Anyway, the guests finally start to arrive and guess what, it's a 70's fancy dress party.
How the client forgot to mention this I don't know.
So in the end I didn't play a single song from his playlist.
Luckily I use a laptop as my main playout system with backup form cd's. I usually carry about 50 cd's with me to cover most genres, but I would not have been able to fill 4 hours with 70's music.
As it turned out, it was a fantasic night with dancing from start to finish.