About Us and Packages

Moonlight Entertainment CQ have been operating in Central Queensland since 2019.

Since starting our tenure in the CQ region we have enjoyed playing music for many Weddings, Birthday Parties, Christmas Parties, Cocktail Parties, Convention Dinners, Corporate Picnics, and School Dances.

From our Gladstone based address we have played for events ranging from Bundaberg in the south, to Rockhampton and Yeppoon in the north, to Moura and Biloela in the west. We can and do travel further, but travel and accommodation charges would need to be discussed.  

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide our clients with a memorable event that both you and your guests will be talking about for years to come. Whatever the occasion, Moonlight Entertainment will make it seamless, entertaining, and fun. We put 100% into the work that we do, allowing you to breathe easy and enjoy. Our objective is to give a nice flow to the day/night and deliver great music with the best sound quality for your special moments. We cater to your music and lighting needs with top notch professionalism and customer service.

Our Values

Moonlight Entertainment values integrity, courtesy and respect. We believe that communication between all parties is integral to a successful event. It is important to us that we respect our clients and their needs, and we ask for that same respect in return. We pride ourselves on being friendly, caring and helpful, making the clients and guests of each event feel at ease. We love what we do and we want everyone to enjoy the fruits of our labour.

We are a highly collaborative husband and wife team, coming together on every project to ensure our clients get the very best result.

Dave Mills

Dave has been a DJ for many decades, his first professional gig being back in 1983 at the Opus One nightclub in Townsville. Since then he has DJ'd in Brisbane and Sydney. He has also owned his own online radio station where he met his wife Natasha. Music and MCing is in Dave's blood. He loves his craft and continues to widen his music experiences. As well as handling the majority of the DJing and MCing, Dave also takes care of the technical side of the DJing and lighting rigs.

Natasha Mills

Natasha looks after the paperwork and music sourcing side of the business. She also enjoys DJing while Dave is on the microphone doing the MC thing.
Natasha introduced Dave to country music and her influence shows. Her music tastes are as wide and varied as Dave's and she is equally as happy playing 80's or modern trance and house as she is playing good ol' country.

The Equipment...

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The New Look Set Up!
The Engine Room
The previous set up - still available if you want flashy dots!

The Moonlight Entertainment DJ rig is constantly evolving and being updated. As of April 2024, the heart of the set up though, consists of the following:

  • Roland DJ 707m Controller running Serato  Pro or Virtual DJ Pro Software
  • A pair of Electro Voice Evolve 30M column array PA Speakers 
  • Professional DJ booth
  • Wireless and discreet lavalier style microphones for ceremonies and presentations
  • Sennheiser industry standard wireless microphone.
  • Professional battery powered portable PA for use at Wedding ceremonies.
  • 2 x Chauvet DJ Wash FX Hex wash lights
  • 8 x discreet uplights that enhance the mood of any room
  • 4 x BO-192 360 Pixel Tube lights (These are the new stars of our light show and are the latest in LED technology –  We are the first in CQ to utilise these lights!)
  • Par cans, Haze machines, light bars and Gig bars (with lasers) available at an extra charge when you really want to dazzle your guests!
  • State of the art ‘Soundswitch’ DMX lighting controller software that syncs the lighting to the music played.

Requests!

Your guests can now make requests using their smartphones via QR codes placed on the tables: It depends on our ability to connect to high speed internet. We cannot use streaming sites like YouTube or Spotify; Music from Spotify or YouTube is streamed at a very low bit rate, and while it may sound fine through headphones on your phone, it often sounds distorted, muffled or badly produced on a professional sound system.

We  subscribe to international record pools where we have access to literally millions of songs that we can download and stream high quality audio from. We are limited to the catalogue that these sites carry, and the quality and speed of the internet.

Packages

Wedding Reception

 

$To be Confirmed

  • Up to 5.5 hours from when your guests arrive at the reception –  Add extra time if needed.
  • Experienced and professional staff
  • Professional DJ Equipment, Speakers and Dance Floor Lighting, requiring single power point only
  • Wireless Microphones for speeches and MC
  • Consultation with you and your partner before your event day to discuss request sheets, running sheets and logistics.
  • Need music for canapés? Add extra time.
Request a Quote

Wedding Ceremony, Cocktails & Reception

$To be Confirmed

  • Up to 8.5 hours from when your guests arrive at the ceremony-  Add extra time if needed.
  • Experienced and professional staff
  • Portable Speaker and Microphone for Ceremony – No Power required
  • DJ Equipment and Speakers and Dance Floor Lighting, requiring single power point only
  • Wireless Microphones for speeches and MC
  • Consultation with you and your partner before your event day to discuss request sheets, running sheets and logistics.
  • Need extra time? Talk to us
Request a Quote

Please Note: It really helps us small businesses and sole traders out when you as a customer do a little research and find and contact us directly.
Using services such as Bark, Crowd Pleaser and Easy Weddings all costs  your DJ fees: Bark charge between $20.00-35.00 just to get the details of someone that is interested, there is no guarantee of winning the job. Crowd Pleaser charge 10% of the quoted fee… So going ‘fishing’ for pricing using these services will not attract a lot of attention.


