Wedding Band Showcase

admin | February 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

It’s not often you walk into a pub and get ambushed by a smooth jazz rendition of “Fly me to the moon.” Music for London has always booked a diverse range off bands, but “Perfect Blend”-lounge keyboards are a stretch even for this place. Then you notice the piano player’s monkey suit and it starts to make sense: You’ve stumbled into a wedding band showcase.

Wedding bands are an inevitability. She wants a Abba tribute band, he wants his friend’s rock band, but everyone knows that in-laws are not going to go for either. In the end the couple will acquiesce to mom’s wish for a handsome, sharp-dressed band that can nail Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson’s “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love.” But you still want a band that can get this party started, right? This is why the wedding band showcase is also becoming an inevitability.

As these things go, wedding band showcases are becoming regular for most agencies supplying wedding bands, Last week was good. If this is surprising, remember that whatever wedding bands lack in originality they make up in cheesy music and anything to make the bride and groom happy, including the first dance song.

Motor City Party Band, Panache, Lost Boys, Remix, Elite all have that polished, powerful, and clean sound. Wedding bands that rap normally create an embarrassing feeling, but when any of these bands assault you with the rhythmic and infectious, horn lines of Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September,” it’s nearly impossible not to search the room for free champagne and available, tipsy, guests and bridesmaids.

All the bands represented and the most requested from Music for London are sure to get people happily dancing; two bands, Rudy and the Rent Boys and the Lost Boys, especially stood out.

Just out of Trinity College, band members from Magma is the type of wedding band that doesn’t want to be a wedding band, but knows there’s no money in blue-eyed soul or white disco anymore. Its members are all a little too young, a little too talented and may sneak too much free booze during their breaks, but they can play.

Whether any of the bands will be hired to play at the weddings in London of the dozen or so couples who turned out remains to be seen. If these bands are what theyhad in mind, Music for London will be organising more showcases in the near future.

But be warned: You aren’t going to find anyone as, ahem, unique as your buddy’s rock band.

For Wedding Bands in London go to www.musicforlondon.co.uk