Shropshire Function Band – Vlog 002

Punch The Air‘ had a blast at a festival style wedding fair in Shropshire. We performed as a Brook House Farm Shrewsbury wedding band so here are our experiences and all the fun we had performing live and mucking around with the other exhibitors there. Watch us prove how we are the best Shropshire Function Band around, then simply contact band leader Andy Starkey for a  very competitive quote.

 

Shropshire Function Band
Shropshire Function Band

 

Live entertainment songs performed in Shrops are Dakota by Stereophonics, I’m A Believer by The Monkees, Mr Brightside by The Killers. Wonderwall by Oasis, Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sex On Fire by Kings Of Leon, Hey Jude by The Beatles. We also decided to learn and play the Game Of Thrones theme tune for a chuckle. Shropshire function band ‘Punch The Airindie rock function band repertoire will show you our full set of amazing pop tunes from modern day back through the decades to the 1950s. Later on in the afternoon we were even joined on stage by Britains Got Talent star singer Pippa Langhorne for Valerie by Amy Winehouse. Also some happy chap joined us on stage to for a cover of Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison. 

 


 

 


 

Shropshire Function Band what we got up to

Watch as we get all Salop competitive with traditional style funfair games, there’s drone footage and we chat with other exhibitors. We eat some some Shropshire wedding cake supplier samples. Then we check out Shrops wedding dresses, there are guitar solo’s and we get a bit dizzy. We visit a Shropshire wedding photographer photo booth for hire to have our photos taken and eat some Indian street food. In total we took three Shrops wedding venue bookings from this wedding fair so it was a very successful (And tiring) days work for indie rock cover band Punch The Air. If you’re looking at another band instead of us have they gone to this extent to prove to you why you should book them?

 


 

 


 

 

Shrewsbury Function Band
Shrewsbury Function Band

 

Where we perform in Shropshire and whats included.

You can book indie cover band ‘Punch The Air’ as your party function band all across Shropshire including Telford and Shrewsbury. Also in Oswestry, Bishops Castle, Wellington, Church Stretton and more.  ‘Punch The Air‘ perform 2 x live performances, (Or one long performance if you want) all PA, speakers and lighting are included in our fee. You will also receive iPad DJ services from when we are set up until midnight. So you can continue to party the night away when we’re not performing live. Late night DJ services can also be extended out past midnight for an additional fee. Book wedding entertainment in Shropshire

 

 

Shropshire wedding venues we can perform at include:

Shropshires Premier Wedding Party Function Band
Shropshires Premier Wedding Party Function Band

To book Shropshires premier wedding party function band ‘Punch The Air‘ for your wedding reception contact or call UK 07794 659405.

 

Function Band Shropshire
Function Band Shropshire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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Moxhull Hall Wedding Band

Are you looking for a live indie rock wedding band for your wedding at Moxhull Hall, Wishaw, Sutton Coldfield, Midlands wedding band? Then look no further. live entertainment wedding band ‘Punch The Air‘ have performed at this wonderful venue on many, many occasions. We know how to entertain all your guests and keep them happily dancing the whole night through. Do you want massive chart hits and indie classics that everyone will know and love?  Then contact lead singer Andy Starkey from ‘Punch The Air’ to check on price and availability to hire a Sutton Coldfield wedding band.

Moxhull Hall Wedding Band
Moxhull Hall Wedding Band

Hire a Moxhull Hall Wedding Band ‘Punch The Air’

 

As you will see from the above covers band videos (Shot live at Moxhull Hall) we’ve made everything look and sound just perfect on the day, so you can easily see exactly what we can achieve for you on your wedding too. We’re NOT some boring standing still looking down at guitars kind of band, we’re an energetic, bouncing around, fun bunch of guys who engage with guests and encourage everyone to sing and clap along with us. You never know, we might even get you up on stage with our indie rock wedding band too. We’ll bring along everything needed when you hire a Moxhull Hall wedding band in Sutton Coldfield.

 

As a three piece band we perform a wonderful array of indie rock, pop & rock music starting from the 1950s going all the way through to modern day tunes. So thats 50s Elvis & Chuck Berry, 60s Beatles & Stones. The 70s Queen & Undertones, 80s Human League & Tiffany. Also 90s Oasis & Blur, 00s The Killers, Coldplay, Amy Winehouse & Kings Of Leon. Thats a full repertoire featuring something for everyone with our live wedding performances. We are a highly recommended wedding band by both the venue and all our our previous clients.

