Hi Guys and Gals. This year like every year I’ll be bringing my Christmas Singalong with Andy Starkey show to bars, pubs, restaurants, Christmas light switch on festivals or even private parties in your area. Together we’ll get ready for the festive season by singing some Christmas classics together and having a good laugh while we do so. I’ll bring lyric books for everyone in the venue so they can sing with me and not have to remember any lyrics. If you’d like to book me for my Acoustic Christmas performances then contact me and advise on the date and venue and I’ll get back to you with my price and availability. As it’s just me and my acoustic guitar (amped up of course) I don’t take up much space so can pretty much fit in any tight corner or a bar or venue. Allowing you plenty of space for your paying customers to attend and merrily drink the night away.
Christmas Singalong with Andy Starkey
Christmas Singalong with Andy Starkey Xmas songs include:
Let It Snow
Last Christmas
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rockin Around The Christmas Tree
Jingle Bells
Stay Another Day
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
and many more
I’ll fit these brilliant Christmas songs in-between my usual performances of indie, rock, pop and chart from new to old and we’ll have a great time together. Amazing singalong songs by Oasis, Van Morrison, Florence And The Machine, Amy Winehouse, 4 Non Blondes, Soft Cell, Undertones, Ricky Martin, The Killers and more.
I love Christmas that much that I even reamde Home Alone in my own home a few years back. Check out the meticulous details I got right and the one thing I got glaringly wrong. I look forward to hearing from you.
Do you need to hire a Christmas Wedding Band In December? Then you’ve come to the right place. Punch The Air will give you an awesome night of live music from our amazing repertoire for your festive season wedding and we’ll even throw in a few live Xmas songs too if you like. As professional Christmas wedding musicians with over a decade together as a party band we know exactly how to give you the most fun and memorable Christmas wedding reception possible. Contact band leader Andy Starkey to check on our price and availability in late November and throughout December.
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Here is Punch The Air performing Last Christmas by Wham at Hayley & Toms Christmas Wedding Reception using footage sent to us from the guests on the night. We love Christmas weddings and can’t wait to hear about your plans for your festive party so get in contact now.
Big Indie rock fan huh? And a big live music fan too right? You just love music by The Killers – Stereophonics – Oasis – Coldplay – Arctic Monkeys – Blink 182 – Feeder – Kings Of Leon…..This is what you want to hear from your Indie Rock Cover Band party right? Sure it is. Well you’re in luck pal as this is exactly the music ‘Punch The Air‘ have been performing live professionally since 2013 (Yep that’s over a decade). Contact indie rockers right now and ask band leader Andy Starkey to check on price and availability for your event. We’d love to play a large or small part of your party, birthday, wedding or event.
Indie Rock Cover Band
What other music can Indie Rock Cover Band ‘Punch The Air’ perform though?
How about we throw in a few chart classics too from Queen – George Ezra – Amy Winehouse – The Beatles – Neil Diamond just to sweeten the deal for the rest of your guests? You know it makes sense from your indie party band. We’ll give you two live performances and all sound and lighting for your party. We’ll even throw in iPad DJ services until midnight too. We are the indie killers of boring music. With over one hundred reviews under our belt you’ll soon see why we are a top rated party band.
What type of event do you need to hire an Indie Rock Musicians for?
An Indie Rock Covers Band who actually care about producing quality live videos
As you will probably have noticed Indie Cover Band ‘Punch The Air‘ spend a lot of time producing live photos and shooting live videos of our performances. We also shoot Vlog style videos of our experiences travelling throughout the country so we can prove to you on a very regular basis what we are up to. We also write regular Blogs advising you on anything new thats been occurring. Also new options we are able to provide you with such as wedding projector hire, late night photographer, custom logo projector gobos, late night DJ services and so much more. Come on, you know this is what you want from a professional function band. And it’s what you deserve too.
Cover band ‘Punch The Air’ and all of our clients love a bit of George Ezra. So here is our Budapest George Ezra Cover Version video. It was filmed at a 21st birthday party in Lichfield, Staffordshire. So absolutely everything you see and hear is 100% live. You can watch as the birthday boy and clients sing and dance along to our indie rock version of Budapest. Contact to check on our availability and price for your event, party or wedding.
