Look on the bright side....we've not had to announce "Last Orders" or "Time" yet.

Still virtually speaking....we're now JUST in the final hour...

Last orders is in 4 or 5 records time.... "time at the bar" is 4 or 5 records after that. The bride and groom are staying till the very end and dont want an arch/leaving line.

One or two people...having made contact with the bride and groom, noshed the buffet and been seen to be there, are starting to wander off...not because of the music, (they've been listening and dancing to it most of the night), but because they've got a 90 minute journey home.

I can see the oldies beginning to wilt, there is a great deal of sweat running off some red faced rotund chaps, they need a break! Micheal J, Billie J or Beat it! Sometimes if a filler both! What next?

From Billie Jean (almost any mix...) into S Club 7 "Dont Stop moving". Easy mix...similar pace, and similar age-recognition.

But lets not forget the 20 somethings... I say...bring on the big guns.... Room 5/luv'd up.... the Lynx advert music..

WHA I love to party....everybody does...

Into....????

Nobody has discussed money with me, so I'm not joining in, no play until the pay !
Can I come up and say the usual 'I'm a DJ you know' etc etc etc ? Go on please !
BTW Have you got anything good ?

well i take your room 5 and then id give ya a kyile track!

QUOTE

BTW Have you got anything good ?

"Anything good sir?...well, those 130 people on the dancefloor seem to have enjoyed everything so far. What song, specifically would you like?"

Or alternatively...(not for weddings)

"We're saving the decent music until the decent people turn up"


Which Kylie song DJ_Kray, hopefully not a Stock Aitkin and Waterman one... ?

prob come in to my world

QUOTE

"Anything good sir?...well, those 130 people on the dancefloor seem to have enjoyed everything so far. What song, specifically would you like?"

I Dunno, yopu're the DJ..........

Hi

ok from Kylie, I'll assume it's Can't get you outa my head.

Into:

Mojo, Lady her me tonight, into:

DJ (god help us) Otsi, Hey baby, into

Scooter, ligical song...for the youngsters, finally!

Darren

ok well i wud go from Kylies "Cant get you outta my head" into Michael Jacksons "You Rock My World" (which was out the same week incidentally)

then from that maybe into a bit of Justin Timberlake "Rock your Body" which brings us up2date.

OK we've got...

70% of the dancefloor filled

Around 40 people still sitting down...most of which are over 50...(they are probably just knackered though) maybe mic them in a minute, "all right at the back?"

and we're in the last 40 minutes, enough time left for around 8 or 9 more songs.

well i dont normally wind things down till 15mins before the end so i think i would play a few big party classic's before i do so i would go from rock you body to blame it on the boogie by the jackson 5 then to jeff beck and hi ho silver lining to get everybody up waving there arms in the air and singing!!!

Might as well keep them up singing and dancing with Hermes house band - Country Roads...

Ok we hit a snag here, we've already played hi ho silver lining.

8 songs to go, including 3 smoochies and your final song?

Before I start easing off I'd probably go with Five, we will rock you, depending on whether the crowd is in a vocal mood.

Darren

Are 3 smoothcies gonna be enough? It is a wedding after all, and the older bridesmaid has already disappeared behind the leisure club with at least 5 blokes throughout the day.

This is something that we would probably gauge "Live" on the night...theres a certain rule of thumb which suggests that slowies are more to some people, than ordinary "dancey" tunes. They hold sentimental value for some people...eg: The song that was playing on the wireless when Hilary and Sam layed together under the young oak tree and carved a love heart, a cupids arrow, and their initials into each others legs... (ohh thats a bit more permenent than a henna tatoo...)

Lets say that there were 4 requests outstanding for slowies...do you drop one (of the slow requests?) or loose one of the remaining dancy ones..?

Minus 10,000 points to anyone who says, "lets play all the requests and just over-run by 5 minutes"...Some venue managers will have flicked the room lights on, pulled your plugs out the wall, and reversed your vehicle up to the fire exit for you(!) by 1 minute past the finish time...

Hi

Ok for the last of the uptempo tracks, you find 3 or 4 with similar tempos that you know mix well together, but only play 2 and a half to 3 minutes of each, plenty of time for your smoochie requests.

Darren

last few up-tempo. Danni "I begin to wonder" into into "American dream" (didn't do that much for the dance fans) into Groovejet into Lisa scott Lee "Lately" mostly poppy disco dance that by now everyone will bop to.

And to kick off the slowies Bread "I'm gonna make it with you"

Crikey! looks like we made it through an entire gig (SO FAR!) without playing "Dancing Queen"...

Or shall we do that at the very end.... (we'll have to wait and see I guess....

