Music requests to share!

Music requests to share!

After some very nice parties over the weekend, I thought it a great idea to make it a regular thing in sharing the top 20 tracks from both client requests and the little added DJ touches (in blue) made to link everything together.

Fetcham Park, Friday 22^nd March. One seriously cool guests list that was matched by and equally stunning request list from the bride and groom.

Artist	Title	DJ Thoughts
Paul Weller	You Do Something To Me	First dance, a regular and classic choice
The Beatles	Hey Jude	End of the night anthem
Neneh Cherry	Buffalo Stance	Original 12” mix, still sounding good.
Malcom Mclaren	Buffalo Gals	Mixed so well with the above I just had to play
Notorious B.I.G	Juicy	Even the older guests were jamming to this one
Pulp	Common People	Just builds and builds
Rolling Stones	Gimme Shelter	What an intro
Stevie Wonder	Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Think	Salsa style piano riff made dance floor move
Bobby Brown	Don’t Be Cruel	12” mix, 80’s dance drum loop sounded amazing
Kingsman	Louie Louie	Funky 60’s floor filler
Tony Bennett	The Good Life	Client’s choice but oh when to play? Cake cutting!
Missy Elliot	Work It	The Go Go loop at the end. Ladies!!
Janet Kay	Silly Games	Reggae / Lovers Rock classic
The Velvettes	He Was Really Saying Something	60’s got soul
Shangri-Las	Remember (Walkin’ In The Sand)	More cool 60’s grooves
Miles Kane	Come Closer	Not one I knew but bought bride & groom back to dance floor. Sounded great
The Who	My Generation	Guest young and old play air guitar. Loved it!
Blur	Girls & Boys	90’s indie clubbers in the house
Stone Roses	Fools Gold	See above
Rihannah	Rude Boy	Played to death but still filling floors

Next up, a classic house inspired set for a 40^th birthday.

What's Going On
 

It’s been a while! We attempted our review of 2012 in January but the Christmas recovery took longer than anticipated. So after yet another incredible year of real weddings, our first magazine cover and feature (Pro Mobile) and our first promotional photo shoot at Fetcham Park, we zoom in to 2013 in style.

The year ended for us in spectacular fashion with Matt making a grand entrance upon a revolving stage at Claridge’s to the intro of Queen’s “We Will Rock You”, courtesy of another very cool wedding from Niemierko. We completed a legendary run of Christmas parties at both the Shakespeare’s Globe with Swan Events, and further along the South Bank at the London Film Museum. 

We played some great festive events for Dewintons at the stunning Art Deco Bloomsbury Ballroom and for Party Ingredients at the equally beautiful Skinners Hall. Our return to Home House also saw us working once again with the very cool production team at Event Concept.

To complement the diverse selection of venues and events, we finished off with our first venture into the world famous Ritz hotel, and London’s highest New Year’s Eve party within the champagne bar at London’s Tower 42, Vertigo 42.

The first big party of 2013 was also our second visit to fashion house Chanel, who produced a starlit affair surrounded by a collection of vintage Mercedes cars. The season of industry events kicked off with us supplying the soundtrack to the Something Blue event at the amazing One Marylebone for both the wedding press and brides to be.

Weddings By Harrods followed, with a Champagne Launch in store. As the exclusive supplier for all things DJ to this truly British establishment, we thought it a good idea to take along two of our DJs, DJ Felix and DJ Simon Cabrerra, to help mingle and spread the love.

DJ Felix

DJ Simon Cabrerra

DJ Matt Maurice

March for us is all about Love Scarlett; a new online platform for wedding professionals from the truly talented Penny Cullen. Through Love Scarlett we’ll be putting together a selection of exclusive DJ mixes and interviews from both our own DJs, and DJs we feel are making a noise on the finer UK event and party dance floors. Check out Matt's interview complimented by the first exclusive soundtrack. Next up for volume 2, DJ Sam Young.

Our Mixcloud page now has a good, solid and organically growing following. If you’ve not yet checked it out, Mixcloud is a brilliant London based web site that enables DJs and the like to legally stream high quality music mixes. Along with our music, it’s an amazing place to discover music and DJ sets from around the world and from virtually every genre of music. It’s also a goldmine of classic radio shows.

From 2013 we are pleased to add the following to the growing list of venues to which we are now a recommended supplier for DJs: Museum Of London, Claridge’s Hotel, Weddings By Harrods and South Coast boutique hotel The George In Rye.

We have an amazing summer of parties to look forward to, and are now backed up by one of the finest teams of event DJs available. April will see us a little closer to home with Circa Events and our first destination wedding for 2013 kicks off in Tuscany, Italy, this June. We're also looking forward to venturing to three of the corners of the UK: England, Scotland and Wales.

Love

 

Lotte

Photos by Eddie Judd and Mark Bothwell

We don't just write about weddings, we actually attend weddings every week. We know first hand that music and entertainment are the big key to a successful and memorable day. Here we share some recent first dance choices that includes the new, the old and the classics.

Matt Maurice Event Music, 50 First Dances

Artist	Title	Tempo
Al Green	Let's Stay Together	Mid
Arctic Monkeys	Baby I’m Yours	Mid
Bruno Mars	Just The Way You Are	Mid
Buddy Holly	True Love Ways	Mid
Coldplay	Fix You	Slow
Daft Punk	Digital Love	Up
Dj Sammy	Heaven – Candlelight Mix	Slow
Elvis	The Wonder Of You	Mid
Eric Clapton	Wonderful Tonight	Slow
Etta James	At Last	Slow
Frank Sinatra	For Once In My Life	Mid
Genesis	Follow You Follow Me	Mid
Goo Goo Dolls	Iris	Slow
Harry Connick Jr	It Had To Be You	Slow
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass	This Guy’s In Love With You	Mid
Phil Oakey	Electric Dreams	Fast
Jack Johnson	Better Together (Cuban Mix)	Mid
Jackie Wilson	Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher	Up
Jamie Cullum	What A Difference A Day Makes	Slow
Jamie Lidel	Another Day	Mid
Joe Cocker	You’re So Beautiful	Slow
Josh Rouse	Love Vibration	Up
Keane	Somewhere Only We Know	Mid
Kylie Minogue	Love At First Sight	Up
Lionel Richie	You Are My Destiny	Mid
Louis Armstrong	All The Time In The World	Slow
Maroon 5	She Will Be Loved	Mid
Marvin Gaye	Let’s Get It On	Slow
Michael Bublé	Everything	Mid
Nat ‘King’ Cole	Let There Be Love	Mid
Natalie Cole	Orange Coloured Sky	Mid
Neil Young	Harvest Moon	Mid
Nina Simone	My Baby Just Cares For Me	Mid
Nora Jones	Come Away With Me	Slow
Paul Weller	You Do Something To Me	Slow
Peter Grant	You’re the first, my last, my everything	Mid
Proclaimers	Let’s Get Married	Mid
Queen	You’re My Best Friend	Mid
Robbie Williams	She’s The One	Mid
Rod Stewart	Tonight’s The Night	Up
Semisonic	Secret Smile	Mid
Stevie Wonder	For Once In My Life	Up
Sting	Mad About You	Slow
Style Council	You're The Best Thing	Mid
Take That	Greatest Day	Mid
Tony Bennett	The Way You Look Tonight	Mid
The Beach Boys	Gold Only Knows	Mid
The Ramones	Baby I Love You	Mid
The Turtles	Happy Together	Up
The Whitlams	Breathing You In	Slow