Archive for the ‘unique acts’ Category

Beatboxers Are Bonkers (Says Dizzee Rascal)

Friday, April 19th, 2013
Beatboxers for hire

Beatboxers for hire

For the past ten years Live Music Management have been booking beat boxers into events and functions.

Grace, our world champion female beatboxer  has been a big hit at live events and media engagements. She has appeared on Blue Peter, on Radio Four with Rufus Hound, on Room 101 and on Radio Fours Loose Ends. She teaches at workshops and has a glittering career performing at club nights and events. She is the voice of I Love Apps appearing on radio adverts that ran nationwide.

Bloxed  beatbox collective have appeared on MTV and Sky television. They have worked with the likes of Trevor Nelson, Tim Westwood and Dizzee Rascal and  received high praise from all of them.

How can you use a beat box act successfully at your event?

The following are all examples of previous events that we have supplied our beat boxers to

1. club style nights working alongside a DJ to ensure a great atmosphere at a forward thinking event.

2. Working alongside other musicians to give a contemporary twist to party or background music. For instance we recently supplied a beat boxer to work with a singer guitarist at a drinks reception for a client with a predominantly under forty staff. It worked much better and made more sense than using a traditional style of background reception music with the act becoming one of the hits of the evening.

3.Pairing a beat boxer with an unusual instrument or style of music can give a fantastic lift to an event. For instance over Christmas we paired beat boxers with a traditional choir in order to make an act that would work in front of a fashion conscious young crowd.

4.Pop Up Musicians. The Singing waiters concept is one thing but how about Pop Up Musicians? Beat boxers can be placed around a venue ready to surprise your guests when they pick up the mic and sing a great set of covers.

The possibilities are endless and Live Music Management have the quality professional beat boxers to ensure that your event works perfectly. Call the Live Music Management office on 08454 900515 for further ideas and to talk through options and availabilities.

 

 

Stilt Walkers For Hire

Monday, February 11th, 2013

 

Stilt walkers for hire

Stilt walkers for hire

 

Live Music Management have stilt walkers for hire in all parts of the UK from Glasgow down to Cornwall. The vast majority of our stilt walkers are multi skilled performers and so can offer poi (ie spinning fire balls) , fire breathing and juggling and angle grinding as well as stilt walking. Of course many clients will just require a stilt walker and all our stilt walkers for hire will be happy to perform just stilt walking sets if required.

Our stilt walkers are usually contracted for 3 x 30 minute sets on stilts over a three hour period or if they are to do a multi skilled set we would offer usually 3 hours of entertainment with break.  An hour for stilt walking. 30 minutes for fire.15 minutes for angle grinders and dancers for a variation on this.)

In most parts of the UK on most evenings Live Music Management can supply a stilt walker for hire at around or below £250. These are talented professionals, young and attractive ,male or female with the correct public liability insurances to ensure that your event is covered if there are any problems.

Live Music Maanagement stilt walkers for hire perform at events , weddings, parties and night clubs . For the past ten years we have been booking these multi skilled performers into venues like the Walkabout bars , Highlight Comedy Clubs, Bar Risa, Rewind, Maluko, Wahoo, Tom Peppers , TP’s and many more individual clubs and bars. They offer a great visual impact and are always a popular hit.

Live Music Management also supply many stilt walkers for events in retail venues, for instance for a shop re launch or special brand promotion. Often when used as promotional staff they will be required to hand out brochures or flyers and this is something that they are very comfortable with.

Stilt Walkers  are popular entertainment for any outdoor event and most Summer weekends we have stilt walkers for hire performing at garden parties and childrens out door birthday parties or events.

Our stilt walkers can be supplied in a variety of different costumes and themes . If your wedding or party has a theme we are happy to advise you of the costume which will most suit your event.Popular costume themes are moulin rouge/vegas showgirl, glamorous evening dress. Halloween , retro 80s or 70s, club style dress etc etc.

If you require more information about the kind of stilt walkers we have available for hire then please call the Live Music Management team on 08454 900515 or email info@lmmuk.com . We would love to be able to help make your event a massive success.

 

 

 

Retro Fever With Party DJs

Monday, May 14th, 2012


As regular readers know Live Music Management supply a variety of different styles of DJ and also walk around acts like stilt walkers and fire breathers. We also have a team of roller girls who skate around an event or venue adding excitement and entertainment to an evening and offering a great ability to promote the venue or a product.

Temple Walkabouts Retro Fever night has been a fantastic success since its launch earlier in the year and LMM have amped it up a gear with the addition of roller girls as an added attraction on the night. They have been a massive hit with the customers and DJ Mike Wedgewood took this video of the girls last Friday night when we had a visit from Captain Jack Sparrow!

This blog is in part a thank you to Mike who posts some really great video of the Temple Walkabout Fridays and always plays a great retro set on the evening.

To hire roller girls or a retro DJ please contact Live Music Management on 08454 900515.

 

 

Fire Performers for Weddings

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
fire performer for weddings

fire performer for weddings

A Dramatic Addition To Your Wedding Party.

Greet your guests with a fire performer/stilt walker.

Live Music Management are pleased to be able to offer the following special offer prices for stilt walkers  /fire performers for your wedding or event.

Three hours on site …a combination of fire performing and
stilt walking  £160 ***

Greet your guests with a set of fire breathing outside the
venue.

Entertain the kids with a stilt walker dancing around the
venue.

Our stilt walkers / fire performers are available in a
variety of costumes.

