"The night was brilliant! You played our song requests, and even playing some twice! We will definitely recommend to family & friends. All our guests said they had a brill night...particulary the Buskers reunion"
- Graham & Haley (Wedding at Bracken Bank Lodge, Lazonby – 05 September 2009)
As you can imagine, our charges are based on the service (or package of services) provided and the location of your function. Please contact us, and we will happily provide a bespoke price for the services you require.
Yes, once you have made your booking, regardless of the service we are providing, we issue a Contract Agreement, which both parties sign to confirm the booking.
By issuing you with a Contract Agreement, we are entering into a legally binding agreement, and are therefore assuring you that we will turn up. In the unlikely event that your DJ is ill, we have a number of equally (or even more experienced) DJ’s on standby, who can step in at short notice.
All of our staff, be it DJ’s or Up-lighting technician’s will attend the function in our uniform, consisting of dress shoes and black trousers with a black shirt and black tie.
During set-up and pack down, our stall will usually replace the shirt and tie with a black polo shirt. If you require our staff to be dressed in a more formal manor, please mention this at the time of booking.
All of our electrical equipment is Portable Appliance Tested (PAT), and all of the equipment carries a pass sticker. The certificate is available upon request, and, again, copies are always carried by our staff.
Yes we have standard Generic Assessments for all of our main types of work, which are usually suitable. However we also provide on-going Dynamic Assessments, just to pick up those individual risks that each venue may have.
For all of our services we recommend booking sooner rather than later, as we often get booked up fairly early. As a rule of thumb, for dates during our peak times, we are often providing quotes for 2-3 years in advance.
Both the Non-refundable Booking Feed, and the balance, can be paid by cash, cheque or bank transfer. All transactions will be supported by an Invoice/Receipt.
The set-up time is often dependant on a whole number of other factors, including which package your book. Please contact us and we can advise you further. However, for Weddings we aim to work with your venue and set up the day before. For all other events we will endeavour to set up in the afternoon of the day of your event. If this is not possible, we will always arrive with plenty of time to spare.
Yes, we welcome requests and playlists. You, and your guests, know what you like so we would be silly not to take advantage of this fact. We do ask that playlists are submitted approx. 4 weeks prior to your event.
All of our DJ's have ample experience at "reading the dance floor". The secret is picking the best songs from each genre of music and mixing it up throughout the night. By offering to play requests we manage to pick up the odd strange one that we wouldn't have thought to play. Please note, some requests may not be suitable and your DJ will filter any unsuitable requests discreetly.
Generally no. The only time we would is if it is expressly included on a playlist or the organiser, i.e. the Bride and Groom, agree and give us the OK.
In short, not if you don't want it to be. This is one of the reasons we have different packages, so we can tailor the system to your needs. We also monitor, and adjust, the volume level throughout the night.
Yes, we ensure that all of our units are presentable, and are often less than 12 months old. All of our units are subject to a 12 monthly Portable Appliance Test, and are visually inspected before and after use each time.
Unfortunately its one of those “How long is a piece of string?” question. The number of units you require is often dependant on the size of the room and how much you would like us to light.
We usually suggest spacing each unit approx. 3 metres apart, but our site visit often allows us to discuss your options and work out what’s best for your venue.
Each one uses only 10 watts of power, so we can often run a whole rooms lighting off a single socket by daisy chaining the units (working on needing 10 units, that’s 100 watts all told, which is only a draw of 0.44 amps).
They are perfectly suited to marquees; they don’t get hot (so there’s no danger of scorching the linings), and the small draw on power means they have no chance of overloading the marquees power supply.
You can have any colour you want. Our lighting utilised the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) spectrum (above right) and can be changed as often or as little as you like.
This is very much dependant on the layout of your venue, and how many units you require. Wherever possible we try to work with your venue to set up in plenty of time before your event (usually the day before), and if your request a technician during the operation then we take them out right after your function. If it’s a Dry Hire, we work with your venue to find a convenient time to remove them.
If you Dry Hire our system, then unfortunately not as we have tried to make the controller as simple as possible. If you hire the system with one of our technicians then you could have every single unit a different colour or shade, and he controller they use is a more complex.
No, you can have as many or as few as you wish. However, we do have to cover our travel and labour costs so recommend using approx. 10 units, but again this is dependent on what you require and the layout of the venue.
Unfortunately not, as our DJ’s attached to the Agency are “walk-in” only (they supply the music, headphones and microphone only). If your regular DJ provided the sound and lighting system too, please contact us and we will discuss your requirements.
Similar to our other services, we will issue a contract to yourselves, in the form of a Condition of Terms of Business (COTB), which is standard within any industries supply of temporary workers. They set out what is expected from each party and is a legally binding contract.
Your DJ will perform exactly as you require them to. This is where it is vitally important that you let us know what type of DJ you require; i.e. personality/party DJ, Hard Dance DJ, etc. Only through thorough discussions with yourself can we ensure to provide the DJ you need.
Unfortunately, you don’t. This is the same with most temporary workers, be it office assistant or chef. In order to ease your mind, we do have references from pub and nightclub managers concerning our DJs.
Yes. We can provide DJs for single nights as we realise that your regular resident DJs occasionally need time off and can’t always find their own cover. In addition to this, we guarantee that we will not attempt to push our DJs on you in the future. Taking work off other DJs is not how we operate.
