Welcome to PP Entertainments & Photography
About us
We are a Father and Son company, ran by Bill and Chris Dye, covering the whole of the North East and into Cumbria. We pride ourselves on the quality of our customer service. All work is carried out by ourselves – we are not an agent. When booking us it will be one of us who will be present and provide the services. Any additional help we require is done by family or close friends who have been trained to our high standards. This helps ensure you receive the personal touch often not possible with larger companies.
For your own confidence and satisfaction all bookings are made and confirmed using correct paperwork. As professionals we confirm everything in writing for your own records. We never forget that it is your event or your special day and will assist wherever possible.
All our equipment used for both entertainments and photography is of professional grade, fully PAT tested (Portable Appliance Testing) and regularly updated. We also have PLI (Public Liability Insurance), which is a requirement for a lot of venues.
Services we provide include:
Wedding Photography
Event Photography
Wedding Dj
Party Dj
Karaoke
Race Nights
Projection Services
PA Services
Children’s Parties
We hope you find our website useful and would love to hear from you if you have any questions or problems.
PP Entertainments
We formed PP Entertainments in 2006 and have provided entertainments at many functions including Weddings, Christenings, Birthdays, Office Parties etc.
Disco
We have performed discos and provided our professional DJ and disco services at many local venues including:
Bede Lodge Social Club, Durham
Birtley Golf Club
Bowes Hotel, Bardon Mill, Hexham
Haltwhistle Conservative Club
Langley Castle
Beamish Hall, Stanley
Seaham Hall
South Causey Hotel, Stanley
Derwentwater Manor, nr Consett
Blue Flames Sports Club
Wynyard Hall
Crathorne Hall
Lumley Castle
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Alnmouth Golf Club
Newcastle St James Park
Sunderland Stadium of Light
Copthorne Hotel, Newcastle
Allenheads Inn, Allenheads, Northumberlans
Beamish Park Hotel, Durham
To name but a few.
We are also proud to provide all disco and DJ entertainment services for the Joanne Banks Dancers, Spennymoor and Pelaw Grange Greyhound Stadium. We ensure we carry the correct equipment and lighting for your event. Many customers do not like ear piercing volumes and loads of lights flying about the room, whereas others do. We make sure the correct equipment is used to suit your needs.
We don’t just turn up, pile our kit on a table, connect some speakers, a few lights and away we go. Instead we use a professional stand with lighting bar, position speakers using professional grade stands and secure the lighting on the overhead lighting bar – safety and appearance are taken very seriously with PP Entertainments. All this together with a professional entertainer makes for a great entertainment package, whether it be a wedding, corporate, or any other event.
Karaoke
Karaoke can be added to our disco. We use professional karaoke machines and microphones. If required (for an additional cost) we can also provide projection karaoke, where the words are projected onto a large screen for everyone to join in and sing along.
Race Night
A great fundraiser or just an enjoyable fun evening. Place your bets, take your seat and cheer for your Horse, Trotter or even Racing Pig to cross the line first.
Children’s Parties
We unintentionally ‘stumbled upon’ Children’s Parties when we organised a birthday party for Chris’s son. He wanted us to do a party for him with the disco, we did and got many enquiries following the party. We never advertised children’s parties to begin with but the bookings kept coming in following recommendations from delighted parents. Our children’s party packages differ according to your preferences and the child’s age. We do stick to a disco based formats but have many extras which will make your child’s party a success.
All entertainments services are also available for corporate events. We have done many corporate fundraising events and parties in the past and have references readily available.
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PP Photography
Photography has been a lifetime hobby for us, attending many courses and gaining qualifications, and have now turned this hobby into a successful part of our business. It was following requests from friends and family to photograph their weddings we introduced our photography services into the business. We gained great feedback from this but had a lot of customers asking us to provide Photography and Entertainments for their wedding. Thus we brought out our special wedding package. All the equipment we use is of a professional grade mainly from Canon and Kodak. We do have our own photo processing machine so we do not need to order prints from a third party. At present we do not have our own studio but do have a ‘portable studio’ for portrait shots.
We have also provided photography services at many presentation awards, where using our photo processing machine are able to provide proud parents with a photo of their child the same night as the presentation.
We can combine our photography services with our projection services and entertainments.
Areas we cover
Below is a list of some of the areas that we cover.
Teesside, North Yorkshire; Assembly Rooms (Newcastle), Allenheads Inn, Alnwick Castle, Baltic Riverside Restaurant, Baltic Rooftop Restaurant,
Beamish Hall, Beamish Park Hotel, Black Swan Arts
Centre, Blenkinsopp Castle, Blue Bell Hotel,Close House
Country Club, Concordia Leisure Centre, Consett Civic Hall, Copthorne
Hotel, Crathorne Hall, Derwent Manor,
Dissington Hall, Durham Castle,Eslington Villa, Gibside Hotel, Hall Garth
Hotel, Hartlepool Historic Quay, Hatfield College, Henderson Hall, Holiday Inn
Hotel, Horton Grange, Imperial Swallow Hotel, Kirkley Hall, Lamplight Art
Centre, Langley Castle, Lemington Hall, Linden Hall, Lindisfarne
Centre (St Aidens College), Longhirst Hall, Lumley Castle, Macdonald Gisborough
Hall, Marriot Hotel (Gosforth Park), Marriot Hotel (Metro Centre), Matfen Hall,
Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle University Ballroom, Newcastle University,
Otterburn Tower, Park Hotel, Pinchinthorpe Hall, Redworth Hall, Ridley Hall,
The Sage Music Centre, Saville Exchange, Seaham Hall, Shotton Hall, Slaley
Hall, South Causey Hotel, Springfield Hotel, St Aidens College, St Chads College, St Hild &
Bede College, St James' Park, The Avalon Hotel, The Brandling, The Cluny,
Trevelyan College, White Swan Hotel, Whitworth Hall, Wynyard Hall