About

Magical Nights offers the highest quality service in mobile entertainment today. The owner and presenter Merv Sheldon is a master of his craft with some 28 years experience delivering high standards in party music across the Midlands. Widely travelled and with many high class contacts in the “partnership events” arena, Merv is well acquainted with contemporary and classic themes for a special night.

How do I work?
Customer Focus: A Modern wedding reception or partnership event is more sophisticated than the ones we held even three years ago. Rarely is it now acceptable to turn up on the night with a van full of equipment having never met the Bride or Groom and deliver a generic set of tried and trusted favourites.

I will talk with you at some length, I’ll be surveying the venue, we will discuss music, lighting even my attire and I’ll make sure you can have everything you want to make your perfect day just that.

You owe it to yourself to get the right entertainment for your Magical Night, the reception forms over half of your Magical Day and because its the last thing your guests experience, it’s the thing they are most likely to remember. “Long after the colour of the car has been forgotten, long after the taste of the cake has been washed away with your wine, the right entertainment will thrill your guests and send them home happy.”

Equipment: The equipment I use for an 18th birthday party is not going to impress your guests at a smart wedding in a prime location. This is YOUR magical night, not a showcase for my mobile nightclub. Tasteful lighting colour matched to your theme, hidden stands and wiring, room uplighting and a clear but discrete sound system are going to keep the attention on the star of the show, YOU.

Costs: At Magical Nights, my highest priority is satisfied customers. If this means I need to spend a full day at a venue getting it right for you, then this is what happens, it has to be right, you only get one shot at it. Typically the entertainment that keeps your guests happy and dancing and sends everyone home with a smile costs less than the Celebration Cake or the Champagne toast. Of course you need to keep costs down, but seriously, how important is the evening function that makes up around half of the special day? I will discuss briefly your requirements and offer you a quotation based on them, no pressure, no call back.

You can always find a cheap disco, you can’t recreate your “Special day”.

Booking multiple services will of course get you a discount, but I don’t “price match” any more than another entertainer will “quality match” my offering.

 Area Covered: Many of my colleagues will tell you they work “anywhere”. Well I won’t because I strive to be 100% reliable 100% of the time. I dont subcontract your booking and I won’t take a booking that will be out of a manageable distance from my base in Derby.

Spreading out from Derby, I cover Nottingham , Leicester, Burton on Trent, Ashby de la Zouche, Loughborough, Chesterfield and up to the edges of Birmingham to the South, Sheffield to the North, Stoke to the West and Grantham to the East .

Recent work has seen me in Pride Park Stadium, Derby Conference centre, Makeney Hall, The Derbyshire Hotel, The New Bath Hotel, Ringwood Hall, Leicester Tigers Stadium, Nottingham Forest FC, the Birmingham Metropole, the Crowne Plaza at the NEC and lots of smaller venues like the exclusive Shottle Hall, Blackbrook House, Hassop Hall and the 400 year old Tissington Hall, home of Sir Richard FitzHerbert and a stunning wedding venue..

I am proud to be a member of the Wedding Professionals Network and of my long association with the John Smith Disco Agency.

The Questions YOU need to ask any potential entertainments supplier....

Services I offer

A unique Mobile Discotheque. Tailored to suit the venue and your own personality. Stunning elegance through to a full Hollywood theme and yes I am a snob.. it means I take pride in my work.

Multimedia Presentations. Very popular with the families, a well presented tasteful slideshow during the first dance, stunning in a marquee adds interest to the early evening. Your monogram can be projected onto the dancefloor or the walls, even on the front of the disco itself.

Room Uplighting. Turn any room into a palace of texture and colour to complement your theme. Choose from hundreds of shades or have them dancing with the music controlled by computer. The best effect by far though is to have them fade or change colour as you take to the floor for that important first dance.

Venue Themes. I work with Event Heydays to bring Vegas into your hotel or Starwars into your marquee, Turn your bar into Casino Royale or your ballroom into a winter wonderland in July. Snow in the summer? - no problem.

Illuminated Dancefloors, I don’t touch them, but I know a man who has the best ones in Europe and I’ll put you in touch for nothing.

The Wedding X Factor? Increasingly popular during the early evening, a projected Karaoke with spotlights and a great sound system.

Ceremonial Ambience. Civil ceremonies often lack the ambience of the church with its welcoming music, and wedding march. Modern brides may want classical, swing, Ibiza chillout and some much loved tune for the first steps into married life.

Live Vocalist. Nothing creates a mood like a live singer, I am proud to work with “Mr B” a “Nat Swing Soul” vocalist creating the mood for the meal with some easy swing and jazz and filling the dancefloor after the first dance with some timeless soul classics. You can of course book Mr B on his own, but we work together to create a seamless show and save you the cost of a PA system.