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Fife's Top Quality Singer |
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This page contains: Track List, My Equipment, My Lighting, Playing My Tracks, Track Preparation
What I Do
Cabaret, Private Functions & Casino Night Entertainment
My fee is very much dependant on what you want, and when you want it! Just get in touch with your event date and time and any other info you think I may need.
As well as singing all styles of music from the 60s to the present day, I can also provide over an hour of Bond themes/jazz/lounge songs. If any of you pubs or clubs out there are having a casino night, I could make the atmosphere that little bit more authentic.
My usual night consists of 2 hours of singing, split into either 3 x 40mins or 2 x 60mins, with musical styles ranging from pop and rock to blues and jazz.
Weddings and private functions
When getting in contact re private functions or weddings, it is useful if you could provide as much of the following information as you can -
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name and contact details
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venue, date and time of function - including finishing time!
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special requests/first dances
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access to hall/function room - will you be having dinner beforehand and need us to come along and set up earlier in the day?
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will there be anyone else speaking/singing on the day?
My usual night consists of 2 hours of singing, split into two or three sets, so for wedding bookings, please note that you will require a DJ for the rest of the evening. I have a few contacts in the business so maybe I could sort that out for you too!
Backing Vocals/band work
As well as my extensive choral work at school, I am no stranger to working with a band. I have been part of Gary Collins' "Viva Showband", singing backing vocals for his Elvis Presley "Aloha from Hawaii" concert along with Lisa Martin.
I also performed backing vocals at Retrofest 2008 with Eddie Houston and his band and the great Jimmy Gillespie. That was an amazing experience!
I'm always up for a challenge, so if anyone needs a backing singer, check out my diary and drop me a line!
Tribute work
Please visit www.absoluteadele.co.uk for info on my new Adele tribute. It's a 100% live, stripped back three piece band.
Track List
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500
miles
9 to 5
A Kind
of Hush
A
little Respect
Abba
Medley
Achy
Breaky Heart
Act
Naturally
Ain’t
Nobody
All
Cried Out
All
Day and All of the Night
All
Right now
All
Shook Up
All
Summer Long
All
the Times I Cried
Amarillo
Amazed
Angels
Are
You Ready for Love
Are
You Ready for Love
Auld
Lang Syne
Baby
Can I Hold You
Bad
Moon Rising
Bad
Romance
Band
of Gold
Basket
Case
Be My
Baby
Big
Spender
Big
Yellow Taxi
Black
Betty
Black
Eyed boy
Black
Horse and the Cherry Tree
Black
Velvet
Bobby’s Girl
Breathless
Broken
Heels
Brown
Eyed Girl
Build
Me Up, Buttercup
Burning Love
Bye
Bye Baby
Cabaret
Californication
Celebration
Chasing Cars
Close
to You
Constant Craving
Crazy
Crazy
Little Thing Called Love
Dakota
Dance
the Night Away
Dancing Queen
Dani
California
Diamonds are Forever
Disco
Inferno
Does
Your Mother Know
Don’t
Call Me Baby
Don’t
it Make my Brown Eyes Blue
Don't
Stop
Don't
Stop Believing
Dreams
Echo
beach
Eight
Days a Week
Ever
Fallen in Love
Every
Breath You Take
Every
Day I Love You Less and Less
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
Everything I Do (I do it for you)
Fame
Feel
Like Makin' Love
Fire
with Fire
Flashdance
Flying
Without Wings
For
Your Eyes Only
Get
Back
Get
Here
Gimme
Gimme Gimme
Glad
All Over
Goldeneye
Goldfinger
Good
Riddance
Goodbye to Love
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
Handbags and Gladrags
Harper
Valley PTA
Have a
Nice Day
Have I
Told You Lately
Hey
Baby
Holding Out for a Hero
Hopelessly Devoted To You
Hot
Stuff
Hound
Dog
How
You Remind Me
Human
Hungry
Eyes
I Am
What I Am
I Am
Woman
I
Can't Make You Love Me
I
Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues
I
Heard it Through the Grapevine
I Love
the Nightlife
I Love
to Boogie
I Only
Wanna Be With You
I
Predict a Riot
I Saw
Her Standing There
I
Touch Myself
I Try
I
Wouldn't Believe Your Radio
If I
Can’t Have You
If I
Could Turn Back Time
I'm
Gonna Getcha Good
I'm
Into Something Good
I'm On
My Way
I'm
Outta Love |
Is
This Love (Whitesnake)
Is
This Love (Yazoo)
It's
Oh So Quiet
It's
So Easy
Johnny
B Goode
Just a
Little Bit
Kentucky Woman
Knock
Three Times
La
Bamba
Let Me
Entertain You
Let
Your Love Flow
Let’s
Jump the Broomstick
Let's
Hear it For The Boy
Let's
Stick Together
Life
is a Rollercoaster
Live
and Let Die
Losing
My Religion
Lost
In France
Love
Letters
Love
Potion Number Nine
Love
Resurrection
Love
Will Keep Us Together
Luka
