We are looking for a dj to hire for our wedding in December.
Requirements… we would like them to turn up on time, be dressed appropriately for a wedding and play music that we request in advance.
Anyone have any dj’s that they recommend for us to hire? Also, does anyone know roughly how much it will cost?
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I would 1000% recommend Bryant from Juke Entertainment he was fantastic! – http://www.jukeentertainment.com.au/
+1 for stan ! 😀
Kerryhemsley said :
From memory, he didn’t want to stop playing, and the function went waaaay over time until the caretaker booted us out of the venue as he wanted to close up and go home! I’m sure he wouldn’t play that joy divison song, unless of course someone asked him to.
EvanJames said :
Does Hughie finish with “Love will Tear us Apart” to send them off on their honeymoon with heads spinning?
Hugh Ford http://www.joydivisionn.com/ did a function I was at recently, and he did it with evident enjoyment and ease. He specialises in 70s and 80s, he reckons he can play ANY 80s song you request, including all the obscure indie new wave stuff.
He also spends a lot of time up dancing with the ladies, and as an ex-olympic middle-distance runner, he can keep it going all night from what I observed. Top bloke, I’d book him no problem.
Whatever you do, avoid the short, fat ginger bloke. I encountered one of his staff one night who was on his first gig on his own. He seemed to be playing 70’s disco and nothing else. When questioned, he said the laptop he’d been supplied with was broken and that he hadn’t been given any backup CDs to use with the house CD player. The short, fat ginger was at a wedding and wasn’t going to turn up for a number of hours. If the short, fat ginger treats his staff like that, I can only imagine how bad his performance would be. Interesting too that the establishment he and his staff work at had the grand total of 18 people there at midnight on Saturday night.
Andrew Leigh will act as a DJ if you hire his marquee. They call him Dr Funkenstein. I’m sure he’s really almost quite entertaining:
http://the-riotact.com/andrew-leigh-expanding-his-marquee-hire-business/60215
yep Ardanien Entertainment was amazing. Ask for Emile – he was our DJ and he was outstanding
I’m in the industry and i can tell you most of the DJ companies in Canberra are rubbish! DO YOUR HOMEWORK WHEN BOOKING A DJ.
best in Canberra is ARDANIEN ENTERTAINMENT (www.ardanien.com.au).
always wear a suit, produce the best nights and they can actually mix
Geez, $600 for a “DJ” for a night?
My missus and her band used to do live gigs for not much more than that, and it was mostly the same sort of songs you hear at weddings anyway.
Henry82 said :
I. Agree. With. Henry82.
Must………. go take a shower.
On topic, exactly. You give proper instructions to a DJ, and they’ll do the right thing.
Two possible outcomes:
1. Give good instructions to a crap DJ = crap.
2. Give bad instructions to a good DJ = she or he will subtly un-crappify your crap requests.
Just because you can belt out Inagoddahowevayaspellit in the shower note and beat perfect doesn’t mean it’s going to fly when Aunt Mabel and Uncle Reg plus your pi$$ed idiot friends from uni/the office/netball team want to get down on it.
Henry82 said :
It is usually a showcase of the bride and groom’s terrible music taste spurred on by the drunken nostalgia of uncoordinated family members. Sure someone requested it, dredged up from the extremely limited set of singles they’ve remembered over a lifetime of exposure to the austereo network’s abominable American tripe.
Get a live jazz band, it’ll save you the misfortune of mainstream music and lend an air of sophistication, hopefully enough to offset the bad lighting and crappy catering.
Golden-Alpine said :
More copyright nonsense from an industry of dinosaurs, if a venue I’d hired told me to turn off my music on licensing grounds, I’d leave on the spot and never come back.
Yet another reason to just have the reception at a nice house, no hire fee, no insurance, no “dj”, no corporate music police.
Truthiness said :
maybe that’s because people request those songs? or they don’t give enough instruction to the DJ?
Given how most wedding music ends up being chart trash direct from the propaganda industry anyway, you may as well just leave a radio playing “hit songs and dedications”.
mouldy said :
Probably because that is illegal as your music you have bought or downloaded don’t have the appropriate licence for playing in public. Venues in Canberra should not allow this to happen.
+1 3D Entertainment.
Heh, its funny how terms evolve, I tend to think of DJ’s as musical artists in their own right. I guess most people don’t want real musicians, just a nameless schmuck to stand near the laptop and make sure it doesn’t stray from the “hot hits of the eighties”. What you’re looking for sounds like Karaoke.
http://www.puredjs.com.au
http://www.concordesoundandlighting.com.au/
If you want a DJ who will play your song selections and stick to the running order of your reception then DO NOT go with Ardanien Entertainment. They turned our reception into a comdey of errors, which I can laugh at now, but it was not very funny on the night. We got sucked in by their offer of a free video of the reception, only to discover after the event that they don’t have the rights to reproduce the music on the video… So we have a 5 hour silent movie of our reception! Don’t waste your money on a DJ who will only disappoint you and ruin your wedding, put your favorite music on an iPod instead!