Themes come and go in the wedding industry and each season brings new trends. Over the last several years the buzz words “Vintage Wedding” have hung around and splintered into a myriad of new styles including 1940′s glamour , 1970s’ chic, 50′s rock n roll and more.Punk Rock Weddings can be seen as an off shoot of this. A niche to inspire creative couples with a rock n roll swagger.
Blogs like Rock n Roll Bride (who have previously featured Live Music Management Rockaoke , Bandeoke and party bands in their real life weddings sections) have been quick to feature Punk Rock Weddings as a trend and there are a hundreds of images on line of punk rock wedding dresses which is a clear sign that something is in the air.
Bridal gown designers like Washington DC’s Punk Rock Bride have a number of fashion forward collections to inspire the Bride looking for an alternative look that is both beautiful and slightly underground.
Although Live Music Management sneer a little at the mention of Sid And Nancy inspired Punk Rock Weddings (do these people not know how that particular relationship ended? They need to read up on their rock history a bit) we are genuinely thrilled to have played a small part in the trend in the UK by supplying properly alternative wedding bands.
What do we mean by Punk Rock Wedding bands? Well if you look at the likes of Platform Six , The Dominoes , Lucas or Brainscape on the Live Music Management website you will see an indie rock wedding band with a repertoire that won’t scare Auntie Doris but will still be credible to those couples who’ve spent the last five Summers camping at rock festivals, reading NME and watching underground bands in sweaty rock clubs. Live Music Management are the UK’s foremost supplier of this kind of cover band that play all the big party rock anthems with the swagger of the original artists.
The other kind of act that very much fits the bill at a Punk Rock Wedding is Bandeoke also known as rockaoke or live band karaoke. Live Music Managements rock karaoke bands have been in demand at Punk Rock Weddings where the guests get to sing on stage with a live band , throw some rock shapes and have live out the rock star dream. Live Music Management were the originators of this kind of wedding entertainment in the UK and although much imitated we have the best live karaoke bands at the best prices.
Call 08454 900515 or email info@lmmuk.com for further information.
Today’s blog is about an individual band that have been causing quite a stir at the shows they have played over the past twelve months. Personally I hadn’t seen the band in the flesh until about six months ago (my colleague Alex had been raving about them for sometime after auditioning them in London and I had seen the videos.) My first taste of The Present live was at a VIP event on the Thames Embankment. They didnt have to play more than a few bars of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” before I knew we had something special on our hands. The Present are a great party band
The Present combine great musicianship with superb vocals and stage prescence. Their experience of playing a variety of venues has provided them with the chops to turn any evening into a party and that’s exactly what they did on the evening that I caught them live.
The Present are one of Live Music Managements top wedding bands for weddings in the Essex and home counties. They are perfect for corporate events and feel as comfortable on a big stage as they do performing as a function band in a small venue. The Present have played for Prince William and supported a number of large acts like Westlife , Robbie Williams and Bucks Fizz.
Check out this great cover band if you are looking to hire a band in the near future. The Present can also be hired to provide an evening of Rockaoke aka Bandeoke or Live Band Karaoke.
Well for the purposes of this blog it is two separate things.
1.Rock Karaoke is our Live Karaoke Bands aka Rockaoke or Bandeoke performing big classic anthems live on stage with guest singers chosen from the audience.
2.Rock Karaoke is also one of our great themed karaoke nights with a DJ who understands and loves rock music supplying a night of karaoke which will satisfy the biggest rock head in the crowd.
Which one will suit your event the best?
If you have a small number of guests you may find that a karaoke DJ with a good selection or rock material will be sufficient to create a great atmosphere at your event and Live Music Management can certainly provide the right DJ with great guys like Jim Brown on our books (Jim used to be front man for a number of fantastic rock bands both original and covers.)
With a live Rock Karaoke night then Live Music Management have the best selection of live karaoke bands in the UK and as originators of the Rockaoke craze we have maintained quality whilst at the same time ensuring we have Bandeoke bands located thoughout the UK in order to offer our clients both choice and best price on the UKs top Rockaoke bands.
If you are looking to rock out at your own rock karaoke event then call the LMM office where we have a friendly,experienced team able to help you decide which type of act will suit your evening and guests best. Our office is available on 08454 900515 or you can email info@lmmuk.com
We see all kinds of wedding themes here at Live Music Management and our clients are very imaginative in tailoring their wedding day into a unique and special occasion reflecting their personalities.
