Month: June 2026

A Download Festival Wedding at Donington Park Farmhouse

Bride and groom sharing an outdoor first dance at Donington Park Farmhouse while Dave McPherson of InMe performs live acoustic music

As I’m writing this, thousands of rock and metal fans are revelling in Donington for this year’s Download Festival. For alternative music fans, Donington is hallowed ground. It’s hosted some of the biggest names in rock and metal history, and there’s something special about the atmosphere around the area when […]

Do Wedding DJs Use Set Playlists? How I Build Your Wedding Music Around You – and a little about wedding DJ playlists

Wedding DJ with pink hair looking over a packed wedding dancefloor, with text asking whether wedding DJs use set playlists.

One of the most common misunderstandings about wedding DJs is that we all arrive with a fixed “wedding DJ playlist” and then squeeze a few of the couple’s requests into it. I understand why people might think that. That is some people’s experience of wedding DJs. Most of us have […]