Journal
What we have learned, written down
No showreels and no case-study gloss. The things we would tell you on the phone, in the order we would tell them.
This month
28 July 2026 · Planning
The running order is the whole evening
Almost every event that goes wrong goes wrong in the same place: the forty minutes between the last course and the first dance, when nobody has decided who speaks, for how long, or what happens while the tables are cleared.
Here is the running order we use on a six-hour wedding, minute by minute, with the three places we always build slack in and the one thing we never let a client move.
Read the pieceRecent pieces
Things worth knowing before you book anybody
Written by the people who run the nights, mostly in answer to a question somebody asked on the phone.
14 July 2026 · Design
Why your photographs go grey at nine o'clock
Almost every venue in Accra is lit for lunch. What that does to a camera after dark, and the four cheap things that fix it before you spend anything on flowers.
2 June 2026 · Production
The questions to ask a supplier about sound
Four of them, and the answers that should worry you. Whether they own the PA is the first, and it eliminates about half the market.
19 May 2026 · Music
Putting a traditional procession next to a live band
The handover is where these go wrong — a drumming ensemble finishing and a band starting cold two minutes later. How we make it one continuous piece of music instead.
Once a month
One piece a month, and the session dates
No offers and no countdowns — one useful thing about running an evening, and where to hear the band next.
The next one
Let's give them a night to talk about.
Tell us the date and roughly how many people. You will have a written quote, a running order and a band you can come and hear inside the week.
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