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Wedding gigs are actual all about watching girls dressed up to the nines in their posh frocks dancing.
.....and the buffet.
;-)
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Sex with Chris Evans would no doubt have put her off men.
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Can't stop humming Build Me Up Buttercup...
Knock on Wood - Wilson Picket etc.
Everybody - Blue Brothers
Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Car Wash - Rose Royce
Man I feel like a woman - Shania Twain
Dancing in the Street - Martha Reeves etc.
Ladies Night - Kool and the Gang
Crazy Chick - Charlotte Church
Love Shack - B52s (vocal challenge maybe)
It's in his Kiss - Cheer
River deep Mountain High - Tina Turner
Sisters are Doing it - Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin
Now you may have to adapt a few, even do a medley of some to avoid the high chorus/brass bits or whatever, but keeping the Ladies on the floor is very much the key. Playing something that gets 4 blokes flailing about playing air guitar at a wedding is less welcome than a fart in a wet suit (unless the groom is one of them and made the request).
and Ballroom Blitz.
The time warp is easy -- it's just a jump to the left...
Erasure's 'A little respect' awesome for unsticking arses from chairs!
Shake your tail feather. ( Imagine the afore mentioned beautiful ladies bending over and waving their finely formed buttocks in your direction).
Jackson 5 stuff is also cool. Anything that makes you tap your foot. We medley I want you back into ABC into Signed sealed delivered.
One of the keys to packed wedding dance floors is not hanging about in between songs. It's like an automatic response of the audience to turn and walk toward their chairs after a song. But if you can come staright in with a great intro, they will stay.
As someone who has DJ'd and gigged as a musician, I can honestly say the songs that work are not always interchangeable. I have no idea why. Anyway good luck with the gig.
I always find 'Refuse/Resist by Sepultura is of the ultimate wedding tunes.
Really gets the mind thinking.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
A good wedding band will have videos and audio samples that the client can audition before booking you. If they don't like the sound of a band that doesn't have keys or horns, they won't book them. If they do like the sound of your band, they'll book you - simple as that. Truth is most punters probably won't even put 2 and 2 together and notice that there aren't any keys/ horns.
If they wanted you to play the records, they'd have booked a DJ.
Stupid Marriage by the Specials.
Okay, Message To You Rudy - strumming 3 chords in a lively manner.