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Originally Posted by David Franklin  I don't understand why, but every band booked for MJ seems to be unable to actually play music you'd want to MJ to. It's not like it's impossible - there are bands who play music of a suitable style and tempo. But they don't seem to be the ones who actively market themselves as "dance bands". |
During the summer I heard
this "Dance Orchestra" playing on an open-air bandstand. A lot of the music was quite chilled and would have been good to dance to. However, when you
look at this page, you see what the problem is...
They switch to "upbeat" songs for people to dance to. This is probably fine for "muggle" dancing, and dance-styles suited for faster beats, but I'd probably prefer to dance to the music they think of as suitable for "background music".
I was at a function recently with a DJ who did the same thing – lots of lovely tunes I'd love to have danced to whilst we were eating, and then when the "dancing" started, the average tempo probably went up about 40-50 bpm!
The worse thing was this was what the DJ thought we'd want to dance to.
