Wedding Band Required - Recommendations

dilallio

Hi,
2 of my good friends will be getting married in Galway later in the year. As they are both living in Australia, they have asked me to find a wedding band for the occasion.
They are looking for a band who can do covers of 70s/80s/90s music as well as a few waltzes / jives.
If anyone has any recommendations or suggestions in this, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. J.

biko

Check out
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054955045
and
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055321058
and
http://www.galwayweddingbands.com/

There should be something there. Good luck.

sgthighway

I'd recommend the Oyster Boys from Clarenbridge

Bass Cadet

Weightless Astronauts are the best wedding band I've seen in Galway. Probably booked out forever though

sheepeyes

The Astronauts are booked out for a serious length of time, worth getting in contact with them though, they are very good. They play every Sunday night upstairs in the Quays if you want to check them out.

fish fingers

I had a band called "The elastic band" for my wedding two years ago. Very good. My cousin saw them and booked them for her wedding in Donegal last month. One of them will also dj aswell after them. If you want their number pm me

JoeA3

I had the weightless astronauts at my own wedding... they were excellent alright, kept the floor hopping for the night, I'd highly recommend them. Couple of my buddies have had them too and were similarly happy.
They play in the Warwick and the Quays regularly too, but tend to "rock" more at these venues than they would at weddings if you know what I mean.

They tend to be booked out well in advance though as others have said!

Fly High

Hahaha I came in hear to suggest Hartmans as they do lovely wedding bands... but I gather it's not the jewels your after!

leninbenjamin

Louise~ wrote: »

Hahaha I came in hear to suggest Hartmans as they do lovely wedding bands... but I gather it's not the jewels your after!

i hate english.

dilallio

Louise~ wrote: »

Hahaha I came in hear to suggest Hartmans as they do lovely wedding bands... but I gather it's not the jewels your after!

Ha.
Thanks everyone for your replies

nicolaonfire

http://www.brianmcdermott.ie/

ErnieBert

The Conquerers played at my wedding in 2000. They were brilliant.

DMPR

dilallio wrote: »

Hi,
2 of my good friends will be getting married in Galway later in the year. As they are both living in Australia, they have asked me to find a wedding band for the occasion.
They are looking for a band who can do covers of 70s/80s/90s music as well as a few waltzes / jives.
If anyone has any recommendations or suggestions in this, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. J.

You have to hear Milhouse, a Galway based band who did my sister wedding......sounds exactly like what you are looking for and I would definitely recommend them for a wedding.
Lovely guys to deal with too!

Let me know if you want contact details!

galwaygirleen

I second the conquerers a lil pricey but they cover everything tried to get them for my own wedding but they were booked for my date! Should have went with the Oyster boys too but was tied into booking someone else !!

inspired09

Hi, was at a wedding in Galway recently, they had Face Value great band and good mix of music, kept da dancefloor full.

dilallio

Thanks everyone for your replies. Much appreciated.
After contacting 38 different bands who already had bookings, I eventually found a very good band from Mullingar called Vision, who did a fantastic job and kept us well entertained, and also did the disco afterwards.
I was looking last June for a band to play last Sept. It was incredible how many bands had bookings 12 - 18 months in the future.
The biggest issue I had was the very short timeframe I had to work with, and I had 7 bands in mind, but it took 2 - 7 days for bands to get back telling me they were busy, before I moved onto the next on my list.
One chap in particular (Paul Harrison from a band called The Smooth Criminals) really went out of his way big time in helping me find a decent band (he was already booked for that day).
At one stage I thought we would have to get the Guitar Hero kit out of the box. Thank goodness we didn't have to resort to that - the world isn't quite ready for that yet!.
Anyways, thanks everyone for all your recomendations - all of the bands recommended here also got good recommendations from other musicians during my search.

biko

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