We were at Ridge Farm near Dorking on Saturday night, out as a seven-piece with sax and keys.
The first dance was Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love”, which went to number five in April 1974 and was the first record by an all Native American and Mexican American band to get that high. Fifty years on it’s still about the easiest song there is to dance to, and that’s roughly how the night started - the couple had a bit of it to themselves before waving everyone onto the floor, and the floor stayed full from then until we finished.
We ended up playing two sets rather than our usual three, because the wedding breakfast had overrun and live music stops at 11pm here. That meant setting up and soundchecking faster than we would have liked in a room whose PA arrangement isn’t one you meet often, and then merging the laid-back opening set and the first dance into one long first set. After a short break for the evening food, which came off a fish and chip van and was very good, we went back on for the last dance set.
Meg met us on arrival and passed us over to Rich for the evening, and between them there was nothing on the night we had to chase. When we came off at 11 the playlists picked up without a gap, so we could pack down quietly at the back of the room and leave the party buzzing behind us.
Ridge Farm was a recording studio long before it was a wedding venue, and that history is worth a read on its own - it’s all on the Ridge Farm venue page. Surrey is a run we make from Newport as a wedding band for London and the Home Counties.
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