Moxhull Hall Bride & Groom
Moxhull Hall Bride & Groom

Grandma and Grandpa will have their moments on the dance-floor, so will kids and aunties & uncles and friends that you didn’t even realise ever wanted to dance. If you want to party the whole night long then we’re the live wedding band for you. 

Moxhull Hall Band
Moxhull Hall Band ‘Punch The Air’

By the end of the night you and your partner and all your guests will have sore feet and hoarse throats from singing and dancing along with us all night long. This is guaranteed from your decade old wedding band. 

Moxhull Hall Bride
Moxhull Hall Bride

Included in our wedding package is:

  • Two live Moxhull Hall Wedding Band performances.
  • All PA audio equipment.
  • Stunning state of the art lighting rig to light the dance-floor.
  • DJ services before, in-between and after live performances until midnight.
  • Hard Copy Contract.

 

So we have your entire wedding entertainment package sorted. There’s no need to hire an additional DJ, lighting or sound equipment helping you keep your Moxhull Hall wedding on budget.

You can even extend the night out to the small hours of the following day with late night DJ services for an extra fee if you require. Book a Sutton Coldfield Wedding Party Band now. 

Guests Dancing
Guests Dancing to Punch The Air

Your perfect day at Sutton Coldfield wedding venue.

All the photos on this page were taken during our various wedding performances at Moxhull Hall.

Having performed at Moxhull Hall many times before Punch The Air know exactly how to get the venue sounding absolutely perfect for your special day. Band members having degrees in sound engineering combined with award winning amplification equipment.

Bride & Groom Dancing
Bride & Groom Dancing

Don’t just take our word for it though, here are some lovely testimonials from previous Moxhull Hall clients:

You guys were certainly a focal point of our wedding, all our guests thoroughly enjoyed your performance and you achieved exactly what I’d dreamed about happening on my wedding day.… A FULL DANCE FLOOR!!!!!!” – Amy & Karl

Big thanks from myself and my new husband for the fantastic job you guys did playing at our wedding! We had a great evening and so many friends and family came up to me saying how good they thought you were. Very professional band and great fun, thoroughly recommend! Thanks again guys!Kelly & Joe Hunt

On behalf of both of us we would like to say a HUGE thank you for being apart of our wedding and giving the evening the energy for people to be off their seats and dancing! You, along with the band were awesome and everyone complimented your talent, thanks guys!!” – Brittanie & Paul Taylor

 


Moxhull Hall is located on Holly Ln, Wishaw, Sutton Coldfield, B76 9PE. Its just off the A38 and A446 Lichfield Road. Nearby you have The Belfry Hotel & Resort, Bassets Pole & Wishaw Golf Club.

Moxhull Hall Wedding Band

Somerford Brewood Wedding Band

You instantly know that Somerford Hall wedding venue is going to be something special when you drive up the long private road. Then all of a sudden you see the building appear in the distance. It is a beautiful Palladian mansion set amongst 100 acres of landscaped park. Our Somerford Brewood wedding band ‘Punch The Air‘ love how it features a wonderful ballroom with high ceilings, a bay window and beautiful duck egg blue walls capable of holding approx 102 guests (Maximum 150 guests throughout the entire venue). The location of this wedding venue is excellent being very near to the main A449 Stafford Road. It has very easy access to Wolverhampton, Penkridge, Codsall Wood, Newport and Stafford. Contact bass player Andy Starkey ASAP to book a wedding band for your evening wedding reception. We’d love to play a part in your big day and help you celebrate your special event in style.

Somerford Brewood Wedding Band
Somerford Brewood Wedding Band

Live video of ‘Punch The Air’ performing at Somerford Brewood Wedding Band

From time to time we record our performances at this Stafford wedding venue, here are Indie Rock cover band trio ‘Punch The Air’ performing Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis. We have hundreds of live videos on our YouTube channel. Book a recommended wedding band for your Staffs wedding reception and have Punch The Air handle all your live music needs.

