bonzodog Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 When I used to be a club singer I did quite a few Neil Diamond songs. Always amazed me when I sang 'Love on the rocks', how many couples got up to have a romantic dance to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 [quote name='Norris' timestamp='1432934956' post='2786483'] Someone has just sung a selection of songs from Les Mis. Great voice, but at a wedding?! [/quote] And of course, also known as 'The Glums' ...lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 [quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1432947429' post='2786571'] My old band played a Friday night at a Con club, all OK; our usual mix of pop+rock, 50s-90s. So they rebooked for a Saturday. Cool Nobody told us that Saturday was the night the punters danced. And by "dance" I mean "waltzes". We were not well received. [/quote] We had a gig like that once. We were booked in play in a night club on a Tuesday night. We arrived and set up. It was getting towards time to start playing but the place was about empty. The owner assured us that a coach load were turning up. Sure enough the coach arrived and a load of elderly couples got off - all of the women carrying a plastic bag. They then sat around the edge of the dance floor and got out their silver dancing shoes. It was a ballroom outing! As luck would have it all of us had previously been in a showband together and proceeded to play a selection of quicksteps and foxtrots. Not quite what we were expecting and certainly one of the strangest gigs we ever played Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 (edited) I really do think that some people don't listen to the lyrics when choosing songs for their wedding. A couple we've had as first dances have been: Always, Bon Jovi - a song about a guy who had a fling with another woman and is singing about the girl he used to be with but will never be with again Without You, Nillson - the first line is the girl leaving him forever The first song for tonight's wedding is Rule The World by Take That but what's the second song? Mr Brightside Edited May 30, 2015 by Delberthot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL POSTERS Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 (edited) If its a wedding. I Knew The Bride would be my choice. Great song, cant see why more covers bands dont do it anyway. Edited May 30, 2015 by BILL POSTERS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonsmith Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 One I heard about a few years ago - first dance: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. On a related note, believe it or not, I played a few weddings with the Dire Straits tribute I was in. Most went ok, some were great. During the last one we did, a gentleman approached the wife of our frontman and asked if she was with the band. When she said she was, he said he wanted to make a complaint. His complaint was that we only played songs by Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler. When she explained that this was because we were a DS tribute band, he said "that's no f'ing good for a wedding". He might well have been right, but he was pointed in the direction of the bride and groom, who had specifically chosen us. He was up dancing for the second set... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger2611 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 We send out our song list to the bride and groom in advance of the reception to see if there is anything in particular they want or don't want, lots of track go in and out for different couples but the one that has been a yes for every wedding we have done so far is "Everyday I Love You Less and Less!" Kaiser Chiefs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushbo Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 In my shady past as a Bassie in a functions band, I remember that "Go Your Own Way" was a regular request at wedding receptions...as was "Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldnt've)" by the Buzzcocks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telebass Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Run To You. Nobody ever seemed to realise how inappropriate it was... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molan Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 My old function band were once asked, by the bride, to open with 'Hit Me Baby One More Time'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesthebass Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Always avoided lady is a tramp in the jazz set and young hearts and I will survive always seemed weird to me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I did a gig once where a singer called a tune but which, when we started, was all over the place. Thinking I was in the wrong key, I looked over the pianist's shoulder to see that he was playing the wrong SONG. His choice? 'How Insensitive'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL POSTERS Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Its not just weddings though surely. apparently Light My Fire, and Arthur Browns Fire are popular at Cremations. Not many funerals have bands though. Anybody played a funeral ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckinthepod Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 We usually open our covers set with 747 - Strangers in the night by Saxon. Sensibly our guitarist suggested we drop it from the set the week of the french plane crash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 http://youtu.be/rW9-FOLG-iA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowhand_mike Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 (edited) we played at a wedding reception last year and played Alive by Pearl Jam, went down well dispite being about "the story of a young man discovering that his father is actually his stepfather, and his real father is dead, while his mother’s grief leads to an incestuous relationship with the son, who strongly resembles the biological father" nice family values and all that, we'll probably play it at the wedding later this year, tbh i dont think the song meanings really matter, its just if people enjoy them Edited June 1, 2015 by lowhand_mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 [quote name='lowhand_mike' timestamp='1433171601' post='2788523'] ...don't think the song meanings really matter, its just if people enjoy them. [/quote] I have a theory that a significant percentage of the public have no idea what the lyrics are to any given song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howdenspur Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 [quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1433097713' post='2787837'] Its not just weddings though surely. apparently Light My Fire, and Arthur Browns Fire are popular at Cremations. Not many funerals have bands though. Anybody played a funeral ? [/quote] I've heard of "Another one bites the dust" being played over the PA at a biker's funeral. Must be true, the vicar told me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 [quote name='howdenspur' timestamp='1433178588' post='2788623'] I've heard of "Another one bites the dust" being played over the PA at a biker's funeral. [/quote] I've no doubt that bikers would find that very amusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ead Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Nice Legs, Shame About The Face, or maybe Too Drunk To F**k? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huge Hands Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I remember my mate telling a story that a mate of his was sat in a registry office waiting for a wedding to start when his phone rang. He had "Final Countdown" by Europe as his ring tone. He was just laughing with his girlfriend about "imagine how embarrassing it would have been if that went off during the wedding" - when ten minutes later the doors flung open and the bride walked down the room to that very same song blaring over the speakers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leftybassman392 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1433178260' post='2788618'] I have a theory that a significant percentage of the public have no idea what the lyrics are to any given song. [/quote] I played in a covers band once in which the singer would often change the lyrics in songs to 'soundalikes' that gave the song a completely different meaning. On the downside, people at our regular gigs started to expect it and we would sometimes get a bit of flak for playing songs as per the original lyrics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairychris Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1433179224' post='2788636'] I've no doubt that bikers would find that very amusing. [/quote] Ha, not only bikers but anyone with a morbid sense of humour. I'd personally aim for something completely uncalled for to be played... I mean, if you can't annoy your friends & family after you go what's the point! FWIW we had a weird one at my father's funeral. All arranged, with play list given to the vicar bloke including for the final bit where the coffin is removed. I can't remember what my mum had asked for, but we were quite confused when Sinatra's "My Way" came on because it certainly wasn't that, and wasn't entirely appropriate for my old man. Oops. You're not supposed to laugh at funerals, are you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzneck Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Woke from an operation to remove a cyst from my ball bag only to hear the hospital DJ playing Jerry Lee Lewis singing "Great Balls Of Fire". My missus couldn't work out why I was laughing, she thought it was the intravenous painkillers having an affect....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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