The Beam Team: All shook up after the king of birthday bashes
Mercy. It was a big night for the team on Friday, when Beam celebrated its fifth birthday with a party on the market. We decided to celebrate in the church hall – and, while we didn’t have any jelly and ice cream, we did have Elvis (the King of Kings?) as our master of ceremonies.
With the fancy dress box replenished and all glasses charged, our man (Suspiciously Elvis, check him out http://www.suspiciouslyelvis.co.uk/) took to the stage. It took about two minutes for the first stage invasion to take place, when Elvis was joined by two Vegas feather girls (or ladies from the Future Publishing team, we can’t be sure) who might just stolen the limelight with their unexpectedly saucy dancing. Special mentions go to Dan from Shiny Media, who got up to do a worryingly good duet on Blue Suede Shoes with our host, along with Sean from ERT, who stunned the crowd with his unique rendition of Hound Dog (and his massive wig. Seriously, it was enormous).
A high point was perhaps Suspicious Minds, during which there seemed to be more people on stage than in the audience. And, for all the techies out there with happy memories of CES, the Viva Las Vegas encore went down something of a storm. There was pizza, there was a dance-off, there were amazing goody bags thanks to Griffin, T3, IWOOT and Jelly Pong Pong... cripes, if it’s this good being five, we can’t wait to be six.
To see some snaps of the evening, have a look at our Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7755764143
Also, huge thanks to Beta Graphic, the lovely design agency who created our invitations and posters (have a look at their fantastic work here: http://www.betagraphic.co.uk/). And, of course, thanks to everyone who came along on Friday to help us celebrate. See you next year.