Contraband Testimonials

The evening went really well thanks, considering the weather so only half the people turned up about 120 but managed to raise £2100 for Macmillan cancer support, so that was good.

The croupiers and the chap and his partner who delivered it where great thanks, very professional and helpful and they also seemed to have a good night, so all in all a very good evening thank you so much for all your help. I will do something again next year and depending on what I am thinking I will definitely be in touch. Perhaps you can put a date in your diary for September to give me a call. :)

The Atrium Business Centre

Andy and Guy (pap guys) were great and the pictures look awesome. Haha. They were really nice guys so please pass along my thanks.

As far as I understand from Kelly and Olivia - Angie was brilliant and the audience loved getting involved. I'm sorry I couldn't be there to see her, but I'm sure i'll get a chance another time!

Awesome Events

The caricaturist was brilliant. He was friendly, funny and managed to get through tonnes of people. It was definitely worth the money and we’d consider using him again for another event.

Atkins Global

I've returned to the office today after taking Friday off and wish to say a very BIG thank you for your fantastic Latin dancers at our party at Studio Valbonne last Thursday eve. I didn't get chance to say goodbye but had plenty of chats with Lilly especially earlier on, if you could pass on my thanks to them that would be great.

What a fantastic addition to our party they were amazing!

Also, the fantasy photos were very popular, the most brilliant idea so please thank the man who came along, he was always so busy I didn't chat to him much other than to see he was ok.

Credit Suisse

The performers were brilliant, they went down a storm!! The only thing everyone wished is that they could have gone on longer!!!

Apologise to them as they were a bit late going on as the venue service was slow but apart from that I would highly recommend them!!

William Reed Business Media

I just wanted to say how great everyone was last night – the girls were fab – the band a huge hit – and I have to say Bella was an absolute STAR!...loved her...

So thanks again – have a wonderful Christmas and hope to be in touch again in 2010...

Marmalade London

We had a great Christmas Party and everyone has a sore head this morning. The performers were great - people are still talking about the photographers and showing their photos. It was definitely a talking point for the event. The dancers were also brilliant and got people onto the dance floor.

Thanks for organising the entertainment for us. I am pretty certain we will be using you again in the future.

Credit Suisse

We would like to say a big Thank you to you, Andy and his fellow paparazzi for making our company's 15th Anniversary party such a memorable event. Everybody had an amazing time, as you can see clearly in the pictures. The gentlemen really fulfilled our vision of the party.

Aurum Research Ltd

EVERYTHING went PERFECT. The guys running the simulator were very accommodating and perfect for Sky. I could not praise them enough.

BSkyB

The Tarot Reader arrived and was fantastic. I just spoke to my client and they said he was amazing and spot on the truth! Thank you again for delivering such a great service.

Chelsea FC

Yes, Friday went really well thank you. The pictures Guy drew will be used on our corporate website in the near future. Guy was great at working the room and managed to draw the pictures without people actually realising he was doing so, which was ideal.

Added Dimension Events

The event went really well and Santa was amazing! I can’t praise him enough he is and was a true professional. So many people commented on how much he really did look like Santa!

I will definitely be back in touch and will be using your company again. Fantastic, many thanks for all your help.

Sefton Park Palm House

The performers were all great and were exactly right. They were all fantastic to work with, on time and were lovely people! Please thank all of them and especially to Nathan for going the extra bit with the rest of his band. I really like them and will look at using him and the band again.

UpStage

I must thank you and your performers. The night was an absolute success. I must admit that I had my worries at the beginning. But it all came together exceptionally well.

My team members are still thinking that Malcolm is member of the team. He was brilliant.

And the live music, we are just as happy as children. The jazz band played very well and added to the evening very well.

The operators of the Wii machines were very friend and helpful. I would gladly book all of the acts again.

I look forward to working with you in the future on more events.

Total E&P Nigeria

I am writing on behalf of all the school to say that we had an absolutely super day with Camilla showing us all her craft.

The younger children chose their own balloons, while the older classes got the chance to make their own. The children all enjoyed their sessions immensely, as did the staff.
Not all the children managed to hold on to their balloon for the journey home and a trail of ‘dead’ balloons could be followed down the pavement from the school – aaahhh!… we would have you back again.

St Nicholas School

Your Punjabi dancers were great last nice and nice blokes as well!

Uptown Events

I just wanted to say to you – and your teams – a big thank you so much for all your hard work at the party, it was an early start and a loooong day and you all kept up the energy and good humour and were truly lovely to work with.

The client was absolutely delighted with the party and with everyone’s individual input into it which made the whole such a fabulous event.

She has had lots and lots of thank you letters from employees / parents so she is very happy with everything we provided. Thanks again for all your hard work to entertain the children so beautifully.

Private Drama for BNP Paribas

The show girls were brilliant. They looked the part and mingled well with my guests. They even helped to get the guys on the dance floor- which is always tricky knowing how timid blokes can be about dancing!!!! They were polite and courteous at all times.

Elvis defo got the room dancing. He was great and everyone commented on how good he was.

The night was a great success and many thanks to your acts for helping this to happen. I will defo use you again and recommend you to others.

Mayflex

Every single person at our party made a point of telling me how brilliant the Balloon Lunatics were. One of my colleagues said that the creativity and imagination of the designs was as breathtaking as their talent. The girls made a big production of showcasing their skills, which really broke the ice and put people in a relaxed party mood, which can take time sometimes with a group that don’t all know each other well. Their creations were quite incredible - and we have some great photos to prove it! Thank you for suggesting the Balloon Lunatics. I look forward to working with you again too. Please pass on our comments to the girls and my thanks for helping to make the evening such a roaring success.

Interconnector

Mr and Mrs Claus where a hit yesterday!

Merah Club

Phillipa the balloon caricaturist was fun and went down really well – delighted she could join us in the end!

Universal Music Group

Yes, the evening was really good - thank you! In addition, a thank you for your help with this - the entertainment provided by Contraband was excellent!!

Jane was lovely - I think the accuracy of her readings really impressed some of our clients - one in particular was a bit spooked which was quite funny!! We would definitely book her again if the opportunity arose - there was a constant queue and she was really great with everyone!! If you could pass on my thanks to her!!

The jazz band should also be mentioned - again, they were brilliant and were exactly what we were after - they were really great with our clients and I would recommend them to others for bookings!! For just a guitar and singer, they were excellent and were a key part in making it a great evening! We would also definitely book them again should the opportunity arise. Again, if you pass on my thanks, I would be very grateful!

I didn’t get a chance to see the magician, but again, I have been told the clients were very impressed!

Thank you again for your help with all of this - everyone supplied were of the highest standard and went about things with the minimum of fuss - we were all very impressed!

SimCorp

I just wanted to say that the paparazzi were brilliant last night and everyone loved the idea of it! You should take a look at some of our photos to see how much fun that we had. My MD loved the idea of paparazzi too! We will be recommending it to others as well.

P.S. Forgot to say that people really enjoyed the casino too. Next year I think I will try another 2 different entertainers for our party as there were lots of other ideas on the website I liked.

Otsuka Pharmaceuticals

The event in Kuwait went very well and client was very pleased. Thanks once again and always a pleasure working with you!

SWS TAKtical Media & Events

Just to say thanks again for the participants last night, they were all fab. The carollers were brilliant and as it was in a Victorian arcade the acoustics were brilliant. I think they enjoyed themselves!

AL Marketing

The guys were great tonight – very enjoyable and the client liked them.

HMS President

The band was great and we have lots of lovely feedback from our guests about them. Also – we messed them about horribly over timings and they couldn’t have been sweeter about it.

I gave them free reign to order dinner and drinks for themselves and they ordered really respectfully – not landing me with a huge bill.

All in all – they were excellent!

Paul Avins Enterprises Ltd

Feedback was fantastic the guy was brilliant and the staff loved the keepsake to take away, some brought them in to show me.

Can't wait for him to come on the 19th as I am going to that event, I will make sure I get mine done.

Centrica

I wasn't onsite Saturday but I have spoken to my colleagues that were, and have received positive feedback. They said Frank was great and a very fitting! Also, when coming out of his changing room on arrival a group of children saw him and were over the moon to have just caught a glimpse of Father Xmas! Bless!

As always, you have been a great help Abbi. A pleasure as always!

AYMTM

It went very well thank you. Everyone enjoyed them and Martin sang his couple of songs. I would be obliged if you would kindly thank them on my behalf. Many thanks for all you help with this also Lauren. Hopefully we will see them again – next year. Give my regards to everyone in the band and a big THANK YOU, they were great.

Aston Court Chambers

Just wanted to say a massive thank you to the Xtreme Martial Arts for their two performances at the event last night. Their energy and amazing acrobatics went down extremely well with the Virgin Active guests. Please pass on our gratitude to Chloe and team and we look forward to working with them/you again in the future.

Inca Productions

I just wanted to let you know what a wonderful event we had on Saturday night. I highly recommend John, the DJ. He was absolutely brilliant and the hotel staff were so impressed with him that they are going to recommend him to their events manager.

The magician was also pretty amazing. He kept everybody entertained in a low-key cool way which the kids really liked.

Ten UK

Just a quick mail to say the two Zoot Stilt walkers and Giant Reindeer were a huge hit and the weather stayed dry so a very successful evening. Please thank the entertainers again from us all at Midas and hope we can work together again.

Midas Prosound Ltd

It went great, band (Southern Rag A Jazz) was definitely a success and I shall be booking with you in future!

Incisive Media

Thank you so much for the most fabulous bunch of entertainers organised for our client party last week - what a great group of people!

We don't normally have continuous entertainment at our client party as traditionally it's been a chance for canapés and networking with lots of talk, but by changing the format the evening picked up its own momentum and the atmosphere was great.

Kai was amazing (I had a few comments about the noise level - so maybe I should have requested only two sets) but by third set 'they were dancing in the aisles'!

Sophie and the ladies were just charmingly beautiful. It was all a little stressed to begin with as they didn't get a chance for a full sound/stage check, but they just got on with it and come out all legs and smiles.

And of course Ed and 'the boys' (I love the fact that Clive is now off at Harrods as Father Christmas!) - don't know how we could use them again, but I'm sure we'll find a way.

Lovely people, lovely evening, all just lovely! Please do pass on my belated but sincere thanks to them all.

"It can indeed only be described as a legendary night."

"Thoroughly enjoyed it. Clients had a cracking time."

"Debi - as ever, a truly fantastic party last night."

"This is simply to thank you for an excellent party last night."

Fishburn Hedges

Thank you so much for supplying Tinto he was great!! It was not the easiest of events for him space wise but I saw him getting round all the tables and making people laugh!!

I think he was truly professional as is your company and I will be using you again and hopefully Mickey too as I thought he was lovely.

I hope he got home OK and thank him from me for a job well done!!

Clever Cooks Hire Services

Everything went really well. Your performers were excellent!

Liburn City Council

The event was great thank you. Everyone had a great time. Kai and her trio were superb – a great sound and lovely people.

Thanks for the email and look forward to working with you again soon.

Oxford Motivation

I wanted to get in touch and say a massive thank you to you and the team for your help with yesterday’s activities.

The statues were fantastic, very professional and obviously understood exactly what we wanted to achieve - they absolutely made the event!! I did not get a chance to say goodbye to them as it was fairly manic but please can you pass on my thanks.

Colleagues of mine even suggested that we make them part of our events in the future so I’m sure we will be working together again soon.

Fast Track Agency

I would like to say how pleased we were with the entertainment acts that Contraband provided for our Clients event in October.

Sophie and her band were a fantastically talented and professional group of performers, with an infectious energy and natural ability to engage.

We had some wonderful feedback from our clients and attendees alike, and I would have no hesitation in recommending them for similarly themed events in the future.

In addition, I would like to say how great it was to work with a DJ who so perfectly understood our requirements for an event that needed quite a specialist soundtrack. The music that he provided was totally in line with our objectives and ensured that the atmosphere throughout the evening was always perfectly pitched.

I would be most grateful if you could extend our personal thanks to them all.

Boutique Creative

I never got to say thanks and goodbye to Dave on Friday after he had packed up the shooting gallery – could you please pass on my thanks? The event was received really well here.

Sky Movies

Just a little note to say a huge thank you to you and your team for helping us make Orange Cinema – A Night of Fright – a huge success

Look forward to working with you on the next event.

M & C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment

Indeed the stand was very popular, as explained to me by my colleagues on ground. David and the Scalextric did receive a good round of reviews and was definitely popular. I should compliment that the team from UK was thoroughly professional and did add that wow factor to the stand.

The Arc Lights, Dubai

The event was a fantastic success and the performers certainly added to the whole experience on the night. They were great – mingled with guests and the fire performers went down very well! So thank you very much for all your help with the event – I hope we’ll be working together again in the future.

Welcome to Yorkshire

I just wanted to let you know that Tariq did an amazing job for us at our event last week in Copenhagen.

I have already received some great feedback regarding Tariq’s interaction with not only the delegates but our team. His professionalism and energy was infectious and really added to our presence at the conference. His magic was fantastic and really WOWED the crowd!!

Lloyds TSB

The Roller Babes were fantastic and injected a real sense of excitement into the party. They were charming, professional and above all, lots of fun!

Our guests adored the Pink Policemen. They were hilarious and such a spectacle (especially when they took to the dance floor!). Highly recommended!

RSVP London

I've received feedback from Nev and Jemma who were at the event... just popped them into bullet points for you!

• Great performers
• We got exactly what we asked for
• Circulated well
• Well received by audience
• Noticed that their enthusiasm wasn't knocked when people didn’t want to join in
• Positive all-round!

Citroen

Everything went really well thanks and I have no feedback for any of the performers, other than to pass on my thanks again to them all. The fire and glowing jugglers worked really in the open space as it got darker!

Really useful to know that you have some local entertainers, as we perhaps think majority of your guys are London based. I’ve let the team here know about my positive experience and to ask you about local performers if they have anything coming up.

Logistik

I thought your street entertainers were excellent especially the wardens!

Shaftesbury PLC

Event finished today. Went very well, we won best stand award! The tarot card readers were excellent we had amazing reviews of them and such compliments! They really made the event for us.

GAMA Healthcare Ltd

I would like to thank you all for your help with the new Shepherds Bush Library Launch.

The official opening on the Monday went very well and we have received some great feedback from our invited guests and hope this is a great way to move forward with the Library brand in the borough.

