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Just for a change, I was booked to supply the disco for a joint 60th birthday party at the Orwell Park School in Ipswich.

but before that, I went to see the greatest football team in world, namely Southend United who were playing their nearest neighbours Colchester United, wow what an exciting game finishing 3-3.

unusually for me, at The Orwell park School, they do not require me to arrive at the venue, until one hours befor mr start time, so I left home a little later then usual 7pm, and drove to Ipswich in the pouring rain, and the roads were very very bad, luckily enough, when I unloaded the equipment from the van, the rain had subsided alot.

I had all the equipment set by 9.00pm, and the staff at the venue were lovely and gave us our dinner, and allowed us to sit in the staff room until the clients had finished their dinner, which did over run quite a bit, and instead of a 10pm start, I started at 10.45pm, and went straight into the dancing, with a full floor right up until the end of the night.

As with most of my clients they had completed their music list online, here is what they chose for their birthday party disco:

1 Must Play Dancing Queen Abba
2 Must Play Waterloo Abba
3 Must Play More than a woman Bee Gees
4 Must Play Stayin' Alive Bee Gees
5 Must Play (I've Had) The Time Of My Life Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
6 Must Play Lady in Red Chris de Burgh
7 Must Play Dancing in the Street David Bowie & Mick Jagger
8 Must Play Walk of Life Dire Straits
9 Must Play American Pie Don Mclean
10 Must Play Mercy (Album Mix) Duffy
11 Must Play Hero Enrique Iglasias
12 Must Play Sweet Dreams Eurythmics
13 Must Play Moving on up M People
14 Must Play I heard it through the grapevine Marvin Gaye
15 Must Play I'm In The Mood For Dancing Nolans
16 Must Play Another day in Paradise Phil Collins
17 Must Play Sussudio Phil Collins
18 Must Play Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harem
19 Must Play We will rock you Queen
20 Must Play Don't Stop Me Now Queen
21 Must Play Let me entertain you Robbie Williams
22 Must Play Maggie May Rod Stewart
23 Must Play Paint it Black Rolling Stones
24 Must Play Get Off of My Cloud Rolling Stones
25 Must Play We Are Family Sister Sledge
26 Must Play Keep on running Spencer Davis Group
27 Must Play Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours Stevie Wonder
28 Must Play I love to Boogie T Rex
29 Must Play Substitute The Who
30 Must Play It's Raining Men Weather Girls
31 Play If Possible Yes Merry Clayton Dirty Dancing
32 Play If Possible Fields of Gold Robbie Williams
33 Play If Possible Paint it Black Rolling Stones

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Well I almost managed to keep my promise, who am I kidding well it looks like I need to do a couple of days at a time until I catch up.

Friday 31st October 2008 I was DJ for the wedding of Claire Palmer & Robert Parrott in the Banqueting Suite at Stock Brook Manor, Billericay, as always for Mobile Disco's at Stock Brook Manor, I arrived at the venue at 10am, so that I could set all my disco equipment up nice and early, so that there was no disruption to the wedding breakfast at all.

As always the planning was done online, and they had chosen the following music that they wanted me to play:

The main songs requested were

1st Dance Footprints In the Sand - Leona Lewis
2nd Dance She's the One - Robbie Williams
3rd Dance Waterloo - Abba
Last Dance Rule the World (Radio) - Take That

and they also asked if I could play the following Requests
1 Footloose - Kenny Loggins for the groom Rob Parrott, who's a secret Footloose fan!
2 I wanna dance with somebody - Whitney Houston For Norman, who's a big Whitney fan!
3 mamma mia - abba
4 (I've Had) The Time Of My Life Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
5 Valerie - Mark Ronson & Amy Winehouse
6 Billie Jean - Michael Jackson History
7 Brown eyed girl - Van Morrison
8 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham! Video
9 Take on me - A-ha
10 fascination - alphabeat
11 Let Me Be Your Fantasy - Baby D
12 When the going gets tough.... - Billy Ocean
13 Livin' on a prayer - Bon Jovi
14 Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
15 Build me up buttercup - foundations
16 Jump (For My Love) - Girls Aloud
17 Don't You Want Me Baby - Human League
18 Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue
19 Fame - Irene Cara
20 Flashdance (What a Feeling) - Irene Cara
21 Spinning Around - Kylie Minogue
22 Like a prayer - Madonna
23 (I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles - Proclaimers
24 Rock DJ - Robbie Williams
25 Let me entertain you - Robbie Williams
26 Mr. Bojangles - Robbie Williams
27 I Don't Feel Like Dancin' - Scissor Sisters
28 Sweet Like Chocolate - Shanks & Bigfoot
29 We are family - sister sledge
30 Music Sounds Better with You - Stardust
31 It only takes a minute - Take That
32 Relight My Fire - Take That & Lulu
33 I think we're alone now - Tiffany
34 YMCA - Village People

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