Come on, singalong now “My house in Budapest, My hidden treasure chest, Golden grand piano, My beautiful Castillo”
July 2021 – We’ve decided to retire this song for now as our repertoire is getting far too large. Our wonderful guests have told us they prefer “Shotgun” by George Ezra instead. Not to worry though, should you want us to perform ‘Budapest’ at your party then just let us know a month before your confirmed booking. So we can get rehearsing it again ready in time to play it live at your party. – See what nice chaps we are?
Budapest George Ezra Cover Version Video
Other party songs and further George Ezra songs we perform.
Although we class ourselves as an indie rock cover band, we also perform other songs by none indie artists too. So that everyone at your party can enjoy all the music we play. We’ll rock out songs by Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, Kings Of Leon, Coldplay, The Beatles, Amy Winehouse, Bryan Adams, The Mavericks, Beastie Boys and everything in-between. Also we’ll play some other songs by George Ezra too including Shotgun. It doesn’t matter where you need to book a wedding cover band for or whatever type of party you are holding. We will come to you and give you one amazing night of live music with all our professional equipment.
Budapest George Ezra Cover Version
Hire a party band for your event.
You can hire ‘Punch The Air’ party band for any type of event that live music is required at. We’ll bring along everything needed to produce live music at your event as we’re a completely self contained band. At your party we’ll have with us our state of the art PA sound system & LED lighting for stage and dance-floor areas. As well as that we’ll also give you iPad DJ services until midnight thrown in at no extra cost. You can party the night away with, us safe in the knowledge that you won’t have to spend any money on additional sound or lighting. You can even continue to party past midnight with our late night DJ services. Read our reviews and see why we are considered a top rated party band. We believe that this is what you should expect from any professional musicians.
Indie Rock wedding band ‘Punch The Air’ Amy Winehouse Valerie live cover version video shows exactly what happened all night long at this brilliant festival party held by Garry & Sam. We all had an amazing time at this Worcs party band. Sometimes all it takes is a short clip of a single moment, of a single song to sum up what an entire night was like. This clip is raw straight out of the camera one single camera angle. There’s no trickery afterwards to make anything sound better, we really do sound this good live. The original of this song was produced by Mark Ronson. Ronson’s second studio album Version featured cover versions of many great songs by artists such as Lily Allen, Daniel Merriweather & Robbie Williams. When you hire ‘Punch The Air‘ we’ll perform Valerie for you and all your guests too if you like. All you need to do is contact band leader Andy and let him know the date and postcode of your venue and he’ll get back to you with a very competitive price.
Amy Winehouse Valerie Live Cover Version Video
You can watch as guests go crazy to our Amy Winehouse Valerie Live Cover Version Video. Andy from the band loves it when punters on the dance-floor take over and sing the songs themselves. He’s able to just rock out playing bass guitar then and bask in the glory of the event. In our repertoire we also perform other female lead singer songs by artists like Florence + The Machine, Tiffany, Joan Jett and Alanis Morissette. You can even hire a female lead singer with our party band and we will become a four piece band. Nina will take lead vocals on many of our pop songs during your party.
When you hire Punch The Air you’ll get two live performances (Or one long performance if you prefer), PA system speaker, mixing desk, lighting for stage area, lighting for the dance-floor. We’ll even give you iPad DJ services all included in the price too until midnight.
All you need to do now is contact us and we’ll get back to you within 48 hours with a quote to book a party band. Andy and the band look forward to hearing from you.
Over November and December 2020 professional musician Andy Starkey recreated a Home Alone parody music video while locked away in his house. He spent two full weeks and three weekends faithfully recreating some of the most memorable scenes from the early 1990’s smash hit Christmas comedy. Learn more about Andy’s professional cover band indie rock party band Punch The Air. Also find out about Christmas booking options for your Christmas party. Contact Andy Starkey to hire a band for a Christmas party.
Home Alone Parody Music Video Rockin Around The Christmas Tree Indie Cover Version
In our comedy parody music video Andy Starkey plays all of the characters in the film himself including:
Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin)
Harry Lime (Joe Pesci)
Marv Merchants (Daniel Stern)
“Old Man” Marley (Roberts Scott Blossom)
Punch The Air band leader Andy Starkey even performed all the stunts himself and thankfully came away unharmed. In the 1990’s Christmas film Home Alone, The McCallister family are getting ready to spend time together in Paris, France over the festive season. But they accidentally leave Kevin at their home in Chicago when they awake late due to a power cut. Subsequently Kevin then has to protect the house from burglars in his own unique manner. The film is an absolute Christmas classic and for many years was the highest grossing film of all time. Also starring John Heard and Catherine O’Hara and written & produced by 80’s film legend John Hughes. Furthermore it was directed by Chris Columbus who was pretty much unknown at the time. But is now a massively successful director mostly known for the Harry Potter franchise.
