...partnership disco (please extend the character limit on thread titles, someone). M'lovely wife will tomorrow evening have the pleasure of spending an hour behind the decks at the wedding of a couple of rum coves of our acquaintance, and I was wondering, since there's a wedding disco thread already up and runnng, if people could maybe stretch themselves to coming up with a few suggestions.

Nothing too double entendre or euphemism-laden, if it's not too much to ask. They like their alternative 80's and indie disco stuff, though.

Ta.

They may like it, but do all their guests? Nothing worse than a wedding where about three hardcore fans are dancing away to stridently obscurist tracks whilst everyone else is thinking "When are they going to play Dancing Queen?"

'Gimme Gimme Gimme' by The Leather Nun

(Same as on the 'Least...' thread!)

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whilst everyone else is thinking "When are they going to play Dancing Queen?"

If I ever get married the DJ will be under strict instructions NOT to play any fucking abba on pain of death.

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They like their alternative 80's and indie disco stuff, though.

Should be pretty easy then, just give 'em the indie hits. Smiths, Cure, New Order, Pixies, you know the drill.

I reckon that people pretty expect all kinds of tat they wouldn't give house room to, ordinarily.
Bearing in mind the age range of folk at weddings, stick to the crowds pleasers - no one's going to be standing at the side waiting for that Fatima Mansions B-side. Weddings are the only time I'd even listen to S Club 7, never mind think about dancing to them. I had to give a best man's speech last week; in a comedy club, I'd have bottled off - at a wedding, you'd think I'd have channelled the spirits of Hicks, Pryor and Bruce. As i say, charitable.
This will be the only time that I'll ever advocate the use of S Club 7.

Haha. I picked loads of songs for our wedding DJ that I thought would be decent alternative 80s crowd pleasers. No fucker danced until the DJ quietly gave up and played his own choices (Love Shack and Sweet Child o' Mine immediately filled the floor).

If the two people concerned are not disco dollies, then Crusoes' latter two, are exactly the sort of music which people will dance to. Throw in a Kylie, a Take That, the odd Sugababes or Girls Aloud, and you are sorted.

If they are disco dollies: tell her to put on Madonna's greatest hits, and retire to the bar.

If they are lesbians, a healthy dose of Motorhead, Iron Maiden and AC/DC will work, but mix in some Dusty Springfield or Cilla Black.

Of course, the latter of these three suggestions may or may not be bullshit, as I wouldnt know a lesbian's taste if she dripfed me the entrails of Melissa Etheridge.

Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl

They don't have a problem with the style of music, it was just a few inspired tracks I was after, that might raise a smile.

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If they are lesbians, a healthy dose of Motorhead, Iron Maiden and AC/DC will work

I have a very compelling image in my head of how that might look.

How did it go, then?

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Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl

But not the homophobic song she did before. Better to use Jill Sobule's song of the same title.

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How did it go, then?

A bit manic. Turns out that only one other bloke had been roped in to DJ and he was a bit short of material, so I scurried back home to fling a load more CDs into a bin liner and ended up doing a set of my own.

Which consisted of, for those that are interested:

Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Rachel Stevens - Some Girls
Nelly Furtado - Maneater
Pet Shop Boys - Heart
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
Outkast - Hey Ya
The Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get Retarded (except nobody did, rapid fade for that one)
Killers - Somebody Told Me
Suede - Animal Nitrate
The Strokes - Last Nite

M'lovely wife then followed up with a killer set of 80's classics and 90's house anthems, and by the end everyone was scudding round the dancefloor on sequinned rollerskates, wearing tight gold lamé hotpants.