Band Music
When you're organising a function it's important to make sure the music you book suits the occasion, that's pretty obvious. However, it's easy to get this wrong and when you do it makes for an evening of cringing for you and your musicians. Here's how to make sure that doesn't happen to you!
Some time ago the band I play in was booked for a gig at a golf club. We were told the club wanted an evening of easy listening, which at the time is exactly what we played as we were essentially a swing band. We arrived, set up our equipment and started the gig.
For the first 30 minutes we were well received, some people even ventured onto the floor for a gentle foxtrot. We finished a song, people applauded and we moved onto the next.
About 50 minutes into the gig we began to sense a slight unease, people were becoming less receptive and the dance floor didn't even play host to a passing tumble weed, all was not well. Eventually a rather large chap walked over to the stage and asked if this was the only type of music we were going to play, his point being people wanted to 'boogie'.
I'll skip over the rest of the evening but suffice to say we were glad to see the venue in our rear view mirror!
The thing is, nobody was at fault. We were a swing band and we played swing music, they wanted a boogie band so they could shake their flab around the floor (yes I'm still bitter) unfortunately the difference between the two is no doubt pretty clear.
I can't stress enough, when you are booking a band for your function, or wedding, make sure there's no ambiguity about what you want and what the band play, if the two things don't match look elsewhere! It's not fair on the band or your guests!
The author plays the drums and sings in a band called Three Guys Swinging. They are an Aberdeen wedding band and play at weddings, private functions and corporate evenings. He loves it when people booking his band ask lots of questions.
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