Wedding next month

Hammer89

My first for ages, and one I completely forgot to be honest. Is there usually a DJ on after the band? Obviously there's no hard and fast rule here, but typically?

I ask because there's a ska band playing at this one and to me this kind of sh*t will get boring. I like a drink and a dance and would therefore do lots of both if we think there's probably a DJ playing proper music afterwards, but if the band tends to supply all the music then I'll just drive and sip Coke all night.

buried

Hammer89 wrote: »

My first for ages, and one I completely forgot to be honest. Is there usually a DJ on after the band? Obviously there's no hard and fast rule here, but typically?

Just keep doing that and you won't even have to go, like what I do H

falinn merking

Hammer89 wrote: »

My first for ages, and one I completely forgot to be honest. Is there usually a DJ on after the band? Obviously there's no hard and fast rule here, but typically?

I ask because there's a ska band playing at this one and to me this kind of sh*t will get boring. I like a drink and a dance and would therefore do lots of both if we think there's probably a DJ playing proper music afterwards, but if the band tends to supply all the music then I'll just drive and sip Coke all night.

You have been invited to a wedding you have been given a sign that you are on the friendly respected list.
You show up to support the new couple and mix and catch up.

The rest of your post needs a serious rethink.

Who gives a flying *%£K about the band?

freshpopcorn

It depends on what the couple are doing to be honest! Can you ask?

John_Rambo

Ah, come on Eileen, it will be epic.

Hammer89

freshpopcorn wrote: »

It depends on what the couple are doing to be honest! Can you ask?

I can but it's not a question I'd like to ask because, as your man pointed out, it looks like I'm being disrespectful, but really I'm just trying to gauge how much I'm likely to spend on the night, which is reasonable I think.

Temptamperu

There is usually a DJ after the band.

Hector Bellend

Hammer89 wrote: »

My first for ages, and one I completely forgot to be honest. Is there usually a DJ on after the band? Obviously there's no hard and fast rule here, but typically?

I ask because there's a ska band playing at this one and to me this kind of sh*t will get boring. I like a drink and a dance and would therefore do lots of both if we think there's probably a DJ playing proper music afterwards, but if the band tends to supply all the music then I'll just drive and sip Coke all night.

What are you expecting?

Detroit Techno?

Just go, get smashed, dance like an ass and go home. If youre anything like me Then you can have a cry and a **** if youre still single

pleas advice

Verpiss dich wrote: »

Who gives a flying *%£K about the band?

No one, if its a ska band, tbh

buried

That's true, a Ska band. Is this wedding on in 1982 London town or something

corner of hells

It'd probably be Bad Manners not to go , who knows what Madness might happen and maybe it could be a Special (s) night.

I'll get my coat.

biko

Dafuq? Ska music IS proper music

Zaph

Having been at quite a few weddings with truly godawful bands and even worse DJs, I'd be genuinely delighted if I knew there was going to be a ska band at a wedding I was going to. The DJ will still be crap though.

buried

Zaph wrote: »

Having been at quite a few weddings with truly godawful bands and even worse DJs, I'd be genuinely delighted if I knew there was going to be a ska band at a wedding I was going to. The DJ will still be crap though.

I wouldn't. If their a ska wedding band all your going to get is "The Birdy Dance" to the tune of "One Step Beyond" repeated ad vomitum

Hammer89

So percentage wise, what are we thinking regarding the post-ska DJ? 80% chance?

buried

Have you booked a room at the shindig yet? That's the only way to survive any wedding, for me anyways. Book a room, have a few beverages left up there, buy a minirig speaker plug it into whatever device, you can have your own bit of music and party in your room to set you up for the music you may not dig so much downstairs but can enjoy a small bit anyways knowing you got your own stash of choons upstairs. Buy a minirig portable speaker. Great investment for any of these things.

Hammer89

buried wrote: »

Have you booked a room at the shindig yet? That's the only way to survive any wedding, for me anyways. Book a room, have a few beverages left up there, buy a minirig speaker plug it into whatever device, you can have your own bit of music and party in your room to set you up for the music you may not dig so much downstairs but can enjoy a small bit anyways knowing you got your own stash of choons upstairs. Buy a minirig portable speaker. Great investment for any of these things.

Nope, no room booked but won't need one if it's an all-SKA event. Taking so much interest in whether there's a DJ might seem rude but really I'm just trying to figure out what my expenses will be like, because it'll either be an expensive but craic-fuelled night, or a cheap but sh*t one. I won't stay over or drink if it's SKA all night.

Hector Bellend

I prefer to look at the wide variety of funbags. Save it for the wedding night **** bank

corner of hells

"On 8 August 1992, strongly felt vibrations said to have cracked windows and a balcony in London were traced to a rock concert by Madness in Finsbury Park. All significant felt events and some others are reported rapidly to the Customer Group through 'seismic alerts' "

This is what SKA is.
Seismic alert = earthquake.

splinter65

I don’t know what you think ska is but it’s totally cool.

https://youtu.be/jhOwbIUS5fw

dmc17

If it's a good ska band, then I think people would be more likely to dance to it than the predictable old sh1te most wedding bands play nowadays

Nettle Soup

Weddings are usually a penance but it's Lent so you might get some brownie points for suffering through it.
I reckon 80% of guests at a wedding wish they were somewhere else - from 1pm to 11pm anyway.
When the DJ and cocktail sausages come out, you know you are on the home straight.

julyjane

If there's a few people going who you know then take yourselves out to the bar/smoking area for most of the time the band is playing. If it's a big enough wedding no one will notice

the beer revolu

OP, if wedding is in the Cork region, that band are great. They don't just play ska. Plenty of punk classics and the likes of Elvis Costello too. Real floor fillers. So much better than your generic rubbish band playing generic rubbish chart music.
Also, there are loads of ska tracks that everyone knows and love to dance to. If it's the band I'm thinking of, almost everyone will know almost every song. They play classic hits.

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a DJ too.

freshpopcorn

I would try and casual mention it to somebody from the wedding party about what the plan is for the day.
Another thing you could do is ring the hotel and find out if they know the plan.(My mother did this) but it was closer to the day.

Charles Babbage

A ska band at your wedding, that's madness.

StupidLikeAFox

What band is it?

suicide_circus

A couple of light ales and a spliff out the back and you'll be loving the ska band

KERSPLAT!

Love ska!