The fun day on the Saturday was very well received by the local community, with lots of people asking when there would be more activities. The day was very busy and mainly sunny which helped the library show what it has to offer.

Thank you again for your time and assistance and I am sure I will call upon you all soon for another event or other!

London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham

Central Samba were an absolute joy to work with, they had a complete understanding of the event and what the clients wanted and got the entire marquee on their feet. Their enthusiasm and energy was unfailing and their choice of songs suited the event perfectly.

Alastair Currie Event Solutions

It went really well thanks. Many thanks to the artists (SAS Pavement) we had good comments all-round and the night went very well.

Universal Music Group

The evening went down very well with the delegates who seemed to really enjoy his act. I don't think we hadn't quite anticipated how much pre-work there would be for preparing the evening but it paid off. Although I did start to panic a little when delegates started moving themselves around and not adhering to the table plan, nevertheless Malcolm managed to work around this and remembered who was who. He also included a magic trick which added a little extra to his act.

It was quite funny seeing delegates suddenly click that he wasn't a serious after dinner speaker and I heard lots of positive feedback afterwards with people amazed at how he 'knew' all this stuff about them.

Diageo

Just got back from the show, Carrie was superb, please pass on my thanks.

Agrovista UK Ltd

Nik was great - he had to work under really very difficult circumstances, but he handled it all very professionally and was very pleasant to have on the shoot.

Partizan

First of all I wanted to thank you and the DJ/performers for a great job, everything was immaculate! Once again thanks for your great job and I and look forward to the possibility of working with you in the future!

MHRA – Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

The event went well, thanks for asking and Richard got very good feedback! So thank you once again for sending a quality act.

London Borough of Barking & Dagenham

Please pass on a great big thank you to Selina for her herculean efforts at the Arabian Nights Festival. She worked so hard and maintained a high-level of professionalism and creativity for theduration of the event - despite the heat and the sheer number of
participants. The families were delighted with her work and the general consensus was please having more Arabic henna design next year!

Victoria & Albert Museum

I just wanted to express my sincere thanks to Jeff the caricaturist artist that worked with us at the summer festival this weekend. Can I please ask you to convey my thanks to him? He was really good and was able to engage with the people enthusiastically. I will not have any hesitation in employing him again.

Many thanks to you also for meeting our request at such a short notice.

Croydon Council

We are just back from our honeymoon in Brazil, had the most amazing time.

Wanted to share our thoughts with you regarding the performance by Grace and Satya during our day & evening on board HMS President.

Wonderful, visual, stunning, the girls worked very hard in difficult conditions outside due to the bad weather. The fire show I think unfortunately had to be cut slightly because the rain was upon us. However that said the light hula show was a real treat. Everyone enjoyed it so much.

Please pass our best wishes onto the girls and do thank them for helping to make our special day one that every guest will remember for many years to come.

Private Wedding on HMS President

I just wanted to mass on a special thank you to "Hagrid" for coming to our Harry Potter event last night.

He was truly great with the audience - and really made the event come alive.

Credit Suisse

The team were really good and everyone really enjoyed it!

Conoco Phillips

Cem (promo staff) was excellent and very well received. He was polite and helpful and made the guests feel like VIPS which was the main objective.

It was very laid back and quite an easy gig for him by all accounts. Wouldn't hesitate to use him again!

Oxford Motivation

Amy (face painter) was great really nice friendly lady who put the children at ease straight away, she was very patient, & calm, and was very sociable with everyone, her artistic skills were excellent.

Wolsey Securities

We had a fun day and Karla was amazing - I only wish my club was bigger some of your acts also look amazing. I am putting a few things together for themed nights so I will be in touch again. Once again many thanks.

Candy Bar

Yes it seemed to go really well and they were a pleasure to work with. I look forward to working with you in the future.

Outer Sanctum

Carl and Dean were great, very professional and mixed with our guests well. We had very good feedback from clients over the two days.

Darley Stud Management

I wanted to tell you that it was a real pleasure for us to work with the Pineapple. Their performances were great, and the girls were very friendly and nice. We were very happy to work with them, and so were Renault.

We all hope that we will be able to work with you (and the pineapple) again next year!

Le Public Systeme

FlameOz were an absolute pleasure to work with and are the most spectacular fire performers I have ever seen.

Mirage Events

A truly awe inspiring show delivered safely, professionally and hassle free. A must for any event looking for that 'X' Factor!

Southern Lights Festival, UK

The entertainment was fantastic our guests and staff really enjoyed the belly dancer and drummer it worked extremely well with our theme and the tarot reader was a real success and the talk of the evening.

Thank you once again for doing such a great job with our last minute request.

We will be certainly calling you back for our Christmas Bookings in November/December.

Chelsea FC

The belly dancer was brilliant, as were the rest of the entertainers.
Feedback from the event was that the Henna artist and Maori Dancers were amazing.

Thank you so much for your help in organising these entertainers.

HSBC Bank

A quick email to say we all thought Bibi was absolutely brilliant, I haven't seen such professionalism for ages, I cannot say how fantastic her work was, everyone had a great time and thanks so much for helping arrange all of this.

Glue London

Just a short note to thank you for the contributions of your entertainers on Friday night.
They were all instrumental in making the party as successful as it was.

Ella was simply stunning and extremely good value for money. She set the tent on fire and stoked the party’s atmosphere in a lull between courses. I have had many complimentary comments about her great performance.

The casino was also excellent. His personalised, light-hearted approach was really effective. Unfortunately the lay-out of the room did not allow the two tables to set up as wished and I sense it proved more difficult than normal for the croupiers to control guests. There were also 2 incidents with glasses for which I apologise. I spoke to the owner afterwards and he was generally happy. Please pass on to him that he was really excellent and he played a key role in the party. I have had many compliments about his service. We will use him again.

Lady Grey were fabulous and they successfully marked the transition from the meal to the remainder of the party, as I had hoped. They set the tone in a most effective way – a big bang, literally. I would recommend them to anyone.

Thank you for great service and please pass on my comments to the individuals in question.

Household Cavalry Regiment

Thank you for all of your hard work team!!!!!

Here are some words from the client:

I wanted to say a huge thank you to you anyway, the dinner was such a brilliant success and it was totally down to you and your team transforming the room and everything about it, into something so remarkable. Your attention to detail is so impressive! it was a privilege to be able to work with you. Please be kind enough to pass a big thank you onto your team from me, as again I did not get round to saying thank you to them all.

I hope you have recovered and that your next event is going well.

Penguins Events

Everything went well thank you. Big Grey was really popular so I will be looking to book him again next year for the 8 nights.

Banham Zoo

The Tarot Reader arrived and was fantastic. I just spoke to my client and they said he was amazing and spot on the truth!

Thank you again for delivering such a great service.

Chelsea FC

They were all fantastic and really made for a great party. They did not stop and were all really popular with the different age groups that we had at the party.

The combination was just right and thank you for organising them. I would work with any of them again.

Sara-Louise was particularly brilliant and went down a real storm and the poor soul had no peace all night so please pass on my heart felt appreciation for the job she did on the night, it was just utterly brilliant.

Private Client

The party was a HUGE success. The face painter and tarot card reader were huge hits, and it really was everything I was looking for.

Thanks again for all your work helping out with this.

Private Client

Just wanted to drop you a quick note to say that all went very well and Michael was fantastic!
He was a big hit with everyone that managed to sit with him in the two hours allotted.
Please pass on our thanks to him.

Private Client

They all got lots of balloon animals and played lots of games and the separate room for them worked really well. She did a great job and looked fabulous too.

Private Client

Thank you for organising the guys for our party.

The Posh Toffs were a great success, and cheerfully greeted everyone brave enough to come out in the rain.

There was a downpour when they were doing their free-styling so they had to cut the section short sadly, but the heat, light and energy of their short performance was great.

They were a real force on the entertainment front and would be interested to know if one or other takes single bookings ...... have my twins 9th Birthday coming up very soon on the 20th or 21st November pm...!

Private Client

I would just like to thank yourselves and the donkey derby guys for a fantastic evening. They were the highlight of the day and our guests have still not stopped talking about it. They kept everyone amused and nothing was too much trouble. A big, big thank you and we will highly recommend to anyone wanting to book a not so traditional wedding!! Thanks to you too for arranging all the plans for us. It all went as planned with no hitches we had a fantastic day, full of love, laughter and a few tears!!

Private Client

The party was absolutely wonderful. The highlight of course being the Jersey Boys! They were fantastic. Bernard was totally blown away and loved every minute. It was for us all 'a night to remember'.

Thank You for organizing everything. It has been a pleasure dealing with you and hopefully, I will call on you again, for future events.

I am very glad to hear that Investec is already one of your clients. Bernard is the group MD and having now had, first hand experience of the quality of entertainment you provide, can highly recommend using your company for their entertainment at the various functions.

Private Client

Krystal was fab!!! Have attached a few pics... Though have hundreds!!!!
Thank you for all your help and a massive thank you to Krystal

Private Client

Tom & Simon made our evening go with a fantastic swing; the men thoroughly enjoyed the guitar requests and played along with their own 'air guitar'; the fiddle really got the ladies up jigging and twirling: Where did you get the musicians from was the question of the night.
Furthermore, thank you for allowing us to use the mic for our speech and our friend to sing us a song, with you backing him, great fun. We shall certainly be passing on your details -Thank you guys we can't wait for our next party-my 40th in 2011.

Kim, Thank you for making our night about us - the anniversary couple!
The children were captivated all evening and I am sure you were exhausted at the end of the session; four hours entertaining around twenty children is amazing. Our daughter and son still have not washed off the art you painted on their arms and I wouldn't dream of persuading them to as this night was for them too. Thank you for allowing us all to take away relaxed, fun and great memories. We hope you have recovered!

Abbi, we are speechless, thank you over and over again.

Private Client

We had a wonderful time and everybody was very impressed with the entertainment.
I personally thought they were very nice young men and brilliant musicians, everybody kept asking me where I had found them!
I did thank them on the night but if you could pass on our thanks again from both my husband and myself for making our party go so well.
I would not hesitate to recommend them to anyone and would definitely use them again. I would also like to thank you for all your help and sterling work.

Private Client

The performers (Jen and Fleur) were excellent, very well organised, extremely nice girls, the boys are all still talking about the Belly Dancer who was outstanding, just right for the age group of the party.

Private Client

It's taken me a week to recover from my party! Which went very well thanks. The dancers were amazing, they were extremely professional and my guests and I had a fantastic time!! I know I thanked them on the night, if you could again pass how pleased I am with them and their performance.

Private Client

The night went wonderful thank you. The dancers were very professional and I’ll definitely call you up for my next event.

Private Client

Thank you very much for all of your help on Friday, Flame Oz was fantastic and Jago arrived well ahead of their performance so it all turned out ok. Once again, they proved a great hit with the crowd and were a great finale to our event; their show never ceases to impress me! Also please pass on my thanks to Bollywood Grooves who were a great dance act for the evening. They looked lovely everyone liked them and were extremely pleasant to work with.

ZSL London Zoo

Further to our conversation today, just wanted to write to say how pleased we were with Seffi last night at The Mall Wood Green Event.
Although I have not spoken to our Client, my boss was at the Retailer Awards and he spoke very highly of Seffi's (belly dancer) performance and her interaction with the guests. If he was pleased, then the Client must have been pleased too.
Please pass on our sincerest thanks to Seffi - and if we have another event where we want a snake charmer/belly dancer, we will have no hesitation in booking her again.
Our thanks also go to you for assisting us with this booking.
We are quite often on the look out for 'different' acts as well as the more conventional. I have your name and number and will ring!
Once again, thanks to you, Charlie and Seffi.

Messages PR

The party was a spectacular success – everyone’s been raving about how well it went. Ella was fantastic as the snake charmer – really got the party off to the right kind of start. The dancers were very enthusiastic and professional; they danced in unison to good beats that got everyone bopping.
Neha and Rashid were busy all night and did exceptionally good jobs too.

The Institute of Cancer

Just a note to thank all of your performers and staff for their "huge" efforts on our behalf on Saturday at the Carnival 4 Life. We were very impressed with the quality and professionalism of all of the performances and the way your performers entered into the spirit of the event.
Footfall was excellent this year and we can attribute in most part to the quality and variety of entertainment which was provided for the spectators. We would be more than happy to book any of these acts again; they are a great credit to your company and most certainly added much towards creating a vibrant and colourful atmosphere in Batley town centre.
Once again thank you and we will hopefully be back for more from you very soon!

Batley & Dewsbury Town Management

I just wanted to drop you a quick e-mail to let you know how thrilled I was with Libby on Saturday. She was absolutely fantastic. Apart from the fact that her face painting designs/skills were amazing and that the airbrush tattoos were a complete hit with children and adults alike (I even had one myself!), she was a consummate professional despite the fact that she has a constant queue of small children (and not so small adults!).
Everyone at the party was incredibly impressed and I could not have been happier with her. I’ve made sure everyone knows your agency’s name in case they want such services in the future, and I would recommend her to anyone – if she ever needs a testimonial then please let me know. Thank you once again for arranging everything and please pass on to her (again) my very warmest thanks.

Private Client

Your girls were amazing and I was really happy with all of them. They were all beautiful, I loved the costumes and they had a great attitude. I have worked with many hostesses before and I know how lazy and spoiled they can get, but all of your girls were proactive, polite and fantastic in general and I will definitely stay in touch with regards to any events I will be organising in future.

Ads Dot Com

To say the event was a resounding success would be an understatement! Everyone had a fantastic time and let me take this opportunity to commend all your staff and associates involved as they worked extremely hard in ensuring everyone had a great day.

Gem Distribution

I just wanted to say thank you once again for all your help with the Family Day and June Evenings. Friday went really well and was by far the best of all 3 evenings, the dancers and drummers did a fantastic job and seemed to really enjoy themselves!

Goodwood Racecourse

Tariq was great. Highly recommended. Thank you so much for organizing it.

Private Client

I just wanted to write a quick email to say thank you so much for your fantastic work last night! Everyone has commented on how great your act was and how it really set the atmosphere for the evening! Not only was your performance highly entertaining and very talented but your work before hand in the drinks reception was a great addition that I had not been expecting!
I look forward to working with you both in the future!

