OK guys it's just a bit of fun.

This saturday I'm doing a Wedding and when I asked the Bride and Groom (during my initial meeting) if they were having any other entertainment, the bride answered that during the buffet a friend of hers was going to do a belly dance, which got me to thinking - what is the strangest act you've performed alongside - not seen, but actually worked alongside (ok not the drunk Frank Sinatra Brian) what was the function and what if any difficulties were there. The only potential problem I can see with my belly dancer is her asking me to dance with her, after all I have the figure

Vinnie

If the Belly Dancer doesnt have any music of her own - try "One night in Bankok" (sp?), from the musical "Chess".

Most of the track has got a fairly good Belly-dancer type feel to it, but the first 40 seconds or so, is a perfect Egyptian street market type music (music only, no market trader yells, or camel noises etc).


Anyway, strangest act I've performed with. A pair of old waiters (complete with cobwebs on their waiter suits), acting drunk and doddery, but actually, very good table magicians.

A bellydancer

an oap stripper she must of been about 90

I once saw Jim do a disco, that was wierd

a roly poly

wasent a pretty site and the acts she performed on the birthday boy were very expliciet in front of all his guests

A line dancing cowboy type guy - the girls swooned over him but it was obvious he was more interested in me!

here we go

1. belly Dancers
2. A guy who finished his act by puttiing a fire waok up his back side, and then lit it
3. Anther guy who hammered 6" nails up his nose, then swallowed a sword and eat all the bile from it
4. Steve starr, who swallows stuff then regurgitates it, money, snooker balls, gold fish, light bulbs
5. a guy who held a music competition for bad records, the tunes were either sent to record heavan or nailed to a railway sleeper
6. someone who disembowled teddy bears
7. sharon does a trick that involves swallowing scarves and then reproducing them

A very nice young lady who hid ice cubes in her...... errrrrr about her person then dropped them into the mouth of a guy laying on the floor.

and a very nice young lady she was........... or so I was told

Top list Ian

Vinnie

PS - she has her own music Gary

You are a very lucky man Mr Stewart !

If you too put in a little extra effort, you can work with people like that

Pepole like what

"Spanner in the works": spoof waiter/waitress really funny. IE: Customer " Waiter, can I order some wine?" Reply " No!" and walk off. just the tip of the iceberg, but very amusing.

"Operadagio" : Three Waiters who ar actually trained opera singers. Very good.

"Brahms & Listz": Two really pro musicians, both in their late 50s I would guess. They come on during the meal and play classical music, by the end of the meal they have everybody, and I mean Everybody on the stage with them!!! Pure class and a pleaseure to watch!!

"Operadagio" : Three Waiters who ar actually trained opera singers. Very good."

I'v worked with 3 guys like that. Can't remember their name though! Where did you work with them, ours was in the village hotel, maidstone!
Could be the same guys, they were pretty good!

Stu

Okay, probably not that interesting, and slightly off topic, since it was at a wedding I was a guest at, but a friend of mine had a comedian do a turn at his nuptials! It was very interesting to look around at all the dropped jaws when the guy got blue. Very brave, and very funny indeed. Not sure who did the disco though.

I remember being a very naive 17 year old DJ when I was asked to DJ at Leatherhead Footbal Club on their gear for a 'stag night' OK, I'll do it. By the way, said the manager, yo'll get a tape to play from the girls


I turn up, set the gear up, and the place suddenly fills up with about 200 blokes, 3 girls walk in and tell me to play this mate

I had never seen strippers do a stag night before!

Of course, I volunteered for all the other stag night gigs

Morris Dancers

Chris Lynam

Brian's recollection reminds me of a couple of incidents that have happened to me along similar lines.

In the mid 80's I had been trying to get my foot in the door in the club scene, and I finally got a break and managed to secure a spot at a well known (at the time) club in Soho called Le Beat Route. The manager was a bit of a joker and hadn't really given me much information as to what happened on the various nights there!
I'd already completed two nights there, both of which had been pretty normal as far as the theme of the night etc; then on my first tuesday night as I was walking down the stairs to get into the club at the usual time of about 9.30pm I could sense that there were quite a few people already in the club whereas upto now it had always been empty whenever I had arrived at this time!

As I entered the club I realised it was packed and as I started walking across the dancefloor to get to the DJ booth, I could see that the club was absolutely heaving with girls and not a bloke in sight, but the weird thing was that many of the girls were giving me a very strange look

I walked into the DJ box and started sorting through my records, while all the time trying to work out wtf was going on when suddenly from behind me two huge blokes with barely a thread on between them burst out to a deafening roar from the girls!

It turned out that every tuesday night was a hen night with male strippers and no blokes were allowed in before midnight. Every week the place would be packed to the rafters and by midnight the girls were rampant and many of them... lets say, very eager to make acquaintances with the opposite sex I fully expected loads of blokes to come steaming in after midnight yet hardly any blokes did and those that did were virtually raped! I told a load of my mates about it and they started coming down on a tuesday night and some of em have never stopped thanking me since

The other incident (you still awake at the back ) took place in Damascus in Syria a couple of years later. I was working with Juliana's at the time and they sent me on a four month contract to DJ at a club in the Damascus Sheraton. On my first day there the local sound engineer showed me around the DJ booth and showed me the controls for the lighting rig and the the sound etc and explained the nightly programme, which started off with a belly dancer, followed by an Arabic comedian or dance troop followed by a top Arabic singer and then the DJ would end the night, but he also explained that the DJ & sound engineer between them would operate the sound levels for the orchestra while the various performers were on stage and also the lighting rig. The lighting controller was pretty standard at the time and so I didn't take much notice when he was explaining it.

Later that night, I'm in place waiting for the start of the show, setup by the lighting rig ready to operate the lighting for the belly dancer who would start the show. I'd never seen a belly dancer in my life before and had no idea what to expect, I was about 22, so therefore a lot more easily exciteable

When the Lebanese belly dancer came out and started doing her thing, I was in a trance and just stared at her. I couldn't believe the way she was gyrating those hips I was really getting into this when suddenly after the show had already been on a couple of minutes the lighting engineer called out to me that I was s'posed to be operating the lights! She had totally mesmerised me and I'd completely forgotten all about the lights!

The policy they had at this venue was to have a different belly dancer each week, one week she'd be from Egypt and the following week from Lebanon, then the next week from Egypt again then from Lebanon etc. The reason being that the older Arab blokes loved the girls to be full and well rounded, this was the Egyptian style. While the younger Arab blokes liked the more western style of beauty, meaning much slimmer/perfect body and pretty face which was the style of the belly dancers from Lebanon. I always enjoyed the Lebanese week much more than the Egyptian week

done a joint 30th and 40th earlier this year the birthday boys and most guests where french so i was entertained by a cousin who was a juggler i had to choose some quick tempo music to play while he perfomed for about 25 mins THEN wanted to carry on some more so i let him then finished last 90 mins with mix of 80's dance and salsa.

rolly polly stripper at a 21st few weeks ago but she was ROLLY big time

golf club in tarlton feb this year was doing good set till a magician turned up saying he had been booked to go round the tables before and after a lancashire hotpot supper and that i was to only play LOW background music particularily 60's and 70's

I could go off certain people

Sticky Vicky in Benidorm