Kerry & John Craig

For my first visit back to the land of work I had a visit to Archerfield House for the wedding reception of Kerry & John Craig. This is an amazing venue with a function room on the first floor.

Arrival and Prep

Since this was my first gig back after a long break due to that C-word, I arrived at 1815 for a 2100 start. Better to make sure I have enough time to get things all working correctly before the main event. For the most part, there were very few issues considering there were multiple OS and software updates in the past 18 months and my propensity to forget things. I had previously tested as much as I could but no better time for a test than when everything comes together for an event. A slight issue with DMX control but I found a temporary workaround until I could get stuck into it.

First Dance

Kerry, John, and the guests arrived at about 2130 to begin the evening activities starting with cutting the wedding cake.

Onto the first dance which was the classic John Legend song All Of Me. The bride and groom start the dance together for the photographs before waving all guests to join them on the dancefloor.

The first dance was followed by the very keen audience getting right into the dancing. It has been a while for us all and they were ready to party!

Playlist

Play Time	Artist	Title
21:54	John Legend	All Of Me_pn
21:57	Adele	Rolling In The Deep  DJ Edit pn
22:01	Erasure	A Little Respect_pn
22:04	Bon Jovi	Livin On A Prayer  Remastered_pn
22:08	The Killers	Mr. Brightside_pn
22:11	The Fratellis	Chelsea Dagger_pn
22:15	Daft Punk Featuring Pharrell Williams	Get Lucky  Radio Edit_pn
22:18	Pharrell Williams	Happy_pn
22:22	ABBA	Dancing Queen_pn
22:25	The Trammps	Disco Inferno_pn
22:28	Spandau Ballet	Gold pn
22:32	Wham	Wake Me Up Before You Go Go_pn
22:35	Sia	Chandelier pn
22:37	R. Kelly	Ignition (Remix)_pn
22:40	Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris	We Found Love_pn
22:42	David Guetta Featuring Sia	Titanium_pn
22:46	Scissor Sisters	I Dont Feel Like Dancing  Radio Edit_pn
22:50	Mark Ronson Featuring Amy Winehouse	Valerie_pn
22:53	Deacon Blue	Real Gone Kid_pn
22:57	Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams  Are Made Of This_pn
23:00	The Beatles	Twist And Shout_pn
23:02	Lulu	Shout
23:05	Lionel Richie	All Night Long_pn
23:09	Gala	Freed From Desire (Radio Edit)_pn
23:13	The Time Frequency	New Emotion_pn
23:16	Bruno Mars	Marry You_pn
23:19	Kings Of Leon	Sex On Fire_pn
23:22	Kylie Minogue	Cant Get You Out Of My Head pn
23:25	Madonna	Like A Prayer_pn
23:26	Madonna	Like A Prayer (Dance)_pn
23:31	Robbie Williams	Rock DJ_pn
23:34	Take That Featuring Lulu	Relight My Fire_pn
23:37	Queen	Dont Stop Me Now_pn
23:41	The Proclaimers	Im Gonna Be_pn
23:44	Runrig	Loch Lomond_pn
23:50	Deacon Blue	Dignity_pn
23:54	Queen	Bohemian Rhapsody_pn
00:00	Robbie Williams	Angels. pn

In the end, we had a great night, brief but great. Normally I play much later than midnight at this venue but the rather unnecessary restrictions due to a few Sars Cov II infections meant we had to abide by the early finishing time.

Thank you again Kerry & John for an amazing return to wedding performing.

Best wishes to you both.