More about our Indie Wedding Band & the wedding Venue

It is very easy to have your Classic Indie Rock Anthems band Punch The Air set up and perform in the Ballroom as there is a door right next to the stage area (Which is right next to the parking area) for easy loading in and out. It’s pretty much 5 steps and a single door and we’re in. Then we’re ready to set up thus leading to minimum disruptions. As Somerford Hall Staffs features many little side rooms and corridors guests are easily able to be in a different part of the building while this professional party band set up and soundcheck. When you book a wedding band in Brewood we’ll handle all your live entertainment.

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Somerford Hall Brewood

 

 

 

 

 

 

You’ll hear massive Indie cover band Anthems from Oasis, The Killers, Kings Of Leon, Pulp, The Fratellis. Plus pop chart hits repertoire from modern day all the way back through to the 50’s. We’ll bring along everything needed to make your wedding an amazing night to remember forever. This includes PA, speakers, lighting, and DJ services until midnight. So that’s all your evening live entertainment sorted with no other faffing around.

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Somerford Hall Brewood live band ‘Punch The Air’ setting up

 

 

 

 

 

The Ballroom at Hall.

The Ballroom is a perfect size for Punch The Air as it is 12m x 7m. There is plenty of room for the wedding band to perform. Subsequently leaving lots of great space for guests to dance or just sit down and enjoy the music. The sound of the room is slightly echoy due to the high walls and ceiling. Once there are a few guests in the room the echo is quickly absorbed. Our indie rock cover band will make sure the room sounds fantastic for you and all your guests.

Serving food at Somerford Brewood Wedding Band reception venue

One of the great things about Somerford Hall Stafford is that the evening buffet can be served in one of the many other little rooms off the Ballroom. This way its not taking up space in the main live wedding entertainment area.

Ballroom
Ballroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume levels for Staffs wedding band

Although the Somerford Hall website states that volume must be limited to 75 decibels there is no noise limiter. Therefore this did not prove an issue for wedding party band Punch The Air while performing live there on any occasion. We’ve performed many wedding receptions at this Stafford wedding venue with guests often coming as far as Cheshire, Congleton and Macclesfield. We can highly recommend Somerford Hall for your special day due to its beautiful interior and exterior and accessibility.

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Somerford Hall Brewood Wedding Reception

 

 

 

 

 

 

Get in contact: Email punchtheairband@gmail.com or call UK 07794 659405.

Wollaton Nottingham Wedding Band

Wollaton Hall wedding venue is a beautiful 16th Century Grade 1 listed country house. It stands on a small but prominent hill in Wollaton Park, Nottingham, England. This Notts wedding venue is a thoroughly breathtaking building to have Wollaton Nottingham Wedding Band ‘Punch The Air‘ perform at for your special day and is actually a superstar itself. The outside of Wollaton Hall was used for key scenes in the 2011 Batman film ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale. What could be cooler than having your wedding reception at Bruce Waynes ‘Wayne Manor’? Contact band leader Andy Starkey from indie rock wedding band ‘Punch The Air’ to check on our price and availability for your Notts wedding venue. We’ll give you a great show, a fantastic price and a night you’ll never forget.

Wollaton Nottingham Wedding Band
Wollaton Nottingham Wedding Band

Exterior Wollaton Nottingham Wedding Band

The entrance driveway to Wollaton Hall, Notts, NG8 2AE is off the A609 Wollaton Road. You then drive up a very long road through the park providing you with a stunning view of the venue. It is very close to The University Of Nottingham, Travelodge in Beeston. Which is very handy when you hire a wedding band in Wollaton.

Wollaton-Hall
Wollaton Hall

 

Punch The Air‘ Wollaton Nottingham Wedding Band perform in the Great Hall. It features stone archways and a hammer beam ceiling. It is approx 15m x 9m in size with room for approx 150 standing guests. Access to the Grand Hall for wedding party band Punch The Air is up the main front stairs. Then to the rear side of the room by a hallway. The Great Hall does not feature a limiter but volume should be kept to a befitting level so as not to disturb paintings and valuable articles (According to staff there apparently).

Wollaton-Hall-Nottingham
Wollaton Hall Nottingham

 

Our professional wedding entertainment band are able to gain access to the room via the rear side doors where there are numerous power sockets. This ‘Stage area’ is then best used solely for the party band to perform in. The room features a lot of reverb and echo due to its bare walls and stone floor, so reverb and echo settings are best kept to a minimum when our covers band perform live.

