This Week's Gigs

[Shakermaker Promotions]

So, what are you all up to this week?
I'll kick it off shall I?

Thursday - Children's Christmas Party.
Thursday - Christmas Party at Hotel residency.
Friday - Christmas Party at Hotel residency.
Saturday - Wedding out of town.
Saturday - 40th Birthday (Being covered by someone else).
Saturday - Christmas Party at Hotel residency (Being covered by Daryll)
Sunday - Small P.A. for Acoustic afternoon out of town.

It starts to really kick in now.
Have a good one whatever you are doing.

[DazzyD]

Friday - no gigs taken as works night out @ Hanna Hanna Japanese restaurant in Newcastle followed by a jaunt to Shark Club Newcastle

Saturday - normal residency cancelled for the week due to private party wanting to provide their own entertainment (it's a leaving do for a guy who's an Elvis impersonator and he wants to do his own entertainment)

Sunday - Son's 6th birthday so we're out for the day followed by his birthday tea and games at his house.

So, for only the 3rd time in 2011, I'm going to be spending more than I earn this weekend :eek:

[Danno13]

This is the quiet week for me - it gets progressivley busier throughout the month and still have last minute stuff coming in!

Yesterday had some B&W floor go out on dry hire.

Today I delivered a 3-week hire of Blackout cloth + stands.

Tomorrow have more B&W dance floor going out on dry hire.

Friday - PA system being collected for a dry hire, a 12x12 Black LED floor being delivered, I'm personally DJ-ing in the evening for the 4th year in a row for a company's Xmas do, potentionaly a 15x15 Parquet floor out for a two-week hire too, if they confirm tomorrow.

Saturday - Just a 16x16 Black LED floor out

I've arranged cover for collections and returns of hires so that I can take Saturday night, Sunday and half of Monday off, which will be nice as it's probably the last weekend I'll be able to do this until mid January!

[WWDJ]

Saturday - normal residency cancelled for the week due to private party wanting to provide their own entertainment (it's a leaving do for a guy who's an Elvis impersonator and he wants to do his own entertainment)

So Elvis will really be leaving the building then ....

Nothing for me this week.

Strangely December is always quiet for me. Next gigs 17th, 26th and 31st. :D

[Leicester Ben]

This is the first of 3 really busy weeks for us with the christmas party season kicking in, for us its:

Thursday:

Winter Wonderland Event with: Stage, LED Uplighting, Moving Heads, PA & Truss Podiums

Stage out at a school for a week for their christmas play.

10x Uplighters out on dry hire at a local community centre.

Friday:

4x Moving Headswith snowflake gobos in Birmingham for Microsoft

6x Outdoor Uplighters in London lighting up trees!

Saturday:

Christmas Party in Liverpool: 100m of Starcloth, Starlit Floor, Red Carpet, Outdoor Uplighters, Space Flower, Haze, DJ, Moving Heads and Truss Podiums

Wedding in Leicester: Black & White Floor, 2x Ivory Starcloths, Top Table Skirt, Cake Table Skirt, Wedding Arch, Uplighting and Jem Glaciator

20ft x 20ft Black & White Floor out on dry hire.

5m x 5m LED Floor @ Chelsea FC

Snow Machine and Red Carpet out on dry hire

Sunday:

Taking my little sisters to the cinema to see Arthur Christmas and having a few well earned beers before mondays madness starts again!

Still makes me laugh how late people are leaving it to book stuff, we are taking so many enquiries for bookings in the next few weeks - its making my life a logistical nightmare!

[marting]

This week Saturday have a xmas party for 120 of my colleagues and friends at work looking at around 5 hours music play, with everything from 50's through to some current chart stuff.

[JDB Entertainment]

This week is the start of the madness.

Friday: 3 x Dance Floor Hires, 1 x DJ

Saturday: Reclean of Dance Floors, 3 x DJ's, 3 x Dance Floor Hires, 2 x Uplighting Hire Jobs

Sunday: Football :)

[ppentertainments]

Thursday - Xmas party
Friday - Xmas parties
Saturday - Xmas parties
Sunday - Xmas parties
Monday - Xmas party
Tuesday - Xmas parties
Wednesday Xmas parties

Can copy and paste the above till Xmas eve :D
Different approach to December this year which sees me covering 62 parties, doing 23 personally, although most of mine are only 1030 - midnight.

[Gary (GDK)]

Quiet weekend for me - really feeling the pinch this month due to my operation in March and not sure about recovery times etc.

Got a gig on Fri & Sat - wedding and a xmas party respectively.

[JAMdisco]

Got my usual quiz night tonight (Thursday 1st Dec) then a wedding on Saturday.