We also have living statues available in a number of
dramatic  costumes for £180 ***

Email rick@lmmuk.com  with your wedding date and location for
further details or call 08454 900515

Follow Live Music Management   http://www.facebook.com/livemusicmanagement

Visit the fire performer / stilt page http://www.lmmuk.com/band/Party+Oddities+Supply

***  plus travel if needed….please note LMM have
performers based throughout the UK but we occasionally will need to add a small
amount for travel if we do not have a local performer available on your wedding
date.

Please note that sets tend to  last 30 minutes  with breaks after each set.

St Patricks Day 2012

Thursday, March 15th, 2012
st patricks day

st patricks day

St Patricks Day 2012 is shaping up to be the busiest day of the year so far in terms of bookings. It also looks like being a fantastic day for trade in the various venues that Live Music Management place party bands and DJs into.

Re The Walkabout venues March 17 should be a really special day with six nations Rugby starting early and finishing with the match of the year…Ireland V England on St Paddys Day. If that isn’t exciting enough Live Music Management have laid on some match time entertainment in many of the sites.

At Sheffield Walkabout , Leicester Walkabout and Watford Watford there will be a trumpet player and drummer enhancing the awesome atmosphere by playing the rabble rousing Irish and English tunes during the game and in the breaks.

In Plymouth Walkabout there will be stilt walkers and fire girls strutting around the venue togged up in Rugby gear entertaining the crowds.

Many of the Walkabout bars will follow up the big games with a spot of live music. As it is St Pats day you can be assured  that there will be an Irish slant to the cover bands set list.

Of course if your local Walkabout bar does not have live music you can be certain that Live Music Management will have supplied one of the UKs best party DJs to entertain you.

Its going to be a big weekend and I will blog more tomorrow about the other great entertainment planned for St Patricks Day Weekend 2012.

The Top Ten Best Irish Party Songs….Ever!!!

Monday, December 12th, 2011

 


We are planning St Patricks Day in many of our venues already (yes I know Xmas is still not here) and in order to get the right Irish Party Band playing in the venues we want to make sure all our mobile DJs and function bands have a good top ten list of Irish Party Songs to work from. These are not neccesarily the best Irish songs but they are the ones which  the majority of people will recognise and want to dance to.

Live Music Management have a number of Irish Party Bands including the likes of Barnstorm who are one of the UKs top wedding bands and many more bands for hire are available on our website.

1.Black Velvet Band

2.Tell Me Ma

3.Bewitched-C Est La Vie

4. The Pogues-Fiesta

5.The Pogues-Irish Rover

6.Thin Lizzy-Whisky In A Jar

7.Dexys Midnight Runners- Come On Eileen (yes I know its not Irish but it has the feel of an Irish classic)

8.Van Morrison-Brown Eyed Girl

9.Dubliners-Dirty Old Town

10.The Drop Kick Murphys-The Spicy McHaggis Jig

 

Live Music Management are a UK based entertainment agency supplying function bands and DJs to night clubs ,events ,weddings and parties throughout the UK and beyond. You can see more by visiting www.lmmuk.com or by liking us on facebook here (go ahead and like us….we’re nice guys!) http://www.facebook.com/livemusicmanagement

Top Five Low Cost Wedding Ideas

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011


During the past thirteen years of Live Music Managements existence we have supplied function bands and DJs to well over five thousand weddings as well as  supplying entertainment to countless parties and events.These have ranged in scale from a massive wedding in India with over 3,000 guests to small intimate affairs with forty or so guests.

Over the years LMM have picked up lots of ideas from enterprising and imaginative brides and grooms who have created wonderful parties for their wedding guests and in this blog we will outline our favourite low cost wedding ideas.

1.Sparkler Archway

At a recent wedding as the bride and groom left to go on honeymoon all the guest lined up with sparklers and created an archway of light for them to walk through.It was a beautiful sight and cost very little.It also gave structure to the leaving of the bride and groom.A formal fair well.

2.Candy Store

A table beautifully laid out with old fashioned sweets and a weighing scale doesn’t cost much but was a talking point for all the adult guests at a wedding last year as people remembered the sweets of their youth (flying saucers? Wham Bars?) Of course the kids loved it and kept visiting as much to play shop as to eat sweets.

3.Memory Books And Polaroid Camera

A message book on a table,an old fashioned Polaroid camera which prints out instant photos,some double sided sticky tape.An instant hit with guests and a brilliant way of capturing some of the evenings festivities.

4.If Booking A Band Book An LMM Band To Supply Interval Music

If you are booking a live band the vast majority of LMM bands will supply recorded music over their PA system in between the live sets and for  the duration of the party.This will save on the cost of a DJ.Bands have very good PA systems and the majority have good light systems which will illuminate the dancefloor.All bands have playlists built up from playing previous weddings and parties but another top tip is to create a playlist from your guest requests to play over the bands PA system during their break.

LMM have wedding bands based throughout the UK to suit every budget.

5.Book A Top Quality DJ

If booking a DJ make sure you book a top quality DJ.This will not be the cheapest option available but it also doesn’t need to be the most expensive.What it will do is ensure that your guests get a great nights entertainment and that they will leave talking about what a fabulous party they have had.Often hotels will offer a cheap option for the DJ but these DJs are sometimes not the best quality.LMM DJs have experience of playing nightclubs,parties,weddings and events.Often if a DJ has been playing the same wedding venue for years you will find they are in a rut and complacent.You need a DJ who will treat your wedding reception as a special booking and not part of a job lot of low paid work.

LMM have wedding DJs based throughout the UK to suit every budget.

We hope that the above is helpful.LMM offer friendly and honest advice (we are real people who will answer the phone during office hours!!) Give us a call on 08454 900515 or email info@lmmuk.com for the best low cost entertainment options for your party.