Wedding band, Kerry next year

nqtfarmer

Hi all, we got engaged and we're trying to sort a band. We're getting married way down in the South West so obviously a band from Munster would be preference and how much can we expect to pay including DJ?
Any ideas or names?

clint_silver

nqtfarmer wrote: »

Hi all, we got engaged and we're trying to sort a band. We're getting married way down in the South West so obviously a band from Munster would be preference and how much can we expect to pay including DJ?
Any ideas or names?

Go to weddingsonline and submit a request to all bands in munster. Its a one stop shop that all bands get mailed. Anyone free will come back to you.

The average is around 2000e for band and DJ. Expect to pay way more (up to 3500-4000) for top in demand bands but you'll get some good ones for around 2k and even a little less if you ask nicely. If its off season bands have a bit of leeway. If its a saturday in high season (summer, christmas) probably not likely.

narrow it to 3 bands initially, viewing is essential.

lorcand1990

We got The Pearls for ours, they're based in Cork. Can remember the exact figure but with a DJ it was between 2,000-2,500. Our wedding was in Wicklow so travel costs would have been more for us than they would be for you

Can't recommend The Pearls highly enough, they were fantastic

Kerry25x

clint_silver wrote: »

Go to weddingsonline and submit a request to all bands in munster. Its a one stop shop that all bands get mailed. Anyone free will come back to you. .

I find that there's a fairly limited selection on weddingsonline, none of my shortlisted bands are listed there. Truly Diverse and Papa Zitas are great interactive bands. J90 are great too. Definitely go and view anyone you're interested in at gigs, I find YouTube videos don't do bands justice at all!

clint_silver

Kerry25x wrote: »

I find that there's a fairly limited selection on weddingsonline, none of my shortlisted bands are listed there. Truly Diverse and Papa Zitas are great interactive bands. J90 are great too. Definitely go and view anyone you're interested in at gigs, I find YouTube videos don't do bands justice at all!

Oh definitely, there are a lot of bands so busy they dont need to advertise. Youll usually find those bands are very active on bar scene as well and are very well known across the country, the ones you mentioned not least.

Many people dont go to live music now, Ive seen a large drop off since the 90s when bars would be heaving monday-sunday, now its limited to mostly weekends unless it a college town. So bands need another way to get their name out to those people that dont go to bars. WOL is one way.

johncor

nqtfarmer wrote: »

Hi all, we got engaged and we're trying to sort a band. We're getting married way down in the South West so obviously a band from Munster would be preference and how much can we expect to pay including DJ?
Any ideas or names?

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