Blackwell Grange wedding supplier Warwickshire Hard to Handle wedding band + DJ
Blackwell Grange wedding supplier live band
Since its’ inception in 2016 as a bespoke luxury wedding venue, Blackwell Grange in Shipston on Stour has become one of the most popular Warwickshire wedding venues. Built in the footprint of a 16th century barn, Blackwell Grange boasts ceremony and reception rooms as well as on-site accommodation. It really is a hi-spec venue for small to midsize wedding receptions, and as such has partnered with quality service providers to allow you to choose the finest wedding industry professionals to allow you to create your perfect day.
For live entertainment, Blackwell Grange recommends HARD TO HANDLE BAND + DJ. We are…well, we are not your average wedding band, that’s for sure! Let’s cut to the chase as we don’t want to risk boring you with a load of dull epithets. Take a look at our high energy performances in this video and try to tell us that we are not the most amazingly entertaining, energetic and fun Warwickshire wedding entertainment band you have found!
Professional Warwickshire wedding supplier
Hire HARD TO HANDLE BAND as your Blackwell Grange wedding supplier for live music entertainment and here’s what you’ll get:
- Professional, entertaining and reliable high-energy Warwickshire wedding entertainment band
- Trusted by over 200 brides and grooms each year
- Many 5* wedding performance reviews on Google and Hitched
- Huge 350+ song live band diverse genre playlist featuring classic and contemporary rock, pop, indie and more
- Live DJ (not a Spotify playlist!) playing sets all night inbetween band music
- You choose the playlist! Song requests happily learn and played
- Fully self-contained – no need to hire any lights or speakers
- Fast set up gets the party started quickly – no need to wait around for hours
- Probably the most cost-effective live Warwickshire wedding entertainment band you will find
- Hire us direct – no need to go through a costly entertainment agency
- Lots of video reviews – genuine recommendations from brides and grooms here
- Fully insured
- A full dance floor, all night!
Is a live band suitable for as Blackwell Grange wedding entertainment?
Hiring a live band for your wedding reception at Blackwell Grange is an exciting prospect! There’s nothing guaranteed to create more of a buzz than your guests discovering that they will be dancing to live music as they realise that you and your partner have gone all-out to impress and entertain them. DJ and solo artistes are OK, but at some stage they are likely to lose the attention of their audience. It could be that the DJ isn’t playing song requests, or the solo artistes’ songs sound “samey”, but it’s also likely that because they are just one person, they can’t fill the room with their sound or skills as an entertainer. So for this reason, hiring a live band for your wedding reception is definitely a good move and will create that “wow” factor.
While we can’t speak for other bands, we can guarantee that HARD TO HANDLE BAND are totally suitable to hire as your Blackwell Grange wedding supplier. How do we know this? Because Blackwell Grange have partnered with us as their preferred live music band. This means that the venue recommends us to their brides and grooms to provide superlative live entertainment. This trust is something we value – as there is no financial arrangement between us, it means that the venue have decided that we are the live wedding band which best represents its’ values. It also means that when you hire HARD TO HANDLE BAND to perform at Blackwell Grange, you won’t have to ensure that the band have gone through the vetting process that the venue require of band and DJs before allowing them to perform.
Will a live band play all night at Blackwell Grange? Will I have to hire other entertainment?
If you think of your evening wedding reception at Blackwell Grange in terms of a block of time, any entertainment you hire will need to be able to perform between 4 and 5 hours (from approximately 5pm until the Blackwell Grange curfew of 11pm). While that may sound like a lot of time for one act to fill, if you hire the right entertainment, they will not just fill the whole evening with music but it will flow in a way that means you and your guests will be on the dance floor all night. Clearly hiring a solo artiste or other act that plans to play 2 hours of music isn’t going to cut it – you may think “we’ll just let guests mingle in the silence between sets”, but please take the advice of a band with hundreds of gigs’ experience performing at wedding receptions – don’t let there be silence! No music means the mood will be killed, the dance floor will be empty and the act is highly unlikely to be able to create a success of the evening. If you have been a guest at a wedding reception, you may have experienced this and thought “the evening was a bit of a let down”. You can guarantee that the bride and groom would be feeling 10 times worse! So don’t let that be you – make sure you hire entertainment to cover the whole of the evening.
That being said, it’s unlikely that hiring a live entertainment band as wedding service provider for your Warwickshire wedding reception means that your whole evening will be filled with live band music as most professional function bands perform approximately 2 hours in total. Besides which, wouldn’t it be nice to give your guests the variety of having more than one type of entertainment on your big day? The obvious choice is to hire an additional DJ who will be able to play sets when the band aren’t performing.
Aren’t Warwickshire wedding bands too expensive? Should I just hire a DJ?
Ultimately, it’s you and your partner (or if you’re really lucky, your parents) who will decide on and set the budget for your wedding entertainment. Hopefully if you have gotten this far you will have done some research by getting quotes from bands. At one end of the spectrum, this process will inevitably involve sending out emails, not receiving any response, making phone calls, speaking to surly and taciturn musicians who don’t sound like they want to perform for you, while at the other end nothing will have prepared you for the pushiness, arm twisting and second-hand car salesman patter of some entertainment agencies who insist that you hire one of their uninspiring and frankly overpriced wedding bands as quickly as possible as your date is literally the only date the band have remaining for the next 70 years…and the fee. Oh lord, the ridiculous, exorbitant sliding scales of charges starting at a service that doesn’t suit your requirements up to the gold and platinum packages that will require you to remortgage your house.
Getting quotes from Warwickshire wedding service suppliers appears to be a crazy circus of spiralling costs; so much so that the temptation to hire a DJ may seem appealing. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Fortunately you have found HARD TO HANDLE BAND.
What do wedding bands offer?
As you will have read above, HARD TO HANDLE BAND offer a full live music experience service. In short, this means that on the night you will have non-stop music to entertain your guests – not just a high energy, entertaining and professional live band but also a live, manned DJ who will mix music live and take song requests. And though some entertainment agencies (and some bands) will want to charge you for adding a DJ for the evening, we provide our DJ free of service. Don’t let a band cut corners by telling you they will provide “DJ-style” music – all this really amounts to is a preloaded Spotify playlist that one of the musicians presses play on after their last song and walk away from. Yes, that is as uninspiring as it sounds. Crucially, it’s not an interactive service. Your guest will not be able to request songs, and if the preloaded playlist isn’t suitably broad enough – maybe it’s all pop/punk or heavy music or cheesy old songs with nothing else, you will soon see your guests desert the dance floor, probably never to return.
HARD TO HANDLE BAND are different – our band and DJ sets will feature lots and lots and lots of your song requests! We have learnt your favourite songs (though you’ll probably find lots and lots and lots of your favourite songs on our massive 350+ song genre busting playlist here and will sequence them in a way that ensures they flow well, as well as – importantly – reading the crowd. Out sets are fully customisable, not just by you but by us, using our vast gigging experience to play the songs that will work best on the night. Our DJ follows also follows suit, and between us we create an interactive party atmosphere for you and your guests, all night!
So if you are thinking about hiring Blackwell Grange, save this page and make a note of hiring HARD TO HANDLE BAND + DJ as your live entertainment wedding service supplier or ask us for a quote. Or if you have already hired Blackwell Grange, get in contact – we look forward to hearing from you!
HARD TO HANDLE WEDDING BAND – 2 hours of killer indie, rock, pop and more + live DJ!
Tel: 0796 433 5657
E: info@hardtohandleband.co.uk