Feel I had to post this....Clients requested list

[dmckaraoke]

I normally don't moan when clients send longer than normal play lists.. But I have just received the follow for a wedding with the strict instructions to play it in the exact order.. What do you think of a client who clearly recons they can read a dancefloor prior to the evening...



First Dance
Mins
Secs
Year
Rule the World - Take That
3
58
2007
Second, Third, Fourth Dance!



With Me - Sum 41
4
51
2008
Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now - Jefferson Starship
4
29
1987
The Best Thing - Relient K
3
28
2007




Ceilidh Stuff







Journey Through Time - The Sixties



Eight Days a Week - The Beatles
2
44
1964
I Can't Help Myself - The Four Tops
2
46
1965
Build me up Buttercup - The Foundations
3
0
1968
Paperback Writer - The Beatles
2
19
1966
The Seventies



Stuck in the Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
3
23
1972
Waterloo - Abba
2
42
1974
Grease - You're the one that I Want
2
49
1978
The Eighties



Waiting for a Star to Fall - Boy Meets Girl
4
32
1988
Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
3
18
1983
Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
3
32
1985
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
2
47
1983
Journey - Don't Stop Me Now
4
11
1986
Nineties onwards (mixed)



Zed - Starlight
2
51
2003
Bohemian Like You - Dandy Warhols
3
31
2000
All In - Lifehouse
3
54
2009
The Tide Is High - Atomic Kitten
3
26
2002
Stars - Switchfoot
4
20
2005
Dance With Me Tonight - Olly Murs
3
23
2011
Life is a Highway - Rascal Flatts
4
38
2006
I'm a Believer - Smash Mouth
3
3
2001
All the Small Things - Blink 182
2
48
2000
High School Never Ends - Bowling For Soup
3
28
2006
Livin La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
4
3
1999
Last Night - Good Charlotte
3
40
2011
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
2
52
1998
This Everyday Love - Rascall Flatts
3
5
2000
Whisky Girl - Toby Keith
3
59
2004
Hero - Nickelback
3
20
2002
All Star - Smash Mouth
3
21
1999
I'm Your Man - Shane Ritchie
3
22
2003
Outkast - Hey Ya
3
55
2003
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
2
46
2001
Carly Rae Jepson - Call Me Maybe
3
13
2011
Summer Nights - Rascall Flatts
4
2
2009
I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts
3
9
1995
Candyman - Christina Aguilera
3
14
2007
The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
3
35
2006
Here it goes Again - OK GO
2
59
2006
Just the way you are - Bruno Mars
3
40
2009
Dancing in the Moonlight - Toploader
3
46
2000
Must Have Done Something Right - Relient K
3
14
2007
September - SisQo Vitamin C
3
20
2001
What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction
3
22
2011
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
3
29
2001
Strip Me - Natasha Beddingfield
3
29
2010
Firework - Katy Perry
3
48
2010
Sean Kingston - Sleep All Day Party All Night
3
42
2011
Danza Kuduro - Salsa Version DJ Salseroso
3
19
2010
Moves like Jagger - Maroon 5
3
21
2011
Blow (Cirkut Remix) Ke$ha
3
14
2011
Katy Perry - Hot'N'Cold
3
40
2008
Evacuate the Dancefloor - Cascada
3
27
2009
Rihanna - We Found Love
3
56
2003
Push the Button - Sugababes
3
36
2005
You and Me - Lifehouse
3
16
2005
Whose Authority - Nada Surf
3
2
2008
Fields of Gold - Sting
3
42
1993
Last Dance



Time of my Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
4
47
1987

[dmckaraoke]

Sorry how it reads.. I copied and pasted it directly on my phone...

[Vectis]

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

Stick it in a playlist, rock up, press play, read a magazine or surf the web for a few hours, get paid, go home

(but keep a couple of bankers lined up on another deck for when the inevitable happens at around 10:00pm...)

[funkymook]

What do you think of a client who clearly recons they can read a dancefloor prior to the evening...

I'm more of the 'what do I think of a DJ who allow themselves to get into this scenario' I'm afraid.

Unless you've had no interaction with the B&G at all I honestly can't imagine how anyone could end up with such a strict list with no prior warning. Have you met the couple, spoken on the phone, emailed etc?

[Corabar Entertainment]

I'm more of the 'what do I think of a DJ who allow themselves to get into this scenario' I'm afraid.

Unless you've had no interaction with the B&G at all I honestly can't imagine how anyone could end up with such a strict list with no prior warning. Have you met the couple, spoken on the phone, emailed etc?

It can and does happen, Martin. It's happened to us (only once in 15 years, but...), and you know we try and meet / communicate A LOT with our clients. It was never mentioned during the numerous conversations or meetings - even though we discussed the music in detail, and then they dropped a full playlist on us a couple of weeks before the wedding. I'm convinced they were keeping it to themselves because they thought we might not think it was the best idea!

In the end, we did persuade them to let us have leeway on the order though. (The song choices themselves weren't too bad at all, so it was something we could work with)

[funkymook]

It can and does happen, Martin. It's happened to us (only once in 15 years, but...), and you know we try and meet / communicate A LOT with our clients. It was never mentioned during the numerous conversations or meetings - even though we discussed the music in detail, and then they dropped a full playlist on us a couple of weeks before the wedding. I'm convinced they were keeping it to themselves because they thought we might not think it was the best idea!

In the end, we did persuade them to let us have leeway on the order though. (The song choices themselves weren't too bad at all, so it was something we could work with)

Once in 15 years isn't a bad track record And I've had near misses as well so I know it's something that can happen - but there seems to be quite a lot of 'strict' and 'un-payable' playlists mentioned on various forums quite regularly though.