Alternative Weddding Bands

pauliewallie

Getting married next year and want to get a band who are a bit left of centre than your average wedding band.

Maybe a band who can offer any of the following:
Ska
Funk
Electro

We have no interest in hearing covers of Joe Dolan, Neil Diamond or Tom Jones.

any recommendations?

Orando Broom

The Beat Club are your men.

pauliewallie

hey thanks man, will check them out

Orando Broom

http://www.beatclub.ie/

Did a mate's wedding. They were excellent. Very professional. They play the Blue Light in the Dublin Mountains on Sunday's I think.

Gingganggooley

http://afterdarkmusic.ie/

These guy's are very adaptable. Well worth talking to them.

pauliewallie

hey thanks for all the feedback and pm's ... keep them coming ... will do my best to check them all out

Nononolan

Gingganggooley wrote: »

http://afterdarkmusic.ie/

These guy's are very adaptable. Well worth talking to them.

Great band, they play best cover of Bohemian Rhapsody I ve ever heard! Not sure about them playing ska, but as Gingganggooley said theyre adaptable.

sweetie

pauliewallie wrote: »

Getting married next year and want to get a band who are a bit left of centre than your average wedding band.

Maybe a band who can offer any of the following:
Ska
Funk
Electro

We have no interest in hearing covers of Joe Dolan, Neil Diamond or Tom Jones.

any recommendations?

I dj at weddings with Beatclub regularly and they cover a wide variety of music. Checkout their playlists on their website.

Handy11

Another thumbs up for the BeatClub here. They played my wedding last year and were great. Filled the dancefloor. Ska stuff was great and they're really sound lads to deal with and ultra professional. Worth every penny.

jackthelad456

I like what you are saying but most of the time bands that don't play the usual wedding stuff go down very bad at weddings. Empty floor means a bad party. There is an art to playing weddings.

Miguel_Sanchez

Orando Broom wrote: »

http://www.beatclub.ie/

Did a mate's wedding. They were excellent. Very professional. They play the Blue Light in the Dublin Mountains on Sunday's I think.

These lads played my brother's wedding a few weeks back. Best wedding band I've ever seen.

greenpilot

The Paul K Band are up for it!!!! We play the Quays in Galway every night if you wanna take a look. Also see www.thepaulkband.com for details
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sweetie

jackthelad456 wrote: »

I like what you are saying but most of the time bands that don't play the usual wedding stuff go down very bad at weddings. Empty floor means a bad party. There is an art to playing weddings.

I agree there is an art but people who book Beatclub are looking for a specific
level of musicianship and the classic cover's like bowie/beatles/doors/stones/kinks
stuff along with depeche mode/smiths/cure/stone roses/pixies/kraftwerk/clash/
jam/madness and other 80s classics. You won't be hearing recent songs like sex
on fire or mr brightside or more obscure stuff (but you can always get the dj to
play them )

tommythecat

Check out "till death do us party" Saw them at a wedding recently and they were great. Really got the crowd going

pauliewallie

cheers for all the feedback everyone .... gonna check out the beat club first chance I get as I cant ignore the amount of kudos they are getting .... will also check out all myspace links people have pm'd me and as many gigs as possible ... thanks again

apart from turning up (dressed), this will probably be my one and only job for the wedding, so dont wanna screw it up

MonkeyTennis

Seen A Few Good Men do a pure funk wedding.

Super

pauliewallie

Thanks for all the feedback on this thread.
We went to see the beat club and were mightily impressed. We went ahead and booked them for the wedding

Orando Broom

pauliewallie wrote: »

Thanks for all the feedback on this thread.
We went to see the beat club and were mightily impressed. We went ahead and booked them for the wedding

Best of luck with the nuptials! Hope it's a blast!