After Chris came to see me a couple of weeks ago, and we discuss the same records seemingly played all over the country on a Saturday night, which 5 records do you find you play every week without fail. Mine are...

Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girls
Barry White- You're My First......
Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
Shania Twain - Man ! I Feel Like A Woman
Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts....

I dont do it i am afraid it varies

Hi

at the moment...

Outcast, heyya
girls Aloud, Jump for my love
Foundations, build me up buttercup
Bill Medly/Jennifer Warnes, The time of my life (but that's cause it tends to be our closing number, along with ma na ma na



Monkeys, I'm a believer


Darren

Always, as an example:

love shack
walking on sunshine
oh what a night
car wash

I never play the same stuff, I try to vary vastly and bring in imports and other not so common stuff.
I try to avoid cheese, but then I guess it varies on event type.
In the club pub I play, then there is guaranteed crowd pleasers, but so many that I change from week to week

Club work is different, but of all the records that have been mentioned, I bet I could make a CD up of the first 20 songs mentioned, play them back to back at my next gig and still have a full dancefloor, which proves that we HAVE to play the same sort of music whether we are in Chester or Torquay, maybe not in the same order but at some point in the evening.

Gotta be true Andy!

At the moment mine would be

Build me up buttercup
Blame it on the boogie
The only way is up
Shout
Rio

I guess if we all noted our sets from one weekend you could pick your 20 fillers no problem.

Vinnie

Car Wash
We Go Together
Walking On Sunshine
Love Shack
It's Raining Men

In no particular order

Chain Reaction - Diana Ross
Jump Around - House of pain
Reach - S Club 7
Staying Alive - Bee Gees
Theme from New York, New York - Frank Sinatra

They are all just great party tunes... and we play at parties so it figures we play party tunes

Could also be we are stuck in our ways a bit... but at the end of the day if it works it works!!

Im lucky that i often work outside of the typical 'Mobile DJ' Box by putting on Rock nights.

But i have drank too much coffee so i will shut up

The only time that playing the same tunes becomes predictable (to our audience) is when you work a residency at a club and allow yourself to play the same stuff in the same order - in other words people get to know your routine.

Other than that, for the average punter, who may only only attend 2 or 3 family events a year, they are non the wiser.

I agree, that to us, we will find playing the same stuff very repetitive and in the case of some tracks....bloody annoying, and thats because we play it every week, or often several times a week!.

There are tracks which do work at every gig, there are also the party tracks and 70's and 80's cheese which will fill the dancefloor better than other tracks. So we tend to play it safe and stick to what we KNOW will work. If I thought that Black Sabbath - Paranoid would work at every single gig, then i'd play it, however experience dictates that at the average Wedding, Cheesier Stuff would be better received .

The Majority of the functions I do are Weddings and other Family Functions, with a median age of around 35 - 40. Thus I only play a limited selection of Chart Stuff, in favour of a broader range of 60's - Mid 90's, and for me this seems to work. However if you were doing a club or pub night, or gigs for a younger audience you'd possibly find the opposite, and that you would need a lot of Pre-Release Dance and Chart Cheese along with Commerical R'n'B.

For the mobiles (cheese factory):

Abba - Dancing Queen
Sclub7 - reach
Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
Candi Staton - young hearts run free
Foundations - build me up buttercup

For the clubs:

no set patterns

Abba
Wham
Katrina & The Waves
B 52's
Chubby Checker
Beatles
Stones
S Club 6 / 7 / 8
Steps
etc etc etc

The Reggae version of Brown Eyed Girl *S*
Barry White Your My First
Trammps Disco Inferno
Harry Belafonte
Ritmo De La Noche
ABBA
Chubby Checker
S Club 7 Reach
Mikey Spice The Marshall Dubplate:)(a version of Hey ya!)