Incisive Media

Just a quick e-mail to say that the guys were amazing - we were so very pleased with them all and were perfect for the nature of the event - couldn't have been happier.
Thank you for all of your help, and please reiterate the above to the all of the artists - if the opportunity presents itself we would love to work with them again in the future.

AYMTM

Please could you pass on my thanks to Christina for her balloon modeling contribution last Saturday at the RAF Brize Norton Families Day. All of the Air Tanker Services staff thought she was great and her rapport with the children (and adults) was superb. She attracted a large crowd through our tent and worked so hard throughout the day with her creative talents. I would highly recommend her to anyone in the future.
I am most impressed with the service overall and will contact you should we require any entertainment in the future.

AirTanker Services

Lianne & Kelly where fantastic what a lovely couple of girls - really brilliant attitude and very professional. Myself, the client and all the guests really enjoyed there performance and Robert [pianist] was also great well done all great job.

Northdown Design Works Ltd

Thank you so much for Dan and Elfic, both were completely brilliant and created an amazing atmosphere. It was one of the best events we have had for a while.

The Eden Project

It was fantastic thanks!... The face painter [Mimi] was ace and I think some of the adults had things done!... Dave the fire eater what a sweety. His show was really good - think he - probably would have done a little more and struggled because of the weather. By the time he came the wind speed was well up! Have given your number to a few people as they asked so hopefully you'll get some work from them!
Thanks for all your help, and no doubt we'll be in touch again when there are more celebrations!

Private Client

Thanks everything went fabulously…I have to apologise though as we were running late with the schedule. Megumi in particular stayed beyond her allotted time, which was very much appreciated. Chris Cross is bonkers but gave a great performance and got everyone laughing. Jim did a great job on the roulette and had to keep some pretty drunk punters in line!! So all round a big thank-you to them and you!

Associated Architects LLP

Didn’t attend that event (we had 4 on the same day) but believe they went down well and the client was happy.

Thanks again for all your help and I will be in contact again soon!

Capitol

Karla seemed to be very successful with the kids so look forward to working with her again!

Live Events & Productions

Marc was great fun definitely a good choice he was very funny and interacted well… Everyone thought he was great although his nail up the nose trick was a bit "left field" but offered a topic of conversation after the event. All in all very happy…!!!
Thanks for all your help.

Private Client

Just wanted to say how pleased we were that Neha was at our event - she was really charming and professional and had a big crowd around her throughout the afternoon! It really added something special to the activities going on.
Thanks for all your help and I hope we can be in touch again soon.

BBC Concert Orchestra

Please can you pass a huge thank you to them all for being a part of the Superslim’s launch event on Friday night. I have to admit, out of all the performers I have worked with in the past they were the most relaxed and easy going group I have ever dealt with. Chris was extremely organised and the girls were very accommodating. It was a shame the rehearsals was slightly delayed but there was not one complaint (to me anyway!! ha ha!) and their performance was amazing.
We are very grateful for their involvement and will certainly be putting them forward for our corporate events that come up in the future!

d'events (Dubai)

It went really well thanks – [Karla was] definitely a success and the tattoos were fabulous. A great success! She was fab! Thanks so much

Bravo

The girls (Sahara) went down a treat. You seldom get particular feedback about a string quartet, because they are in essence supposed to be a 'background' act, but Sahara received a lot of comments from the guests. They looked great and their instruments were modern and a little unusual, which made them stand out. They played the right mix of contemporary and traditional pieces, and looked like they were enjoying themselves, which is always a bonus!
All arrived on time and were very friendly, helpful and professional.

UpStage

I agree that the party went very well and despite worries about what games they would do (due to the layout and the number of guests) both Kim and Deana were fantastic.
I have not received direct feedback from the guests but the manager of the restaurant confirmed they had a good time.

Harrods

Just wanted to say a big thank you for helping with our event on Saturday, Kockov was a great success. Please pass on our thanks to him.
Looking forward to working with you soon.

Davina Stanley

The dancers (Divine) worked really well and we were really pleased with Rosie's choreography. The duo (The Jazz Band) sounded great. Thanks for your help

Marks & Spencer

Just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU for all your help and support as well as creative genius that has brought us the most successful opening. The feedback on the whole marketing campaign is amazing and we have had nothing but praise – I have been told by several influential people including leasing agents that this was, without a doubt, the best opening of a centre they have seen! Thanks again for all your help and long may the success continue!

Gloucester Quays

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. The party was a great success. The children had loads of fun. I was very happy about Zanzibar's performance (although I was too busy doing the catering to see his whole show) and his interaction with the kids. It was just the right kind of input, not too hyper, friendly and funny, he seemed very at ease with children. It is difficult to keep 18 children between age 3 and 6 mesmerized and quiet for more than 15 minutes, especially in hot weather, so he did a very good job!
Apart from the bubble show, the children were able to have fun with him and play with bubbles in little gangs, duck in and out of the game and come back, which is what parties should be like. They all warmed up to Zanzibar and my quite shy daughter liked him a lot. I also had positive comments from other parents.

Private Client

The event was magnificent, thank you. Jago was brilliant, very nice to deal with and was a huge success. Guests were thrilled with the stilt walker greeting them followed by the table to table contact juggling in the marquee. Would definitely use them again!

Private Client

The Chinese performers were fantastic! Very professional and beautifully choreographed. They were punctual, pleasant to work with professional in everyway.
Many thanks for your support in the run up!

Charnwood Arts

Just wanted to drop you a line to say the actor’s at Scott’s B’day (think Abi organised them) on Saturday night went down a storm, they were brilliant. When everyone found out they were gobsmacked that they had been so sucked in!! Would definitely use them again for another event, worked so well.

Private Client

The break dancers were amazing and they were excellent with the students. The break dancers were so professional and I wish we could afford to get them in all the time, the kids loved them.

Bridge Mary Community Sports College

The actors were the perfect mix of outlandish and subtle - and the actress who played Anna was especially superb! I think our dinner party has become the talk of the Putney social circuit and its one people won't forget for awhile. Only downside is that I suspect a fair number of our friends are plotting their revenge!!!
Thanks again - it was a perfect evening. Please pass on my thanks to the actors.

Private Client

I am just getting ready to go on our honeymoon, but I wanted to say thank you for all your help and request that you pass on my thanks to Jeff and Matt. They both did a fantastic job and all our guests commented on how much they enjoyed having their caricatures completed. I would like a private commission by Matt of the group caricature in colour if possible, so would you mind asking him if this is something he would do once we get back from our honeymoon?
Thank you again Abi, you have been an absolute star!

Private Client

Kai’s Kats were great thank you. Lovely people and lovely music! Went down really well with everyone and we would definitely hire them again and would definitely recommend them.

Coaching Development Ltd

As promised, I have now had the chance to go through the event evaluation forms, so I wanted to drop you an email with some more feedback.

The client was really pleased with the whole event and the UK Managing Director made a point of coming to speak to me to say that Wonderful West End were fantastic – length of set was perfect and content was entirely appropriate to the event.

The delegates all had a great evening and as I am sure Laurel will agree, everyone seemed to be having a fantastic time dancing along and even joining in singing along to New York, New York!

I have included some delegate comments below:

‘I could have danced all night’
‘The evening was fantastic’
‘Excellent overall’
‘Very Enjoyable’
‘Awards night very good’

Some of these comments apply to the event overall, but I wanted to reiterate that Wonderful West End were a part of this success!

I found Laurel and everyone in the group to be extremely pleasant, professional and very accommodating of last minute programme changes generated by the client. They agreed at quite a late stage to merge their two sets so that we could still keep New York, New York in the performance. I was so pleased that they agreed to this (in fact seemed happy to do so) as it was a big hit with the delegates!

I want to thank you for your assistance in the planning of the event, which left me in no doubt that the performance would be great. And I wasn’t disappointed - it was sensational!

Please pass on my thanks and best wishes to Laurel and the Wonderful West End Group, I really enjoyed working with them all and would not hesitate to contact you again for future events and recommend you to colleagues in the event industry.

Punchline Media

The event was more than a success – It is the talk of the office this morning!

Thank you so much for your help in supplying 2 fabulous entertainers. Jeff’s pictures were superb! He managed to get across the humor without insulting anyone and everyone loved it. He got the perfect balance of being visible but not intrusive. Please pass on our thanks.

Malcolm is amazing! Some thought he was a magician; others went down the Psychic route. I will stick to just plain talented! It was the perfect thing for our event as we were trying hard to unite three separate London offices who hardly new each other. He really has a niche and not only is he a lovely guy he is a really fantastic performer. He didn’t miss a name, even when people had sneakily moved around he still knew them. It really made the evening; everyone was in tears of laughter.

Having experienced his act I do think that you and him could charge more. It is quite honestly the best entertainment I have seen and worth a lot more than what we paid. (I have probably done myself a disservice there as we will want to use him again!)

Please pass on our thanks to the artists. My boss was blown away (I have of course taken the credit for finding such superb people!)

SCOR SE - UK Branch

Just an email to say thanks to the paparazzi for contributing to a really enjoyable event. They were very professional and all the young people and their families loved getting in the limo and having their pictures taken, it was all they were talking about when they went inside!

London Borough of Barking & Dagenham

Tenerife was great! Flux were just fantastic - never seen a show like it. It really did just blow everyone away. The client said it was the perfect ending to their conference and the other groups that didn’t were very upset they didn’t see it!!

We persuaded our client to use them for Sorrento but we couldn’t get them so we are having Kaleidoscope instead!! Hopefully it will go down just as well if not better!!!

West End Studios

Could you please thank your 3 magicians on my behalf as they have done a brilliant job at entertaining our delegates, I unfortunately was too busy with other things to see you perform and with all the delegates in the room it was hard to tell where they were but we had some feedback from the delegates saying it was their best Orange party so far so thanks them for contributing to this major success. I would also like to thank them for extending their performance for a little longer than 45 minutes as we had a bit of a panicky moment with the table plan and that is why the drinks reception lasted for longer than planned so again a big thank you.

Finally, I would like to thank you and your team for being very efficient at providing me with cost as swiftly as possible and for being very flexible with all the different brief we gave you. I will definitely be in touch in the future if we need artists, entertainers it was great working with you.

The Alternative

That was GREAT. She (Delia contortionist) was very good and she did well with the elements. She adapts the program to the vibration and to each carriage.
I’ve had great feedback from the guests who were amazed by Delia.

Honestly I have only positive feedback to give you.

I thank you and Delia.

Ballwatch - Switzerland

I know a long time has passed and we are almost at the 2009 Christmas party but I really wanted to write and thank you so very much for organizing “Malcolm”!

He was an absolute credit to any corporate entertainment company, the effect was exactly as we would have liked it and it was a pleasure to meet and work with him.

Enormous thanks for all your help on this.

Parkgate Aspen

Many thanks once again for your collaboration. The guys were all great and seemed to draw applauses all the time. Our guests enjoyed the evening – I wish we had pictures of their faces when cards turned into glass in their hands etc…

DMIMD has again been a successful event and we are already looking forward to the next one in 2010! We will definitely be in touch nearer the time.

SHS International

Matt (juggler) was fabulous and really helped grab the attention of the audience at the start of both the morning and afternoon sessions. I have had at least one query from a delegate interested in using your services at another event.

Lloyds TSB

It was a fantastic evening thank you. All of the performers were great, they were very professional and friendly and I can vouch for the quality of their equipment - something you can't really tell from photographs.

The caricaturist was very nice chap and did a great job knocking out an alarming number of drawings in such a short period of time! And he made me look quite handsome

John Lewis

Just a quick note to say thank you for Saturday evening - Tariq was fantastic and really worked the crowd!

Intersurgical

Just some feedback:

"Ella was an excellent act and the highlight of the evening!! Given we had built up the surprise element, Ella toyed with the crowd by building up the tension and gradually releasing the snake and the crowd were shocked. She was also very flexible (quite literally at times!!) and kindly worked with the other belly dancers to do almost a show. Superb professional act and I would have no hesitation in recommending her for other parties"

"Neha was a great addition to our acts and theme. It was a slow start as people were not sure what to expect, but it takes one person to get a tattoo/henna and the floodgates open...everyone was impressed and the fact she is VERY different as opposed to the regular people makes such a difference. I assure you this is NOT only for girls as we had many guys in the queue, a week later I can still boast my scorpion tattoo as if it was done yesterday. Yes, they do last as well which is a bonus. Great act, great price, went down brilliantly with the crowd"

That's me done.....thanks for all your help this year Archie. Hope you have a great xmas and new year and hopefully my friends, family and I will be getting more acts off your hands next year.

Aon Consulting

Mickey (Tinto Juggler) was fantastic and fitted in perfectly to the event. He meeted and greeted the guests as they came in with juggling and tricks and then mingled with the crowds later on. Everything got rather loud later on in the evening and guests got heavily into their dancing so I hope he didn't feel un-wanted towards the end of his set - he seemed happy.

Anyway, it was great working with you and I shall definitely think about Contraband for future events.

The Admirable Crichton

I’m so pleased with Ascot. I’ve had some really great feedback on the children’s area as well as the set up in the panoramic restaurant so thank you very much for your hard work.

BGC Partners

The evening was a roaring success! I have had lots of feedback from the staff here at British Gas who said it was the best Christmas party they have ever had. Joanne as Shirley was wonderful and many people commented on her fantastic voice. She was also a thoroughly nice person and her mum was great too!

Tim as David Brent went down very well, I met him about a few hours before he went on stage and I couldn’t drag myself away from him. He was so talented and charismatic. I even introduced him to my wife when she arrived at the party. He did a great routine on stage and then had lots of photos taken with the guests.

Can I also thank you Stacey for all your help and advice you’ve given me – you’ve been a star.

Centrica

‘We absolutely loved these guys (The Stars). They were so professional. Turned up in good time and totally rocked the place. They appealed to both the young and old in the audience and everyone was dancing!

If we ever need a band again I know who I will be calling

Thanks for a memorable evening, you were great!’

Aston Court Chambers

All acts were fantastic so a huge thank you!

BGC Partners

Yes it went perfectly – there were a few tricky moments with the police and the neighbours, but we got away with it.
The drawing came up great, both guys did a fantastic job, it looked top notch, and they really went for it, 7 hours straight without a break, in very cold conditions – the client was really happy, and the stunt got loads of attention on the day. Hopefully it will feature in some papers etc as well.
We’re putting together a film of the day, so I’ll send you a copy of that if you like.