I always find that Smokie - Livin next door to alice is a classic end of the night song and that everyone will give 100% too.

and after Bread.................... Lonestar Amazed or wonderful tonight Eric clapton

Ronan Keeting, when you say nothing at all.

Darren

At Weddings I always slow things down over 15 - 20 minutes, depending on the audience, and also include a few motown tracks, for example:-

UB40 Red Red Wine
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody
Fontella Bass - Rescue Me
The Elgins - Heaven must have sent you
Martha & the Vandellas - Jimmy Mack

Then a couple of smoochies...and usually finishing with the B & G's chosen first dance again (unless it's something like Heavy Metal ).

After the slowies, New York, New York, everybody up, then as the lights go on Ken Dodd - Happiness and Morecombe and Wise - Bring me sunshine, both as people are departing

If there's one record that i try and leave in my case it's that NEW YORK, NEW YORK....

Going to parties years ago, this is all that got played at the end of the night, so i think i've been mentally scarred....

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If there's one record that i try and leave in my case it's that NEW YORK, NEW YORK....

But at least you've got it in your case... so a little part of you, deep down, must know its a good record to have for some events.

Its a slowie if you want it to be a slowie, its a dancey one if they want it to be a dancey one, its a sing-along if they wanna sing-along..

Good ol' Black eyes 'imself.

(You may think that Frank Sinatra's nickname was "Blue Eyes" but I've played "NY NY" in a few rough places...)

I thnk "ending tunes" could be an exciting climax ( ) to this thread...

aside from "New York, New York"

how about ABBA: Thank you for the music...

BUT...cued up past all the sitty down talking bit, so that you hit play and it starts with "..SO I SAY............Thank you for the music...."

(the other advantage with starting it at the chorus, is that if you've only got 2 minutes left before the end of the night, you just cue it up to the 2nd, or 3rd, or 4th chorus instead of the first one...

But what tune do you like to finish on?

For me you have to finish on

Why Can't We Be Lovers - Lamont Dozier

some times i end with don mclain american pie (i know i spelt it wrong) but maily new york new york some times at weddings cliff richard - congratulations and at school proms puff daddy - ill be missing you or take that never forget. Out of intrest what do you all end your proms with!!

After the smoochies and the venue light are switched on ,

we alway finish with DJ otzi's - Cheerio

You can start packing up your lighting whilst its playing.

Its uptempo , catchy , and you can hear the guests singing it out on the street later as you are packing up the van/car trailer

i often put on al wilson's show & tell

or the detroit spinners - i'l be around

Hi

For me it's either:

new York New York
Always look on the bright side of life

or if it's been a real naff gig, no audience participation, I just end with my last slowie.

Whilst packing up I stick on theme toAustin Powers.

Darren

...and you thought it was all over...

The gig was in a village hall.

Ok, you've played the last record, the punters have all gone except for the 2 pairs of parents and the on-the-shelf sister-of-the-bride-bridemaids, who are trying to tidy up so they get their security deposit back.

Weather-wise, its pissistently raining...your van/trailer is parked 30ft away with deep gravel between the fire exit and the van, and the nearest fire exit (to the van) is at the opposite end of the hall from your stage.

Theres no outside light (well, there is, but being the night after the first day of the school holidays...it doesnt work anymore - some 12 year old has thrown something at it - probably a 10 year old)

To make matters worse, the caretaker (who you swear used to be the culprit on most of the Scooby Doo cartoons), is tapping his watch, standing cross-armed, and is telling you he's got a home to go to, an early start tomorrow, and doesnt want mud and rain all over his floor.

Aside from the "Who cares what he wants, we'll never see him again" thoughts...what do you and your roadie do, to get all the gear loaded into the van, without annoying the caretaker (too much ), and keeping the best interests of your expensive, and delicate gear in mind too...

Oh, while you were reading this, the caretaker switched off half the overhead hall lights....

Gary, what was the end result virtual playlist for the virtual gig in the village hall?

Hi Peeps,

Ok for a laugh on Saturday night (I was doing a wedding and it was a complete mix of ages) I actually went along with a huge part of this playlist.

And who would like the results?

Gav

Im guessing that the majority of them enjoyed it and filled the floor, else you'd have posted "I tried one or two tracks from this playlist...", coz if it had been going down badly, you'd have stopped refering to the playlist...

(doesnt psycology take all the fun out of things...even when its spelt wrong)

Dont be such a smart ar$e

It did go down actually with a few exceptions!

Weather girls seemed to clear the floor. I didnt stick to the list 100% as you cant but mainly it was from the list and I am now gonna ad a couple of songs to my set because of it.