Wedding MC Services

Including:

  • Making relevant announcements throughout the night. For example the bridal party entrance, the welcome speech, the cake cutting, first dance, bouquet toss, garter toss and farewell.
  • Directing the speeches.
  • Timekeeping.
  • Working with your other vendors and assistants to make sure everything runs smoothly.
  • Coordinating with the venue staff and kitchen.

Have your own MC?

No problem! Moonlight Entertainment will make your MC shine by making their job easier. We will liaise with your MC on the night to give them tips to make the night run more efficiently.

The Old Engine Room
Playing Shoe Up Shoe Down

Private Functions and Events

$ To Be Confirmed

  • Up to 5.5 hours from when your guests arrive at the event –  Add extra time if needed.
  • Experienced and professional staff
  • DJ Equipment and Speakers and Dance Floor Lighting, requiring single power point only
  • Wireless Microphones for speeches and MC
  • Consultation with you prior to your event day to discuss request sheets, running sheets and logistics.
Request a Quote

FAQ

10 reasons:

  1. Less time spent organising stuff, asking for favours and following up with people.
  2. Professional experience giving you piece of mind
  3. Great sound quality.
  4. Huge library of music for song requests.
  5. Reliability.
  6. Better vibes.
  7. Less stress.
  8. Technical expertise.
  9. You’ll be able to hear the speeches (wireless mic).
  10. Our DJs are also experienced at picking the best songs to keep the dance floor pumping.

A wedding DJ can make or break your reception or event. Good and experienced wedding DJ’s are constantly watching the crowd to see heads nodding and feet tapping as well as all of the dance floor action.
The wedding DJ keeps the reception flowing, reacting to special moments and events throughout the reception.

 

Some people just want to book a wedding DJ from the first dance, but it is usually best to book your DJ for the entire wedding reception. Most venues don’t have sufficient in-house speakers for the key moments of your reception. A professional DJ will have music for your bridal party entrance, wireless microphones for your MC, and speeches, as well as music for things like meals, cocktails and cake cutting; letting you rest easy and allowing your guests to get the full experience of your event.

Hope this helps!

Pretty much anything that you desire!

A typical event may include slower and quieter dinner music, Fun music for special dances and events, then everything from the 50’s to the 80’s and 90’s to NOW now spanning most genres including country, rock, pop and RnB.

Yes, and No
It depends on our ability to connect to high speed internet.

Music from Spotify or YouTube is streamed at a very low bit rate, and while it may sound fine through headphones on your phone, it often sounds distorted, muffled or badly produced on a professional sound system.

We now are able to take requests via your smart phone again depending upon the internet quality. 

We also subscribe to international record pools where we have access to millions of songs that we can download and stream high quality audio from. We are limited to the catalogue that these sites carry, and the quality and speed of the internet.

Absolutely! We are happy to take requests from your guests as we do carry an extensive collection of party music with us at all times.

Do bear in mind that music requests are just that, requests. We can not guarantee that a requested song will be played at that exact moment, rather the request will be fit into the flow of the music set if and when possible. 

We will also only take requests in genres and guidleines that the event hosts have stipulated. For example:
If Eagle Rock by Daddy Cool is on your ‘Do Not Play’ list and it is requested by a guest, we will not play it.
If you have asked for no country music (or other genres/songs) to be played, we will not accept requests for those without consultation with you the hosts.

Another note: At pretty much every wedding reception, someone will come up to us and say “The bride wants to hear <insert song name> right now! You gotta play it now” … We never believe this.. If the host of the party be that the bride, groom or birthday person wants a song –  they can have it right then –  but they are the ones that must ask for it!

To a degree yes;

We do not discount for shorter events on Fridays or Saturdays. These days are premium event days and even a two hour event takes all of our resources for the entire day.

We do sometimes offer lower rates for Monday to Thursday –  Talk to us about your needs!

Here’s a few reasons why this can be a bad idea:

  • Reliable audio equipment is expensive. Chances are that your blue tooth or home stereo speakers may not be suitable to supply enough volume to a group of more than 20+ people who want to dance and have a good time. The music can sound distorted and your equipment may fail if it is turned up too loud to compensate.
  • Your guests can be very likely to change songs every 20 seconds or so as they argue over what track to play next.
  • Bluetooth is not the most reliable streaming method as it can suffer from interruptions or guests over riding the stream connection .
  • No one has ever left a 5 star review on Facebook for a Spotify playlist and a bluetooth speaker.

If your budget is super tight, talk to your prospective DJ who may be able to give some advice or look at other options for you. Don’t let an event cause financial stress! It is not worth it.