What is the sound of ‘Punch The Air’ like?

The band perform Classic Indie Rock Anthems and also a repertoire of chart and pop music from modern day all the way back to the 1950’s. We come supplied with PA, mixing desk, lighting and DJ services. So you won’t need to hire in any extra third party audio or light companies. Find out more hire an indie rock party band about ‘Punch The Air’.

Where to place the rest of your wedding reception within the Hall

To the one side of the room is a bar area area which you can use for serving a buffet. Surrounding the Great Hall are various hallways. Incidentally at the rear of the Great Hall is a room full of taxidermied animals such as buffalo, birds, & cats. Also various other strange creatures, you really should take a look sometime. Our indie rock cover band found this especially entertaining.

It’s worth noting that gates are locked at midnight so as such the evenings entertainment needs to be completed by 11.30pm.

We highly recommend Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire for your special day as its stunning beauty provides the perfect romantic atmosphere with elegant surroundings……..and of course for the fact that you can pretend you’re Batman.

Wollaton-Hall-Wedding-Band
Wollaton Hall Wedding Band

 

More images of Punch The Air performing at Wollaton Hall and various other Nottinghamshire wedding band venues.

Shenstone Wedding Band

Shenstone Village Hall is a fantastic Lichfield wedding venue to have ‘Punch The Air‘ perform as your wedding reception band or event due to its incredible stage. The size and height of the stage gives Indie Cover Band ‘Punch The Air’ Shenstone wedding band plenty of room to move around and entertain guests in a real “Rock & Roll” scenario. Loading the bands equipment in and out of the venue is very easy as there’s a large car park on the premises. There is plenty of room for our indie rock wedding band extensive lighting rig to be erected on stage with the band without it getting in the way of guests.

Punch The Air are able to walk onto the stage either up the side steps or from the dressing rooms at the rear. Contact band leader Andy Starkey to check on availability to book a Lichfield wedding band for your wedding reception. We’d love to play a part of your Lichfield wedding. 

Shenstone Wedding Band
Shenstone Wedding Band

Shenstone Wedding Band at the Village Hall

 

The main room in this WS14 village hall is a fantastic size for live entertainment, It’s nice and wide and also just the right length. Some echo off the rear wall can be heard bouncing back onto the stage when you hire a wedding band in Shen Stone.  But only when there are no guests in the room. So it is soon soaked up when guests arrive at this Staffordshire party venue.

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Shenstone Village Hall Wedding Band

The is a small rear room which is fantastic for serving drink and nibbles from. There is also a side room where you can set up your buffet. The Village Hall Staffs is visible from the main Birmingham Road. But you have to drive through a winding estate to actually reach it. In the main room tables are best pushed to the sides of the room. This give guests plenty of space for dancing on the hard wooden floors. 

Shenstone Wedding Band
Shenstone Wedding Band

Shenstone Wedding Band live performances.

Indie Rock Cover Band ‘Punch The Air’ will perform live Classic Anthems of Indie Rock from artists like The Killers, Kings Of Leon, Stereophonics and also classic pop hits repertoire from modern day by artists like George Ezra, Amy Winehouse going all the way through the decades back the 1950s. Shenstone Village Hall does not have a sound limiter. So a full acoustic kit and large PA system can be utilised when you book live wedding entertainment. It’s a very substantial sized wedding venue so hire a band with enough power to handle a room of that size. 

Shenstone-Village-Hall-Staffordshire
Shenstone Village Hall Staffordshire

Do we recommend Shenstone Village Hall for Weddings and Parties

We can highly recommend Shenstone Village Hall for your wedding reception, corporate event or birthday party. This due to its fantastic size and its wonderful proper stage. Unfortunately there seems to be no real website for the venue. Although you can book the venue using the below contact details.

Shenstone Village Hall, Barnes Road, Shenstone, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS14 0LT
Phone: Teresa Rock 07890 499956 or 01543 481504

Shenstone-Village-Hall-Exterior
Shenstone Village Hall Exterior

 

More images of Punch The Air performing as a Shenstone Village Hall wedding band and many other venues across the country can be viewed on function band photos page.

Wedding party band contact ‘Punch The Air’ for your Shenstone, Lichfield or Staffordshire wedding reception band.