Home Alone Parody Music Video Rockin Around The Christmas Tree Indie Cover Version
You’ll see all of the comically dangerous yet hilarious pranks and booby traps set by Kevin in our music video. Unquestionably our spoof video features all your favourite parts of the film including:
Kevin enjoying thinking that he made his family disappear.
Paint cans being thrown at the burglars from the bannister stairs.
Tripping on toy cars and a tripwire.
Tarantula on the face.
Angels With Filthy Souls / Eating junk food scene.
Booby traps.
Door handle hand burn.
Home Alone Battle Plan
Our Home Alone Pastiche DIY music video.
Also in our Home Alone lampoon we reshot the classic scene where Kevin dances with shop mannequins/dummies attached to a rope and pulley system. All hoping to convince burglars Harry & Marv that the whole family are still at home. Remember how in the film you saw a life size cut out of basketball star Michael Jordan going by on a train track? Well, indie rock legend Liam Gallagher makes his debut film appearance in our video. Have you ever seen another band go to this time and length to reproduce a pastiche of another film? Furthermore we reshot each clip for clip, scene for scene and laid them out all in sequential order. We seriously doubt you’ll ever find a band who put in as much effort into all of our videos as we do.
Home Alone Burglars Arrested By Police
While shooting the video a neighbour called the Police on Andy thinking he was up to no good trying to break into a house. It was actually very lucky that someone did as Andy had no idea how he was going to film the end scene otherwise. The Police saw the funny side of it though, posing for a selfie with Andy and asking him where his gold tooth was?
Here is our Side By Side Comparison Home Alone video.
Andy also compiled a video showing the original scenes compared to our video. How accurately did he manage to convey the fun of the scenes? This video has now been watched over 150,000 times.
Making of Home Alone parody Gallery
Check out all the fun Andy had recreating Home Alone in the making of images below. It took him three days to eat all the ice-cream and marshmallows.
VFX Reel
See the time and effort professional musician Andy Starkey put into visual effects in our homage to Home Alone. Some effects were created in Adobe Photoshop, others using Final Cut pro.
Blooper Reel
Here are some of the things that went wrong while shooting this parody. Mainly its Andy hurting himself doing all of the stunts himself.
The Song – Rockin Around The Christmas Tree
The music video features Punch The Air‘s very own indie cover version recording of the classic Brenda Lee Christmas song ‘Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree’. The original song is from the album Merry Christmas from Brenda Lee released December 1962 in the UK. Brenda’s version was actually featured in the original film of Home Alone too when Kevin dances with the mannequins. Which was of course where our Andy got the idea to cover this song and the video from. The song was written by Johnny Marks who also wrote “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “A Holly Jolly Christmas”.
Home Alone Old Man Marley In Kitchen
Production of Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (Indie Rock Cover)
Andy spent a few weeks over November recording our indie rock version of Rockin Around The Christmas tree before sending off to his good friend Russ Hollinshead to mix and master. Andy took influences from classic indie artists such as Oasis and The Killers to create the sound and tone of this rerecording.
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree at the Christmas party hop
Mistletoe hung where you can see every couple tries to stop
Rocking around the Christmas tree, let the Christmas spirit ring
Later we’ll have some pumpkin pie and we’ll do some caroling
You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear
Voices singing let’s be jolly, deck the halls with boughs of holly
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree, have a happy holiday
Everyone dancing merrily in the new old-fashioned way
You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear
Voices singing let’s be jolly, deck the halls with boughs of holly
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree at the Christmas party hop
Mistletoe hung where you can see every couple tries to stop
Rocking around the Christmas tree, have a happy holiday
Everyone dancing merrily in the new old fashioned way
Home Alone Toy Cars Stairs
How to play Rockin Around The Christmas Tree
Our version of this Christmas song is relatively easy to play on guitar. The chords are simple enough for a novice to intermediate player to perfect. Novice’s may struggle with B minor and F sharp minor chords. So start slowly and over time build to a faster speed and you’ll soon be playing them wonderfully.