Overall Jon did a great job and was a top guy, and everyone this end is really happy.

RAPP UK

The 2 boys and 2 girls you sent to Crondon Park last night were fantastic and a big hit with my staff as you can imagine. I'm absolutely sure we will be using your services again!

One of the boys, Dean, particularly stood out as being very proactive and helpful throughout. I'm not sure if it's protocol to give feedback to the talent directly, but if it is please let him know. Could you send me his profile as it wasn't included in the original 4 profiles that I received?

For future events, would we be able to request specific people, such as Dean?

Vision Ten Ltd

• Mark’s table magic – this went down extremely well and was very engaging with the audience and excellent audience participation! A great act to have mingle in with the audience and can create a focus for others to watch.
• Marc (main act) – a very entertaining act that made people question how things were done and how he was able to correctly identify people’s guesses! Contained his act in the allotted time, but could easily have gone on for longer with the audience none the wiser – excellent act to have.

Hope that this is ok but if there are any problems please do not hesitate to contact me.

Accenture UK

The event went very well on Saturday despite the weather. It was bitterly cold but amazingly Jon and Scott didn't seem to notice the freezing conditions - they must be very hardy!

The drawing looked very realistic and attracted lots of attention from passers-by which was great. Please thank them both again for us on an excellent job.

IFAW UK

The event was a big success, 250 people turned up and they all seemed to enjoy themselves!

The origami artist was also a big success! The guests enjoyed watching her and I saw several people leaving with their origami gifts! I enjoyed working with Jaing Jing, I found her to be very pleasant and professional. It was also great that she was able to just get on and entertain the guests as required, as I was often unavailable to check how she was getting on. Thank you also for all the information that you provided me with before the event – this left me feeling very confident about the entertainment.

Punchline Media

Once again I wanted to say a huge thank you to you and the performers you supplied for our Health and Lifestyle Event.

The biggest wow of the day was obviously Anna and Hose, who were just mesmerising with their Flamenco, but who were also very lovely people who made my job very easy when it came to accommodating them and meeting the schedule etc. They made a wonderful addition to our day and created a brilliant dramatic impact. We will definitely be asking them back for future events when the space allows.

And once again ‘The Workers’ again had everyone talking about how ‘creepy’ and odd they were. And Calvos was stared at in wonder as he performed with his crystals.

Everyone arrived in plenty of time and helped the day go with a really swing. We couldn’t have created the success and impact we did without them.

Abbey National

Last night was great. Kai's Kats were just fantastic; they were situated near the entrance to the party so it gave the guests a nice classy introduction to their evening’s celebrations. Sheba the caricaturist was kept very busy! I got one done and was delighted with my badge. You could see everyone proudly wearing their badges on their outfits. Both acts turned up on time, were friendly and talented, and really made a hit at our party.

I just want to thank you so much for all your hard work at such short notice.

Thanks again for everything. I shall be highly recommending your organisation to anyone I know who needs top quality entertainment for their event. And I shall keep all your details on file for our future plans.

Ormond Street Hospital

I was checking my calendar and I couldn't believe that it is over a week since the Great Britain and Royal Mail reception. So I thought it timely to send you a brief note thanking the girls and especially Jim for the hard work and effort they put in on behalf of Royal Mail to ensure that our reception was a resounding success and the talk of UPU, if not Geneva.

Everyone had a wonderful evening and thoroughly enjoyed the casino.

I know from a business perspective we met all our key objectives that evening, none of which would have been possible without Jim and the girls (casino tables and croupiers).

Royal Mail (event in Geneva)

Can I take this opportunity to thank you and let you know how wonderful Anna was? She is extremely skilled not only as a face painter, but with young children. She managed to get even our most nervous children to sit and have their face done. Every child had their face painted and she even managed to do some that I thought were impossible, e.g. A Red Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The children were so proud; they kept showing everyone their faces, the tigers and lions roaring at each other and everyone who came near to them, the parents were really impressed. It really added to the party, and made our last day a success.

I will be recommending Anna and your company to colleagues, so hopefully you will be contacted for even more bookings.

Thanks again

Whitstable Nursery Southwark

Immediate reaction is that it was a success.

Foot masseurs great, caricaturists went down well as did stilt walkers and pavement artists.
They were all very professional and a credit to your organisation.

Thank you once again for a professional job and I am sure we will need your service again soon.

Westminster City Council

I just wanted to pass on my thanks to Paul and Arun who arrived with the simulator ride (Astrojet Simulator) on Wednesday evening.
They were helpful, informative, professional and a credit to both your business and theirs.

We had a few small problems with setting the ride due wholly to the venue staff; however Paul was excellent in keeping me informed of the situation and resolving the issues resulting in a thoroughly enjoyable evening being had by all of my colleagues at SCA.

So once again thank Paul & Arun for such a great evening and I would have no hesitation in recommending your services at any future event that SCA hold.

SCA Tissue Europe

I just wanted to give you a bit of feedback on David Penn, who we used at our event on Friday night. He was fab! He really wowed the crowd and they loved him.
Unfortunately the hotel was not brilliant, so David was a real saviour to the evening!

It was for a group of the 150 most senior Partners from a law firm and they had an illusionist 3 years ago at their event. As they are all so clever, they figured his acts out, but David certainly kept them guessing on everything!

Hope to work with you and him again soon!

Olive 360

I just wanted to thank you for providing us with Jem and Alan, both of whom made fantastic Father Christmases. The kids absolutely loved them and even Adam Blackwood (Private Drama’s founder) insisted on having his photo taken with one of them!!

The event was a “complete success” according to our client, Charlotte, so please could you pass on our thanks to Jem and Alan for a great job - we simply couldn’t have done it without them! My only slight disappointment was they turned up in a car rather than arrive on the roof of Somerset House in a more traditional mode of transport...

Private Drama

The drawing is fantastic (caricaturist Matt) - we love it!

Ernst & Young

Just a quick note to say a BIG THANK YOU for helping make the Microscope Ball such a great success with all your entertainers. As usual, they were fabulous and went down really well with everyone. All such nice people too and good to work with.

Thanks once again for all your help with this event and I hope to work with you again soon.

J2 Communications

Could you pass on my thanks to Sylvi (face painter). She had a constant stream of happy customers and they could have kept her going for the next two hours.

Hadlow College

The whole event was a great success - Jon's (Jon Hicks pavement artist) picture looked fantastic, the client got a good attendance from the media and the sun was shining! What more can you ask for!!

Thanks for all your help!

Logistik

Yes, both days went really well! Sarah (body painter) was great and both models.
Really pleased

Central YMCA

Could you please pass on a big thank you to Nick and Tariq (magicians) for their performances last night? Everyone thought they were wonderful and the number of times I’ve heard today ‘how did they do that?’!

I hope they enjoyed the evening – not sure they were expecting quite so many people!

Again, a huge thank you from all at Alchemy.

Alchemy

Event went great yesterday (Kaleidoscope), thanks! Chris and the girls put on a really good show and they were well taken care of from arrival to departure.

SWS Taktikal Dubai (event in Amsterdam)

The shoot went really well yesterday, the dancers were great and the film looks amazing!

Thanks so much for you help in pulling together a very last minute shoot!

The Liquid Way

Yesterday we had the pleasure of listening to DPS at our office opening in Ipswich, and later at the Hotel reception before Dinner. Can you, on behalf of the management of MSC, thank them for a marvellous performance? A lot of very positive comment was made on their music, and the whole image they presented was much in keeping with the quality of the event we were looking for.

We do hope that they also enjoyed themselves.

Mediterranean Shipping Company (UK) Ltd

I'm just dusting off my computer after 3 months of event madness!

Just an email to say a big, big thanks. Tariq (magician) was just amazing, the kids loved him. You were right about them getting star struck.

It was perfect for our event. Thank you once again

Eden Project

Thank you and to the guys for all the effort and amazing shows in Turkey (Titan).
We had a great time. I will send you the photos as soon as possible.

The Partners, Istanbul

Can you pass on my thanks to the Divine girls please? They did a really good job for us last night.

Cynergy

The party went really well thanks and the performers were great!

It was a pleasure working with them.

McCann Erickson

Friday went very well and just to let you know Robert (pianist) was excellent! We were very impressed, good lad too!

Hope to speak to you soon...

Central YMCA

I'm glad Christopher had a good time. I hope you got good feedback from David too! We had a ball! Both Christopher and David were absolutely great, not only talented but very easy company and everyone I have spoken to had good things to say. I will have no hesitation in recommending them, and your company, to anyone.

I hope we get a chance to use you again some time; it was very easy to work with your company.

Please pass on my thanks and compliments to the guys.

Interconnector

Please will you pass on our grateful thanks to Doug (mind reader) for his excellent performance at the FSB National Field Staff Christmas Dinner in Burleigh Court this week? It all went off very well, and everyone was impressed with his skills and wondered how he just did all his amazing mind reading ‘tricks’.

I hope he enjoyed meeting us all too.

Federation of Small Businesses

The party all went according to plan and we thoroughly enjoyed the ice cream cart!! Thank you again for your help, it is much appreciated.

FM Insurance Co. Ltd (FM Global)

Just a quick thank you for helping me organising this with such short notice. The event was a huge success!

Please also pass on my personal thanks to both performers, Mark the waiter us absolutely hilarious and sooo committed offering a good event. Katherine is a great magician who offers a very calm and professional performance (she had problems finding the venue but her timing actually worked better for the event). So the two acts actually complimented each other extremely well.

Thanks again and have a great Christmas.

Devonshire Square Management

This morning was a great success thank you for asking. Everyone is so excited for what we will be doing this Christmas and it’s only July!

Alan as Santa was great! His attention to detail in his costume and mannerisms was perfect. Our Operations Director was very impressed by his presentation.

Selfridges, Oxford Street

The feedback from the client was great and the face changer was unusual but entertaining. The client was very pleased we were able to source him so thank you very much for all your hard work.

Barclays

The pap guys were absolutely brilliant, the crowd loved them and they were in your face as we expected them to be and kicked off the night in style. You just have to look at the pictures they took to realise how good they actually are!! The shots are phenomenal and they tell the story of the whole night. People have been talking about the pictures all morning!! Thank you once again and I believe we will be calling you up for them to return.

Aon Consulting

The Party was Fantastic!

Everyone agreed that the models (The Twins) were a really nice touch. They really added something, and they looked fab! I’m waiting on photos as we had a professional photographer in. I’ll email some over to you; they may be useful for your advertising. It really made for some fun everyone posing with the girls and guys.

You were so right, the twins were lovely! Really nice girls. They worked really hard and joined in the fun and added Great Spirit to the party. Half the company has added them as friends on facebook!!

The guys (Explosive Hosts) were also really nice. Very polite and friendly and the women (and some men!) went nuts over their looks! Which was the desired effect!

Thank you once again for all your help. I was very happy with the service Contraband provided and would certainly use you and recommend you to friends and colleagues in the future.

Gamesys Ltd

The dancers were fantastic. The conditions were far from ideal with non stop torrential rain but they coped brilliantly. We had many compliments regarding their performance with many saying they were the star act! Please pass on my thanks to them and we very much hope they will be able to come back next year - when we will have the big marquee in place and no rain issues!

Many thanks for organizing everything.

Teenage Cancer Trust

The guys were BRILLIANT (Moon) – so pleased we have discovered Contraband and look forward to working with you in the future.

Many compliments from guests at the Ball and the Headmistress and staff were very impressed with the act.

Many thanks for all the arranging you did for me.

Benenden School

I wanted to say a MASSIVE thank you to Carrie (human statue) for today - she was absolutely fantastic and proved a massive hit with the school teachers and children alike!! If you can please pass on my immense gratitude to her for really making the event - her whole attitude and positivity was great and she was a pleasure to work with.

Bite CP

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know that even with the rain Friday night’s event was a big success and I was extremely pleased with the acts that we booked through you. Sholto (graffiti artist) was a pleasure to deal with and didn't moan about having to be in the rain - bless him! and Funky S were simply amazing, far better that I could have expected.

Thank you again and I hope that we work together again soon.

The Liquid Way

I thought I would write to let you know that Carrie (Human statue) was a MASSIVE hit at our stallion parade last week!

Everyone thought she was fantastic.
She caught out many people including one of our directors and countless clients!

I would be very grateful if you would pass this feedback onto her and tell her thank you very much from me and all at Darley.

Darley

I just wanted to write you another extremely satisfied email with regards to Phileus Flash – he was absolutely brilliant at both the events! Although arriving slightly late at the NHM, he really did make up for it by just cracking on and providing fabulous entertainment for our guests. He even did an impromptu stage show when we needed some time filling for 5 mins! The client was thrilled and we will definitely be booking him for our events next year. Please pass on our sincere thanks to him – he really did an amazing job!

Bite CP

Just a quick note to say it all went well last night and our guests were highly entertained. Moon fitted the bill exactly and added another dimension to a corporate event.

Many thanks for all your help in pulling this together. Please could you also pass my thanks onto Moon for also helping us to host a great evening!

Taylor Woodrow

The girls were absolutely stunning, the client loved them and the stairs’ landing was the perfect location for them to dance.

First Protocol

I just wanted to drop you an email to say how great we thought FlameOz were at both of our Zoo Nights events. This is the second year in a row that we have booked FlameOz due to high demand from our visitors and we were not disappointed! We would definitely book them again because not only are the shows so visually breathtaking, the guys are amazingly professional when dealing with our guests on site.

Please pass on my thanks to all of them who performed at Whipsnade and London, they were the highlight of the night yet again, and everybody thoroughly enjoyed their amazing performance.

ZSL London Zoo

In addition Cate (human statue) was really good this morning, she looked the part and was happy to do whatever I asked of her.

Selfridges

The boys (Tony Charles Steel Band) tonight as always… did you proud… thank you great gig and a pleasure to work with.

HMS President

Our clients County Square and The Pantiles were both delighted with the Make N Do workshop, and would love to have them again!!

Adams Creative

Thanks for being available on the phone on Saturday!

The Sax quartet’s performance was quality and they were very personable and professional.

Ten UK

I just wanted to give you feed-back for the Moon Jugglers on Saturday.

Everyone at the event thought that they were absolutely fantastic. They were very professional whilst being fun at the same time. We would definitely consider booking them again for future events and will be more than happy to use your company again for future entertainment bookings.

Many thanks for all of your help in organising this.

