Wedding DJs?

The Egg · **Joined:** 16th Aug, 2008 **Posts:** 412

Hello BETEO Ravers!

A friend of mine who is getting married next weekend has just been let down by his wedding dee-jay. Therefore, do any of you guys in the South East Wales area know of a DJ that might be able to step in? Someone of the Smashy and Nicey variety rather than the floor filling banging choons type.

Apparently they must hold PI insurance (presumably at the insistence of the venue).

I know it's a long shot but who knows. Any help would be appreciated and rewarded with whatever I can steal from Dr The Woods house next time I visit.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 14:19

Tim Westwood

Shin · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 14:22

http://discosdirect.piczo.com/closeInterstitial();?cr=6

You can check out Rich, he goes all over the place.

He has CRB and PLI certs

Say 'Kat/Katania' passed you if you go for it

Shin · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 14:25

Also in the links there should be more info about other DJs and stuff for you to peruse

http://www.djformywedding.co.uk/

Good one to check aswell

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 14:32

You know an awful lot about this, Shin, there something you are not telling us?

Shin · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 14:33

I happen to know a lot of people and a lot of random-sometimes-useful-crap is all, nothing else Mr.Mali

This is the wedding package page
http://discosdirect.piczo.com/?g=52975249&cr=6

SKY LATERNS FTW!

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 14:33

MaliA wrote:

You know an awful lot about this, Shin, there something you are not telling us?

I think that would be something she's not telling Gazchap too Mali.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 14:34

The fiancee hangs around on more than one wedding forum. They would probably know of a few possibles. I shall ask her to take a look this evening if you're still stuck.

Shin · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 14:35

Great, now we'll never get to make that damned snow dog

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 14:42

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

MaliA wrote:

You know an awful lot about this, Shin, there something you are not telling us?

I think that would be something she's not telling Gazchap too Mali.

And she likes my wife's wedding dress..

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Curiosity wrote:

The fiancee hangs around on more than one wedding forum.

That's terrifying. There are wedding forums?!

Our own Grim... does weddings, or at least has in the past. Don't know if he'd travel to South Wales for it though.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 15:49

There are forums for everyting....

4thDimension · **Joined:** 11th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 332

all with sport subforums

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Kovacs Caprios wrote:

There are forums for everyting....

Yeah, but a wedding forum is dangerous.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 15:50

Hitched.com is quite mental, apparently.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 15:51

Craster wrote:

Yeah, but a wedding forum is dangerous.

Do you occasionally get forum weddings on wedding forums?

The Egg · **Joined:** 16th Aug, 2008 **Posts:** 412

Thanks for the help guys, you're all ace.

I shall point my friend to this thread.

Although MaliA's mention of Tim 'Big Dog' Westwood did make me want to get my motorbike and gun out and head off to London again.

edited for spazzy typos

myp · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 15:51

Kern wrote:

Craster wrote:

Yeah, but a wedding forum is dangerous.

Do you occasionally get forum weddings on wedding forums?

Do you actually think men frequent wedding forums?

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 15:52

Craster wrote:

Kovacs Caprios wrote:

There are forums for everyting....

Yeah, but a wedding forum is dangerous.

How so, a good place to share ideas.. etc

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

No. A good place to give your fiancee ideas she shouldn't have.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 15:53

Craster wrote:

No. A good place to give your fiancee ideas she shouldn't have.

"No, really, it is a tradition. It won't hurt a bit"

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 15:55

Craster wrote:

No. A good place to give your fiancee ideas she shouldn't have.

oh they have the ideas, you just don't know about them...

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 22:05

Craster wrote:

No. A good place to give your fiancee ideas she shouldn't have.

Yeah, seriously.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:07

Curiosity wrote:

Yeah, seriously.

