Galway wedding band?

tonic wine · 21-09-2015 9:44pm #1

Any recommendations?

Weightless Astronauts were booked.
I've short listed:

Pyramid
KIF
Oddity
Elastic band

Have you ever seen any of the above bands play at a weeding, or recommend another band to go and view?

Eeden · 21-09-2015 10:04pm

Pyramid and KIF are the ones I've hears, you can't go wrong there.

inisboffin · 21-09-2015 10:08pm

Pyramid I've heard and are very good, heard good things about Oddity too.
Throw 'Fraggle Rock' into the mix

Eeden · 21-09-2015 10:09pm

^^^ Yeah, Fraggle Rock, too

Gremlinertia · 21-09-2015 10:21pm

Saw Oddity at a wedding, they were very good and it was a diverse crowd. Lewd tunes also supposed to be good..

Mars Bar · 22-09-2015 9:37am

My cousin had Tightrope at hers two weeks ago and they were very good!

Meemars · 22-09-2015 10:39am

+1000 for Pyramid, Kif and Fraggle Rock! If you get any of these, can I come to the afters? :pac:

2rkehij30qtza5 · 22-09-2015 11:36am

tonic wine wrote: »

Any recommendations?

Weightless Astronauts were booked.
I've short listed:

Pyramid
KIF
Oddity
Elastic band

Have you ever seen any of the above bands play at a weeding, or recommend another band to go and view?

TBH we had Weightless Astronauts at our wedding and they were only OK. Took a really long break in the middle (too long) and it just kind of killed the rest of the dancing, as most people ended up leaving the function room and not coming back. I was at another wedding since where they played and same thing...it was commented on by a lot of other guests in our company.
But they are good generally but I wouldn't recommend them for that reason. They are booked out anyway, as you say, but I suppose I am saying this as others will probably check out this thread in the future.

Pyramid and KIF are really good. Elastic Band also good. Been at weddings where all three played. The Guinness Jazz Band are also really good..not sure if they are still on the go, but they are excellent.

Gadgetman496 · 22-09-2015 12:30pm

Does it have to be a Galway band? I was at two weddings these guy's played at, one over 2 years ago and the other one month ago and was blown away by them on both occasions.

They give it socks from start to finish and Dublin based but regular visitors to Galway.

I have no connection with them whatsoever other than to say I can't see you having a bad day if you did get them.

Check a sample of them Sugar Cubes

By the way, I was in the band business for many years in Galway and while I'm all for keeping it local, your special day is what's most important.

Best of luck on the day whoever you get

Sofa King · 22-09-2015 2:02pm

I had Cork band J90 come up to play for our wedding.

They are outstanding!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2o8WeYoZxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT6R3E9LlF0

https://www.facebook.com/j90music

http://j90.ie/

halfback5 · 22-09-2015 4:21pm

We have booked Hotfuss for our wedding next year. Based in Portuma

tonic wine · 22-09-2015 6:48pm

It doesn't really matter where the band are from, I would of just though local people would have more knowledge of local bands, and the ones I've listed are bands I've watched live, but never at a wedding.

It also makes checking them out easier by watching them somewhere local, rather then having to travel to view them live.

Thanks for all the advice, I've sent off emails checking availability. Cheers.

annoyedgal · 22-09-2015 7:13pm

We had galway based band the converse allstars. They play pretty regularly in galway if you want to check them out. They were brilliant, friend of mine just booked them after seeing them at our wedding.

Shyboy · 22-09-2015 8:23pm

+1 for Pyramid. Also, The Wondertones are excellent too...

Gatica · 23-09-2015 10:31am

We had the Good Guys. Would highly recommend. Very good musicians, professional and great music repertoire. They travel all over the country. I'm sure so do most wedding bands.