118188 Media

Just a few words to thank you for Amore’s wonderful performance last Monday at Forbes House.

They exceeded expectations and everybody enjoyed their songs, we had many positive comments.

I hope there will be another chance to work together in the future.

Italian Tourist Board

The girls last night were fantastic! Thank you so much.

I will defiantly be booking all my entertainment through you in the future!

Fortesqueue's Ltd Event Production

Just to let you know that Jason and Anna did a fab job on Friday, they were real hits in the office and made a real big difference to the day so thank you for this.

Betfair

Please pass on our thanks to David and Richard for the great job they did of entertaining our clients last night at the Wellington Arch event. They arrived promptly, looking smart and conducted themselves in a highly professional manner. It was a pleasure to work with them both.

Thank you again to you for your assistance in providing us with great entertainment.

Ziggy Fenton

Sorry about the delay but I thought it would be useful to give you some feedback about the entertainers we used at our event on Tuesday 20 November at the Emirates Stadium.

The football tricksters were great and made a perfect opener for both the morning keynote and the evening dinner. They were short enough to grab everyone's attention and focus them on the stage, which is just what we needed. The guys were professional and polite and a pleasure to work with.

Marc Spelmann was also a real hit. Our guests were a bit of a nightmare and talked through all the awards and speeches, with our evening MC really struggling to make himself heard. Marc suggested that the MC announce in his intro that they needed to watch the stage, as the first thing he was going to do was hammer nails into his face. It worked! A lot of people commented on how good the show was and it caught and held their attention.

The DJ had a bit of a raw deal as most people left after dinner and we had to move the p-dinner drinks to another room in order to accommodate our numbers. However, we did not find him especially helpful when trying to determine whether his kit would work in the space and this resulted in me hiring in additional sound equipment for both the main room and the drinks room in order to ensure that quality was of a sufficient standard. This said, he played the music that my host wanted and kept the atmosphere going for the stragglers.

Many thanks for all your help and have a lovely Christmas!

UK Oracle User Group

Just wanted to let you know that all of the entertainers were brilliant last night. Everything worked like clockwork and they all really went down well.

Can I ask that you pass a message to the pianist as I didn’t actually get to speak to him in the end? He called me on arrival but I was too busy to meet him and every time I walked through he was playing. I just wanted to say that I am sorry I didn’t get to meet him and that he was very good.

Thank you again for all of your help.

Farnborough International Limited

Just wanted to drop you a quick line to thank you for organising the juggler for our event.

He was fantastic and gave the event a much needed exciting entrance!

I hope we get the chance to work together again very soon.

Teenage Cancer Trust

I just wanted to say thank you so much for the people you sent to us yesterday, they were fantastic and everyone loved them!!

I have never seen a balloon artist that is so talented!

Betfair

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner. The day went very well and we were really pleased with all the performers. The stilt walkers really made an impact and the fortune teller at Preston Brook was booked out in about an hour!

AYMTM

The event was fantastic and Flame Oz were great. The team were all very friendly and professional and we had some great feedback from the guests and Whitbread staff.

Thanks so much for all your help!

Whitbread

Just wanted to write you a quick note to say thanks for all your help with organising the Balloonatic entertainment for our Christmas event on Friday – the girls were absolutely fantastic and everyone really enjoyed all their crazy balloon modelling!

The girls were very professional and really lovely to talk to – having them there helped everyone relax and made sure our night was lots of fun! I didn’t know so many things could be created with balloons – from hats to tiaras and handbags!

Please pass on our warmest thanks to the girls – we will definitely be recommending them!

Hartley Stone

We thanked Guy on Saturday night, but please do pass on our thanks to him. We lost all power to the venue at 9pm and had to run emergency lighting, cabling, etc. He and the other entertainers and the band worked tirelessly to entertain the guests whilst we got the power supply sorted out. A rather challenging evening.

Diva Events

I just wanted to let you know that yesterday was a huge success – particularly Neha! She had a long, long waiting list and worked extremely hard. Everybody was very impressed with her talent and the speed at which she worked!

Chelmer HP

I just wanted to put in writing some of the fantastic comments I have recognised from staff, customers and our competitors following the use of Titan at the ACT conference in Edinburgh last week.

The feedback received has been amazing; we were the envy of the conference!

<b>Examples of some feedback:-</b>

“The impact of Titan was AWSOME. Our friendly robot was huge loud and funny – he serenaded the women, took the micky out of the men and literally EMPTIED the other bank stands –customers and staff. The best bit was the impact on the other banks, in some cases audibly berating their marketing team and in others simply applauding. Once Titan had finished the weight of the audience were all around the Lloyds TSB stand enabling us mop up – a great success”

Colin Hemsley, Lloyds TSB, Head of Major Corporate & FI Sales

“The robot was a real winner” Everyone was talking about it. It was a great sight on the Thursday afternoon to see everyone in the hall gathered around our stand, sipping champagne and being enthralled by a Lloyds TSB robot! Perhaps I could take him along to a few customer meetings?!!!”

Jon Eltringham. Lloyds TSB, Relationship Manager

Mark and Steve’s (aka Titan!) commitment and hard work to making Titan so effective was superb and on behalf of all of the Lloyd TSB staff involved I would like to say a massive thank you.

We were proud to be associated with Titan at the conference and I look forward to working with him again in the future.

Manager, Sponsorship & Hospitality

Lloyds TSB

Please pass on our appreciation to the fabulous stilt walker last night. Our client loved her and she really made the event extra special!

Look forward to working with you again.

Warmrain

I was planning on calling you this morning. Absolutely brilliant! Jane was great and so was Matt. I saw them both in action on Saturday and they were brilliant. Couldn’t be happier with how it all turned out. The stilt walkers were also fab on Friday night. All the activity went down a treat at the park. Spoke to Nick on Sunday and he sounded happy – I did not hear from him in the evening so I think it went well.

My reading was very interesting – didn’t get a chance to do a palm reading as she was so busy. I kept contact with her over the weekend and she said that she saw at least 50 people on Saturday and 60 on Sunday. Great turnout. I think both acts worked brilliantly together.
I am very happy Archie so thank you again for all your help. I am looking forward to the next burst of activity.

ZEROFIFTYONE

She was wonderful. Please thank her for us. I would like to book her again for next year, date in late June to be arranged. Can you diary me in for a call to book. Many, many thanks to you too for working so hard to sort things after the problems with Matt.

The College of West Anglia

I just wanted to thank you for your kind support in the Art and Design Exhibition on Friday 15 June 2007. Your input was very much valued and helped to make the evening the success that it was.

The next exhibition is on Friday 13th June 2008 and as your input was so effective, I wonder if you would be willing to put us in your diary again?

Thank you again for your support, from both myself and the team.

The College of West Anglia

I just wanted to send my thanks to you for organising the casino tables for Tuesday night. Your staff were amazingly helpful, efficient and a pleasure to work with.

Did you get the payment sorted okay? Let me know if I can do anything to help if not.

Thanks again.

Seventeen Events

I just wanted to let you know that the break dancers and Angie Hula Hoop acts were absolutely amazing and helped really make the Anglo Irish Bank Regatta go well. It was a great evening and Claire and everyone else were really pleased with the whole event. Please pass on my thanks to the entertainers. They really were easy to get on with and put on a spectacular performance.

Thanks

J2 Communications

Just thought I’d drop you a quick line about our ‘Green Festival’ which we held in Cathedral Square, Peterborough on Saturday 26th May, with ‘Poles Apart’ as our entertainment feature.

We thought they were brilliant, the costumes were well made and absolutely stunning, they were real crowd pullers, and entertained not only with their music but also their humour, please pass on our thanks.

I would have no hesitation in recommending them to anyone.

Hereward FM - Sponsorship, Promotions & Interactive Executive

Re: Jane the Fortune teller- Pembroke College ball May 11th 2007

I am writing to express my sincere thanks for the part Contraband and Jane played in making the Pembroke College Ball 2007 such a great success. It was truly a pleasure to have Jane at our event and she was certainly a key contributor to making the event such a hit with our guests. What a lovely professional lady!

I would also like to thank you and your team at Contraband for your help in advising on and booking the entertainment for the ball. I will certainly have no hesitation in passing on your contract details for the next committee who will be organising the same event in 2009.

Many thanks for everything and I look forward to the possibility of working with you or Jane again in the future.

Entertainment Organiser for the Pembroke Ball 2007

Hi all

Just a note to say thanks for last night on the Erasmus! I had lots of lovely emails from our customers today saying how much they enjoyed the evening and they all said how great the band was.

Your song selection was spot on again and made everyone want to get up and dance.

If you ever get asked for a reference before people book Objayda for their events, I’d be very happy to provide one.

Hope to see you again at one of our future events!

Mastek(UK) Limited

I wanted to write to Contraband to let you know that Neha was just brilliant at our Multicultural event last Friday. She worked extremely hard from the moment she set up to the moment she left which was a solid 4 hours. Her work is very artistic and of very high quality, and she dealt with the last student with the same enthusiasm and patience as the first student – and she must have tattooed well over 100 students at least!

We will certainly be requesting her back next year.

Many, many thanks for providing such a good artist for our event.

Brockenhurst College

Just to let you know that our event went very well on Tuesday and all four acts were very well received. I didn’t get to see them before they left to say thank you.

Would you pass on our thanks and let them know that the feedback from our guests was excellent.

Thanks for all your help with this one Lauren! No doubt I’ll be in touch again soon.

Invoice is going up to accounts for payment today, so should be settled early next week.

Incisive Media

Thank you for recommending Southern Band, they were amazing, music was great too.

Caroline the balloon modeller was really good; she made the kids’ day. She worked really hard and I had to force her to have a break or she would not stop working.

Helen was fantastic and really cute too. We really hope to have her again; actually we hope to have the same team again.

My boss and I would like to say a big thank you.

SML Events

Please see below testimonial from one of our Partners, James Hartley, regarding Nick, who performed at our event.

"I'm not easily impressed, but Nick did just that. He mingled well and was adept at selecting his tricks to suit either small groups of guests who happened to be standing together or on a one-to-one basis".

Nabarro

I wanted to write to let you know that our private screening of the new Harry Potter movie at the Electric Cinema on Monday night.

We have received tremendous feedback from the hosts and the attendees on how much fun they had on the night.

Please can you pass on our thanks to Jem and to the owl handler - so many people have commented on how special they made the evening. They were so good with the clients and the children who attended were really in awe.

We appreciate your help on this event and look forward to working with you on another event soon.

Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd

I wanted to write to Contraband to let you know that Neha was just brilliant at our Multicultural event last Friday. She worked extremely hard from the moment she set up to the moment she left which was a solid 4 hours. Her work is very artistic and of a very high quality, and she dealt with the last student with the same enthusiasm and patience as the first student – and she must have tattooed well over 100 students at least!

We will certainly be requesting her back next year.

Many, many thanks for providing such a good artist for our event.

Brockenhurst College

Murder Mystery Boat Cruise

Just a quick letter to say a very big thank you for last night!

We had a really great time and numbers are somewhat thin here in the office this morning which I take to mean that people enjoyed themselves.

The play was great fun and the feed back here this morning has been very good. Staff said it added just the right balance to a fun evening.

Even God shined on us with the weather to make for a memorable event.

Thank you again and please pass my grateful thanks to all the team.

Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin

I am writing to thank you for all your hard work in making our Summer Ball on 8 June such a success, your performers created a magnificent event.

The ball was a complete sell-out which wouldn’t have been possible without your contribution.

We look forward to using your services again for future events.

St Mary's College

I would like to thank them for an amazing show at our event on Monday and also send them some pictures that were taken at the event. Many thanks for helping to make the arrangements; we will definitely be using them again!

Birmingham University

Just want to say a very BIG THANK YOU; Maria Louisa was an absolute hit! What a wonderful lady.

Thank you.

Hawes & Curtis

Just a quick thank you to all your entertainers and for their help on our event on Friday 15th December 2006, please see below for our feedback.

Prior to Event:
All your help and research into Victorian/Christmas entertainers was really appreciated.

Event:
- The Royal Footmen were very popular and kept everyone entertained from the minute they arrived and throughout dinner.
- The Silhouette artists were brilliant, they managed to get around everyone who wanted one.
- FUNKology were a great success and had everyone up dancing.
- The DJ was great and he played all the songs that were requested.

Powwow

Bongo Bolero

If you could just let them know that it was a pleasure to meet them and I hope we are able to use them again in the future.

Thanks for all of your help.

Birmingham University

'Contraband have been a major asset to the Brewery and have contributed to the Brewery's many successes over the last year, including entertainers over 19,000 guests during the festive season. The team continue to provide innovate ideas and solutions which are key to our own concept development and staging truly unique events. I always find the team to be helpful, enthusiastic and creative'

'Contraband have helped create some key events at the Brewery. The team have used their unique event industry experience to ensure that our events are more exciting than ever'

'The evening was enjoyed by all an the Eighties theme has been the best yet - we were particularly impressed by the DJ'

Merrill Lynch

The Brewery

The event did go well thank you and Joelle was fantastic. She stayed a lot later than she expected to and then we got her a taxi home.

Any more business I need, I will give you a shout.

Indeprod

Thank you very much for the Austin Powers look-a-like you provided for our sixties event this week. He performed to a high standard and really entertained the call centre agents.

We look forward to working with you again in the near future.

Haygarth

Just a quick note to say how well everything went at the party. Your guys were a huge success - Tariq especially was amazing.

Ten UK

By the way the Cossack Dancers were brilliant! They were a super, super hit.

Would love to stay in touch with you and source more for India.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Seventy India

Hope this finds you well & many thanks for Jane and Sara-Louise for our party, they were great.

The Elvetham

Just to let you know that Fiona the Balloon Modelist was excellent. She performed to a very high standard and made a lot of our call centre agents very happy.

Thank you very much for providing us with a fantastic entertainer.

Haygarth

Can you say a big thank you to Neha from us – she was fab!

Looking forward to seeing her at the next one in April.

Provoke PR

I would like to say a big thank you to May the Face Painter who attended our event on Saturday 17th February 2007 the children absolutely loved it and the face painting designs were great. We also had a brilliant event with a good turn out from residents.

Catalyst Housing Group

The event was a huge success, thank you so much for all your help with it. There was nothing in particular in terms of feedback, just that everyone absolutely loved it!

