Or "Gang bang" by Alex Harvey. (I have actually played Alex Harvey at a disco, albeit the somewhat safer Giddy up a ding dong.)

for my wedding in October and Band of Gold is definitely on there.

In fact, I'm going to try to get in quite a few inappropriate songs (title/content-wise, rather than death metal/industrial techno - they still need to be generally danceable and such that they won't seem out of place). Any suggestions therefore welcome.

So far, as well as Band of Gold, I've come up with:

Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Staton
Don't Leave Me this Way - Harold Melvin et al
Stay With Me - The Faces

And, as the title of the thread suggests, Panic by The Smiths - as a little joke for those who know I've done the playlist.

I promise this is true:
I was best man at my brother's wedding. At the registry office they were playing fairly quiet, tasteful pop. At the precise moment the happy couple stepped up to do the signing, "It's A Sin" by the Pet Shop Boys came on.
As best man I felt it was my duty to request something - anything - else.

They just wont listen to the bleedin lyrics will they?

The Police's I'll Be Watching You and James Blunt's You're Beautiful are apparently very popular first songs at weddings.

I'll give 'em 6 months...

A friend went to a wedding recently, where the first song was The Smiths' There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. She thought it was cool, me, I think they didn't really think it through.

With music playout in most radio stations chosen by computer there are clashes, often with news stories. Both of these happened. After the Morcambe Bay Cockle Pickers story, where a group of workers were drowned, Blondie and The Tide Is High followed the news. When Great Whites firework display torched a nightclub in the States, Disco Inferno was the following track.

We are of course told that most instances, computer knows best, especially when it comes to playlisting songs.

Nice bit of ska from the Skatalites should make the new wife feel confident......."If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.

A pretty woman makes her husband look small
And very often causes his downfall.
As soon as he marries her
Then she starts to do
The things that will break his heart.
But if you make an ugly woman your wife,
You'll be happy for the rest of your life,
An ugly woman cooks her meals on time,
She'll always give you peace of mind.

Don't let your friends say
You have no taste,
Go ahead and marry anyway,
Though her face is ugly,
Her eyes don't match,
Take it from me she's a better catch.

Say man.
Hey baby.
Saw your wife the other day.
Yeah?
Yeah, she's ugly.
Yeah, she's ugly but she sure can cook.
Yeah?. Okay."

The Who...

Terrific value at a wedding...

... played BATCHELOR BOY by Cliff as the 2nd song. Unbelievable!

for the subtly themed trilogy of Band Of Gold, Wet Dream & Girl Don't Come.
Rumour has it that Kid Jensen once played Tainted Love after a news article about Aids. Possibly not in error.

Simon, don't buy pirate films, Bates (of 275 and 285 era Radio One for our younger readers) is surely the past master of all this as having a whole feature dedicated to the excruciatingly themed 'listeners story' (usually involving car crashes/divorces/death and disaster) followed by an appropriate 'tune' - usually If Leaving Me Is Easy by old tax exile. I remember one particulary harrowing listener's story ending with them fighting for life in an iron lung. The song....Breathe Life Into Me by Mica Paris.

Joe Tex was turned down for the gig at Mama Cass' wake......
"Ain't gonna bump no more...."
Indded.