All parties are great fun because the guests are there to enjoy themselves with people they know. But we think fancy dress parties add a little bit more excitement to evening. You adopt the character of your outfit for a short time and act out the part. Remember when we were kids and how we loved to dress up? Little girls would have great fun with their mother’s high heeled shoes and lipstick, dragging the shoes along the lino and the lippie from ear to ear! We love doing fancy dress parties at Bracklin Disco Services because we get a bird’s eye view of everyone from the stage. And, it’s…
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Looking back – a video/photo montage
What a time of it we had last year. Every event was special and we’ve often relived them ourselves by watching the short video clips that Andy takes at the time. A selection of these and some photos, going back a few years, are available on our Facebook pages, so why not take a look? They’ll either remind you of what a good time you had that night or, if you are a new/potential client, they might persuade you to hold an event yourself! If we get your business, all the better! Facebook : ‘Bracklin Disco Services’
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A Venue With a Difference!
Those of you eagle-eyed readers may just have noticed a recent Testimonial on the Home Page and be wondering why on earth you’d have a disco in a “shed”! Well, it certainly got our attention when we got the request to provide the music for a joint birthday party for Sarah and Sam. “It’s to be held in a tattie-shed,” Sarah casually remarked when Andy spoke to her after getting the enquiry from AMPdj. OK, unphased as ever, Andy played along. “Fine,” says Andy, “I’ll need to have electricity though - a power supply.” “No problem,” replied Sam. Now, it’s part of Andy’s routine to check out every new venue before an event. He…
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Haste Ye Back
Many years ago there was a weekly programme on BBC Scotland called The White Heather Club. A half-hour devoted to Scottish music and dancing, led by the then well-known face of Andy Stewart, decked out in his kilt and a boyish grin. Presumably it was the Stewart tartan but, since it transmitted in black and white the exact tartan was left to the imagination. During each episode, which followed a very distinct formula, you could be sure that Andy would sing a Scots song or two and the dancers, led by Dixie Ingram, would entertain with their interpretation of a Scottish dance – not one you would see in any country dance hall or…
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Sometimes It’s Just Meant To Be
You may recall we’ve written about how quiet January can be as far as people wanting to have a disco is concerned. This is, of course, in no small measure due to the weather factor or, to be more correct, the BAD weather factor. And this January is proving to be one of the worst in our memory at least. You can understand why people may be willing to organise an event and then, on the night, the weather takes over and either prevents people from venturing out or makes them think that, maybe, the fireside has more appeal than the effort to get dressed up and go out in…
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‘The hills are alive with….’
Most of Andy’s mobile gig work is to provide a disco service. His karaoke-only evenings tend to be where he is the host karaoke presenter at various Tayside hotels. So, it was as much out of curiosity as anything else that he responded to a request for a private  karaoke-style birthday party to be held in a Youth Hostel in the Angus Glens. A smallish party in terms of numbers but, as he soon found out, the guests were more than willing to make up for that in sheer enthusiasm and enjoyment. Andy’s familiar with the Angus Glens, being a keen hill-walker (and Munro bagger) himself, so he felt an affinity with the group from…
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What’s Afore Ye Will No Gae By Ye
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Heroes
Nobody can deny that this past weekend has been a time for creating many new heroes on a local, national and international level. We’re speaking, of course, about the Olympics and ‘Golden Saturday’, followed by THAT tennis match on Sunday afternoon and, to cap off a great weekend of sport, Usain Bolt’s magnificent 100m win at night. Now, we realise that not everyone is into sport so let me say, right away, that the ‘Heroes’ in the title are not, in fact, these fantastic Olympians, but Heroes of the Cartoon version! Saturday night saw Andy covering a birthday party in a local hostelry – and, when he could, texting base to find out how…
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New Trends and Old Ways (or Hogging the Limelight)
Checking back some previous posts, it seems our inclement summer weather is no new thing (see last year’s A Summer to Remember…), so let’s just park the weather topics for now and talk about something new. New trends are always interesting since, often as not, they’re not really new at all, just new to a generation – as in the recent ladies’ fashion for geometric designs and 60’s colour-ways a la Twiggy and Co. Now, some ladies out there will recall those days with a bit of a tremor in the voice – a bit like blokes discussing their first cars – as they reminisce over the lengths of the…
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Burns an Aa’ That
Nobody is happier than us that the upsurge of interest in all things Burns is holding ground, despite a certain amount of apathy in the younger generation (it’s not cool an aa’ that). However, the increasing number of ceilidhs and Burns Nights with entertainment around at this time of year (Burns’ birthday 25th January) proves there is still life in the bard and, therefore, reason to celebrate. Exactly what people are celebrating seems, sometimes, at odds with the reality. As we know, Burns packed a lot of living into his thirty-seven years. So, who’s to say what’s right and what’s wrong in the convention we now recognise as standard format…
