This was a grand occasion working on behalf of Friends of Breaside, family supporters of Breaside Prep in Bromley. The reception and dining rooms at Eltham Lodge were beautifully decorated, and that together with my moodlighting (pale yellow and spring green) created a fantastic ambience for their black tie Spring Ball.
As well as being their DJ and installing mood lighting, I was also their compere for the formalities between end of dinner and the evening entertainment. Additionally I supplied swing and jazz music for the Drinks and Canapes reception, as well as background for the dinner - see the full playlist below.
There was a real buzz to the night and dancing to the end - see the full playlist below.
The full playlist for the evening was as follows
Welcoming Music for Drinks and Canapes
Sinead O'Connor - I Want To Be Loved By You
Gina Sicilia - Pushover
John Darnall - One Mint Julep
Bill Dogget - Flip Flop
Otis Grand - Swing Turn
Frank Sinatra - The Way You Look Tonight
Joe Jackson - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't Ma Baby
Caro Emerald - You Don't Love Me
Pink Martini - But Now I'm Black
Wayne Beckford - Come On Over (feat. China Moses)
The Dizzy Club - Oh So Perfect
Baxx Beat Music - Jack of All Trades
Creol Napfèny - La Galleguita (Alex Fox)
Alle Farben Featuring Graham Candy - She Moves
Vaya Con Dios - I Don't Want to Know
Quincy Jones & Vanya Borges - Ai No Corrida
Naomi and Her Handsome Devils - I Know How To Do It
Jimmy McGriff - Step One
Charlie Ric - Mohair Sam
Imelda May - Big Bad Handsome Man
Background Music to Dinner
Carmen McRae - The Sound Of Silence
James Taylor - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Helen Shapiro - You Don't Know
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find, Another Love Like Mine
Dinah Washington - September in the Rain
Nina Simone - The More I See You
James Hunter - Carina
Sara Schiralli - Need Some Feeding
Julie London - Daddy
Bryan Ferry - BF Bass (Ode to Olympia)
bebo Best - Come As You Are
Pink Martini - Tuca Tuca
Bobby Darin - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Sq
Matt Monro - And You Smiled
Raul Paz - Mama
Catherine Russell - As Long As I Live
Lemon - Hell, Yeah!
Ann Savoy & Her Sleepless Knights - It's Like Reaching for the Moon
Michael Bublé - All I Do Is Dream of You
Peter Grant - You're The First, The Last, My Everything
Electro Lounge All Stars - Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
Sweet Daddy Cool Breeze - Doing What We Choose
Jody Bernal - Guantanamera
Veronica Orozco - Las Bragas
Sophie Milman - Lonely in New York
Natalie Cole - Orange Colored Sky
Ella Fitzgerald - All By Myself
Bobby Darin - Standing on the Corner
Sy Oliver - Yes Indeed
4 to the Bar - All Night Long
Smoma - Summertime
Saint Privat - Rokoko
Lou Rawls - The Girl from Ipanema
Evening Party
Whitney Houston - I'm Every Woman
Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
MFSB, The Three Degrees - T.S.O.P. (The Sound OF Philadelphia)
The Stylistics - Sing Baby Sing
Jackie Wilson - I Get The Sweetest Feeling
Hank Ballard & the Midnighters - Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go
Ben E King & The Drifters - Saturday Night At The Movies
The Supremes - Baby Love
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Third Finger, Left Hand
Rozalla - I Love Music
Ultra Nate - Free (Radio Edit)
James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good)
Justin Timberlake - SexyBack
Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie
Marc Anthony - Vivir Mi Vida
Wham! - Freedom
Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
Maroon Featuring Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger
Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
Robin Thicke - Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell)
Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
Beyonce - Crazy In Love
Pitbull Feat. Ne-Yo, Afropack and Nayer - Give Me Everything
The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
Rihanna - We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)
House of Pain - Jump Around
Mark Ronson Feat. Amy Winehouse - Valerie
Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire
Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
Pharrell Williams - Happy
Pitbull ft. Ke$ha - Timber
Deee Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives
In Deep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
Rufus & chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody
Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Could You Be Loved
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
Spice Girls - Wannabe
Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne - Rather Be
Avicii ft. Aloe Blacc - Wake Me Up
LMFAO - Sexy and I Know It
Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
Jamiroquai - Little L