To be fair, she's got your sister for that.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6608

Mrs Squirt frequented the occasional wedding forum. They're terrifying, self-reinforcing, detailed obsessed monstrosities set up by the wedding industry in order to make women feel inferior if their centre-pieces don't match their save-a-date cards. You go there looking for a good local place to get dress alterations done and come out having ordered 50kg of sugared almonds and £700 worth of handmade, gold leaf embossed chair backs for the reception.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 13:41

Squirt wrote:

Mrs Squirt frequented the occasional wedding forum. They're terrifying, self-reinforcing, detailed obsessed monstrosities set up by the wedding industry in order to make women feel inferior if their centre-pieces don't match their save-a-date cards. You go there looking for a good local place to get dress alterations done and come out having ordered 50kg of sugared almonds and £700 worth of handmade, gold leaf embossed chair backs for the reception.

Don't get me started on baby forums..

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Mrs Squirt on wedding forum wrote:

Mr Squirt frequented the occasional gaming forum. They're terrifying, self-reinforcing, detail-obsessed monstrosities set up by the games industry in order to make men feel inferior if their HDTVs aren't connected over HDMI. You go there looking for a good local place to buy second hand games and come out having ordered an Xbox 360 Elite and blown £700 on the top 20 Metacritic games.

Mirror-image-FeeX.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

And knowing much more about pooping and accidental genital mutilation than you might ever wish to.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Feb 05, 2009 17:16

I've pulled in a few favors and I can get these guys for you. You won't get better for the money.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26076

Norfolk, eh?

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:00

Craster wrote:

Our own Grim... does weddings, or at least has in the past. Don't know if he'd travel to South Wales for it though.

I used to, I don't any more. I've done a wedding in Wales before now - tales of our awesomeness has spread far.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:06

Handy hints: Ask them if they have a PPL License - the better ones will have. Also ask if they can recommend good caterers - if they can't, then the chances are that they haven't been doing it for very long or aren't good enough to have made any 'friends'. Also ask them how flexible they are on timings, and refuse anyone that doesn't say 'completely' (friends of ours once had someone that refused to play any more music until they cut the cake, as it was on the "schedule"). And make sure they send a contract.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:13

Grim... wrote:

...Also ask them how flexible they are on timings, and refuse anyone that doesn't say 'completely' (friends of ours once had someone that refused to play any more music until they cut the cake, as it was on the "schedule").

Shin · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2009 23:46

How did this go btw?

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Mrs Squirt on wedding forum wrote:

Mr Squirt frequented the occasional gaming forum. They're terrifying, self-reinforcing, detail-obsessed monstrosities set up by the games industry in order to make men feel inferior if their HDTVs aren't connected over HDMI. You go there looking for a good local place to buy second hand games and come out having ordered an Xbox 360 Elite and blown £700 on the top 20 Metacritic games.

Mirror-image-FeeX.

Tidy

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:24

That is cool... and quite accurate..

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Grim... wrote:

Handy hints: Ask them if they have a PPL License - the better ones will have. Also ask if they can recommend good caterers - if they can't, then the chances are that they haven't been doing it for very long or aren't good enough to have made any 'friends'. Also ask them how flexible they are on timings, and refuse anyone that doesn't say 'completely' (friends of ours once had someone that refused to play any more music until they cut the cake, as it was on the "schedule"). And make sure they send a contract.

The DJ will need PPL and also MCPS if he's not playing from CD's (the MCPS, the shower of cunts that they are, now want people to pay for copying music to a hard drive).

The venue will need PRS.

The PRS, PPL and MCPS are a shower of incompetent money grabbing bastards who double or even triple dip on fees and I hope the lot of them die in a chemical fire. :attitude:

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 05, 2009 20:18

chinnyhill10 wrote:

The DJ will need PPL and also MCPS if he's not playing from CD's (the MCPS, the shower of cunts that they are, now want people to pay for copying music to a hard drive).

I thought the venue could hold those (they could a few years ago).

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Grim... wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

The DJ will need PPL and also MCPS if he's not playing from CD's (the MCPS, the shower of cunts that they are, now want people to pay for copying music to a hard drive).

I thought the venue could hold those (they could a few years ago).

Venue must have PRS. MCPS must be paid by the person who has copied the music onto a laptop/hard drive whatever. Personally I think they should "get to fucking fuck" for being cheeky money grabbing bastards.

The music industry, everyone gets to triple dip on the payments and yet Sir Cliff still wants the copyright on his old shit from the 50's extended.

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