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What People Are Saying…

Your set list hit exactly the right tone, bringing pretty much everyone at the wedding on to the dance floor from the teens to the more senior guests. The music was of a very high standard and it was clear that you are all highly capable musicians who combine excellently to form a very tight unit. Even the sound check had people on their feet! Thank you guys for providing such high quality entertainment and playing a big part in an evening we will remember forever.
Mike and Jo
We just wanted to send a quick email to say a big thank you for playing so fantastically at our wedding on 1st August. You were superb and everyone loved you. It was a brilliant ending to a brilliant day! We particularly enjoyed your rendition of ‘Sex on Fire’ by Kings of Leon.
Helen and Ed
…just wanted to get in touch to say thank you to the band for being so fantastic! We had such an amazing day, everything was perfect and it was topped off by you guys! We were really pleased to see so many people dancing and have since had heaps of comments on how great the music was.
Polly and Jon
You guys were incredible at our wedding! Thank you so much for playing such an amazing show for our wedding – it was perfect and could not have hoped for better! I walked in thinking the ipod was still playing; only to find the lights up and it was you guys playing; great sound! We’ll be more than happy to recommend you in the future – it was a pleasure working with you guys. All the best in your future efforts!
Laura and Jeremy
…thank you so much for an amazing time at our wedding. You were absolutely brilliant. Everyone I have spoken to has commented on how good you were and the set list was perfect. You really made a huge contribution to making our day perfect…I can’t think of a better band to have performed at our reception
Jimmy & Rhi
Thank you so much for playing at our wedding. Everyone said you were on of the best bands they had heard! Thanks also for learning our first dance – you totally did it justice – we loved it!
Sarah and James
We just wanted to email to say a huge, massive, great big thank you for playing at our wedding. You were just brilliant, perfect for our wedding. The music was great, I’m not sure i have been at a wedding before where so many of the guests were up dancing, even my 87 year old grandfather! We had such an amazing time, and have received many compliments about you from our guests.
Heather & Will
Thank you SO much for playing at our wedding. You were fantastic and we’ve had so many lovely comments from our family and friends about how much they enjoyed listening (and dancing) to you. We would thoroughly recommend you to anyone as you were a pleasure to deal with from the beginning.We really can’t thank you all enough – you made our day!
The Palmers
Thank you so much for playing at our wedding on 9th July. We thought you were all brilliant. It felt really hectic and I was so grateful that you guys came to find me for songs so I did not miss out and for playing the two songs brilliantly we had asked for. I was so impressed and chuffed we booked you. Thanks again for all your hard work – very much appreciated. Thought you did a sterling job with Sex on Fire too. Will definitely be recommending you.
Kim and Matthew
We are still getting so many amazing comments about you guys after you played at our wedding- you made the evening celebrations everything we hoped they would be! We will always be so glad we chose you to play on our special day- thanks again xx
Beth & Ed
Laura and I would just like to say a MASSIVE THANK YOU to you all. You guys were awesome! The dance floor was packed from the moment you started right to the end. So many of our guests have been commenting on how good you were, and we really thought that contrary to most events bands you guys really had some edge and brought your own element to some classic songs, and they all sounded great. We couldn’t recommend you highly enough!
Matt and Laura
We just wanted to say a huge thank you for playing at our wedding. All our family and friends said how great you were and really enjoyed the music. The parents of the young children who were dancing were particularly grateful that you involved the children and danced with them. It was great to have live music and we were really impressed with the quality and mix of songs.
Katherine and Neil
Thank you for playing at our wedding, you were all fantastic! Everyone, including us, said it was one of the highlights of the wedding. We had the best day of our lives – we thank you very much again.
Gillian and Nick
Thank you for your awesome performance at our wedding at Orchardleigh. You really capped off a magnificent day off for us; you had the whole room rocking from start to finish, which was just what we wanted. We had so many comments on how good you guys were on the night and have had many chats with various guests since the wedding recollecting on how excellent the band was. We are so glad we chose you to play at the wedding.
Richard and Belinda
Thanks for the great music at our wedding party. Everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves and (without exception) were really impressed with your band and especially the range of different tracks you performed, all at such a high standard…you did a brilliant job of keeping the dance floor packed!
Victoria and Ben

The opening events of the spring…

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Stephen
on April 11, 2012
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The first few gigs of the year are done and dusted so now is a good time to recap on our outings in 2012 so far…

Our first gig was on Saturday 17th March (St. Patrick’s Day!) at Orchardleigh just outside Frome  - lovely place, set in a secluded location a good quarter-mile into a golf course, and super-friendly (and pretty!) staff; but something of a trek if you’re coming from Bristol!  Nevertheless, we got there in good time and got our set-up and sound-check sorted well inside our time window.  We’ve recently splashed out on a new mixer and powered monitors to improve our sound quality and set-up times, and this was the first gig we’d used them at; but the configuration was so similar to our old system that it was no problem getting things up and running and sounding great.  The evening itself was a breeze – the room at Orchardleigh is one of the better ‘country house’ venues for live music as there’s plenty of soft furnishings, which really helps to even out the sound and get rid of the annoying reverb and crispy high-ends that can be problematic in an unadorned room.

The following Friday (23rd March) saw us at Wick Farm for the first time; really, really great venue in our opinion.  Fantastic grounds, decent acoustics and easy enough to get to.  However, the evening was not without complication; speeches overran (as they ALWAYS do), and we were sharing the playing area with a (very accommodating) DJ, which made for a challenging set-up.  Then, we got surprised (as did the bride and groom) by the arrival of a troupe of Morris dancers just as we were planning to sound-check.  So, no sound-check, which made for a slightly-stressed Sam and a massive howl of feedback during the Morris display.  There are two lessons to take from this: 1) always give your band time to sound-check (after all you’re paying for them, and you want them to sound good, right?), and 2) Morris dancers are scary.  Still, once the bells and hankies and sticks and shouting were out of the way it was down to the important business of rock, funk and soul – ahhh, that’s better…

Finally, a couple of weeks off before April 7th found us at Great Barrington Village Hall in deepest Gloucestershire.  We like village halls, we really do; they often have stages, and we get to play on them and feel like we’re Bon Jovi or something.  We also like it when Pie Minister do the catering, as their pies are truly to die for.  We understand they’re catering at Glastonbury in 2012, and as we’re playing there(!) at the same time, we look forward to eating their goodness again. :)  The evening itself was…interesting; we were expecting to go on about 8:30 but ended up starting at 10:00, and we weren’t entirely sure our fairly raucous second set was going to quite hit the mark, from a first glance at our audience.  But our fears were unfounded as the wedding party gave a sterling account of itself  ’on the floor’, especially when The Killers and Kings of Leon came around.  And, they had tons of candy and some truly smashing brie that was much-appreciated.

So, looking forward – May 2012 is a stunningly busy month for us, with six gigs in five weeks; not so bad if you’re a professional band, but we’re merely amateurs of an Olympic standard with day-jobs so we’re going to be flat-out and ready for the long weekend at the beginning of June…during which we’ve got another gig!  It’s also Steve’s birthday on 26th May, which is the day after our road-trip gig in Bedfordshire, so when you see him he would be grateful for birthday hugs and kisses (nothing too raunchy though, he’s married!)

Peace & Love,
Halflight

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