Planning a company or Christmas party with a DJ

At a staff party, different generations and departments often come together. That’s exactly what I enjoy most as a DJ. I play open format and mix live: familiar songs, current hits and sing-along classics. I don’t play a ready-made playlist. On the night, I watch what gets your colleagues going.

Beforehand, favourite songs, shared classics and tracks you’d like to avoid help me prepare. I also pick up on a theme. At a Halloween staff party in Dillingen, for example, I prepared the music for the programme items and DJed the evening from start to finish.

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If needed, I bring my own sound and lighting equipment, plus microphones for speeches and hosting. If professional equipment is already on site, I check beforehand what we can use. For large rooms, we plan additional sound reinforcement. Your quote shows exactly what equipment I bring.

I prepare speeches, awards, team contributions and presentations together with your contacts. We agree beforehand how much hosting you’d like.

With companies, agencies and organisers, more than one person is often involved. I coordinate directly with your project lead, the venue and the technical contacts. Existing equipment, setup, soundcheck and travel all go into the preparation. Before the event, we go through everything: playback, speeches, microphones, setup and all key contacts.

As managing director of the Time Solutions event agency, I plan and organise events myself. For example, I’m involved in htw saar’s Night of the Profs at the Saarlandhalle together with Time Solutions. At that scale, music, programme and equipment have to come together at the right time.

What a DJ costs for your company party depends on guest numbers, venue, music times, equipment and travel. I put your quote together from these. For businesses, the DJ service is billed by actual playing time.

At the end, I add up the playing time and round the total up once to the next half-hour. Your quote gives the price per half-hour. The planned duration is not a minimum: if your event ends earlier, the DJ fee is lower. Setup, pack-down and soundcheck don’t count as playing time, and I deduct breaks without DJ music.

If you’d like to keep going, we discuss whether I can stay. The half-hour rate stays the same. Equipment, a mirror photo booth and other services have their own prices in the quote and are listed separately from the playing time on your invoice.

Playing time and billing

I speak and host in German and English. I also make short announcements in French, such as the welcome. I don’t speak Luxembourgish. We agree beforehand which announcements work best in which language.

At the Alvisse Parc Hotel in Luxembourg, I played an international Christmas party with a disco theme. Colleagues from many countries celebrated together. I coordinated the team’s programme items, and later there was plenty of dancing. That’s why, when we plan the music, we also talk about the countries represented in your team.

Corporate event DJ in Luxembourg

Secure the date: as soon as your date and venue are set, and for a Christmas party ideally from January.

Send the key details: date, venue, guest numbers and preferred times.

Set the running order: reception, dinner, speeches, programme items and party.

Name your contacts: who coordinates on site, and who is responsible at the venue, the agency and for the equipment?

Plan microphones and playback: who speaks when, and are there presentations?

Discuss the music: favourite songs, shared classics, tracks to avoid and any theme.

Agree on languages: German, English or both.

Check the quote: DJ service by playing time, equipment and travel.

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