April and May gig news : All at once

I am sorry, bein lazy lately to update gig news. So, what have we been doing other than patiently waiting for sun and surviving winter blues....gigging for sure.

April'08
Started spring hopes up with a corporate event for Infosys. We DJ-d their third quarter bash late last year too, if you have read/remember the one from September. We were roped in much earlier and we put together plenty of cool games and the evening was on rapid fire. Unfortunately, this time the planning time was too short but, we did create a musical quiz for the folks and danced all night. Organizers complained about feet-ache but, that is very much a good news for us.

We went hibernating for a little while and a reception kicked in, for one of our good friend's daughter. It went on well but, we were stationed too far from the dance floor and also quite off-centered, 'twas too hard for us to guage what is going on, on the dance floor. A late dinner also shrunk the dance floor to half the size too.

May'08
Finally, some spurts of sun here and there brought in a Sangeet. Lots of singing and dancing, karaoke and a very fun night. The family had the Sangeet on a friday and the actual reception on the next saturday, which was cool because, it helped everyone to relax and be more fresh for each party. A mehndi was snuggled in between too. If you can spread Sangeet and Reception apart, do that. That helps everyone a lot to really enjoy the party. Thats us from Sangeet.

The reception night was an absolute rock and roll. The bridal party entered with a bang, while DJ Amri ran as MC for the night. The wedding couple grooved in for Dus Bahane and DJ Vinny rocked his dhol for them. The coolest thing was the soul train. While the bride and the groom danced on their first dance, it went wooooooosh all of a sudden and all the bridesmaids and groomsmen lined up for a soul train. Soul train rolled in with Soulja boy, Tarkan's kiss and few more jazzy tunes.

The dad, Sohail who is a very good friend of us, sang a bidai song for his daughter "Babul ki duaen leti jaa" with so much emotion and croak in his voice, that it left everyone heavy hearted. But then, a rocking dance floor eased it all.

DJ Vinny mixed in live dhol with the dance floor and we kicked our lovely bride in tears onto her husband's home with a traditional Vidai. One of our friends who made it to the wedding said that we gigged it as if it was our own sister's wedding. With all humbleness, I'd say that was the best compliment for us and sure, it is no less than our own sister's wedding.