Chords for Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
Intro – D Bm G A7
Verse – D A7
Bridge – G F#m Bm E7 A7
Home Alone Parody
Other notable cover versions include:
Mel & Kim for Comic Relief in November 1987 (Reaching humber 3 in the UK charts).
As your function band we’ll perform two high energy sets with lots of well known indie rock cover band tracks by artists like Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, Blink 182, The Fratellis, Coldplay, Kings Of Leon, The Killers and more from our indie killersrepertoire. We’ll also perform chart pop and rock from modern day back through the decades. Also cracking tunes from George Ezra, The Beatles, Amy Winehouse, The kinks, Van Morrison and more. We’ve honed our repertoire over the years to give you and your guests the best in indie rock and chart pop. You and all your guests will be partying all night to our live function group.
Book a function band who gives you all this.
Punch The Air are a completely self contained (For bookings up to approx 150 guests) so you don’t need to worry about organising any other external sound or lighting. We’ll even throw in iPad DJ services from the moment we’re set up until we leave at midnight (Extendable out past midnight for an additional fee). We’ll give you over 90 minutes of high energy live performances with encores. Also we’ll supply PA speakers, mixing desk, all mics, cables and stands etc. Add to that some excellent lighting for the dance-floor and the staging area and you know you’re onto a winner when you book a function band.
Due to our massive success at 2018’s Christmas Party Band Xmas Lights Switch On indie rock party band ‘Punch The Air‘ were asked to return for the second consecutive year to Lichfield Christmas Lights Switch on Sunday November 24th 2019. Also we’ve been back many continuous years afterwards. The Christmas event free entry and there was a lot of fun things going on all day and night from about midday until 6pm. There was another Lichfield band playing earlier in the day, a rock choir, a Christmas market and lots more happening off and on the stage. To book a Christmas Party Band Xmas Lights Switch On for your city, town or village contact band leader Andy Starkey to check on price and availability or call UK 07794 659405.
Christmas Party Band Xmas Lights Switch On
A Christmas Party Band Xmas Lights Switch On
Christmas Band With Female Vocals
During our indie rock cover band performance in 2019 we decided to mix things up a little bit. We were joined on stage by our optional female lead singer Nina, who sang many female lead songs with us including You’ve Got The Love by Florence + The Machines. Also I Love Rock & Rock by Joan Jett, and Don’t You Want Me by The Human League and lots more. Stage, sound and lighting was provided by Cannock Sound Hire. Book live entertainment for your Christmas party event.
Here we are performing Christmas songs in Lichfield, Staffs in 2018. Watch how we get all the 4000+ strong crowd singing along with us. Classics like Last Christmas by Wham, Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade and lots more festive tunes.
Scheduling your Christmas Lights Switch On event?
A great time to have Xmas party band Punch The Air take to the stage is late in the afternoon, just as it starts to get dark. We’ll rev your attendees up with Christmas songs and massive chart hits from modern to old. Then as soon we’ve finished performing live you can have your special guests come on stage. We can even assist in turning the Christmas lights on if you like. Book a professional Christmas band now.
Lichfield Christmas Lights Switch On
What other types of events can you book a function band for.
If you want to hire a Brewhouse Kitchen Lichfield Band to perform upstairs at B&K Staffordshire for your Lichfield wedding, birthday, private party, or corporate event then we are the band for you. Indie rock cover band ‘Punch The Air‘ have performed at many weddings, birthdays and parties in The Watling Room. Next door is the The Ryknild Room which holds its own bar and places for guests to sit, drink and eat. The whole of the upstairs can hold around 120 guests with a covers band set up too so there’s room for everyone to attend your event. It really is a superb party venue. Contact band leader (And Lichfieldian) Andy Starkey to check price and availability to book a Lichfield Party Band.
Brewhouse Kitchen Band
Why book a Brewhouse Kitchen Lichfield Band ‘Punch The Air’?
As you will see from the below video as ‘Punch The Air‘ are a three piece indie rock cover band band we can fit in the room easily as a preferred Brewhouse Kitchen Lichfield Band and leave you plenty of room on the dance-floor still. Couple that with our state of the art electronic drum kit and we can tailor the volume of the room perfectly. It will be the exact volume required for your Staffs event with no chances of any screaming feedback problems. This is due to our indie band extensive knowledge of sound control with live entertainment and our digital mixing desk. So that’s your sound SORTED with no issues at all.
