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This was a quiet day for me work wise, with only the delivery of a LCD projector that was hired to Essex County Council for a conferance they were holding at Stock Brook Manor in Billericay Essex, so I was up early, as it needed to set up by 8.30am, I'm not very good with these early mornings, but I manged it.

Then it was an afternoon of paperwork, before I had to return to Stock Brook Manor so that I could set up complete system for a conferance that was starteing the next day, and the people wanted to make sure that all their powerpoint presentations worked properly, they had hired a 4 speaker system, 2 wireless lapel microphones, a hand held radio microphone, projector and 8ft screen, wow it was massive.

Everything was set in time, and I even helped the people with some problems they had with their power point.

I was then picked up by Sharon & Jazzily, as we were going to Bluewater for a little bit of Xmas shopping, so I left the van at the venue, as I was back there the next morning to give AV assistance to the conferance.

Ian Stewart Conferance Equipment

This was a welcome day off, as Sharon & I went to see one of our favourite comedians at the moment, Frankie Boyle, he of Mock the Week fame, and what a gret night it was. We arrived at the Cliffs Pavillion at 7pm, about an hour before the show was to begin, and the car park was quite empty, so managed to get a space near the door, then when I opened the door, I new why the car park was empty, the wind was so strong, that I struggled to open the door, and even my 18st was almost blown over. The short walk into the theatre was an experiance.

We managed to get our drinks, which sometimes can be difficult there, and sat and waited for the show to begin, and it did, bang on 8pm sharp, with the support act Martin Bigpig, an act I had heard of but never seen, and his near the mark interaction with the audience was I think this was to prepare you for what was about to come from Mr Boyle, This was a very short set about 20 minutes, with an interval.

Then the main show started, and it is true what the support act says watching Frankie Boyle perform stand up, is like drinking 10 pints of Guiness, eventually you are going to see some dark shit! and boy did we, he took us to places you never dreamed existed, but in my opinion that is one of the jobs of comedians, to push the boudaries.

If you get the chance to see this show I can reccomend it, only if you are not easily offended though

This was one of those wedding Disco's that are easy to set up, as I was in the same venue, and place in the room as the previous night, which meant that I could arrive at the venue at 6.40pm, and switch everything on, and start right on time at 7pm.

On afrival the manager of the venue, told me that I needed to organise with the bride & groom the cutting of the cake, and the times of the first dance, so he introduced me to Kelly & Ben, we arranged the times and had a little chat about the music etc, as they had only chosen the 1st dance, after a while it became obvious that the music required was a mix of rock anthems, the bride loved Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams and Queen the groom loved hisRat Pack style swing and some party anthems

So we waited until all the evening guesta arrived, then organised the cutting of the cake, followed quickly by the 1st dance which was all for love by bryan adams, rod stewart & sting, then the main dancing started with all the music played, the bride & groom went out of their way at the end of the night to thank me for a brilliant evening, which is always appreciated

Wedding Disco For Essex

The Disco for this wedding was in the Rosewood Suite, and I had been told by the bride that that I would be working with a live singer, and one of my favourites Mr Harry Cambridge, who has one of the finest soul voices you will ever hear, he appeared as Luther Vandross on Stars In Their Eyes. As I had worked with Harry many times, I had arranged for him to plug his mixer into my sound system, that way there is not too much equipment taking up the space.

Wow what a night it was, as soon as I started up my disco and started to DJ for the music at this wedding, the floor was full, with some of the best soul music I had played for a very very long time, here is the music that the bride and groom had chosen via the planning part of my web site:

1st Dance So Amazing Luther Vandross
2nd Dance Daddy Beyonce
Last Dance Love & Marriage Frank Sinatra - at the end of the night, while walking the wedding arch

Requests
1 1 Thing Amerie
2 Solid Ashford & Simpson
3 Crazy In Love Beyonce
4 Check Out The Groove Bobby Thurston
5 Love Town Booker Newberry III
6 Stomp Brothers Johnson
7 Young Hearts Run Free Candi Staton Disco Anthems
8 The Glow Of Love Change Ft Luther Vandross
9 Never Knew Love Like This Charrelle & Alexander O'Neao
10 Trapped Colonal Abrams
11 Dance Wiv Me Dizzee Rascal & Calvin Harris Ft Chrome
12 September Earth Wind & Fire
13 American Boy Estelle ft Kanye West
14 Love Come Down Evelyn King
15 Love Like This Faith Evans
16 I Found Lovin' Fatback Band
17 Glamourous Fergie & Ludacris
18 Maybe Jay Sean
19 Ordinary People John Legend
20 Green Light (Feat. Andre 3000
21 Work (Freemasons Remix) Kelly Rowland
22 Daylight (Feat. Gym Class Heroes) Kelly Rowland
23 All Summer Long Kid Rock
24 Get Down on it Kool & The Gang Dance
25 Hangin' On A String Loose Ends
26 Dance Tonight Lucy Pearl
27 Beggin (Original Version) Madcon
28 Give it to Me (Album) Madonna
29 4 Minutes Madonna
30 Valerie Mark Ronson & Amy Winehouse
31 Without You Mary J Blige
32 Shackles (Praise You) Mary Mary
33 Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now Mcfadden & Whitehead
34 Wanna Be Startin' Something Michael Jackson Ft Akon
35 Midas Touch Midnight Star
36 Sing It Back Moloko
37 Closer Ne-Yo
38 Going Back To My Roots Odyssey
39 Forget Me Nots Patrice Rushen
40 You Know How To Love Me Phylis Hyman
41 We Got The Funk Positive Force
42 Show Me Love Robin S
43 A Night to Remember Shalamar
44 I Can Make You Feel Good Shalamar
45 Imagine Shola Ama
46 Masterblaster (Jammin') Stevie Wonder
47 Get Down (Shapeshifters Vocal Mix) Todd Terry Allstars
48 Its a Love Thing Whispers
49 And The Beat Goes On Whispers
50 Heartbreaker Will I Am Ft Cheryl Cole

I also played some other soul, funk, rare groove, funky house and even some danceable jazz at this wedding disco

Ian Stewart Wedding Disco For Essex

Normally at this time of year I am pretty quiet mid week, it is that time between the wedding disco season, and the madness of the christmas party disco's, well this week was a bit of an exception, with me proding AV (Audio Visual) equipment and assistance for 3 conferances at Stock Brook Manor in Billericay, with equipment ranging from Flip Charts, Projectors, Screens and PA Systems with Lapel microphones.

Ian Stewart Mobile Disco In Essex