All in all a big

Gav

Can't believe that no one played :
Jacksons - I want you back
Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts

I cant believe that anybody would! Come on there are a million tracks that could of been included

can i be the p***** punter who comes up at the end of the night and say "just one more pleeze, me and the bride go back.........phew yonks, and she'd love it if you played thisss. i don't know who it's buy, but there's four of them, one's got black hair and it goes, du dud duh, bope be bope twang, and there's the word luv in there, fank you

Can someone put this lot together into a full playlist? (If you've got nothing better to do, that is), I'm going to give it a go all the way through see what reaction I get!!!

I close with "Millennium" cheese or what!!!!

Ok I had nothing better to do

The DJ's United Virtual Tracklist

Sugababes, Round Round
Robbie Williams - Rock D.J
Stayin Alive-Bee Gees
Billy Ocean - Love really hurts without you
Steps or Diana Ross - Chain Reaction
Abba - Waterloo
The Nolans - I'm in the mood for dancing
Kelly Marie - feels like I'm in love
Ben Liebrand version of 'December 63' by Frankie V
Hot Chocolate: You sexy thing
The Village People - YMCA
Wham - Im Your Man
Weather Girls - Raining Men (84 version)
Disco Inferno
or Candi Staton Young Hearts
Barry White 1st my last

Then to some slower latino into buffet (Background music) ( The "background music" gave you all the time you needed to play all those requests that you'd had in earlier, which are "fair" songs, but impossible to dance to....eg: Bohiemian Rhapsody, Christine Aguilara: Fighter, all the ones that are too slow to dance properly to, but too fast to smootch to)

Boney M -Brown Girl In the Ring
Aretha Franklin
The Mavericks - Dance the night away
Tom Jones - "Sexbomb"
S Club 7 - Reach
DJ Sammy Heaven
Sonique
Beyonce - Crazy in love
Rainbow - Since you've been gone
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Bon Jovi - livin on a prayer
The Monkees - I'm a believer
Ben Leibrands - ZZ top mix
Blues Brothers - Everybody
Chris Montez - Lets Dance
Little Eva - The Locomotion
Tight Fit - Back to the 60's
The Gap Band - Oops Upside your head
Black Lace - The Conga
Jeff Beck - Hi Ho silver Lining
Rolling Stones Track - Brown Sugar
Chubby Checker - Lets twist again
Status Quo - Rockin all over the world
Bay City Rollers - Bye Bye baby
David Bowie - Gene Genie
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Black Box - Ride on time
M-People - Movin on up
D-lite - Groove is in the heart
The B52's - Love Shack
James Brown - I feel good
The Commitments - Mustang Sally
The Blues Brothers - Sweet Home Chicago
Blues Brothers - Shake Your Tail Feather
Liberty X - Just a little
Christina A - Dirty
Nelly - Hot In Here
Ja rule - living it up
The Source - you've got the love
Kariya - Let Me Love You
Mary J Blige - family affair
Prince - kiss
James brown - sex machine
Rick James - Superfreak
Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
Micheal Jackson - Billie Jean
S Club 7 - Dont stop moving
Room 5 - luv'd up
Kylie - Come into my world
Kylie - Cant get you outta my head
Michael Jackson - You Rock My World (which was out the same week incidentally)
Justin Timberlake - Rock your Body
Hermes house band - Country Roads
Five - we will rock you
Danni - I begin to wonder
Madonna - American Pie
Spiller - Groovejet
Lisa Scott Lee - Lately

Wind down to slowies

UB40 Red Red Wine
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody
Fontella Bass - Rescue Me
The Elgins - Heaven must have sent you
Martha & the Vandellas - Jimmy Mack



Slowies

Bread - I'm gonna make it with you
Lonestar - Amazed
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Ronan Keeting - when you say nothing at all



End

New York, New York

ABBA: Thank you for the music... BUT...cued up past all the sitty down talking bit, so that you hit play and it starts with "..SO I SAY............Thank you for the music...."

DJ otzi's - Cheerio

Lamont Dozier - Why Can't We Be Lovers

Al wilson - show & tell
detroit spinners - i'll be around
Monty Python - Always look on the bright side of life


Whilst packing up - Theme to Austin Powers

Other Endings

Weddings cliff richard - congratulations and at school proms puff daddy - ill be missing you or take that never forget

not bad play list there, but just out of interest, y do you play austin powers for packing up, i presume its jst for that comedy touch

Dave

Best ask Hugmaster on that one Dave, I just compiled the last 7 pages into a playlist as requested, but from experience the comedy value can come in handy for sending a crowd off in a good mood.

I'm starving, any buffet left????

And they can stay at room temperature for another hour! and thats when it has to go in the bin.

It's called the 4 hour rule ans applies to all food.... sausage roll anyone?

Birthday cake??????? cant you make do with something easy, like a rice pudding or jelly