All the agents got really involved and I think it was great for them to be involved in something so different from what they spend all day doing. From what I know the practitioners were all excellent and very well received - so much so that the call centre have actually asked us to come back and run another 'Chill Out' event in the near future! So I'm sure I'll be in touch some time soon with details of this.

Many thanks again for all your help and patience with the constantly changing arrangements!

Haygarth

Just want to pass on our thanks to you and Jane for Friday night. The party went well and Jane was a big hit - she was so busy which is great. Please do pass on my thanks to her - although not sure about the twin’s prediction for me!!!

Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw

Just wanted to pass on my thanks for Tommy's efforts on Saturday, he was truly amazing and the couple loved his performance. I am sure they will pass on their thanks when they get back off their honeymoon.

The White Swan London

Thanks for your email. The event went really, really well and the swans were fab! The girls were lovely and very professional – we will definitely want to use them again!

Harvey Nichols

Just a quick note to thank you with your help arranging Nick and Tariq for us last week - they were brilliant and such nice guys too.

Ascot Underwriting

Just to let you know that everyone I have spoken to thoroughly enjoyed the Spring Ball on Saturday 17th March 2007 at the Marriott Forest of Arden Hotel. Could you please pass on my thanks to Simon (our Dame Edna Everage) for his wonderful contribution to the evening? Everyone said he was brilliant and a major part of the success of the evening. I don't know how we can top Simon for next year's event!

Once again thank you for a superb evening.

Please pass my thanks on to both Simon and his make-up artist Dale.

Skanska Civil Engineering

Just to say that Neha was fantastic as always yesterday.

Please send her my very best & I hope she has recovered – the poor thing was suffering from terrible allergies last night.

Capital VIP

(re Sand sculpture)

The rest of the conference went really well, thank you. We de-rigged from 2am on Friday morning and locked the doors on the truck at 6.30am.

Our local guys re-bagged the sand in 2 hours; a local builder had the sand in the end, so it didn't go on the beach.

Thanks again to Remy & yourself; it was great working with you both. I'm sure our paths will cross in the future.

The delegates are all quoting you now "dry sand is our enemy". :-)

West End Studios

“Everything went very well with all of the performers. They were very professional and we didn't have any problems at all."

Flight Centre

“Thank you for arranging all of the performers for us, they all did brilliant jobs!"

Mask

“Is there any chance you can pass on my thanks to the band last night as I didn’t get a chance and had to run off to catch a train? They were fantastic and extremely accommodating – The clients said they were fab!"

Topchart

“I wanted to thank you for all your help on the Showcase at Billingsgate Below last week. I think it all ran very smoothly and the hard work that you and your star performers put in on this contributed hugely to this. With any luck the whole of the Christmas run will be just as smooth and a lot more fun!"

Mask

“Everything was brilliant, thank you. Everybody loved Jane the Tarot lady - they said she was spot on, which was spooky!!

Tattoos were amazing - everyone woke up the next morning forgetting they had them done! The massage was very relaxing – was definitely needed after a hectic day!!

Thanks again for all your help and we will no doubt be in touch early November to arrange the Christmas party."

FEREF

"THANK YOU!!!

Thanks to everyone for the brilliant job developed at the Festival. It has been very successful and it has been such a pleasure dealing with all of you.

Thank you for making easy the difficult.

If any of you ever need something from Madrid, I would be so pleased to help you.

Hope to see you again."

Bocados de Comunicacion

“The feedback for Dean Ager was very positive and the event manager on the night said he was very entertaining and interactive with his audience."

The Brewery

“The stilt walkers looked fab, the massage girls were lovely and hard working and Jane the mystic was a big hit so very, very happy with everything!"

Habitat

“Jodie and Ping and the Steel Band were great! Thanks for you help with them.

A lady from Starbucks will call you as they would like to book the Steel Band again for another Starbucks event."

Eclipse Conference Management

“Just wanted to let you know that the face painters were a huge success at both Romford (which was very last minute--big thanks) as well as Sheffield. There was a queue for both these events, and for all the new store openings we had this season.

You were all very helpful getting thing sorted so promptly for me, with such big success from all the events.

So a very big thank you from myself on behalf of H&M.”

H & M

“Thanks so much for last night, all your guys where great, especially the dancers and tequila girls, they really got into it and looked like they where having a good time (even if they weren’t!!).

Thanks as well to you and Freddy for coming down for those few hours, it made things so much easier!!!

Thanks again mate!!"

Logistik

“I just wanted to drop you a note to say thank you with regards to the Fashion Show. The event was a huge success and your guys were amazing.

We had so many enquiries about the guys and their services so I’m hoping that it generated potential new business for you. ROC is also hosting a client evening at Bond Street with the switching on of the Bond Street Lights. It’s my pleasure to invite you to attend and I hope to see you there to say thank you personally.

Thanks again for everything."

Roc Recruitment

“Thank you very much to you and your team - the night was a great success and the clients are extremely happy. Feedback has been fab."

Logistik

“Thanks so very much.

The event was great and the dancers were fantastic! They were really enthusiastic and very easy to work with and did a superb job... The show on the whole went off really well and we're really glad to have worked through you. Do give us any feedback you may receive from the dancers: it would be great to hear what they have to say about their first such experience!"

India Seventy

“I just wanted to let you know that last night went extremely well. The jazz trio were great – very nice guys!! I think that music was perfect for the space we were in and it really created a better buzz in the room. Lady Grey was also excellent.

Thanks again for your help with the entertainment.

Incisive Media

“A big thank you for all your arrangements and work over the whole day - it all went well and was seen as a big success. I will try and send some windows media files of her performing if possible."

Crystal Palace Football Club

“I just wanted to drop you a note as we have just had our debrief following the leg of store openings we have done this year. The feedback the team gave about Contraband, you in particular, was very positive. They commented on your fast response and appropriateness of the people you are suggesting. I just wanted to let you know and give a big thank you to you and your team.

Here’s to the next lot!!

Logistik

Thank you so much - the dancers were superb & really sweet as well. I hope they had a nice time performing as much as we enjoyed seeing them perform. Hope they were comfortable & had a good flight back. I really enjoyed working with them & hope to do lots more work together.

Thanks once again.

India Seventy

Hope your well, just a quick email to say thanks for the acts you provided over the week end - they were all really nice people and did an amazing job, if you would pass that message on for me that would be great.

Sales were up 170% on the launch day which we were very pleased with.

Comet

“Just a note to say thanks – the Flame Oz team were a success. The feedback was positive, I got a little stick for choosing all male performers but they couldn’t complain as the show was indeed spectacular. The fireworks at the end were a big hit.

Thanks again – I will indeed keep Contraband in-mind for future events. I’m particularly keen to see the angle grinding or human waiters!"

Augmentis

“I hope you are well. Just to let you know that the event on Friday was excellent! Sera and the MIB were professional and fantastic. The crowd loved them!

Thank you for your help with this and I look forward to meeting the band again soon."

Leapfrog International

“I thought I would take the opportunity to feedback on Alex Crow and Neith who performed at our Christmas event yesterday evening.

I was incredibly impressed with both acts who arrived promptly and impressed the audience very much.

Alex was incredibly personable and I have had a number of people comment positively this morning.

Please pass on our thanks to both performers for their professionalism and creativity."

Fusion Insurance

Many thanks for all of your help in making our event so successful.

Girlguiding

Just a quick email to say thank you to Contraband once again! The masseuses, manicurists and Victoria (Beckham) were all excellent. Everyone involved was professional, friendly and a pleasure to work with.

Haygarth

Eurostar's 10th Anniversary:

"Archie - your entertainers were unique & worked well on the train and at the venue. Paul's caricatures were ideal light entertainment for onboard without being too in your face, instead, helping to create a unique travelling experience. As for the paparazzi, our red carpet wouldn't have been the same without them. Our agents were greeted as real celebs, so much so I think some of them thought they actually were!"

The OK stand was practically as busy as the dance floor. On entering the venue some agents were heard to be saying 'I didn't know OK were going to be here!’ The boys worked relentlessly all night to guarantee our guests went home with a unique Eurostar gift to show off. Please thank Paul, Guy, Andrew, Ross, Aaron & David for all their hard work and professionalism throughout the event. I will certainly be recommending them for future events and to clients.

Again - thank you to everyone who made this event possible and most importantly, UNDOUBTEDLY MEMORABLE!"

Eurostar

“Thanks so much for your help, all the entertainment for our client event was fabulous. Many thanks again and we look forward to working with you for our next event."

Anglo Irish Bank

“Now the MFI conference is over and normality resumes, I just wanted to say many thanks for your help with the tattooing. Sarah’s work was excellent and I'm sure we must have tested her patience! I will be in touch should I have any requirements for your wide range of services in the future. Again, many thanks for all your help,"

MFI UK

“This is to say thank you for all the effort that Contraband International put in to organising our Christmas Party in December 2004. Your professionalism, enthusiasm, dependability and humour made working with your organisation a pleasure. The Marquee, lighting and all the detail that went into making the Bollywood theme come alive created an extraordinary atmosphere and ambience, making it the best Christmas do we've had for a long time. To say everybody had a good time would be an understatement! Should we consider another Bollywood theme, your company would be our first point of contact. Thank you again and happy organising!"

UK Marketing, Tesco

"Just a quick letter to thank you so much for the entertainment which you provided for our recent event in Dublin. We were working to a very tight budget and timeline and the flexibility and customer service which you offered me was fantastic. At Logistik we expect the highest levels of professionalism and performance in everything which we do. The entertainers which we had on site not only met but exceeded these expectations. Thanks again for all your work during this job. As an introduction to Contraband I could not have been more impressed. I look forward to working with you again soon."

Logistik Ltd

"Many thanks for your assistance in providing us with entertainment for our recent BMW 3 Series launch at our dealerships in the South East. All 3 events were a great success and your prompt attention and advice was greatly appreciated. We will definitely contact you again should we be looking for entertainment for any of our future dealership events and again many thanks for all your help."

The Whitehouse Group Ltd

"I, Saleena Bhoyroo BSC HONS Marketing Manager for Daewoo would like to congratulate Ms Archie Archer and all the team at Contraband International for their outstanding contribution to the GM Daewoo Showroom Launch.

Your patience and professionalism was highly appreciated, not to mention the smiling faces you brought to the children at our launch. I anticipate a long term working relationship with Contraband and the General Motors Family."

Daewoo Motors

RE: Chief Scout's Picnic, Gilwell Park - 5th September 2004

"A day enjoyed by all and I don't think I have ever seen such a wide and bizarre range of entertainers at a Scouting event are just two out of the many, many comments I have received about the entertainers you supplied for the Chief Scouts Picnic.

Your range of entertainers is great! The fact that you can see them all on the website made it easy to decide on what type of entertainers and equipment I wanted to make the event go off with a bang. Which it did!
I wanted to say a big thank you for all your help you gave me with the event. From the moment I first emailed you with a very vague sort of idea as to what I might want, to you being very understanding when everything was getting behind on schedule on the day, I am forever grateful. I was about ready to pull my hair out, but your professionalism and the professionalism of the entertainers you supplied, saw me through the afternoon and made the event a great success for all those who attended.

On a personal level, dealing with you has always been a pleasure because of your friendly, helpful and warm approach; I hope in the future that I get work with you again!"

The Scout Association

“I would like to thank you on behalf of our company for the part you played recently in our Corporate Annual Dinner at The Langham Hilton Hotel. The onsite management you supplied was invaluable to us on the night as we had taken the brave step not to use external party planners!

The Belly Dancer, Maria Louisa, set the evening entertainment off to a great start after dinner. Her act was fabulous to watch, and to participate in I’m told! Her dignity and grace made her act appeal to all of our guests. I’m told that she spent some of the latter part of the evening mingling with our guests and dancing with them – please thank her for giving that additional input.

The Bhangra Dance Troupe, Virsa Punjab, were simply outstanding. Having never witnessed anything like that before myself I was wide-eyed and completely enthralled throughout. Their energy and enthusiasm set the level for the rest of the evening and I can’t thank them enough for getting the dancing started – our staff were literally running on to the dance floor to join them!

Your henna-designs were a massive hit for those “in the know” and for the novices amongst us. Thanks so much for your patience and speed of delivery, both of which meant that as many staff who wanted were able to sport a henna tattoo.

It was a real pleasure meeting you and I hope that our paths will cross again in the future."

First Rate Travel

"I am writing to you for running Tattoo Art at the Museum over the October half term. It was lovely to hold an event that the visitors don't normally expect to see in the Science Museum and the visitors really enjoyed it, the children loved their tattoos and we all enjoyed watching their reactions. We had some really positive comments from visitors and staff alike. Thank you again and I look forward to working with you in the future."

The Science Museum

"Many thanks for a great evening's work."

Clerical Medical

"This is to state that Countrywide Porter Novelli PR agency recommends Contraband Ltd. Their work for us at Brighton Pride was great. They were professional and their work was of high quality."

Countrywide Porter Novelli

"Fantastic event, the customers loved it, real fun for the store on a busy Saturday - thank you for all of your hard work."

Safeway

"Keelan and Miss Trixta performed at our Company Masked Ball.

Keelan amazed everyone with his incredible speed and ability; there were gasps and rounds of applause around him all night.

Miss Trixta was Bliss. Her skill at making almost anything out of balloons is fantastic. The balloon caricatures had such an uncanny likeness to their models and I adore my angel wings. Thank you must also go to Rochelle for suggesting and organising such talented performers. I would definitely use Contraband Events again and I am telling anyone who will listen what a great Company you are. Thank you very much for making our event fabulous."

Global Marine Systems Limited

"We had the pleasure of Archie's professional services at World Travel Market 03. As part of a campaign, to promote the friendly people and year round sunshine in Tenerife a logo was designed to represent 'sunshine and smiles'. Archie reproduced the logo in the form of Henna Tattoos. She was a pleasure to work with - extremely well presented, friendly and professional. I would have no hesitation in recommending Archie for corporate functions."

World Travel Market 03

"Re: Trouble TV Freakin Famous Event 2002

Everyone had such a great time and really enjoyed your products at the party. They went down very well and I even had to drag my lookalike employees away as they wanted to get tattooed instead of working. You are very professional and we look forward to working with you again at our next event or party."

