I must have been drunk (again) but I’m doing a St Patrick’s Day themed disco next Saturday night.
Any suggestions for tunes that are not U2 or Thin Lizzy that a bunch of over 40’s can cut a rug to?
The fiddle de dee stuff won’t go down too well. I might get away with House of Pain and Dropkick Murphy’s once the cut price Guinness has worked its magic. £1.50 a pint so should get messy!
Surprise me please!
Question for the Afterword Wedding DJ’s
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Just play some Al Green…
Make youyr life easy. Play Stevie Wonder’s hits, chronologically – “I just called to say “I love You”” will emerge about 4 hours in (maybe later if have some choice cuts from the albums as well) just when folks are sneaking off, or are so pissed/ uncritical and loved-up that it can drift past.
You may note I don’t hold with the changing the artist DJ thing: seriously, the floor will be happier with a 4 hour run of Wonder floor-fillers.
Roger that – 60s-early 70s Motown. At a wedding there’s no reason to bother with anything else.
Any music involving guitars will clear the dancefloor quicker than a CS gas canister.
Inclined to agree with Moose. From my experience of DJing at weddings back in the 90s/early 00s, it was disco music that people wanted and Abba, Kylie, Kool And The Gang, Deeelite. etc etc
Newies? If you’ve got Daft Punk, Beyonce, Madonna, Pharrell in your bag, you’ll be home and dry.
Men in their forties? Take along some 2Tone, Jam, Beatles, Elvis, The Who, Dexys, Pogues, Blur , Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, (only the obvious singles, mind) so they can have some fun too at around the midnight mark,(only if they look up for it). A Town Called Malice or Come On Eilleen will be the litmus test. If that clears the floor, hurriedly put on Toxic by Britney Spears.
This might work….
Sorry not a wedding but a St Paddys warmup night. But keep the suggestions coming.
Even though it’s noy a wedding all of the above is good advice
you might think people don’t want diddly ay music but the fact is when revved up they will dance to it and b ecause it’s a paddy’s night bash they will be more tolerant (and may even expect it). keep it for later on though.
Stuff like Sally McLennane, Dark Streets Of London and London Town by The Pogues always works.
you’ll want Van as well as his kids Dexys for Jackie Wilson and The Waterboys for Fisherman’s Blues
Horslips’ Dearg Doom has the requisite celtic vibe as does Hiroshima nagasaki by Moving Hearts
Other Irish artistes who may go down well with those of a certain vintage:
The Undertones and That Petrol Emotion (Big Decision or Sensitiize)
Rory Gallagher, maybe Follow Me
S.L.F. for old punks (and maybe the Boomtown Rats looking After No 1)
The Radiators’ television Screen for old rockers
Sinéad O Connor, The Blades, A House, Something Happens (Hello Hello) The 4 Of Us and An Emotional Fish (Celebrate) all go down well in your actual Ireland, but vif people don’t know them they don’t sound particularly Irish.
The chorus of Rise by P.I.L. is an old irish expression (go néirí an bóthar leat – may the road rise with you), so I’m having that..
Re: Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette by Moving Hearts. That’s a cover of the Jim Page song, isn’t it?
Nice choice. The first time I’ve ever seen this song mentioned on this site (or any of its predecessors).
It’s a big favourite of Mrs duco01. She introduced me to it when we first met. Good stuff.
I first heard that on the Alexis Korner show. He segued it into something from the brilliant Atomic Cafe soundtrack. Ace.
Sewer Robot. Thanks for that. Some major inspiration there. Def the Celtic Soul thing should work. Most here are Brits mainly from the north and a few of us south of Watford Gap. Growing up in Luton makes for confusion.
Then there’s the comedy wing, depending on your crowd’s sense of humour –
The Saw Doctors’ I Used To Love Her
Sultans Of Ping F.C. – Where’s Me Jumper?
Peter O Malley’s Poitin (which is basically Clapton’s Cocaine with one word substituted).
You could even try getting away with this:
(RubberBandits – Horse Outside)
Love The RubberBandits. This is my favourite:
Back in the mid-90s, one friend asked me to DJ Easy Listening/Lounge/ Go Go music for his wedding. It went down like a cup of cold sick for the first hour. “Why are you playing this old crap?” “Got any Jamiroquai? Play Spice Girls! Etc…
Thank God I happened to have Disco Mania Double CD on me and some Mowtown stuff. How I managed to eke out four hours of party music from about five CDS , I’ll never know.
I had also bought The Prodigy’s Firestarter that afternoon for myself (it had just been released) which went down a storm that I got to play it three times throughout the evening.
Van: Brown Eyed Girl; Wild Night; Real Real Gone
Van & The Chieftains: I’ll Tell Me Ma
Rudi: Big Time
SLF: Altenative Ulster
If its Irish stuff you’re after-
Yes to Dearg Doom by Horslips
teenage Kicks, My Perfect Cousin and many more by The Undertones
Shining Light by Ash
I’d Love to Kiss The Bangles by The Saw Dotors
Any amount of The Pogues
Gloria by Them
No end of Van – the above suggestions and Bright Side of The Road, Jackie Wilson Said, Domino and loads more
Sinead’s Nothing Compares 2 U for the slowie
Dubliners Wild Rover for the drunken sing along
And then there’s All Kind of Everything and Jack in a Box….
This’ll feckin’ do ya
And for a smoocher, this one
I suspect this would predict a riot, as it it may well be illegal, technically, as a rebel song, as well as representing the arguably naive IRA supporters of the new country, rather than the realities of home. But wha gets me is how like Dexy’s it sounds, rendering it OK in my book.
Thanks all!