Looking for a Commandery wedding band for your big day in Worcester? Punch The Air are a three-piece indie rock band who bring live guitars, big choruses and a packed dance floor to wedding receptions across the Midlands, and a historic city centre venue like The Commandery deserves a band with real energy. Contact band leader Andy to check on fee and availability.
Commandery wedding band: indie rock for your Great Hall celebration
The band formed in 2013 and Andy sings and plays bass up front, with guitar and drums driving everything behind him. There are no backing tracks pretending to be a band here, just three musicians playing the songs your guests actually want to dance to. As an indie rock wedding band, we are built for the moment the bride and groom walk onto the dance floor and the whole room follows them.
We have played plenty of weddings where the evening needs to feel like a proper party rather than polite background music, and that is exactly the job we love. Here is a little of what that looks like:
Songs your wedding guests will sing back
Our set list leans on guitar bands and singalong anthems. Expect The Fratellis, Feeder, Wheatus, Fountains Of Wayne and Walk The Moon sitting alongside James, The Undertones, George Ezra and Bryan Adams, with a little Amy Winehouse and Van Morrison for those moments when the room wants something a bit different. Have a browse through the full indie covers band repertoire and tell us which songs you would love to hear at your wedding party.
One long set once the formalities are done
We find that one long set after the cake cutting, the buffet and the speeches have finished works best. There are no distractions, and you get the best of the band when everyone is fed, watered and ready to go. That said if you’d rather we performed two sets instead then this really isn’t an issue for us. It’s your wedding so you should always have it your way.
The Commandery wraps up its events by 11pm, so we plan the night around that and keep the energy high right to the final chorus.
The Commandery, Sidbury, Worcester
The Commandery sits on the A44 at Sidbury, close to Worcester Cathedral and the High Street. The full address is The Commandery, Sidbury, Worcester, WR1 2HU. It is a Grade I listed, 15th century timber framed building that served as the Royalist headquarters during the Battle of Worcester in 1651, which makes for quite a backdrop for a wedding reception.
Great Hall, Solar Room, Oak Apple Suite and gardens
The Great Hall is the star, with its timbered roof, Minstrel’s gallery and painted glass Oriel window. It has direct access to the gardens and the venue says it can be used for the ceremony, dining or dancing, with room for up to 80 seated or up to 150 for a less formal party. The Solar Room seats 56, the Oak Apple Suite seats 25 and looks out over the herb garden, and the walled garden can take a marquee for up to 150 guests. The Commandery does not provide catering, so you bring in your own caterer, and there is parking for a handful of cars at the rear with public car parks close by. As it is a historic building, naked flames, smoking and decorations that pierce the walls are not allowed, so it is worth chatting through your plans with the venue team.
Music for the ceremony and the drinks in the garden
If you fancy live music while guests mingle in the gardens or during the ceremony itself, Andy also offers a solo acoustic performance earlier in the day especially for this. Then the full band take over for the evening and the party properly begins.
Party band in Worcester and across Worcestershire
If you are searching for a party band in Worcester, you are in good company, because the city and the wider county are a lovely part of the world for a wedding. Worcester is the heart of our Worcestershire wedding band area, with Droitwich Spa to the north east and Malvern in the shadow of the hills to the south west. Pershore is a short drive to the south east, where we have a page about Deer Park in Pershore, and Evesham is not far beyond it, home to Salford Hall near Evesham.
Head north towards Kidderminster and you will find Hartlebury Castle, while to the north east our Redditch wedding band page covers Gorcott. We are also happy to travel to Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Birmingham, so wherever your guests are travelling from, we can be there with the amps turned up.
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More than weddings: parties and private hire
The Commandery and its gardens are also used for private events and corporate functions, and we play those too. We are a regular corporate event band for company parties, and we love a good birthday party band night for milestone celebrations. A wedding anniversary party band is another popular booking, as is a retirement party band and our Christmas party band shows in the run up to December. If you are planning private hire of a Worcester venue and want a band that gets people dancing, we would love to hear about it.
Booking a Commandery wedding band
If you have the Great Hall, the Solar Room or the gardens pencilled in for your wedding reception, get in touch and tell us the date, the room and roughly how many guests you are expecting. We will let you know if we are free and talk you through how the evening could run, so the bride and groom can enjoy every minute of it.