Picture this, you've got a work party coming up, let's say it's your end of year work party. You're the organiser of the event here in Darwin and you've decided to book a mobile DJ to be the entertainment at the event. You call the DJ and the conversation goes something like this.......(ring ring, ring ring, ring ring......)

"Good afternoon Up Town Entertainment this is Peter speaking", "good afternoon this is Vanessa from the Darwin social club, I'd like to book a DJ for our upcoming event end of year party here in Darwin", "great Vanessa, you've come to the right place, I'll just need to know a few pieces of information from you, what is the date, where are you having the party, what are the start and finish times, how many guests are you having and what is the range of ages of the people attending the party?"

The above is the standard information that we ask when someone calls to book in a DJ, Jukebox or Karaoke Jukebox with us. These are the minimum bits of information we need in order to take a booking but this only gives us part of the information we need.

That gets us to the important part, the 3 things you must know when booking a DJ with us here in Darwin.

1. How many people will be attending your event -

This is crucial for us from an equipment point of view. A standard mobile DJ set up can cater to a certain amount of people, usually around 100 or so people. This means the sound system will be perfectly loud enough up to the number of people mentioned. Once you get above this number of guests or if the size of the venue is extreme (large or small) then we would need to cater for that accordingly. While it may seem like DJs just have a standard set of equipment that will be appropriate anywhere and everywhere, this is far from the case. Too much or too little sound can affect things so we like to be quit precise with the sound system we bring for each event. Gone are the days when you need a Mack truck to deliver a sound system, the quality of speakers these days is so much better than it was even just 10 years ago, with just a little bit of information regarding how many guests you'll be having along with information about the venue this will allow us to get the sound system and equipment side of things just right.

2. What are the age ranges of people attending your event -

This is crucial from a music point of view. Now, I've never known a DJ who doesn't over cater when it comes to music, i.e. we always take way too much music to every gig we do. However, we do this on purpose, the mark of a good mobile DJ is to be able to say yes to every appropriate request that we receive. I've always said it's that 1 request that you play which can make the difference between a good night and a great night. Accordingly, you always need more music on hand than you'll ever be likely to play in a 5 hour function, having the extra music allows you to say yes to a request that you couldn't have predicted was gong to get asked for. Functions in Darwin usually have quite diverse groups of guests so it's important for the DJ to be prepared musically for that. If you have a really defined range of ages of people attending your event in Darwin, then that will really help the DJ musically. Of course, we're also going to take requests on the night and we'd love you to submit a request prior to the event, but the more information we have about the guest list and the more detail we have before the event the better it is from our perspective.

3. Playlist, playlist, playlist - The playlist is the key to a successful night -

I know we talk about this a lot but I really do believe you can never hear this too much. If you want your event in Darwin to be a success, make sure you give your mobile DJ as thorough a music list as you possibly can. This means supplying a list prior to the event with 1. any songs that you would definitely like to hear, 2. any songs that you MUST hear, and 3. (this one is actually the most important) any songs that you definitely DON'T want to hear. Here's a reason why the reason why the don't play list is so important, let's say you have a corporate event in Darwin with a 100 people with the average guest age being 40. We can pretty much tell what the majority of the songs would be that would keep this type of crowd happy for the night, e.g. 70s, 80s, 90s and some new stuff. If you didn't tell us not to play specific songs within those examples then we would never know not to play them. If your playlist had 70s artists on it like the Bee Gees, Grease, Tina Turner but you absolutely can't stand Abba, we would need to know this beforehand. That's why the don't play list is so important. It safeguards us against the songs that we'd never know about unless you told us.

Hope that helps and hopefully it all makes sense, the more information you can give us prior to your event, helps to make sure the DJ has all the information required before playing the music at your event in Darwin. Being a mobile DJ at parties is a great fun activity, however the more prepared we are prior to a party the easier it is to make your function flow smoothly from a music perspective.

To make a booking, find out more information about booking a mobile DJ, Jukebox or Karaoke Jukebox in Darwin or to see our full range of other services have a look at this page on our website - https://www.uptown.net.au/services.

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12 Charlton Crt, Woolner 0820
Ph: 0418 540 870
https://www.uptown.net.au