One of the latest trends in wedding planning is the theme of Rockstar weddings . A number of clients have approached LMM with a view to booking entertainment fit for a rockstar wedding. Inspired, perhaps, by Rock N Roll Brides website and celebrity weddings we have some brides and grooms wanting to book entertainment with a rockstar theme.
This entertainment allows your wedding guests the opportunity to sing on stage with live band. They are able to get the chance to act like a rockstar and perform a set in front of your guests. All LMMM Bandeoke bands look the part , sound the part and are able to also perform a stand alone set if you are wanting the band to sing themselves for part of the evening.
Besides Bandeoke or Rockaoke we also have a number of young , high energy bands able to offer your event a little Rockstar glamour (attitude without the attitude is what we like to call it!)
Live Music Management are proud to be at the forefront of the Rockstar weddings craze and to be able to offer great wedding bands who can meet with any brief.
Here in the UK Live Band Karaoke has also been known as Bandeoke. Whatever you call it we offer great quality musicians who will help your guests and yourselves become a rock star for the night and sing with a quality live band.
This Thursday Feb 2 2012 sees the start of a brand new live karaoke night in London. One Night Standeoke ,one of the very first Rockaoke bands in the UK, will be playing live at Temple Walkabout for the start of a residency which will allow singers to guest with an amazing live band. Anyone can attend and anyone can put their name down to sing. LMM will be there on the first night. Please join us for a night of bandeoke with one of our top Bandeoke bands.
Our live karaoke bands are available to hire for weddings,events,parties and club nights throughout the UK.
To paraphrase the Marks And Spencers adverts.There’s karaoke and then there’s Live Music Management karaoke as presented by DJ Mike Wedgewood at the Riverside Bar in Temple Walkabout!
We were very pleased to recieve this video this morning which begins like a particularly over the top episode of the X Factor and captures the excitement of this great karaoke night in the side bar of the famous Temple Walkabout overlooking the London Eye on the Banks of the Thames.
Live Music Management have great karaoke DJs for hire in all parts of the UK. We also have the best Live Karaoke Bands (aka Rockaokeor Bandeoke ) if you want to take your karaoke event into the stratosphere.
You can call the Live Music Management karaoke hotline on 08454 900515 for details of availabilities and prices on karaoke DJs or Live Karaoke Bands. In the meantime enjoy the video above. We loved it when we watched it in the office this morning. If you are around the Temple area on a Friday night then pop into the Walkabout for a great evenings entertainment.
One of the new buzz phrases crossing over from the American events industry is “engagement workshop.” For twenty years or more the events industry and business have been interested in employee motivation, team building ,and ideas to incentivize the work force. In the States the focus has shifted a little to try and ensure that the team is “engaged” and totally buys into the company brand and activity.
Live Music Management are an entertainment agency that specialise in offering imaginative solutions to the events industry and we offer a number of activities which would fall into the category of engagement workshop. Activities which are young,fresh and full of energy to adrenalize the work force and motivate staff.
Bandeoke AKA Rockaoke or Live Band Karaokegives staff the opportunity to sing with a professional band. It offers a high energy solution to companies looking for a team building event and can be offered as a workshop in which vocals,confidence and performance can be worked upon. Live Music Management have the UKs best live karaoke bands at the most competitive prices and we are able to offer bespoke acts to suit any requirement.
DJ Superstar DJ Academy offers employees the skill sets and tools to DJ at a company event. Our workshop sessions offer training in DJ skills such as mixing,cross cutting,programming and microphone skills.
Call the live music management office for details of activities which meet with the demands of engagement activities 08454 900515 or info@lmmuk.com
One of our clients popped down to the Rockaoke night at The Roadhouse in Covent Garden last night where our fantastic female fronted band Violet were performing sets of Rockaoke AKA Bandeoke or live band karaoke to an enthusiastic crowd enjoying the thrill of getting on stage and singing with a live band.
