For going above and beyond the call of duty, helping out a colleague, and just generally being awesome.
The back story: That famous law dictates that I've had three fairly last minute enquiries for discos less than five miles from my house, when I'm already booked. The final one will see Dave Hughes ( Davesounds ) covering ( thanks Dave, really appreciated ) until hopefully I return from an early finish Hockey presentation. Next Saturday is mainly kit hire for a party with bands and a DJ who is going to have to run the night.
Last night was a wedding vow renewal for a couple living nearby. There were to be numerous DJs there who were planning on doing guest slots, we had a Ceilidh band who were allegedly going to need some kit in the field behind our barn, and anything else that we might be called upon to provide.
Due to the requirements, Dave turned up on Friday to install some kit with me, and brought an impressive array of lights, which we hung from the gantry provided for us, a mighty structure you could have hung a car from! I decided we needed a bit more wash, and put some in on Saturday morning. We returned early Saturday afternoon to put the finishing touches to everything, tidy up, and be ready for the Ceilidh band, who turned up, worked in a totally different area than we expected, and were lovely fellas and totally self sufficient.
As Dave said, if we'd waited till 8pm to come back, we'd have been needed for a dozen things. Because we were early, we weren't but we had a precursor of an issue. While moving a speaker cable I tripped the power. Dave found out where the breaker had cut out, and we were back in business.
Nobody really wanted to see us till late, as food and drink were a hundred yards away, and it was sweltering in the barn. Dave was the DJ for the night, I wasn't going to attempt to drive his Denons, ( don't know what they were, but they come in three pieces, and look like my Prime when it's been on a bodybuilding course, and lived on steroids for a month ) other than to load a track on one side, just to prove I could. He was going great guns, until we lost power again, virtually the whole venue went off. We couldn't rectify the fault, other than to see it was on my cables, not Dave's, so brought the Maui 5 GO in to run on batteries, once Dave had restored lights.
Various of the DJs in the crowd wanted to have a bash on the decks, one lad wanted to plug his laptop in, which was technically possible, but not going to happen. ( Dave had instructed them to bring USB sticks if they wanted a go previously ) a couple of them had a try at it, and made a total pig's ear of things. They handed the reins back to Dave, who switched off near 2am, and we stripped as much kit as we could, before both coming to my house to bed.
6am this morning, and I'm tentatively plugging in the PA which had seemingly died last night.
I didn't run it up too much, but everything lit up, and made a noise. Looks like a day of checking cables beckons. We grabbed the last of the kit this morning, and Dave headed home to civilisation.
Once again, heartfelt thanks to the man for facilitating something I couldn't have done myself in any way, and generally being awesome. Thanks mate, I owe you.
Originally Posted by Excalibur
For going above and beyond the call of duty, helping out a colleague, and just generally being awesome.
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A lovely hall, decorated by the family in Barbie style, pink from end to end. Lots of young persons present, many of whom appeared to belong to the happy couple. 
