I've been sent a matrix of boxes with things written in them - you'd have to see it to beleive it. I've going to have to re-type it, just to get it into some sort of workable/readable order - otherwise I'm likely to read something wrong off of it.

First Dance - Berlin: Take My Breath Away (ok, not too bad - makes a change from Armageddon)

YES PLEASE:
Indie / New Wave Acts But Only Those with Female Singers
eg: Blondie, The Pretenders, Garbage, The Cardigans, Catatonia.

NO THANKS:
Boy Bands Eg: Busted, McFly, Celione Dion (Honestly she was in the No Boy Bands Box)

ROCK ACTS TO CONSIDER:
REM, Evanvescence, Scissor Sisters, Franz Ferdinand

ROCK ACTS TO AVOID:
Anything "too hard" or "too Heavy" except for Evanescence.

R&B ACTS TO CONSIDER
Alicia Keys
All Saints
Big Brovaz

R&B ACTS TO AVOID
R Kelly
Mark Morrison
Nelly
Anything with lots of Gansta Rap posturing.

80s STUFF TO CONSIDER
Kim Wilde
Duran Duran
Bananarama
The Bangles
Madonna
Neneh Cherry

80s STUFF TO AVOID
Wham!
Rick Astley

OTHER POP ACTS TO CONSIDER:
Shakira
The Corrs
Belle Fire
Sugababes
Dances with actions like "The Time Warp" and "The Macarena"

OTHER REQUESTS TO PLAY
All about Eve - Marthas Harbour
Billy Idol - (3 guesses anyone? yep!) White Wedding
Cornershop - Brimfull of Asha
Culture Club "Karma Chameleon"
Divine Comedy "National Express"
Divine Comedy "Songs of Love" (Theme tune to "Father Ted") (wonder if theres a remix to dance to)
Elton John & Kiki Dee - "Dont go breaking my heart"
George Michael - "Careless Whisper"
Madness - "Baggy Trousers"
Madness - "It must be love"
Ocean Colour scene - "The day we caught the train"
Panjabi MC - "mundain to bach ke"
Rod Stewart - "Do ya think I'm sexy"
Santana "Smooth"
Sonny & Cher "I got you babe"
Stereophonics - "have a nice day"
Spice Girls - "2 become 1"

Possible Last Dances:
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes (I've had) the time of my life
Robin Beck - "First time"


Overall, not actually too bad a list, except for a few tracks there are definately "buffet background material" rather than dancing tunes, but thats ok.

Interesting (perhaps) that most of what they've said "NO!" to are male...add to that, their comment earlier about "only bands with female singers"...(I'm taking my long blonde wig I think)...

Have you confirmed the booking, if I hadn't I know what I would do.

I remember the good old days when we never, NEVER, got play lists. They seem to be more common these days, I have had one for this Saturday and its 5 A4 sheets!!!

Like I said on another thread - I've got no major probs with a play list like that - at least you know where they're coming from. If they put times beside the songs THEN I'd start to worry ;)

Cheers,

Jack.

The play list is managable with a difficult slant, it sounds like another one where the B&G would have been better to employ a Jukebox!

I'm glad I don't get playlists like that. The music request form that I send to the customer only has space for 20.

It looks like they could have a good sense of humor though with the requests for Divine Comedy - National Express, and Dances with actions like "The Time Warp" and "The Macarena.

I've got to admit, I did check the happy couples christian names, just to make sure that it was a male and a female name as there seemed to be a fair bit of anti-male group/artist requests.

My next task before Saturday, in fact, I'll do it here on the thread, is going to be to shuffle the songs on that list around into "Dancey", "mid-paced" (R&B etc), "Slowies/Ballads" and "Buffet material".


Dancey Tunes
REM
Scissor Sisters
The Pretenders
Blondie
Cornershop - Brimfull of Asha
Culture Club "Karma Chameleon"
Elton John & Kiki Dee - "Dont go breaking my heart"
Rod Stewart - "Do ya think I'm sexy"
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes (I've had) the time of my life
Sugababes
Shakira
Kim Wilde
Duran Duran
Bananarama
Madonna

Dances with actions like "The Time Warp" and "The Macarena"
Madness - "Baggy Trousers"

Ballads
George Michael - "Careless Whisper"
Spice Girls - "2 become 1"
Sonny & Cher "I got you babe"
Madness - "It must be love"

Mid-paced / R&B Etc
Garbage
The Cardigans
Catatonia
Alicia Keys
All Saints
Big Brovaz
Neneh Cherry

Buffet Bites
Santana "Smooth"
Stereophonics - "have a nice day"
Robin Beck - "First time"
Divine Comedy "National Express"
Divine Comedy "Songs of Love" (Theme tune to "Father Ted")
All about Eve - Marthas Harbour
Belle Fire
Ocean Colour scene - "The day we caught the train"
Panjabi MC - "mundain to bach ke"
Billy Idol - White Wedding
The Corrs
The Bangles
Franz Ferdinand
Evanvescence (quietly... )


Not in any sort of running order - that'll happen on the night, but simply grouped into loose genres/sections. Obviously some of the groups/artists have songs which they've released which fit into more one of the above categories eg: The Corrs have a few up-tempo tunes, but several good buffet style songs too.

At least they gave you some lee-way in the list.

It does say "consider" rather than "must play", and you get to pick tracks that are not specified.

It's very workable and your experience is all it needs.

Sort it to your ideal and enjoy the evening.

Not a bad list - I'm sure we've all had much worse.

And, Gary, you've done a good job in separating the music out in to sets. It’s exactly that kind preparation that sets apart you and most of the other guys & girls on this forum from your average "just turn up & play" DJ.

But, depending on the crowd, I'm not sure that I would classify Punjabi MC as buffet music. My experience is that anyone Asian or in to R&B goes wild to this one. (Not meaning to stereo type anyone.) Certainly at corporate functions in the London area it has always been a massive floor filler for me.

Wait till you see mine for Sunday

I will post it presently....

Could be worse one of our jobs on saturday sent so many advanced requests that we decided to run a check on our database.

Combined running time of the requests was 14 mins longer than the gig!!!!