Hire indie rock cover band ‘Punch The Air’ for your Lichfield
Birthday party band
Corporate entertainment live band
Wedding entertainment band
Charity band
Party band
Christmas party band
New Years Eve party band
More about Lichfield Band ‘Punch The Air’
Check out our repertoire showing you all the amazing Indie Rock Anthems songs we play then chart pop from present day all the way back to the 1950s. There really is something for everyone when you book Punch The Air as your Brewhouse Kitchen wedding band. We have many more videos for you to view as well.
What you get when you hire a band in Lichfield at Brewhouse & Kitchen Staffs:
Massive singalong/dancealong hits from Indie Rock & chart music from the last 60 years by:
50s – Elvis, Chuck Berry
60s – Beatles, Van Morrison, Monkees.
70s – Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Undertones.
80s – Human League, Rick Astley, Beastie Boys.
90s – Oasis, Blur, Reef – Big Indie Numbers
00s (And onwards) – Killers, Coldplay, George Ezra, Kings Of Leon, Amy Winehouse.
Upbeat & high-octane live performances (Plus encores).
Professional, ‘Hard Copy’ Contract
A professional experience from your initial contact right through to when your event ends.
State of the art high end PA system, sound desk and lighting rig.
DJ services before, in-betweeen and after live performances so you can continue to dance the night away.
Public liability insurance and PAT certification.
A very competitive price that you’ll be hard to beat.
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Want to know more about our Birthday party band?
Head on over to our about page to find out in length what our top rated party band we can do for you at your event. We’re a very accommodating professional party band and you can even use our microphones for speeches. This is great if you’re holding a charity event band at this live music venue. You can see our many, many wonderful reviews and also below are for our actual performance for the above video function band at Brewhouse & Kitchen.
Brewhouse Kitchen Lichfield Band ‘Punch The Air’ client reviews
How to contact Lichfield wedding venue band.
We’ve made it really easy for you to get in touch using the form below, but you can also call UK 07794 659405, email us punchtheairband@gmail.com
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‘Punch The Air’ – Book a Brewhouse Kitchen Lichfield Band.
It’s never too late or too early to book your Staffordshire Christmas Party Band ‘Punch The Air‘ for your works Xmas Party or company Christmas dinner. We perform lots of great Christmas party songs as well as a great mix of Indie rock and other songs from modern day back to the 1950s. If this sounds like the sort of party you’d like this festive season then contact band leader Andy Starkey to hire a Christmas band for an X-mas Party and book a professional band to do the job properly.
Staffordshire Christmas Party Band
Staffordshire Christmas Party Band videos
‘Punch The Air‘ perform a number of classic Christmas tunes at your Xmas do find out more about our Christmas Party band package. Below are videos of Christmas Party band ‘Punch The Air‘ performing live at various parties over November and December around Stafford, Lichfield, Birmingham and the UK
Merry Xmas Everybody – Slade Cover version by ‘Punch The Air’
Staffordshire Xmas Party band performing Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade to 200 dinner party guests a corporate Christmas do a The Old Library, Birmingham. Contact Andy to book corporate entertainment for your Christmas party now.
Christmas Festival Band
Next are three videos also live on stage for a Lichfield Christmas Lights switch on. Watch as we get the 2000 strong Staffs crowd singing along with us. We’re experts in audience participation. We want you to have as much fun off stage as we do on stage.
Last Christmas – Wham Cover version by ‘Punch The Air’ by Staffordshire Christmas Party Band
Our own cover version of this classic 1980’s Xmas songs by English pop duo Wham! written by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in 1984.
Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town – Cover version by ‘Punch The Air’
Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town is one the most covered Christmas songs ever, there are over 10,000 different versions on YouTube alone. Here’s live entertainment of rocked up version of this 1934 classic at a Staffordshire Christmas Lights Switch On. Watch as everyone in the crowd sings along with us.
Merry Xmas Everybody – Slade cover version by ‘Punch The Air’ Staffs Christmas Party Band
Another recording of us performing this classic Midlands, Wolverhampton based 1970s rock band featuring Noddy Holder by Slade.
Christmas Wedding
We’ve even performed Christmas songs upon request at clients wedding too. Here is a crowd sourced video of Last Christmas by Wham with the bride & groom up on stage with us at The Mill Barns wedding band, Alveley, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. If you’re booking a December Wedding then why not throw in a few Christmas songs too.
