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Hire a Denbies Wine Estate Wedding Band for your Dorking Surrey wedding reception and Punch The Air will Indie Rock your party. Contact band manager Andy Starkey for price and availability for live music on your big day. Massive pop hits for all ages.
Surrey wedding venue address:
Denbies Wine Estate, Bradley Lane, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6AA, UK
Hire a Superior Hotel Dudley Wedding Band and have professional musicians Punch The Air perform at your wedding reception in the Black Country. Contact Andy for more info. Learn more about Punch The Air.
Formally known as Quality Hotel.
Wedding Venue Address: Superior Hotel, Birmingham Rd, Dudley DY1 4RN
Phone: 01384 458070
When it comes to indie-rock anthems that guaranteed a packed dance floor, few songs hit quite as hard as Buck Rogers by Feeder. Released in 2001, this track became the defining sound of a generation, and for us, it remains an absolute essential in our live repertoire. There is something about that opening distorted guitar riff that signals to every guest in the room that it’s time to turn the energy up to eleven. Hire a Punch The Air a professional cover band for your party by contacting Andy
Our version of this classic is stripped back to its raw, high-octane essentials. As a professional party band, we focus on capturing the huge, wall-of-sound chorus that makes the original so iconic. Whether we are performing at a wedding reception, a milestone birthday party, or a corporate event, the response is always the same: total nostalgia and maximum volume from the crowd.
The beauty of “Buck Rogers” is its universal appeal. It appeals to the 2000s indie folk and modern rock fans alike. It’s a song about simplicity and fun—exactly what you want when the drinks are flowing and the night is in full swing. When we perform this live, we don’t just play the notes; we bring the “Punch The Air” energy that ensures the “CD player, player, player, player” pre-chorus and “I think we’re gonna make it, I think we’re gonna save it yeah….” chorus is shouted back at us by everyone in the room.
We’ve performed this Feeder cover across the UK at some of the most prestigious venues, and it never fails to be a highlight of the second set. If you are looking for a band that can deliver authentic, gritty, and professional rock covers that stay true to the original British indie sound, this track is a perfect example of what we do best.
To hire Punch The Air indie rock cover band for your wedding, birthday, party, corporate event, charity event, festival or any live event contact Andy. All The Small Things Blink 182 Cover
‘Punch The Air‘ function band are available to hire throughout the country for your live entertainment needs performing as an indie rock party band. Whether you need to hire a wedding band, hire a birthday party band, book a band for a corporate event, hire a band for a Christmas party. Also you can hire a charity band, book a party band, book a New Years Eve band. Contact band leader Andy Starkey now to check on price and availability to hire an indie cover band for an event.
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 killers repertoire. 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.
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.
Function band ‘Punch The Air‘ have been together since 2013. We can handle any curve balls that are thrown our way. We’ve seen it all before, nothing will vex us when we’re at your party. The show will always go on no matter what occurs. With over 100 confirmed reviews from previous clients you can trust in our recommended wedding band and top rated party band. ‘Punch The Air‘ are available to book throughout the UK and beyond. Trust in a party band your event with this much experience and history as ‘Punch The Air‘. You can even book ‘Punch The Air‘ as a four piece and hire a band with female vocals too. Book our function band for parties in The Midlands, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire and beyond. Contact now to check on price and availability to book a top rated party band.
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.
In our comedy parody music video Andy Starkey plays all of the characters in the film himself including:
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.
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:
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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 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”.
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.
Download the MP3 of Rockin Around The Christmas Tree for free from our Bandcamp profile.
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
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.
Intro – D Bm G A7
Verse – D A7
Bridge – G F#m Bm E7 A7
Other notable cover versions include:
We can’t think of anywhere else we’d rather play than the home county of our favourite band ever The Beatles. Book a Merseyside Wedding Band ‘Punch The Air‘ who are an indie rock cover band. For big indie fans like you and your other half we’ll play Mr Brightside by The Killers, Sex On Fire by Kings Of Leon, Don’t Look Back In Anger by Oasis, Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis, Dakota by Stereophonics. Also Yellow by Coldplay, Stacy’s Mom by Fountains Of Wayne and more. For all your friends and family Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison, Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen, Hound Dog by Elvis Presley, Teenage Kicks by The Undertones. Of course we’ll play wedding function band music by your Liverpudlian heroes The Beatles such as Can’t Buy Me Love & The La’s There She Goes too.
Whether you’re having your wedding in Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, or the city of Liverpool we can handle it all for you. Contact band leader Andy Starkey to hire an indie rock wedding band as soon as possible to check on price and availability of our function band. We want to hear from you and we want to help make your wedding the most memorable it possibly can be. We love weddings, and we know weddings inside and out.
Unlike 99% of the other wedding party bands out there we believe in the power of professionally shot live videos. We don’t try to fool you with studio recorded indie rock audio playing back over a mimed to video. Our videos are all 100% live shot at weddings, showing brides, grooms and audiences honest reactions. It’s the only way to hire a wedding band in Merseyside. You wouldn’t book a band on the strength of their none live video would you? Of course not. ‘Punch The Air‘ top rated party band are a highly recommended wedding band and are a completely self contained indie band. We will bring along with us everything you’ll need for you live wedding entertainment. PA speakers, mixing desk, the bands full backline of guitars, amps and drums. Our wedding reception band will even bring the lighting and also give you iPad DJ services throughout the night until midnight as standard.
Where do you even start? Maybe you’re booking a wedding band for your wedding reception at:
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Lead singer and bass player Andy Starkey shot a video for his acoustic cover of “If I Needed Someone” at famous Beatles locations around Merseyside.
