Do you need music until 2am?

My thoughts on if you need a wedding disco to run until 2am.

Episode Transcript

Brian (00:00):
Hello and welcome along to another episode of the
wedding band show myself primingterm.
It's just a small littlefollow-up episode, a meta reel
recently about the idea of nothaving any music late or at
least Shortening the disco.
If you're having a disco andthe whole idea was that
Sometimes, I think first,especially for smaller crowds if

(00:22):
you run in the band from abouthalf nine Till half twelve and
the crowd are dancing all nightand you get the most out of them
, sometimes having a two-hourdisco following that is a bit
much in my opinion.
I think what can be nice.
Now all this depends, like Iwas saying before, on the venue,

(00:42):
on the band, on the crowd.
But just an average smallwedding, I think, if the band
have the guests dancing allnight and the floor is packed, I
think an idea is just to maybeplay some background music after
the band, not go totally quiet,but a full-on disco and
expecting people to dance againSometimes can be a bit much.

(01:06):
I think if you play somebackground music the bride and
groom as well get to talk withthe guests.
It's kind of like the residentsbar part of the night, but just
a bit earlier, and I think thisalso goes for DJs.
Like, a lot of DJs do fullwedding packages, so the same if
they're starting at half nine.
I'm sure I'm guessing most ofthem would agree with me that,

(01:27):
like, five hours of a disco is alot For again, depending on the
crowd.
But if a DJ is doing a fullpackage for you and he's
starting at half nine, goingtill about half twelve is
probably enough in some cases,and then drop the volume to your
background music.
And again, some of the reasonfor this it like it depends on
the venues, but some venues at 2am, that's it.

(01:49):
You'd have to leave the room.
So the minute the disco finisheseverybody has to clear out, so
you don't actually get a chanceto sit and chat with your guests
, and Four couples as well.
You know there's a lot ofWednesdays like that where you
go off, you get your photos, youkind of rush back to the hotel.
It might be about half four orfive o'clock, so you've got
about a half an hour windowbefore the meal.

(02:11):
You're called in for the meal,you're sitting there having your
meal and everything.
Then there's a small breakwhile the band are setting up or
the DJ, but after that youdon't actually get much chance
to talk with your guests on theday and, like of all days, it's
both your sides of the familyand friends all in one room.
So you don't want to waste that.

(02:31):
So I think it's nice to get thechance to talk to people.
So that's just a follow-up.
I couldn't get everything in ina reel, but just to kind of
Expand on the idea a little bit.
I think it's nice, dependingagain on the size, the crowd,
the venue, the band andeverything.
Bush, maybe for smallerweddings, and it doesn't even
have to be just smaller weddings.
But if the band start roundhalf nine, go till about half 12

(02:56):
, even, you know, if you had anhour of disco after you know, go
till about half one and havethe last half an hour.
Or go to one o'clock and havean hour at the end where you
just get to, you know, just dropthe volume, bit of background
music and then you get to chatwith your guests and just have a
nice end to the day.
So that's it for this littlemini episode.
I have a few interviews comingup with bands, so stay tuned for

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that and if you've anyquestions about wedding bands
you can hit me up on Instagramat Brian Mcdermas or the Brian
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