Horns hit, and dancing is the whole promise, every note of it played live. Everything is played live, no backing tracks, by professional musicians. Old school soul, funk, Motown and Stax: James Brown and Aretha through Otis Redding to Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars and Daft Punk. It scales: a soloist for the ceremony, a jazz trio over drinks, a five piece with sax when the floor opens, or ten with trumpet, trombone and two lead vocals. They'll tell you themselves they're not a wedding band in the polite sense, which for some couples is the attraction. Ask for jazz over dinner and funk after, or one song played live for the first dance, and the moment to hear this Melbourne band is when the last speech ends and the horns come in.
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It's all played live. No backing tracks, no karaoke, and the players are full-time professionals rather than blokes who dust off a guitar on Saturdays. What that buys you is a band that can respond to the room instead of following a click. Expect dancing.
PA and lighting can be supplied and matched to the size of your event, so you don't have to source production separately. That extends well beyond their home patch too, right across Australia and New Zealand, and into Oceania and Asia.
The usual shape is two 60 minute sets or three 40 minute ones, and other splits are on the table if your night runs differently. The bigger point is that the show gets built around your event rather than dropped into it. Want jazz and chilled playing early, then funk, soul, R&B, dance and pop once people have eaten? That's a normal request. A specific song played live for a moment that matters? Ask. And if you're an artist yourself, the band will back you for a number on the night.
It scales a long way, and all of it stays live. At the quiet end there's a soloist for a ceremony, or a jazz duo, trio or quartet on request. Then the funk line-ups start. Five piece is lead male vocal, drums, keys doubling bass, guitar and sax. Six adds a dedicated bass player. Seven brings in a trumpet or trombone or a female vocalist. Eight has both trumpet and trombone. Nine puts a lead female vocal out front alongside the male. And the ten piece adds one more on top of that, either a second female vocal, a second trumpet or a bari sax.
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