Event Producer

"Thanks so much for coming along to our Indian Themed Supper last week. Everyone had a wonderful time, and lots of people said how much they enjoyed your tattoos. We'll definitely book you again for next year's supper! I'll bear you in mind for any other events we have too. Thanks again"

International Students House

"If only all promoters / agents were as efficient as you my job would be bliss!"

Agent to Panjabi MC

"Just a quick note to say thanks for the wonderful Actors you provided us with for the BP Party at Alexandra Palace last Saturday. Their punctuality, performances and general rapport with the guests was superb which really attend to the authenticity of the 'Around the World in Eighty Days' event. Please pass on mine & Jon's thanks to all of them and we look forward to working with you again in the not too distant future.

Weird & Wonderful

Hi Archie, The event was a great success and the entertainers were fantastic, We had some great comments from our customers and all involved really enjoyed the day. It would not have run so smoothly without your planning and the help from Rochelle on the day. I will get something down on paper for you and I really hope to work with you again. Once again many thanks

John Lewis

"Thank you for arranging the two henna artists for the Tourism Malaysia event at Bluewater. They were both very talented and we had a great response from the public.

Many thanks for all your help in organising the artists and for being patient with all the time changes. We will definitely keep Contraband International Ltd on our files so that we can involve you in future events."

Seal Communications

"Further to our telephone conversation earlier today I would like to thank you once again for the excellent service provided by yourself and your face painter on the day Lorna.

Although not a huge turnout everybody who saw Lorna's work was very impressed and stated that it was the best they had seen. She has a lovely calming nature and all the children felt very comfortable with her.
Thanks again, we shall certainly keep your details for future events."

Harron Homes

"The oxygen bar went down really well! The staff were very friendly and I will definitely recommend them to other colleges.

Exeter College, Oxford University

"I am very pleased with the weekend’s events. The store Manager and our event Manager said that the store had a record breaking weekend with sales and lots of people were entertained and impressed by the store opening. The DJ, face painters and entertainer once again did an outstanding job and I am delighted with the pictures and the feedback that I got from our event Manager.

It was a shame about the weather (rained mostly all weekend) but I gather that this drove visitors into the store so maybe it was a blessing. Please pass on my regards to everyone that helped make the weekend a success, they did a fabulous job!"

Capital Event Marketing (Comet)

"On behalf of EDF Energy Customer Field Services, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and the others in your company for the highly professional service we received. The popcorn, candy floss machines and the caricaturists went down a treat. In future I will be recommending your company throughout the EDF Energy Group. Please thank everyone who made our experience a very pleasant one."

EDF Energy

“I just wanted to send a note of thanks to Any & Ross and Gary Jaimeson who attended our opening here at the Hotel on Thursday 28th April. They were brilliant and we have had some great feedback about them. (Paparazzi Photographers)

Can you please pass on my thanks to them?"

Express By Holiday Inn - London Stanstead Airport

"A superb night had by all! All your people were professional and great fun. A won't hesitate to recommend you and look forward to the next time we can use you to entertain us. Many thanks"

Newsquest (Sussex) Ltd Head Office

"The models and body painter we hired for our recent event were very professional and done a great job in attracting people to our stand. Please thank Sarah, Paul and Kerry for all there hard work."

Schering-Plough Animal Health

"Just a quick note to say Thank You for providing some excellent entertainment for our launch event last Thursday.

The two guys who did the photography were great. Two likeable chaps that looked and played the part tremendously. And thanks to Contraband enabling the images to be viewed online less than 24 hours later, our guests can't hide from the embarrassment. And what can I say about Fantasy Photos. Money more than well spent. These guys were great. Good characters and great at their job. I'm sure all the guests had more than one image taken of themselves. Everything from sports buddies to a dominatrix secretary appeared on the visual screens. I'm sure that the hilarity continued into the office the following day. Thank you Contraband for all your help with organising and managing our entertainment, we will certainly be back for more for our future events."

Mustard PR

Dean was fantastic again, the General Manager made a point of seeing me today to say how pleased he was, everyone loves him! He's back in again tomorrow.

The face painters were great too; they were both really good with the children and looked fantastic. I was speaking to one of the managers in Toys and whoever you sent in yesterday were great too.

I've just been down to see the violinists and they sound and look really great so thanks Archie for all that.

Have a great Christmas!

John Lewis Oxford Street

I just wanted to drop you a quick email to say Lauren worked so hard on our event, she was calm efficient and thankfully jogged my memory throughout the organisation. She really was a star.

Sidley Austin

Just to let you know everything was great last night,

The casino was a big hit (I think they had to pack up to get rid of everyone!) and everyone was very impressed with Nick - I'm sure we will be in contact for future events.

Pentland

Just to say a big thank you for arranging the paparazzi for our event. The guys are obviously extremely talented photographers and were very friendly and great to have around; needless to say our customers loved having their photos taken!

Many thanks

H R Owen

Last night went really well. The impact from the bear was amazing and he is a really great act. I am glad we got in there first because I am sure once word gets around he is going to be used loads for events. The guys were fantastic and very professional and I would have no hesitation in working with them again.

The band as always were very easy to work with, very professional and sounded great. I am very grateful to them for doing the extra hour that got me out of a bit of a hole.

The Brewery

Dear All

Please excuse the group email, but I just wanted to get a "speedy" note out to you all to say a HUGE thank you for your contribution to this year's Bloomberg Party at Wrotham Park.

It was a great day and all the artists and performers and activity providers behaved beautifully!!

Thanks for all the time and effort that you have put in over the last few months investigating various entertainers and entertainment and relentlessly sticking at it and then proceeding to gather and present all paperwork on time and to brief.

We have been complemented by Bloomberg on having a great variety of imaginative entertainment. The party was a huge success, especially with the sun coming out for most of the day. We had record attendance and lots of great feedback with regards all the fabulous things there was to do and the quality of entertainment you provided.

Thanks a million for being part of it.

VS Creative Ltd

Jazz 251 were brilliant. They were friendly, fun and professional, and managed to play music to suit our event which had a wide age range of 18-60. I would definitely book them again!!

Unfortunately our BBQ was a bit smoky so the photos of them have come out rather hazy, otherwise I would have sent them to you.

Please thank them again on our behalf as they were great.

Absolute Events

Re: Jugglers & Magicians - Friday 20th July - Farrar's Building

I just wanted to thank you formally for organizing fantastic entertainment for out Chambers' Summer Party.

All the performers were very professional and very friendly. They worked well together and all are extremely talented.

We have had a number of quests make very appreciative remarks in their responses to the party, which surely shows that we got it right!

Please ensure that the enclosed cheque is split between Nick, Tariq, Ian and Matt, with our grateful thanks.

We have some good photos of Ian and Matt, in full flow, which I will arrange to pass on, if they would be of assistance to you.

Many thanks again for an excellent choice. Your 'dream team' certainly worked for us.

Farrar's Building

Just a quick note to tell you I was so happy to have your guys on site. Your guys did a wonderful job and we got amazing response on the sculpture. It's still there you know that? Right in the centre of the Bull Dog Bash event - which takes place on the same site and is a Hells Angels Event!

Angel Music Group Limited

I just wanted to say thank you for your help. Gary is a great entertainer and a big hit at Sidley Austin (as I'm sure he is everywhere). Everything went really well.

Sidley Austin

The whole event far exceeded our expectations and has been deemed a huge success. The creatures and flying buttresses were superb; the staff are still talking about it!

What more can I say but thank you and of course a big thank you to all your performers?

Truffles Bakery

I just wanted to say a big thanks for the acts you supplied, they went down extremely well and the clients were really pleased.

Secure Prospect

I just wanted to pass on my thanks for your help in providing a coconut shy and skittle alley for ASDA House yesterday. The event proved to be a success and we have a very happy client from it.

Thank you for arranging the "monkey skittles" - they looked great!!

Thanks again

Momentum

I will collate the photos taken and send them to you.

The cast were very professional and people I will use again.
Each had strengths to attract crowds, promote our messages and generate fun.

Westminster City Council

I just wanted to say a big thanks for the acts you supplied, they went down extremely well and the clients were really pleased.

Secure Prospects

Thought I would pop over a picture that I have just had in of our Heaven and Hell evening at Luton Rugby Club.

Our "Human Statue" was absolutely brilliant and he really looked and acted the part, he even scared me and I knew what he was up to! - thank you so much for organising for us and look forward to using your services again soon.

Above & Beyond Event Management

I just wanted to send you an email to say thanks for Feeding the Fish, they were great! Their performance was the most talked about thing all evening, and they were excellent to deal with, both before and during their performance. If you could please pass on my thanks to them both that would be fantastic.

Axios Systems

The cast were very professional and people I will use again.
Each had strengths to attract crowds, promote our messages and generate fun.

Thank you

Westminster City Council

Sorry for the delay, but I just wanted to thank you for supplying the make up and dance teachers. The events went really well.

Roz, the dance teacher was the star of the show - I will definitely put her first on my list for the future!

Neon Comms

Thanks so much to you and MIB for Saturday night. The band was absolutely fantastic, got everyone up and dancing and really got the party started. The feedback we have had from all guests was that they were brilliant.

Fundraising wise we raised £40k which was double our original target. Considering the tickets were only £50 each it was a hell of a result.

Please thank all the band for playing such a pivotal part in a wonderful night. I can't wait to see them again at Christmas.

All the Brewery management and staff in the room were suitably wowed as well.

Thanks again for your help, we really appreciate it.

The Brewery

Hi Helen, just dropping you a quick line to say thanks for helping us put together Friday night at the UT Summer Party. The additional furniture really finished off the room and it looked great.

We were really happy with the way things ran and there were lots of smiles as people were leaving, which is the main thing!

Needless to say, we would love to work with you again but in the meantime hope all goes well with you.

Adams Creative

The party was a GREAT success! Thank you thank you thank you.

The champagne glass girl, despite being expensive, went down VERY well on the entrance - everyone thought that was great. She was very stunning too which helped! The ice sculpture was fab and placed as you walk in for everyone to see. It turned into a champagne luge towards the end of the evening! The roulette and blackjack were so popular! I should of had 4 tables perhaps. Both Neith & Angie were fab as suspected. Everyone has been talking about them.

Thank you to you Archie & Helen for being so quick & organised in finding me Acts. I will definitely be using you again!

GE Commercial Finances

I would like to tell you that we really appreciated the magician and 2 tequila girls on Sept 25th for our event.

GL Trade

I just wanted to say thank you for your help. Gary is a great entertainer and a big hit at Sidley Austin (as I'm sure he is everywhere). Everything went really well.

Sidley Austin

(re Dani B - Ali G)

It was absolutely fantastic. Everyone loved it and enjoyed participating in the 'banter'. He never over stepped the mark in terms of content so no-one was offended and everyone just thoroughly enjoyed it.

Definitely to be recommended!

Handelsbanken Capital Markets

(Re dance instructor and make up artist for Disney High School musical)

I want to thank you for booking Roz and Serife for the Lakeside activity last weekend, they were both brilliant. Roz is so good with the kids and her routine wet down really well.

I have enclosed a few pictures of the activities taking place for your reference.

Neon Comms

I just wanted to pass on my thanks for your help in providing a coconut shy and skittle alley for ASDA House yesterday. The event proved to be a success and we have a very happy client from it.

Thank you for arranging the "monkey skittles" - they looked great!!

Momentum

Its all gone well. Guess Christopher and the rest team at DWTC was on site and they are pleased with the look feel of the stand, as explained to me by Helen, our colleague from UK.

Let me attach 3 images which we could gather until now (prior to the easels and images going in there)

On behalf of the entire team at ARC Lights we extend our deepest appreciation for having faith in our team to deliver the job and we look forward to many more.

Kudos to the London team who finally made it happen and of course Darshan.

cheers

The Arc Lights

Thanks for making what was almost impossible possible.

IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING.

The Arc Lights

Thank you once again in making this happen. Judging by the images sent, I must say I am very pleased with the outcome. Our team in Cannes were very pleased as well I must say.

Thanks & Regards

Dubai World Trade Centre

Last night went well. Phillippa and Nick are great (balloon modeller and magician)

Thank you for arranging everything!

Concept Global

I had a great night on the 6th and I think everyone else did as well. The performers were excellent, and I'm glad Angie (hula hooper) liked the area set out for her!

Many thanks, and please pass the feedback onto the performers.

Southern Water

Yes the event went very well and the entertainers were very enthusiastic and certainly attracted extra visitors, which was our main aim.

So please pass on our thanks to them all for their help and energy! (Firefly)

Cathedral Group

I know it's a little after the event, but I've been working elsewhere. I just wanted to say thanks for all your help in our preparation for the Madrid job, and please pass on my huge thanks to Fish. They were an absolute joy to work with, and so flexible considering the restrictions of the room, and all their help in the awards presentations was really appreciated. I hope to be able to work with both them and you again.

Aspect Ltd

I'm happy to say that the event was very successful. Both groups did their jobs very well and were excellent in getting the crowd involved and exited during their performances. (Fish and Chris Cross – Escapologist)

I hope we'll be able to use more of your services in the near future with other events.

Thanks for your support.

Taktikal Dubai

SAM SAM was just great! Both myself as the Event Manager at GPJ and the IBM client were extremely delighted to have Sam Sam the Bubble man on the IBM stand. He is a great entertainer who mesmerized the crowds with his mysterious bubble acts and his quiet yet charming demeanour.

I am delighted to have met Sam and look forward to recommending his services to clients/colleagues on future events.

Thank you to you too for all your help.

George P. Johnson

Just wanted to let you know that we have now had some feedback from our client. The event went exceptionally well and Lombard were extremely pleased with the hula hooping (Arabesque). Apparently it drew a great deal of attention and generally went down a storm! Lombard thought the act itself was amazing and the contortionist movements that were incorporated made it completely relevant as well as crowd-pleasing.

Thank you again for all your help with this, and now we know where to go for any other unusual requests we may get!

Oneninety Communications

The Viennese Ball on Friday was fantastic, and a big thanks to Gerri (and I didn’t get the guys name!) from Anonymous as they were fabulous and a massive hit with our guests!

Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank

It was a fantastic day and the client was absolutely delighted with everything. The performers were just great and I think they all enjoyed themselves too. Please send them a big thank you as some of them I didn’t manage to see at the end.

Once we’ve had a chance to go through the photographs I’ll send you some to look at.

Thanks for all your help and I hope that we’ll be able to work together again soon!