Got all weekends booked from now until end December (last one on NYE) then I'll be booking my holiday abroad in January when I get paid - good times... :D :)

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Friday - Motown tribute
Friday - disco and karaoke/xmas party
Friday - Xmas party
Saturday - 5 x Xmas parties
Wednesday - 2 x Xmas party
Thursday - Xmas party

Then it starts to get busy...:sj:

[hammy]

Friday - my first gig in new residency

saturday - kids disco

[STEVE HANLEY]

Friday-Nowt
Saturday-2 x Kids parties and an Engagement party in Newcastle
Sunday-Another kids party and a 30th birthday party in Newcastle

[djdave01]

friday - kids party
Saturday - 1st xmas party
Sunday - Wedding

[axeman]

friday = kids xmas party then Rocklife hall xmas party. (my friend is covering my monthly hexam residency)
sat = Rockliffe hall xmas party
Sunday = karaoke residency in Sunderland
Thurs = Rockliffe xmas party

[Charlie Brown]

Thursday, Friday and Saturday - Xmas party
Sunday - kids party

[surround sounds]

Friday - xmas party
sat - xmas party
Tues - xmas party

[grebble]

Just starting out and it's my first paid gig tomorrow :) A 28th birthday party with 40 or so people just outside Peterborough. Really looking forward to it but a little nervous at the same time :eek: Should be good as I have met the client already (dropped into her house last week to pick up a cash deposit as she didn't have a cheque book) and she's given me a good idea of what she wants. She was bitterly disappointed with the DJ she had last year who had awful sound quality, she couldn't hear him on the mic (cheap kit?), and he didn't have much of a music selection. So I've got some standards to beat! She did say she was going to ring round more people for quotes but she liked the sound of me so she didn't bother to look any further :D

Then next Saturday I've got a 38th birthday party in Kettering with a guest list of all women!

Not got much work after that until next month but hopefully if I do well at these gigs I'll start to make a name for myself :)

[Spirits High]

After a busy rest of the year December is just at the right level of bookings.

Friday: Nothing

Saturday: All day Wedding

Sunday: Nothing

[Glenski]

This week is manic... and December is looking very very busy !!

Monday = Night Off :)
Tuesday = Karaoke at The Alexandra Pub
Wednesday = Karaoke at The Command House (Look up 'The Pub Dig' on History channel this Friday, as this venue features on it @ 9pm)
Thursday = Karaoke at The Three Mariners (Going back to my roots)
Friday = Karaoke at The United Services Pub
Saturday = Disco at The Medway Inn for staff party
Sunday = Quiz Night with Rock & Roll Bingo at The Three Mariners

Phew!! so far so good :)

Thank you

[Twinspin]

Friday - School Disco at St Richards Primary School - 2 hours School Disco
Saturday - Wedding Disco at Gardeners Country Inn
Monday - Disco for Hull University Music Society Christmas Ball at Country Park Inn.

[Andy Goodtimes]

I decided back in February just to take work for myself this year as last year was too hectic with sorting out other DJs and stupid little problems.

I'm doing 23 in December mostly at Rookery Hall. I do an acoustic night each week and am slightly concerned as I'm having to do it for the last time next week till Jan 11th, I just can't keep it going at the same time as my residency so I am hoping it won't take too much kick starting again in the new year. I thoroughly enjoy the night as its something completely different to what I normally do and lots of the regulars and musicians have become friends so it was a difficult decision to make.

I have done some Christmas parties already and am just about getting into it, the parties are also getting better attended with each night that goes by and folk are steadily getting into the Christmas spirit. I have also got a few coming up that are for single companies rather than public and some of them are regular clients so I know what they are like and there are some wild ones on the horizon.

[DiscoMagic]

Last night local town late night Christmas shopping event

Tonight hotel residency in Croydon
Tomorrow hotel residency in Croydon

[Andy Goodtimes]

So how are the Christmas parties going?

My one last night wasn't too good, it was llargely dominated by a party of 5 tables from a medium sized company who weren't really up for it. They were fairly youngish but the men all wore bow tie and tux and the ladies were very conservatively dressed, they had asked to have their drinks reception in a seperate room and it was like they were there because they had to be. The other tables were mostly made up of families and groups of friends and one of them went straight after the food because a elderly lady got very badly drunk and was ill...not nice at all. I really struggled to get the party kick started.

Friday night was a different story, absolutely mad crowd, 2 groups of primary school teachers, 2 tables from a Doctors surgery and a couple of other smaller companies and they all mixed and had a fantastic time. Tonight is a mixed bag again and tomorrow is Swinton Insurance and they have always been a good crowd.