PARTY TIPS
1) Avoid booking venues with a sound limiter.
Some venues are near residential areas and so part of keeping their music licence involves them committing to keeping the bloody noise down. Of course, they won’t tell you this until after you have booked. Whilst recorded music is predictable and rarely becomes a problem, a live rock band sounds very different and often triggers these sound-limiters, automatically cutting off the electricity to the band and bringing the party to a grinding, disappointing halt. This may also damage our equipment, meaning we might not be able to carry on once power is returned. Besides, if the band has to hold back and be on best behaviour to avoid triggering the sound limiter, you are not getting the best value out of us.
2) Make sure your party room isn’t too big for the number of guests you have.
If you have invited 100 people, a room designed for 75 people will feel full, atmospheric and exciting, a room for 200 people will feel half empty and lifeless. Go small or go home...
3) Try and find a party room that sounds good.
A nice cosy sounding room (for instance with carpets and low ceilings) makes the music sound better and is generally conducive to people being able to dance, talk and laugh more easily. A big, echoey room (for instance wooden / tiled floors and high ceilings) makes the music sound chaotic and echoey and makes dancing, talking and laughing together less comfortable. If the room sounds like a big, echoey nightmare, so will your party.
4) Make sure the bar and dance floor are in the same room.
If the bar is in a different room from the dancefloor, people tend to hang around there, leaving the dance floor feeling rather empty. If everyone has to pack together in one space, you’ll get a better atmosphere and, of course, dancing is infectious! This is particularly important in the summer in a venue with gardens - you might end up with your guests being scattered near and far, leaving a half empty dance floor. However incredible and sexy the band are (and we really are), our gravitational force has its limits.
5) Don't over-manage the music.
Of course we want you to hear all the songs you like best, but sometimes the dance floor has, for instance, a bunch of oldies on it and so we chuck in a couple of unplanned 1960’s songs we think they’ll love - this might mean going off-plan from the set list. You might HATE, for instance, Stevie Wonder, but the group of soul-fans who are currently going bananas at the front don’t - so again, we may go off-piste to please them! An effective set list is not just "all the saongs I like" - it is a coordinated and thoughtful relationship with the dancers and one we have 30+ years of experience with.
6) Download your music playlist.
If you want to compile your own playlist on Spotify or Apple Music etc. for us to play between band sets, please download it to your phone or mobile device so you are not relying on having a good internet / WiFi connection on party night. We can connect your device to our sound system by Bluetooth or by headphone connector.
7) Keep the band happy.
Please PLEASE try and organise an easy load-in for the band! If we have to carry our considerable amount of equipment up 16 flights of stairs and along 8 miles of corridors, you can imagine we might not be able to give the party quite as much va-va-voom as we could if we were able to park our cars next to the stage! Make it easy for us and we’ll repay you by feeding all that saved energy into our performance and your party!
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