Andy has even performed at The Cavern Club as you will see in the below video. He also put together this tour of Beatles addresses around the Liverpool area.
We love a good Manchester wedding band reception. There’s nothing we enjoy more than performing to all you lovely down to earth Northerners. You guys and gals just want to get stuck in and enjoy the party from the very second the live music kicks off don’t you. It’s so much easier than performing down South where most folks are usually too snobby to get up off their seats and enjoy themselves until it’s nearly too late. Hire ‘Punch The Air’ indie rock wedding band throughout the Greater Manchester area including North Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, Salford and Manchester. Contact band leader Andy Starkey now to check on price and availability and hire a wedding band in Manchester.
Manchester indie rock cover band will perform all your favourite indie hits old and new. Expect music for you and your other half from Manchesters bands such as “Wonderwall” by Oasis (we can perform lots more Oasis songs if you like) “Sit Down” by James, “Ever Fallen In Love” by Buzzcocks and lots more from our indie covers band repertoire. If you ask our wedding cover band really nicely when booking we might even bring back some songs we used to play years ago (Established 2013) by bands like The Stone Roses and Elbow too.
Hey look, we know an indie cover band isn’t for everyone. Thats why for your guests, family and friends we’ll also play pop hits from modern to old. Crackin’ tunes from George Ezra, Amy Winehouse, Florence + The Machine, The Beatles, Queen, Joan Jett, The La’s and more. Consequently everyone will be singing their heads off all night when you book a recommended wedding band like ‘Punch The Air‘. We come supplied with everything an indie band should bring to your wedding event including a PA speaker system and stage and dance-floor lighting. Additionally we’ll throw in iPad DJ services throughout the night up to midnight. Subsequently you won’t need to hire in any external sound or lighting company and that’s going to save you some serious money. This all makes ‘Punch The Air’ the indie killers of boring wedding music.
Rock out to songs by Manchester legends and Britpop stars like Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher, Tim Booth, Pete Shelley, Steve Diggle and more.
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You don’t even need to ask….Yes, we do perform Mr Brightside by The Killers. It’s our most requested indie song. We’ll also play When You Were Young live for you too. ‘Punch The Air‘ are the type of indie killers band who destroy every other indie rock cover band out there with our killer repertoire. Our three piece guitar based indie band perform all over the country every single weekend of the year, even week days too. Massive indie rock anthems by Oasis, Coldplay, Feeder, Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters, The Fratellis, Stereophonics, Blink 182, Muse and more. Contact band leader Andy Starkey to check on price and availability to hire The Indie Killers.
Trust in a professional indie rock covers party band who have a proven history together performing high energy shows. Our Indie rock function band have been together since 2013 and we’ve played and seen it all. We’ve performed as a festival band to over 4000 festival goers, university party band to 3000 students, corporate events band to 1000 guests and as a wedding band at both massive and tiny wedding receptions. Watch our LIVE videos and you’ll soon see why everyone is making a hot fuss about us. We can perform tailored live entertainment for your event and we’re able to read the room an adjust our set list on the fly. As we’re not part of an agency you’ll save £300 to £400 when you book a Surrey wedding band with us.
You love indie rock music, it’s been a part of your whole life. You love 6Music, XFM, Radio X and more. Also you used to read the NME and the Melody Maker front to back and could do most of the crossword. Heck, you maybe even started an indie band back in 6th form or at college. You played some jingle jangle indie rock guitar and then shelved it because other things were more important in your life at the time.
Well, we carried on playing, got better and better and years later we formed our indie rock covers band ‘Punch The Air’. We’ll play all the classic indie rock anthems you love like ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ & ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis. Also ‘Parklife by Blur. Then our function band will add in some more modern indie rock like ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’ by Arctic Monkeys. Then ‘Sex On Fire’ by Kings Of Leon and Yellow by Coldplay. Also ‘All The Small Things’ by Blink 182, ‘Chelsea Dagger’ by The Fratellis and more. Our the indie killers blinders will make you sing your head off all over again. You’ll smile like you mean it while you’re on the dancefloor.
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Warble along to our live music entertainment. We’ll perform high-energy indie killers tribute band rock anthemic singalong tunes that matter in your life. We’re a highly recommended wedding band too and you can hire us for any event that requires live music. Looking for last minute musicians in Surrey & the South East? You never know your luck, we might still be available for your event. Contact bass player Andy Starkey to book a Surrey cover band now.
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Why book an Oxfordshire Wedding Band ‘Punch The Air‘ for your Oxon wedding venue? Because you want a night of Indie Rock covers for you and your other half performed by a professional function band. Additionally pop & chart party tunes for all your other guests. Basically you’ll get music from The Killers, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, The Fratellis, Stereophonics, Oasis, Kaiser Chiefs and more from our indie rock cover band repertoire. Contact lead singer Andy Starkey from our wedding function band right away to check on price and availability. You’re sure to be delighted with our professional services from your initial email to months after we leave the staging area.
Also your friends and family will get songs by Queen, The Beatles, George Ezra, Bryan Adams, The Undertones, Neil Diamond, The Kinks and more. Furthermore we’ll give you a high energy performance heating the room up with our hot-hot skills. We guarantee we’ll get all your guests dancing and singing along. Doesn’t that just sound brilliant? It sounds like the kind of music you always imagined being played for you at your wedding reception. Now all you need to do is hire a wedding band in Oxfordshire and book a professional group with over a decade together.
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