OK mate, a review of events, and were they eventful!!!
Before I'd left home, I set up a cobbled together Karaoke rig for a party next door, with a tablet that hadn't been charged up since Covid ( when Rishi Sunak bought me a nice new one ) running karaoke on Youtube, and an iphone running a fixed playlist from Spotify. Private function, no rule breaking at all, Officer.
I arrived at my wedding venue ludicrously early, as is my wont, and as expected was refused entry. Now wouldn't you think, that when a DJ turns up so early to get every possible minute of time available to him during turn round, that the staff might not actually start turn round without telling him?
By chance, I'd started trundling the kit in anyway, and didn't lose too much time. The wedding rig isn't too hard to deal with and I comfortably beat the deadline I'd been given to let the guests back in. Venue then proceeded to bring them in ten minutes after the deadline they'd given me, which apparently vital to meet, as they wanted the bar for a coach party, which I know had come in.
Added to this, I had to sneak in a sax player booked by the groom as a surprise, plug her in to my kit, and play the wrong song for the first dance to let the sax player pop up and rescue me. Well come on, I'm an old bloke, I get things wrong from time to time, eh?
Somehow, ably assisted by the lovely Amy the sax player, we pulled that one off nicely. The cunning plan was then to have Father/Daughter dance next, let the sax player do a set, and see how the evening unfolded.
First dance absolute success, Father/Daughter hit a snag: absence of male party. Function Manager has the brilliant idea, cut the cake, then let sax player loose. Genius, well done Manager. I must point out that I'd had contact with Amy previously, and I'd be happy to have more. She turned up with an adaptor cable from iPhone to two phono for her backing music ( which she handled entirely ) and a radio mic rig for the sax. All worked really well, and didn't involve me much, excellent.
Buffet comes out during first set, so I have to butt in to announce that, and during the night I have to announce various things like " please keep the anklebiters in this room only, please don't vape inside the premises", and other such gems. Then what looked like a promising young crowd wanting lively EDM swerved off into Bassline and 75bpm dirges. Dear Lord, it's a joyous celebration, and one request was " dying only hurts the first time".
Apart from requests for only half a dozen of The Usual Suspects, it was dire. Surprisingly, many of them stayed with me to the end, and I got a round of applause. Juan Moore got told to eff off, he wasn't needed this time.
Originally Posted by Excalibur
OK mate, a review of events, and were they eventful!!!
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