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After the speeches

Everything that happens once the lights drop.

The lighting sets the room up. This is the part that gets people out of their seats — and the generator that makes sure none of it stops.

An empty chequerboard dance floor under a mirror ball, beams picked out in haze
A black and white chequerboard dance floor lit from above by mirror balls and coloured wash light, with band equipment set up on a stage behind

01 — Dance floors

A floor changes
where people stand.

Put a defined floor in a room and the dancing collects on it instead of drifting around the tables. We lay the floor, hang what goes above it, and light it so it reads as the centre of the room rather than a patch of the carpet.

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    Dance floorsLaid, lit and taken down as part of the same job.
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    Mirror ballThe oldest effect there is, and still the one people look up at.

02 — Disco lighting & DJs

Sound and light
from one crew.

Disco lighting is a different job to decorative lighting — it moves, it's on the beat, and it has to be run by somebody watching the room. We supply the rig and the DJ, so there's one set-up, one takedown and nobody blaming anybody else.

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    Disco lighting & DJsThe rig and the person running it.
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    Live bandWe have supplied a live rock band, The Notion, for functions that want one.
A lounge-style function area lit in deep blue and magenta with festoon strings overhead and low seating around white tables
Hanging filament globes glowing warm against a dark background, with more lights out of focus behind

03 — Effects

For the ninety
seconds that matter.

Dry ice sits low and rolls across the floor — it's the first-dance effect. Smoke fills the air instead, which is what makes beams of light visible at all. They do different jobs and people often ask for the wrong one; we'll tell you which you actually want.

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    Dry ice effectsLow-lying cloud that stays at floor level.
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    Smoke machinesFills the air so beams and colour become visible.
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    Photographic effectsLighting set for the camera as well as the eye.

04 — Backup power

The lighting shouldn't be
the thing that goes dark.

We carry generators and invertors as part of the service, not as an afterthought.

If your venue is on a schedule, or it's a garden, a farm or a marquee with no proper supply, say so on the enquiry form. It changes what we bring and it is far cheaper to plan for than to solve on the night.

  • Generators
  • Invertors
  • Marquees & farms
  • Gardens with no supply

In their words

“The lighting made the function come to life — the dance floor made such an impact.”

Carla Marcus

One crew, one invoice

Floor, rig, DJ and power.

Tell us the venue and the date and we'll come back with what we'd bring.

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