Live Wedding Bands for Hire

Elastic Lounge’s most popular types of live wedding bands include:

Rock and Pop Cover bands

Rock and Pop Cover bands are a popular style of wedding band that specialise in performing well known rock and pop music.. The typical line up for a Rock and Pop Covers Band includes a drummer, bass player, guitarist and lead singer. Larger bands may also include  a keyboard player, brass section and backing singers.

Motown and Soul Bands

Soul and Motown bands are a very popular style of wedding band that specialise in performing popular soul and Motown hits from the 1960’s through to the late 1970’s. Motown and Soul Bands are typically fronted by an exceptionally strong lead singer and usually include backing vocals. They also include drums, guitar, percussion, keyboards, and brass section. There are some smaller scale Motown available but to create the authentic sound of this era bands often have up 10+ member, creating a real factor.

Check out our Motown Bands 

If you book a Soul or Motown Band for your wedding expect to hear Martha Reeves & the Vandelllas, the Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, MArvin Gaye, The Supremes, The Jackson 5, Percy Sledge, James Brown and Aretha Franklin.

Acoustic Roaming Wedding Bands

Acoustic roaming wedding bands are a highly interactive style of act that as the name suggests roam around your wedding performing for your guests. Typically wedding roaking bands would be booked for daytime entertainment and cover acapella singers, travelling trios and wandering quartets.

Jazz and Swing Bands

Jazz and Swing Bands are one of the most flexible and diverse act types in terms of instrumentation, number of musicians and repertoire. The bands range in styles from Trad Jazz of the early 1920’s to Rat Pack Singers, modern jazz bands performing your favourite chart hits and vintage themed acts. Whatever style you choose jazz bands always create a cool sophisticated vibe.  

Check out our Jazz & Swing Bands 

Vintage Themed Wedding Bands

Vintage Themed Wedding Bands are one of the most on-trend style of live wedding bands available. The acts could be included in Jazz & Swing section but due to their popularity in the UK today we felt they deserved to listed as a separate section. Vintage Themed WEdding Bands have been popularised by films like the Great Gatsby and famous acts such as Postmodern JukeBox who have gone viral over recent years.If you are planning a vintage themed wedding these upbeat acts that create a real wow factor are the perfect choice.

Party DJs and Musicians

Party DJs and musicians are another popular choice for wedding entertainment and cove a broad range of acrs where a DJ is accompanied by musicians. There are various options available from DJ and Sax, Dj and Singer through to drummers and violinists. These acts typically perform music from the dance era and range from two to large ensembles of over 10 musicians.

Check out our DJs & live musicians 

Luxury Wedding Show Bands

Luxury wedding show bands deliver the ultimate wow factor for weddings and events.Typically fronted by up to five of the most talented male and female on the events scene with a large band of up to 12 musicians Luxury Show Bands perform at the most exclusive international weddings. Luxury Show Bands have extensive repertoires and the large act size and diverse members enables them to seamlessly cover any style of music to the highest standard.  

Typically the main evening entertainment during the wedding reception is a live wedding band or wedding DJ.

However, there is  nothing quite like a wedding band to liven up a wedding reception & get you’re guests excited.

Today the options available for booking a wedding band  are vast. Whether you’re looking for discreet sophistication or an infectious party vibe, nothing can compete with the wow factor of a wedding band.

What can you expect when you Hire a Wedding Band from Elastic Lounge:

• Optional performance of a chosen first dance song

• Music played between sets 
• Optional DJ service until the end of your event. 

Many Elastic Lounge wedding bands provide wedding entertainment packages to provide a complete wedding entertainment solution for your entire day including:

• Tailored entertainment during your wedding ceremony

• Drinks reception entertainment
• Wedding Breakfast entertainment
• First Dance 
• Evening wedding / party band performance of 2 x 6o mins 
• DJ Service 

Elastic Lounge entertainment supplies live Wedding Bands across the UK and internationally.

The locations where our wedding bands are most commonly booked include:

Wedding Bands for Hire in South West UK:

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Wedding Bands for Hire in South East:

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The locations where our wedding bands are most commonly booked include:

Greater Manchester

Lancashire

Merseyside

Cheshire

Cumbria

• Norfolk

• Northamptonshire

• North Yorkshire

• Nottinghamshire

• Oxfordshire

• Shropshire

• Suffolk

• Staffordshire

• Warwickshire

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

• Wiltshire

• Worcestershire

Most popular cities:

• Aberdeen

• Bath

• Birmingham

• Bradford

• Brighton

• Bristol

• Cambridge

• Canterbury

• Cardiff

• Chelmsford

• Chester

• Coventry

• Derby

• Durham

• Edinburgh

• Exeter

• Glasgow

• Gloucester

• Hereford

• Hull

• Leeds

• Leicester

• Liverpool

• London

• Manchester

• Newcastle upon Tyne

• Norwich

• Nottingham

• Oxford

• Peterborough

• Plymouth

• Portsmouth

• Salford

• Sheffield

• Southampton

• Stoke-On-Trent

• Sunderland

• Swansea

• Wakefield

• Westminster

• Wolverhampton

• Worcester

• York

How much does a live wedding band cost?

The cost to Hire a Wedding Band varies greatly depending on the location of the event, number of musicians in the wedding band the musicians experience & standard.

Here’s a guide for the price range of booking different main types of wedding bands:

1. Choose your act

If you know the type of entertainment you want, browse Our Acts then Contact Us  by our enquiry form, phone or email to request a quote or to ask any other questions.

If you need support choosing your act to Hire a Wedding Band or would like more information about a wedding package our experienced personal wedding entertainment consultant’s will guide you through the process of choosing the right act & tailoring the performance to you’re wedding.

2. Get a quote

Once you have chosen your entertainment, we’ll send you a quote with a transparent breakdown of all the charges including booking fee, act fees and expenses (for example, if travel and accommodation are needed).

If you need to hire extra equipment for the event these charges will be clearly laid out here too.

3. Confirm the booking

Once you’re happy to Hire a Wedding Band we’ll send you a confirmation email, a contract & request a booking fee.

The full balance will be payable [direct to the act or Elastic Lounge at least 14 days before the performance or in cash on the day of the of the event before the entertainment starts.

Any charge for equipment hire needs to be paid at least three months before the date of the event.

4. Connect with the act 

In the months leading up your event you don’t need to do anything as we’ll make all the arrangements with the act for you.

Then, three weeks before the event we’ll put you in direct contact with the act so you can ask any final questions. (Let us know if you’d like to speak to the act before this, but, from our experience it’s not usually necessary.)

4. Get ready to party!

We care about your event as if it was our own, so, rest assured, everything is taken care of. In the final run-up your event there’s nothing left to do as everything is 100% confirmed and backed up by our performance guarantee. All you need to do is get ready for the party!

4. Additional information 

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