Happy New Year. We saw 2019 out and 2020 in at Celtic Manor with twelve of us on stage - the full showband plus percussion, which is one more than we normally carry.
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All Night Long is a New Year’s Eve song. It is forgiving, everyone knows their part without thinking, and it is built to be played by a lot of people at once. Nobody has to be clever, which matters at half past midnight when the room has been going since eight.
Twelve pieces is more than most events need. In a low-ceilinged function room it is loud and cramped, and a five or six-piece fills the same dancefloor. In a big room on New Year’s Eve it is the right call, and the ballrooms at Celtic Manor take a band that size without the stage looking crowded.
Here’s to a brilliant 2020. We’ve got a packed diary already and we can’t wait.
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