Vale Royal Abbey Wedding Band

Vale Royal Abbey wedding band in Northwich Cheshire is a huge 13th century building on the grounds of 150 acres of stunning countryside. It’s the perfect wedding reception venue for Indie Rock wedding band ‘Punch The Air’ to take care of your live entertainment party needs. Clients are given exclusivity so you can be assured that you will have the only event taking place on your chosen wedding date there. Now that sounds superb doesn’t it.

Vale Royal Abbey Wedding Band
Vale Royal Abbey Wedding Band

If you enjoy Classic cover band Indie Rock Anthems from Coldplay, Oasis, The Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, Kings Of Leon, Wheatus. As well as chart pop hits from modern day back through to the 1950’s then we’re your Cheshire wedding band. View our many live videos and repertoire then contact to check on price and availability to book live entertainment.

About the Vale Royal Abbey Wedding Band venue

Events at this Cheshire wedding band venue are held in three rooms on the first floor, The Great Hall, The Library and The Lounge. The Great Hall is a perfect place to hold your meal and buffet with historic paintings and beautiful beamed ceilings. The Library is where ‘Punch The Air‘ perform live in the bay window section when you hire a wedding band in Northwich. The stage area is a fantastic size and being a bay window it keeps the live wedding entertainment band nicely tucked away. This way we don’t take up any of the dance-floor space.

Being a very old building your wedding band may find that there are certain ringing sounds coming from furniture in the room, but these are easily be EQ’d out on our state of the art mixing desk. The floor is carpeted but a wooden dance-floor can be added on top. The carpet provides a helpful dampening of sound and avoids unwanted echo and reverb.

The Lounge is a bar area where you can relax on leather sofas while taking in local ales and the usual lagers and spirits. This is an excellent spot for your Wedding Party Band to chill out in while not performing.

Cheshire Wedding Band
Cheshire Wedding Band

Accessing this Cheshire wedding band venue.

Access to the stage area can be slightly tricky but is not too much hard work. Parking is on the ground floor to the side of the kitchens. There is a lift up to the 1st floor. Cheshire wedding band may be better off simply using the stairs right next to the lift. Vale Royal Abbey wedding band does not feature a noise limiter, but does have residents living within the building. Therefore it best to keep the volume at a reasonable level as an Indie Rock Cover Band.

 

We can highly recommend Vale Royal Abbey for your special day if you’re having a traditional wedding reception. This is due to its wonderful 13th century charm and exclusivity.

Wedding venue address:

Vale Royal Abbey, Whitegate, Northwich, Cheshire, CW8 2BA
Phone: 01606 301291

Vale Royal Abbey
Vale Royal Abbey
View many more images of ‘Punch The Air‘ performing at Vale Royal Abbey and many other venues across the country. Contact band leader Andy Starkey to check on price and availability as soon as possible. 

Rodbaston Hall Wedding Band

Your Rodbaston Hall wedding band ‘Punch The Air‘ are here to advise you on how to use this Penkridge wedding venue to your best advantage. We’ve performed at Rodbaston Hall on so many occasions now we’ve actually lost count how many times. If you are looking for an Indie Rock wedding band who perform songs by Oasis, Coldplay, Blink 182, Killers, Feeder, Arctic Monkeys, Kings Of Leon then hire a wedding band. We also perform music for all ages from modern day through to the present from George Ezra, Walk The Moon, Florence & The Machine, Bryan Adams, Amy Winehouse. This is the Staffs wedding band for you. View our videos, watch our Vlogs, read up more about what you get when you book us as your wedding band. Then contact bass player Andrew Starkey from ‘Punch The Air’ to check on price and availability for your Staffs wedding band. 

Rodbaston Hall Wedding Band
Rodbaston Hall Wedding Band

About Rodbaston Hall Wedding Band Penkridge Staffordshire

This Staffordshire wedding band venue is situated at the end of a long road after Rodbaston Farm on Rodbaston Drive and is a beautiful 19th century building on a 180 hectare country estate. It features lovely leafy trees with plenty of green extensively landscaped outdoor space. Rodbaston Hall is hired on an exclusive basis. This means you and your guests will be the only party taking place there on the day when you hire a wedding band in Penkridge. Thus adding that little extra something to your special event. Penkridge wedding band ‘Punch The Air‘ think this is one of the many good reasons to hire a wedding venue like Rodbaston to book live entertainment.

