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Wedding and Party Swing Band at Great Fosters, Egham, Surrey

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:13:25 +0000

A lovely gig yesterday at Great Fosters in Egham, Surrey where the 5 piece band performed for the wedding of Angela and Kostas. The happy couple opted for Simply Swing’s solo pianist in the afternoon for reception drinks, followed by our 5-Piece wedding band in the evening and and then our auto disco service to finish the night off. A great day was had by all at a wonderful venue.

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admin — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:36:18 +0000

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Don’t iPod DJ Your Own Wedding!

admin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:04:00 +0000

A new trend that’s often talked about on “weddings on a shoe-string” websites is using the iPod to DJ your own wedding.

PLEASE DON’T DO IT! It’s a clumsy and wholly inappropriate tool for the job at hand. You have a gap between tracks which, coupled with a 10 second fade out on lots of contemporary songs, can leave your guests standing around the dance-floor like lemons.

If you’re thinking of going the DIY route, use iTunes or some other kind of DJ software on a laptop. This provides a far easier means of searching a database of songs and allows for changing playlists on the go.

You’ll then have to rent a top-quality sound system. The home stereo that sounds deafening in your lounge just won’t cut it in a large hall. Then there’s the venue in-house sound system that you might think is a good idea. It is not! Ceiling speakers are for elevator music.

Believe us, your wedding day is no time for fumbling with wires, speakers and iPods – you’re supposed to be enjoying yourselves!

We believe that iPods are great for background music between a band’s live sets or while you’re guests are eating. For that, they are invaluable.

Simply Swing’s Band and Disco Service

For our disco it’s a professional DJ program everytime. It’s run from a laptop computer and plays through our state-of-the-art Bose L1 sound system.

Brought to you at a fraction of the cost of an outside DJ – this is the way to DJ your “Wedding on a shoe-string”.

Simply Swing uses Bose Sound System

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:54:52 +0000

Another really busy summer and even the holiday season was bursting with events for Simply Swing. So much so that we decided to splash out on a new PA system. Our recent purchase of the Bose L1 sound system has been an amazing addition to the band. The sound was just knock-out on Saturday night and when our Disco was played through it, the sound was truly amazing. The Bose system has enabled the band to be set up in record time as we no longer have fold-back monitors to set up and lots of cables trailing across the stage. Not only is the sound incredible but it looks really space age and sexy (if, indeed you can call a sound system sexy!). Simply Swing recommends Bose.

Disco Service

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:57:05 +0000

The weekend of 26th, 27th and 28th June proved to be the mid-summer ‘hot’ weekend

Wedding Disco

with two events in Kent and one in West Sussex. It was good to be back at The Blazing Donkey in Sandwich, Kent for a summer ball followed by two great weddings.

Once again our Auto Disco Service proved a huge success at both the weddings. After the band performed it’s usual live sets, we ran the disco service through our PA system for the last hour of both Linda & Barry’s wedding and Pippa & James’ wedding. We have been offering this service for about two years now and it’s popularity is ever increasing. It’s such a cost effective option for people who want a swing band but know that many of their guests will be expecting a disco. We offer this at a fraction of the price of booking an outside DJ and we use exactly the same professional disco program as they do too!