Mamma
Mia
Man
with the Golden Gun
Man! I
Feel Like A Woman
Maniac
Manic
Monday
Mercy
Millenium
Movin
On Up
Mr
Rock And Roll
Mustang Sally
My
Heart Will Go On
Nobody
Does it Better
Oh So
Quiet
Old
Time Rock and Roll
Ole
Devil Called Love
Only
You
Other
Side of the World
Overload
Paper
Moon
Paper
Roses
Pearl’s a Singer
Penny
Arcade
Que
Sera Sera
Rehab
Rock
DJ
Rockin
All Over the World
Rose
Garden
Run to
You
Sacrifice
Searchin My Soul
Sex on
Fire
Shine
Simply
The Best
Sledgehammer
Some
Girls
Something
Something to Talk About
Son of
a Preacher Man
SOS
Stuck
in the Middle with You
Summer
in the City
Summer
Of 69
Super
trouper
Superstar
Suspicious Minds
Sweet
Home Alabama
Take
Your Mama
Teardrops
Teenage Kicks
That
Don't Impress Me Much
The
Heat Is On
The
Rose
The
Shoop Shoop Song
The
World is Not Enough
There's a Kind of Hush
These
Boots
This
is the Life
Thorn
In My Side
Ticket
to Ride
Top of
the World
Torn
Trouble
Two
Out of Three
Unchain My Heart
Upside
Down
Uptown
Girl
Valerie
Walk
Like an Egyptian
Walking After Midnight
Walking Back to Happiness
Walking In Memphis
Walking on Sunshine
Wanted
Dead Or Alive
Warwick Avenue
Waterloo
What A
Difference A Day Makes
What's
Love Got to Do With It
Whose
Bed Have Your Boots Been Under
Will
You Still Love Me Tomorrow
Wishing Well
You
Give Love a Bad Name
You
Oughtta Know
You
Really Got Me
You
Took the Words Right out of My Mouth
You’re
More than a Number in my Little Red Book
Young
Girl
You're
So Vain
You're
Still The One |
NB This list is not exhaustive and I add new material on a regular basis.
My Equipment...
Below is a brief insight into the technical aspect of my solo show. I hope it answers a few questions for anyone who wants to know what I use.
For a while now my system has been a Mackie DFX6 mixer feeding two Mackie SRM 450's. Al says it was worth every penny. (£1200 ish with stands and leads, back in 2007).We also have two Mackie Bass Bins, which help to fill out the sound when performing in larger venues. We sometimes just use one, if space is at a premium.. They are quite heavy speakers, do you have to consider transportation costs too.Depending on the set up of the room, we can also use our angled adaptors for our stands to ensure the best sound available for the venue.
I also use a set of dB in ear monitors, these cut the chances of feedback because the main PA can be in front of me and I still hear myself and my tracks. A couple of hundred pounds well spent, but worth it to keep in tune. My mic is a Sennheiser EW145. It is a supercardioid mic so that the chances of feedback squeals are reduced and it sounds fantastic. I also have a wired mic as a back up.
My mic box, in ear console and a lighting controller are fitted into a 6u rack box. My mixer is screwed to a drawer unit so that it pulls out for use and my laptop sits on top, along with its LED-lit USB fan unit, to keep it cool. Our box design allows us to sit it on top of a cut down speaker stand, meaning we don't need a table.
As for percussion, I use a red half moon shaped tambourine, claves and egg shaker, as well as clapping, stamping and finger clicking!
My Lighting...
We now have two Kam par56 LED lamps on pole mounts (under the speakers) and our larger LED bar (on a lighting stand) linked together to synchronise the colour and timing. I use these to highlight myself as it can be quite dark in the corner of the pub. I use a wee spotlight on my music stand if need be.
Playing My Tracks...
To play my backing tracks we use a Medion Akoya laptop through an external USB sound card I always carry a back up of my set on my phone, but haven't had to use it yet (touch wood).
I use a program called DJ2000 to select my tracks and have set this up to feed Winamp (free). In the breaks I use Mixmeister Pro 6 to play previously prepared playlists... It fades mp3s together like a DJ.
So how do I prepare my tracks ?
I choose the tracks I want to add into my set, then I listen to the original along with a set of lyrics (I use the internet to find them). I have my own way of customising my lyrics to make them easy for me to follow. If you are thinking of starting out, then why not come to a gig and marvel at my (over) attention to detail.
There are some who look down on singers who use lyrics books, but I'm quite honestly not bothered. I have seen enough acts making up the words as they go along. I am NOT one of them. I would hope that the quality of my vocal would be more important.
After practising along with the original a few times, I sing along with the backing track, changing any timings or phrasings as needed. Some backing tracks differ slightly from the original. If you need to key/tempo change anything, I find the free program Audacity as good as any other.
Remember you DO NOT have to sound exactly like the original!
I then use a program called Mp3Gain to auto-level the tracks so there's no differences in volume between songs. It also cuts out any clipping.
Easy? Easy!