The Things Couples Ask Us

Here is a typical evening. It is a guide rather than a rule, and we will build the real running order round your day on the phone before the date.

We arrive about two hours before we are due to play, which for most weddings means around six thirty. Load in and set up takes us forty minutes to an hour, and we do it in our own clothes so nothing gets creased. If your room is being turned round after the wedding breakfast we work to whatever window the venue gives us. Where there is no window at all we will set up before your guests sit down, and cover the front of the stage until we play.

Once we are set, our playlist goes on through the PA and stays on. Guests filter in from the drinks reception to music rather than to an empty room, and the volume comes up as the room fills.

Cake and first dance usually land somewhere around eight. We play your first dance live, then go straight into the first set while everybody is still standing. That set runs about forty five minutes to an hour and it is deliberately the friendly end of the list, because it has to get parents and grandparents up as well as your friends.

We come off for evening food and the playlist takes over. That break is usually forty five minutes to an hour and it is when people go outside, get another drink and come back.

The second set starts around ten and it is the long one. Floor fillers, one after another, no gaps to speak of. We finish somewhere around eleven fifteen with an encore if the room wants one, and in our experience it usually does.

After that our playlist runs to whenever your venue calls it, midnight or one, so the night ends the way it should rather than with a sudden silence. Pack down takes us about an hour and we are gone.

No. We bring the full PA, the stage lighting, the microphones and every cable. All the venue needs to give us is a performance area of roughly four metres by three and two thirteen amp sockets nearby.

If your venue has its own in house system and would rather we used it, that is usually fine. Put us in touch with them and we will sort it out directly.

Yes to both, within reason. The full 200 song list is on this site. Send us the ones you want in and the ones you would rather never hear, and we will build the running order round them.

Your first dance we will learn and rehearse properly at no extra cost. Beyond that one song we do not take a long list of new requests, because a wedding is not the night to be learning material. If a song will not work with five people and a piano, we will say so early and help you find something that will.

It depends on the date, how far we are travelling and what you want us to do. A Saturday in July costs more than a Thursday in February, and an afternoon acoustic set on top of the evening changes the figure again.

Send us your date and venue through the form and we will come back with a price within 24 hours. There is no obligation once you have it.

Yes to both. We carry £10 million of public liability cover, and everything electrical we bring is PAT tested annually.

The certificates are sent to you and to your venue when you book, so you are not chasing paperwork in the last fortnight. Most venues make both a condition of letting a band play, and it is worth asking any band you are considering to produce theirs.

Usually, but tell us the limit before you book rather than after. Anything at 95 decibels or above is comfortable. Below about 90 we can still play, though we will bring a smaller kit and adjust the arrangements, and you should know that a limiter set that low will cut a full live band off mid song if it is not respected.

Ask your venue for the figure in writing. It is the single most common thing that catches couples out.

Five. Piano and lead vocals, two guitars, bass and drums. Roughly four metres wide by three deep is comfortable, and we have played in less.

Our own playlist runs through the same PA from the moment we arrive until the venue calls time. It covers the break, the pack down and everything either side, so you do not need to book a separate disco and the room never goes quiet.

We can. The same five of us play a stripped back acoustic set round the piano, which suits a drinks reception, a wedding breakfast or in some cases the ceremony. It is added to the same booking and priced on your date, so there is no second band to brief and no second load in.

We carry trusted deputies for every position and they know the set. It is rare, and if it happens you will be told rather than left to spot it. The booking is confirmed on a written contract either way, so you are never relying on goodwill.