 

The room that your Rodbaston Hall wedding band ‘Punch The Air‘ perform in is actually three rooms. Separated by screens that open up into one long large room. This works really well so that cover band ‘Punch The Air‘ can perform at the one end where tables and chairs have been cleared away from the dancefloor area. The rest of the room can be kept for holding your buffet in. The stage area is a very decent size with plenty of space for ‘Punch The Air‘ to move around and entertain guests. We’ll jump around the staging area encouraging your guests to do the same too on the dancefloor. It’ll be a brilliant wedding reception with us handling your live music. 

Rodbaston-Hall
Rodbaston Hall

Rodbaston Hall doesn’t feature a noise limiter and has hard wooden floors. Due to the long narrow shape of the room the bands sound doesnt bounce around too much. Consequentially no echo can be heard coming from the back wall from your indie covers band.

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Rodbaston Hall Live Wedding Band

Hire a wedding band in Penkridge

Loading in Indie Rock Cover Band Punch The Air’s gear is pretty straight forward with parking by the kitchens. Then its just a short walk past the kitchen area to the stage area with no stairs to climb for your wedding Party Band.

Main Room
Main Room

We recommend this Penkridge Staffordshire wedding venue

We can highly recommend Rodbaston Hall for your special day and Wedding Entertainment. You can have either a traditional or a more modern wedding reception. This is due to its beautiful gardens, accessibility and exclusivity.

Staffordshire Wedding Venue details.

Rodbaston Hall, Rodbaston Drive, Penkridge, Staffordshire, ST19 5PH
Phone: 01785 710509
 
 
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Rodbaston Hall Live Band
 
Hire a West Midlands wedding band or Staffordshire wedding band for your wedding reception. Read previous clients reviews of our amazing performances.
 
More photos of Punch The Air performing at Rodbaston wedding band and many other venues across the country. Contact the band for price and availability.

Wedding Fair Live Band

Pre-checks

6.30am. I woke up early to get ready for the day promoting ‘Punch The Airindie Wedding Band as a Wedding Fair Live Band (Thank you extra hour in bed “Mr Greenwich Mean Time”). I’m quite a slow starter in the morning usually, but in just 30 minutes I’m showered and shaved. Hair coiffed and I’m all good and ready to go. 

8.00am. The car has been loaded up (Filling up about half of it), hair has been suitable coiffed, jackets & ties are packed for later and its time to set off (via a quick stop for a spot of McDonald’s breakfast en route). Double sausage and egg McMuffin meal and a coffee and now I have the strength to see the day through. Mmm, yummy scrummy. 

 

Live Band For Wedding Fair
Live Band For Wedding Fair

 

 

 

 

 

 


Arrival

8.15am. My partner and I arrive at the wedding fair venue at Little Aston Golf Club, Roman Rd, Streetly, Sutton Coldfield B74 3AN. It’s a short four trips from the car park to the marquee and all the gears in and ready to be set up. Very luckily we have a corner table in a very nice spot so we’re looking at maximum exposure here.

 

 

Setting up our Wedding Fair Live Band

8.20am. We start to set up the Indie Rock Wedding Band gear and today we’re using an iMac with two powered monitor speakers for our showreel. A laptop for slideshow photos of the band, another laptop to display the website (that you’re looking at now) and a portable DVD player playing live footage. I connect two sets of headphones to it so brides and grooms can watch at the same time. But there doesn’t seem to be any power supply anywhere so I have to go and have a word with the wedding fair organisers who promise to sort something out. The black backdrop (That took me over an hour to iron last night) is hoisted up nice and easily and has remained uncreased throughout its journey. The colour scheme of the table is looking really great all in black and light blue, all I need now is some lighting.

 

Eventually I am shown a single power point across the other side of the room, so its a good job I decided to bring my own huge extension cables and gang ways. I’m down on my hands and knees taping over the wires so no one trips up on them (Is this really my job?), the rest of the hall is still pretty much swamped in darkness and no one else still has power. Gradually people come over to me asking if I can help with their power issues, so I’m off supplying extension cables and I’m back on my hands and knees again installing them and taping them up for them (Signed off by the head honcho mind you).

