You're my first, my last, my everything

After the wedding comes the Alan Hansen show.

I'll leave a minute dissection of how splendid a day it was for elsewhere, however whilst the song for the first dance got a couple of nice comments, the song for the second one got a lot!

The first dance was Billy Bragg's You Make Me Brave because frankly, that's what we do for each other.

The second was Bob Dylan's I'll Be Your Baby Tonight! This seemed to be really popular and may turn out to be one of the things people remember. Funny really, I had the idea for a novel I'm still trying to get published. One of the best sections involves a student union disco where this is the most popular song. And it turns out to be true. Time to revisit the novel I think.

And of those who were left at the end, the opinion of my friends seemed to be that Gene's We'll Find Our Own Way was a really good choice for the last dance.

All three are most definitely the best three songs ever.

Just because you haven't heard it, doesn't mean it wont work

Eight days from now, the wedding dance will start.

I've emailed a list of requests to the DJ. It was divided into three. Songs requested by guests. Songs that I think would be good to play. Songs that I absolutely want played.

The DJ, on the one occasion we spoke, sounded like a decent man. There is a stereotype of the wedding DJ, the man would couldn't get on radio, the man one step away from children's parties, the wacky, the loud, the full of himself. And he did not seem to meet any of those stereotypes.

OK, so they may not be stereotypes, they may actually be prejudices. I'll admit it.

Anyway, his emailed reply suggested that the first two lists would not be a problem, however he said he did not have copies of any of my non-negotiable list. This is not a huge surprise. Instead it is a mild surprise. Some of them are most unlikely to rear their semi-ugly heads at weddings but I did think that one or two might have appeared.

So, here's the list:

You Make Me Brave - Billy Bragg (first dance)

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Bob Dylan (second dance)

She Bangs The Drum - The Stone Roses

Sea of Love - Phil Phillips

What You Do To Me - Teenage Fanclub

Enjoy Yourself - The Specials

An Audience With the Pope - Elbow

Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher - Jackie Wilson

We'll Find Our Own Way - Gene (last dance)

Now what could be so weird about that lot?