Event Management in Kent – Music for Gala Evenings

Medway Business Awards

With less than two months to go before our first event of the year, the Kent Charity Awards, it’s time to start thinking about what music to play during the gala evening.  As a leading PR agency in Kent, specialising in Event Management, we pride ourselves on creating the perfect music for gala evenings to give an amazing atmosphere and make sure the guests have a great evening and leave with plenty of wonderful memories.

You may think that picking up a Michael Buble CD from HMV might serve the purpose, however not at Rise Communication, for we love to go that extra mile and hand-pick the songs to match the theme, the venue and most importantly the finalists!

Over the next few weeks with the help of Sarah’s iTunes, Jo’s garage full of vinyl and our friends at Absolute Radio, the office will be ablaze with sounds from many decades, all to help us build the best playlist for the Kent Charity Awards.  We are often complimented on our music so thought it would be a good idea to share some of our favourite tunes with you.

Here’s what we played when the finalists and winners walked up to the stage to receive their awards at the recent 30th Anniversary Medway Business Awards.  You can see from the pictures below it really did get everyone in the spirit of celebrating and not only on their own success but those of others too!

Music for Gala Evenings

Medway Business Awards - 2014, there was quite a few finalists and winners!

Working My Way Back to You – Detroit Spinners
Dancing in The Moonlight – Toploader
Good Times – Chic
Love Train – The O’Jays
True Faith-94 – New Order
Relight My Fire – Dan Hartman
Shine – Take That
I’ll Be There For You – The Rembrandts
Young Hearts Run Free – Candi Staton
Happy – Pharrell Williams
I’m Every Woman – Chaka Khan
Wake Up Boo! – The Boo Radleys
Ain’t No Stopping Us Now – McFadden & Whitehead
Beautiful Day – U2
Get Lucky – Daft Punk
It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls
Dancing In The Dark – Bruce Springsteen
We Didn’t Start The Fire – Billy Joel
You Got the Love – Candi Staton
Let Me Entertain You – Robbie Williams
Rolling In The Deep – Adele
A Sky Full Of Stars – Coldplay
Patience – Take That
Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack
VIva la Vida – Coldplay
Sing – Travis
Lovely Day – Bill Withers
Lucky Man – The Verve
One Day Like This – Elbow

Finalists:  24 Hour Printline, Classic Filters, Diggerland, Dovetail Games, GC Hurrell & Co Ltd, The Heating Hub, Jubilee Clips, Lustre Consulting Ltd, MC Personnel, N-Fuze Design, Sian Bostwick Jewellery, Total Machining Solutions Ltd, Elsatex, DMA Group, The Fountain Workshop, thinkzest, Rako Controls, Ward Security, Humi-Tech Services Ltd.

Sponsors: E-ON, ECITB, A Better Medway, Furley Page, Historic Dockyard, Kent Business School, The KM Group, Kent Reliance, Lloyds Bank, Medway Council, MidKent College, National Grid, Reeves, Southeastern, Southern Water, UCA, University of Greenwich.

clapping hands

man clapping

dma group

pic of finalist certificate