 


 

Nearly ready to go

9.20am. We’re nearly ready now. The lighting goes up, the custom projector gobo goes up, the computers are turned on, posters go up, I pull out an acoustic guitar and a bass (To make it a bit more obvious what we’re actually trying to sell), pop out some flyers onto the table and we’re ready for the day at 9.28am. I shine some of our lights on the photography business just around the corner from us to try and help them stand out a little more (A nice couple from Colourstone Photography, Aldridge, Walsall). They made me laugh when they said they’d been looking at the names of the other businesses there today and wondered what we did…..they thought we might have been balloon modellers…brilliant 🙂

 

Wedding Fair Live Band
Wedding Fair Live Band

 

9.45am. Other exhibitors are still arriving (So much for all being ready for 9.30am as was advised) and cutting it very short.

 


Opening Time

10.00am. OPENING TIME of the wedding fair…..I guess, as no one potential clients have made it into our marquee yet.

10.20am. Finally brides & grooms start to trickle through….very slowly looking for some wedding entertainment and wedding products.

 

10.23am. I engage with the first potential client directly by walking out from behind the stand and telling them about what the band can provide for them on their special day……You’ve got to be proactive haven’t you.

11.15am. I’ve spoken to quite a few people now and its great to get feedback on what they’re after. Or have already booked for their special day. Some say they hadn’t even thought of having a band. Others say they have already booked a band. Some say their friend is in a band and he’s doing it for them….(ah that old chestnut) A few folk  just want a DJ, and some people aren’t having any music at all for their evening do (Very strange if you ask me). I even get a “We don’t like music” from someone (quote of the day). We’re even asked if we play birthday parties too…which we do of course.

 


Other Musicians There

11.25am. I have a chat with an instrumental guitarist over the way from me (A really nice guy called Derek Brock) We talk about how its been going, bookings etc. We discuss how we may even play a little number together if we get a spare moment later on.

12.30am. It must be time for lunch and so a nice homemade pre-prepared bagel is pulled out. One bite and I’m back up talking to another potential client. I sit back down again for two seconds, take another bite and I’m back up again. We’re giving out lots of flyers and info today so there are sure to be some big hits on the website over the next few days.

 


Slowing Down?

1.05pm. Things are starting to slow down a little now (Maybe people are having lunch themselves?), so I suggest to my partner that she pops back home for a bit and enjoys the rest of her day off  “I can handle it”….I say, and I do just about.

2.18pm. I’m starting to feel a bit like a stuck record now at this wedding fair telling people about the band, how long we perform for, what gear is included and all about the DJ service.

 


Booking Confirmed for this Wedding Fair Live Band

3.05pm. A lovely couple that I spoke to about an hour ago return and we have our first official booking of the day at Swinfen Hall, Lichfield wedding band next year. Then another soon to be bride and groom enquire about us being their Little Aston wedding reception party band.

3.15pm. I’m chatting to another great young couple who seem really keen to secure us for October 2015 at Packington Moor, but they dont have a date 100% confirmed yet. They pop off for a few minutes to discuss it together.

2nd Booking Confirmed for our Wedding Fair Live Band

3.25pm. They’re back and we have our second booking of the day confirmed (Even though there isn’t a date quite yet).

 

 

 


Winding Down & Packing Away

3.34pm. Things look like they’re starting to wind down a little now. Other exhibitors at the wedding fair are even starting to pull their stands down. I give it ten minutes and then start to do the same. My partner arrives back to help out (I always call her my Little Helper Monkey). It takes less than 15 minutes to get it all down and back in the car. I have another quick chat with Derek. Brilliantly we find out we’ve both been booked for Swinfen Hall on the same date. It’s brilliant that we’ll get to see each other again soon.

4.05pm. The photographers next to us say they did OK today too. And so do the wedding dress people on the other side of us. So we bid our farewells and then we’re in the car heading back home.

4.20pm. We arrive back at home, unload the gear (I’ll put it all away properly tomorrow). We pop down the pub for a quicky tipple to discuss whats occurred today. I’ll be busy sorting contracts etc for the rest of the week. It was well worth the time and effort I put into this today though.

……..9.15pm. (Yes, only 9.15pm) Time for bed as I’m absolutely knackered and can’t keep my eyes open.

 


 

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