Adams Creative

I just wanted to thank you for organising the belly dancers last Friday. They were both excellent as it wasn't an easy job since everyone was sober!

Anyway, they were excellent and very versatile and I would not hesitate to use them again and also to use Contraband again to book my entertainment through.

Thanks again for all of your assistance.

TTT Moneycorp Ltd

They were superb and went down really well with the client. They really helped bring the theme of the event to life. Our awards ceremony ran at half the anticipated time, so we had to rush the guys on fairly quickly, but they coped brilliantly with this (had we waited, we would have lost the audience to the bar area). Really great job.

Thanks for your help and please pass on my thanks to them.

Hunky Dory

Just a quick email to say thank you for sorting out our pianist last night, he was great and worked really well and was very nice guy. Please pass on my thanks to him and will add him to my list of rebooks!

What an amazing day, although wish I was still in bed not so good at 4am finishes anymore!

Anglo Irish Bank

Just a quick email to say thank you for making our party at Shoreditch Town Hall last night so successful and thanks for being so flexible, I know our agenda was rather random but it worked perfectly. If we used your suppliers, please pass on my thanks and gratitude.

If anyone wants to see photos of the night, just let me know.

Many thanks again

Involve UK

I just wanted to shoot you an email to say thanks for your help with our event. Andy was great and a huge hit! People loved him and his football skills were awesome.

Thanks.

International Engineering Consortium

Just wanted to say a huge thank you to Kim and Sarah at the Royal Windsor Horse Show. They were very professional and ‘catered’ for all ages of children in a very hot marquee.

Please pass on my thanks to them both,

Balmlane

As always they were gr8! (Tony Charles)

HMS President

All went brilliantly thank you.

Will be in touch next time we need anything.
Thanks

Quantum

Everything was excellent and Simon with Alex amazing! Everyone was very enthusiastic and surely the show added value to our status in the technology market.
We have to thank you very much for your help and support and I hope to work together soon.
For your info, people have been asking me about the show so in any case I will address them to you.
Give my warm regards to Fish!

Unisystems

Thanks for your support, everything went as per plan and successful.
We will settle your invoice this week.

Hope to deal with you in near future

Barker Shoes

Sorry for the delay. I just wanted to give you some feed back on the team building day. Steve was brilliant. Great fun. Everything went well and the giant crane turned out great!

Thank you very much for all your assistance.

We will definitely consider your company again for future events.

Thanks again

Sharp Electronics

It was a fab event and Marianne was truly brilliant! Everyone loved her!

Thanks for everything and we will get in touch for future events.

Chase PR

Thanks for your email. It all went really well thank you – please pass on my thanks to Tony Charles and his bad as I didn’t have a chance to say goodbye to them! They were great!

I managed to say thanks and bye to Chris and Paul who also entertained our guests very well.

Thanks so much for your help.

Incisive Media

The Blade Babes were great thanks Archie. The evening went really well.

J2 Promotions

Would it be possible to pass on my huge, huge, huge thanks to both performers from the Friday 13th booking; I can honestly say that they were both the best I have ever booked for any event I have run, and both in one night too was a double bonus. Really friendly and easy to get along with, here in good time and great at what they do. We got some very positive feedback. Our next event is June 12th 2008 and we will be in touch for more bookings.... Thanks, Emma

King’s Lynn

Just a quick email to say the Blade Girls did a fab job at the regatta!

Anglo Irish Bank

(Re Robot Wars)

Sunday went very well and Gary and Joe were really excellent. Our client was happy with how it went and we’d definitely consider using them again for another event.

Thanks so much for all your help and we’ll be in touch soon.

AL - MARKETING COMMUNICATION

Just a wee note to thank you very much for all your help with booking Funky S, they were superb on Friday night and went down really well with the audience.

Thank you once again.

Northsound Radio

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to you and James and all of Chinese entertainers for yesterday. It was a huge success and the client was very happy. I think all of the activities worked brilliantly at the party and there were definitely a lot of happy kids. It has been a pleasure working with you and I hope we can work together again in the near future.

Premier PR

Just a quick note to thank you and matt for his work on Wednesday, our launch went well. The first session was poorly attended but the orders we had in from the other 2 and from phone calls had made up for that.

Thanks again for a professional service.

Chord Electronics

Can I just drop you a quick note to thank you so much for the gorgeous Optioscopes who performed yesterday evening at our event? Would you personally thank them - I was exceptionally busy & they were absolutely fantastic and professional.

I'm looking forward to round two next Tuesday! I will be in touch nearer the time, just to re-confirm.

Ignis Ltd

The grim reapers and Henry were fabulous as was Kat - the weather was atrocious and they were all good sports about the challenges that we all faced due to this. All were extremely good entertainers and interacted well with the crowd.

The other entertainers were truly amazing - thank you.

Freelance Event Manager

The party was absolutely amazing! The combination of the headless waiter, flawless (break dancers) and the paparazzi were fantastic. Flawless were even better than their video. I would definitely book them again in the future. The party was a mixture of ages and everyone was impressed with them and they are nice guys. Fantastic show boys! The headless waiter definitely made the guests react – perfect! It was amusing. Andy the photographer did a great job – brilliant! Thank you all for a memorable evening for my daughter’s 21st.

Your team was punctual as well as impressive.

Private Client

Just a quick mail to say thank you very much for our balloon lady [Jolly Polly] she was truly fantastic.

Associate Services Coordinator MBIFM

Thought that you / Jackie [Diana Ross Tribute] would like this picture taken at our wedding in the summer – she looks great

Cheers! Ps – she was great BTW if I hadn’t mentioned before!

Private Client

We had your model at our wedding on 10th May 2008 as a leopard (The Big Cat)
I just wanted to let you know he was absolutely brilliant, the painting was amazing and a great ice breaker for all my guests.

As we had the reception at a Safari park the big cat game keeper came along as said he was as close to the markings as you could get to the real thing!
Thank you so much for making our day even more special!

Private Client

One hundred people having their own names coming at them from a complete stranger along with details of their past.

Not possible?

Then meet Malcolm (Malcolm Uninvited Guest) and buckle up for seemingly the impossible.

In less than two hours he’d consigned to memory more detail about our guests than most could handle in a year.

Then the show starts. One hundred of our guests left mesmerised and aghast. And Just in case that's not enough, he kicks into impossible magic. Malcolm is the impossible, come true.

Hilarious seven (not five) star performer.

Private Client

Just wanted to give you some feedback on Neha - she was FANTASTIC! Lovely with kids and adults alike, easy going, and stunning work - we loved her. I am actually considering getting my henna tattoo done as a real tattoo because I love it so much and am going to miss it when it finally washes off! Thanks so much for your help.

Private Client

I am just writing rather belatedly to let you how delighted we were with both of the acts we hired from you for our civil partnership at Syon House last September.

Helen Kane was simply fantastic and stole the show! She remembered her briefing perfectly and was utterly hilarious.

Our Footmen were just brilliant - absolutely EVERYONE commented on how funny they were, and how they really helped our guests to relax and broke the ice. They really put their heart and soul into the act and far exceeded our expectations. Even the catering staff wrote to us afterwards to say how wonderful the footmen were!

Please do feel free to pass these comments on to the artistes and, again, sorry they are so late.

Many thanks and keep up the good work.

Private client

Just wanted to say thank you to Contraband (you and Archie) and the gentleman who provided the striker for the NSC Global Event. Apologies as it took him four phone calls to locate me.

All the entertainment was used to the full - after only one heavy downpour - we were extremely lucky for this event that had a fair amount going on outside.

Once again many, many thanks

Weddings Abroad

Just wanted to say thanks very much for your help in organising everything yesterday.

Please could you also pass on our very big thanks to Gael for the superb face painting that she did yesterday.

She was absolutely fantastic and in my opinion must have the patience of a saint. We had 12 children ranging from the ages of 2 to 12, none of which were professional models and who were all really excited. She worked very hard to put them all at ease and by the time they were ready for the photography they were all chilled out and ready for anything. It really paid off - the few photographs that I saw yesterday were amazing and the children were all absolutely delighted with the end results.

Walking through Manchester City Centre with the kids later was a bit of an experience, we had people stopping us in the street, chatting to the kids and lots of smiles in our direction - so the work she did really made an impact!!!

We can't wait to see the photos and will let you see them as soon as we get them.

Thanks again for your help."

Private Client

“Just emailing to say how happy we were with the two human statues. They did a great job and everyone was very impressed with them. If you are talking to them could you pass this message on as I didn't get a chance to talk to them after their performance?

It was a hectic night but went really well. Everyone had a great time.

Thanks again,"

Private Client

"On Sunday 7th August I had my son's christening and I booked a face painter. I would like to say it was a complete success and the children's faces were great. The face painter who I booked for 3 hours worked non stop. If anyone now needs a face painter I shall tell them about yourselves. I would like to say a big thank you to Abbi Barham and to Amy the face painter.

THANK YOU"

Private Client

"Just a quick note to thank you for organizing a great lunch last weekend. The food was fab and the service was very professional. Even my mum and her sister liked it so it must have been good. You know how hard it is to please Indian mums.

Well done"

Private Client

Tariq and Nick were fantastic. And Stuart was such a sweetheart, really flexible. After worrying about finding them a green room, I managed to get them into the Club Lounge so they even had a TV in between sets. It was great that while I had a very rare couple of minutes to breathe, I grabbed Tariq and Nick and asked them to do some magic for my boss and my Production Manager, and we were all thoroughly impressed! I couldn't believe that they turned a pack of cards into a block of glass while I was holding it!

And I was really grateful that Stuart agreed to stay that extra 30 mins, as the client at 00:45 decided he would pay to have the party go on for an extra half hour. So please thank him again for agreeing at such short notice.

Anyway, I thought they were all brilliant so please send me the bill!!!

Energy Marketing Group Limited

"I just wanted to say thank you for Tariq. He was really amazing and such a nice guy too."

Showcase PR

"I just wanted to write a quick message to say thank you for arranging the podium dancers last night. The girls were delightful and gave fantastic performances. just what we were after... Super costumes as well!"

Rocket Food

Just a quick note to say that the band (MIB) were fantastic on Friday. Everyone commented on how good they were. They played a brilliant selection of lively music and were equally excellent with all the different styles. They definitely made the party and I would certainly have them back

Thank you for organising everything

Private Client

I just want to let you know how helpful Natasha was, she was brilliant and really helpful.

Just so as it hasn't gone unnoticed, she deserves really well done.... I wish everyone I dealt with was as polite, professional and prompt as she is. If Natasha deals with all your customers the way she dealt with me, you probably have lots of happy clients.

Many thanks to you and Natasha.

Private Client

Just wanted to drop you a note to pass on big thanks to Rick for his fantastic work at John's 5th birthday party last week - the digital caricatures proved to be really popular with guests queuing up all evening and with excellent results, all viewable via www.think.eu, helped make the night a real success!

Spread The Word

Please pass on my thanks to Flaming Oz for last night's performance! My guests loved it and they were so nice to deal with... It really gave the special touch to the evening that was looking for...

Many thanks again

Private Client

"Just a quick note before I fly off on Honeymoon. THANK YOU everything went very well indeed, the DJ was great and the band was perfect. My only complaint was with Helen Kane who was just simply hilarious and really stole my glory! Seriously I CAN NOT praise her enough, what a great recommendation James she went down a storm, and in my opinion really made the day, so please pass on a massive thank you to her as well as to you."

Private Client

"I would just like to say thank you so much, the stilt walker with snake was great. Everyone loved it.

In future when I need any entertainers I will definitely contact you. You were so helpful, especially at last minute."

Private Client

"On behalf of Michelle and myself I just writing to thank you all very much for your help and support at our promotion evening last night. I hope you thought it went well we were certainly pleased over here.

We received many positive comments back, which hopefully will mean a few bookings for everyone. Once again many thanks"

Private Client

"Your Father Christmas was a huge success at the switching on of the Marylebone Village Christmas Lights. The fact that there were queues of children rushing to see him was testimony itself. However, what impressed me the most was the fact that he did not wait to be told what to do and just got on with the job. Anyone involved with events knows that on the day there is an awful lot to do and the organisers are being pulled from pillar to post. People using their initiative is a huge bonus and the professionalism of your Father Christmas really shone through in that regard. I would definitely use Contraband again and would have no hesitation in recommending you to others.

Marylebone Associates Ltd

"Our clients were delighted with marc! He really is very impressive and his act fitted in really well with the entire scheme of our product launch post party. Look fwd to speaking with you again soon."

Wild Lemon

Also, I wanted to let you know that all of the face painters were all amazing and really enhanced the event. Many thanks for all you help with making the week such a success.

STEAM

Thanks. The Gold statue was fantastic.

Would recommend this to all Events as this man was superb - had everyone's attention the whole time he was in view. Thanks also for being able to sort it all within a short time scale.

Towering Leisure Ltd

Last night we concluded our first event, involving Contraband artist - Angie.

The client was very pleased with the overall event and especially her performance.

We will send you some pictures and a video footage as soon as they are ready for despatch.

Thanks once again for the excellent start to this alliance

The Arc Lights (Dubai)

Thanks for a wicked event, Titan - Steve and mark were ace.

The university and most of the passing people traffic were amazed.

I have some video footage, and hopefully some pass pictures for you as they were there and took photos.

Will definitely book with you again.

We blew all competition out of the water on Wednesday night by having a capacity nightclub 17000 plus a further 400 waiting outside.

Magic!

103 Student Promotions

Please pass on my thanks to Tariq (a BIG hit), Big Grey (very funny) and Jen (a popular lady) for their performances on Fri 13 Jun. Our summer ball was a great success and their involvement definitely played a huge part in giving an eccentric party feel.

Many thanks for your invaluable assistance. I look forward to asking for your advice in the future.

SO2 Airlift Plans 2

Re Fish – UV Act

What can I say? You let your performance do all the talking....which was absolutely sensational!! I normally judge an act by the crowds’ reaction and they couldn't get enough and wanted more. I don't know whether you have considered it already but you should DEFINITELY enter 'Britain’s Got Talent', I can see you winning it!! The act was the defining moment of the night and I have had numerous phone calls asking me about the act and telling me how good you were!!

As you can imagine, I was run off my feet with organising and sorting out the evening. I hope you got yourself some food at the end of the night and got home safely.

Thanks so much and I appreciate all your efforts in making the night a success.

Private Client