Live Music Management were the originators of Bandeoke (AKA Rockaoke or Live Band Karaoke) in the UK when we recognised the need for a different class of karaoke event at nightclubs and parties. Since we began supplying live karaoke bands in the early 2000′s we have inspired many imitators but we still offer the best quality bands at the best prices. One of our criteria is that the band themselves should be brilliant musicians,contain singers who can carry the night if needs be and help guest singers achieve their full potential and also that the band should look like a proper rock band.
Take One Night Standeoke pictured above in their new publicity shots.
This fantastic live karaoke band have played hundreds of rockaoke / bandaoke events and were one of the first live karaoke bands in London.The past eight years or so have seen them playing in front of thousands of people at city centre venues,thousands more at festivals and at hundreds of individual events,weddings and parties.They are sensibly priced and offer a real quality live karaoke band experience.Great musicians,nice people who encourage great performances from guest singers.They offer the full package.
When booking a live karaoke band from other agencies you can’t always be sure of the act you will get.The publicity may say one thing but the act that turns up may not be the same as the act that played the events that attracted you to them in the first place.With Live Music Management we do not offer a generic band and then put any old bunch of musicians on the job.We offer real bands at realistic prices.
Which is Live Music Management are the leading supplier of live karaoke/rockaoke/bandeoke bands in the UK.
Call 08454 900515 or email info@lmmuk.com for further details of our great live karaoke bands.
Many of our regular readers will know that LMM were the originators of the Live karaoke band craze in the UK (also known as Rockaoke or Bandeoke) when nearly ten years ago we were tasked by the manager of Glasgow Walkabout to find a “cool” alternative to the Karaoke which was being offered by other bars in the town.
Of course in the years that have passed since then we have supplied bandeoke (aka rockaoke or bandaoke or punk rock karaoke or live band karaoke or whatever else you want to call it!) karaoke bands to events throughout the world.We have had brides and grooms enjoying the opportunity of singing with a live band whilst brides maids and wedding guests sing along.We have had senior corporate directors up on stage rocking out with the accounts department on backing vocals.We’ve had festival audiences queuing for the chance of singing with our hip and happening karaoke bands and student medics falling over themselves in the rush to get on the stage.On top of this our karaoke bands have been used to launch some fantastic products (not least the Wii sing games.)
We are now proud to offer the best High Tech Karaoke Band.That is a live karaoke band where the words appear on a tele prompter style screen (like they do at a karaoke night) but the band are still playing a live set.This is not just a band playing along with karaoke backing tracks like some acts which offer a similiar product but a real live karaoke band experience to match the other fantastic bands that we offer.
If you are looking for a quality live karaoke band then we are still the best place to come to ensure highest quality at best price with a company that offers secure contracting and online secure payments.
Its been ridiculously busy in the LMM office over the past few weeks which is one reason why we haven’t been blogging as often as we would like.The Christmas season is well under way and we have had more Xmas bookings in 2010 than in 2009 so that’s great news both for us and for signs that the economy may be in better shape than we give it credit for.
The kind of events we have been supplying entertainment to in December 2010 have been wide and varied.
Even picking one day at random you can get a feel for the scope of the LMM entertainment team and breadth of our client base and experience.
Yesterday (December 15 2010) we had DJ Matt Stephens playinga Golden Years Lunch and getting 100 senior citizens conga-ing around a Hotel in Manchester.We had mobile DJ Big Al playing a posh party for the Premier Ship at The Albannach Restaraunt in London.We had a Frank Sinatra tribute playing a corporate party over in Romania.We had a live music duo playing an after work drinks party in Central London.We had a live karaoke band AKA Rockaoke or Bandeoke playing at a Christmas party in London and another one playing up in Carlisle.We had a couple of great live covers acts playing at holiday parks.We had a mobile DJ playing Bluu in Moorgate for a City Of London after work party.We had a whole bunch of bands and DJs playing at High Street venues like Walkabout and we had the comedy shows at Highlight Comedy clubs being hosted and DJed by our team of Highlight soundtech DJs.
Besides all of that on Dec 15 Lorraine Crosby recorded the lead vocal for a TV/Radio advert which will be widely heard and seen in 2011.It was produced by a name producer and LMM were proud to have been asked to identify the perfect vocalist for this advert.
That’s just one day in December!!!
Remember LMM for all your entertainment needs whether it be a mobile DJ or live band or something a little unusual.LMM are the entertainment agency to go to in order to guarantee quality,best price and reliability.
