How booking works.
Booking entertainment shouldn't mean chasing emails. Here's exactly how it works from your first message to the last song of the night — and what you get access to along the way.
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Check your date
Send your date and venue — by form, phone or the chat assistant — and Matt confirms whether he's free. No obligation, and no pressure if the answer is no.
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Your tailored quote
Matt puts together options that fit your day: evening entertainment (£500 Monday to Thursday, £550 Friday to Sunday and bank holidays) or full-day hosting at £750, plus any add-ons — uplighting at £100, a premium lighting and speaker upgrade at £200, or live sax and percussion. See full package details.
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Secure your date
Happy to go ahead? Your booking is confirmed in writing and your deposit is paid securely online — no bank transfers into the void, no paperwork in the post.
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Your own planning portal
This is where booking Matt differs. You get your own private online portal to build your day at your own pace — first dance, must-play songs, tracks you never want to hear, and how the evening should run. Add to it whenever inspiration strikes, from your phone at 11pm if that's when you think of it. Everything lands straight with Matt, so nothing gets lost in an email chain.
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Final run-through
In the run-up, Matt confirms the final timings and running order with you and liaises with your venue on access and setup. Unlimited contact throughout — you're never handed to someone else.
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The day itself
Matt arrives with everything needed, sets up around your schedule, and hosts the night — reading the room from the first dance through to the last song.
How your evening flows.
Every wedding is different — but a great evening tends to move like this.
Doors & drinks
Background warmth while the room settles — volume low, atmosphere building.
The first dance
Your moment, faded in and lit just right — then everyone's invited to join.
Floor fillers
The all-ages pull: songs your nan and your best mate both know every word to.
Peak party
Matt reads the room and rides the energy — building, holding, never losing the floor.
The last song
Arm in arm, roof off, lights up. The ending people talk about on the way home.
Why couples book direct.
Booking Matt direct
- You speak to your actual DJ from the first message
- One person accountable, start to finish
- Your own planning portal and unlimited contact
- No agency commission built into the price
Booking through an agency
- An account manager handles your enquiry
- Your DJ is often assigned closer to the date
- Requests and changes are relayed second-hand
- A booking margin sits on top of the DJ's fee
A look inside.
This is what you get when you book — your event, music and payments in one place, on your phone.
Free: the wedding music planning guide
What to decide when, how to build your must-play and do-not-play lists, and the questions worth asking any DJ — in one short PDF.
The essentials, covered
- Public liability insurance
- PAT-tested equipment
- Certificates sent to your venue on request
- Booking confirmed in writing
- Deposit paid securely online
- Booked direct — no agencies
Sketch your evening in 30 seconds.
Pick your date, shape your package, tap the sounds you love — and send the whole plan straight to Matt.
Shall we start with your date?
Tell Matt when and where, and he'll come straight back to you on availability.
Check your date →Prefer to talk it through? Call 0161 524 0068 — Matt answers enquiries personally.