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Singing the first dance at a mates wedding...

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by snow_brigade

what are you doing with your weekend?
I'm going to be an usher at the first wedding that I can remember being to, and then being required to join the band for the evening to impersonate Gruff Rhys and sing Super Furry Animals' 'Fire In My Heart' for the first dance at the request of my friend and his soon-to-be-Mrs.

I'm terrified. I'm sure protocol require me to remain operational sobriety, which I'm not at all happy about. Also from the last 3 weekends of stag doing, my voice is a bit shot in the falsetto area.

Anyone ever had to do something similiarly fraught with ruin-the-best-day-of-our-lives potential?

snow_brigade | 25 Jul '08, 10:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

also

I don't really know what an usher does.


you just stand at the church door

and tell people where to sit


ok. and if I don't know who the majority of them are?

"Bride or Groom?" yes? This is going to be faux pas riffic.


there might be a seating plan for important people

so you just tell them where to go. Everyone else, you just tell them what side to sit on


Although the whole 'Bride or Groom' concept confuses me

surely if they are getting married it's a union of two people? So does it really matter which side you're on? I mean isn't that already suggesting there will be a divide in the marriage?


i'll just say

"whose side are you on?" instead. ta.


:)

like a floral and hats version of Westside story.


with more dancing

much more


As long as you have your special drum with you

you could announce each guest like they did in the old days.


bad R&B


I was going to turn up with a plaster on my cheek

and then realised that was Nelly :(


*amazing


You have to remind of a girl, that he once knew

see her face whenever he, looks at her.


:D

And doing some killer Usher moves?


HAHAHA

is your wedding present to the happy couple the gift of TOTAL EMBARRASSMENT on your part?


^ I shouldn't

but LOL


:D


maybe

but you'd have thought on a special occasion they'd want something special, not that which i give out for free daily.


considering I only wear suits for interviews

I'd say that i've embarrassed myself everytime I've work them


this is amazing!

are you particularly known for your talent at singing SFA songs in public?


also

are you going to do the Welsh accent?!


i can only assume

that my insistence in singing SFA songs with a bad welsh accent is the reason I was asked. I've not been asked to curb it!


its a thrifty idea i think.

as at most weddings the happy couple have to spend a load of money on booze to get people to have a laugh. you can provide this for free!

all ive got to say is: PICS, YOUTUBE


BY CHRIST

in this modern age, what with mobile telephones and text paging and what not, there's a very high chance I'm going to get my ass filmed isn't there? Oh dear oh dear.


nightvision

is also a song by Super Furry Animals.


:)

Something about Paris Hilton's super furry animal in green


you see

part of me thinks this is going to be a car crash. or that i'm not going to be able to keep a straight face.

while part of me thinks "you've wanted to do a furries cover for all the 6 years you've been 'singing' on stage, lap it up fuzzball". If my voice works, it might be ok....

gah. damn my ego convincing my brain that this could go any other way but disaster.


you shoudl end your little show

with a real downer of a song. like 'yesterday...all my troubles seemed so faaar awayyy...'


*should


again

i'm singing one song, a very brief one at that, then pissing off and making up for my day-long abstinance.


BOO

i dont care what your allocated number of songs is, just freestyle


no i want to see big LOLs

via facebook/youtube


at my expense!

curse you


synopsis please

I can't see that at work


Oh...

The Wedding singer,
'Love stinks' part.


ah, i see

please don't compare me to Adam Sandler again.

Many thanks.


The comparison was the scene

not the actor


THIS IS NOTHING

I was asked to sing A SOLO in the church during my sister's wedding. The song she asked me to sing was YOUR SONG by ELTON JOHN. There were appoximately 350 PEOPLE THERE.

I capitalised the important parts of this story, soft lad.


did you do it?

how did it go?


I did it and it went well...

I was originally contemplating bottling it and saying i couldn't do it, but the feeling afterwards, having done something which obviously meant so much to my sis (she cried...in a good way...i think), made it all worth it. Just try and enjoy it, cos once you've done it, you'll want to do it again.


i;ve got a gig the next night

i'll force everyone to dress up like they're at a wedding if I see fit :)


I've decided I may ask Santa

for Guitar Hero 4 this year. It has drums, which look less plasticy!





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