CORNWALL WEDDING BAND
Live Cornwall wedding music from HARD TO HANDLE WEDDING BAND – 2 hours of classic and contemporary anthems + live DJ for the best night of your lives. Wedding bands in Cornwall have never sounded so good!
It’s no idle boast – each year over 200 brides and grooms choose HARD TO HANDLE BAND to provide wedding entertainment to get their guests dancing all night long. Our high-energy take on classic rock, indie, soul, modern pop and more is infectious and creates a non-stop party vibe all night. With requests chosen by you, it’s just like having your own personal band! Our massive 350+ playlist is constantly updated so that we sound fresh authentic and definitely non-cheesy.
If you are a fan of live music, you’ll love HARD TO HANDLE – we are three professional musicians with a passion for entertaining at small to midsized functions such as wedding receptions. If you’re looking to recreate the vibe of your favourite summer festivals, look no further – we’ll play the bangers made famous by the headline and supporting acts of your favourite festival. It’s a great way of entertaining your guests on your special day and making the wedding band experience fresh and fun! Here’s what HARD TO HANDLE BAND can offer for Cornwall weddings:
- Professional Cornwall wedding band; talented musicians
- Strong track record of performing at 170+ weddings per year
- Perfect for Cornwall weddings with up to 500 guests
- 2 hours of live band music
- Live DJ provided free of charge on all direct bookings
- Top-of-the-range lighting and PA system
- Massive classic and contemporary song playlist
- Choose your favourite songs for us to play
- Fully insured
- One flat fee – no hidden charges
- No agency commissions
- Full dance floor all night!
We like to think we are the perfect wedding band for small to midsized Cornwall wedding receptions. We are available throughout Cornwall and can play at venues such as Polhawn Fort, The Green, Tredudwell Manor, Knightor Winery, St. Ives Harbour Hotel, The Barn at Pengelly, Cornish Tipi weddings, The Venue at Sandy Cove, Stennack Farm, Avalen Farm and just about any other Cornwall wedding venue you can think of!
You can watch performance and review videos, listen to our music and marvel at our indie, rock, pop and soul playlist here. You can also contact us direct on 0796 433 5657 or fill out the Contact form and we’ll get right back to you!
How do I hire a Cornwall wedding band?
If you are looking for something a little different for your Cornwall wedding celebration, look no further – you have found HARD TO HANDLE BAND. With an individual take on how to provide live entertainment at Cornwall weddings, we are more cost effective than most Cornwall bands, providing band and DJ services in one (no need to scout around trying to find a separate DJ who will play great music) creating a great atmosphere with an eclectic multi-genre playlist from which you are most welcome to choose your favourite music, or you can ask us to learn and perform songs at no extra cost.
After hiring a wedding band, brides and grooms at Cornish weddings sometimes ask their guests to nominate a song for us to play – it’s a really good way of getting everyone involved and it helps us to personalise the music we’re playing to ensure that your friends and loved ones are dancing all night.
Not all wedding bands from Cornwall will be happy to offer this service, and while when it comes to wedding bands Cornwall has plenty to choose from, we think it’s a good idea hire a band who will at least agree to perform some of your song requests.
Of course, the best way to find out if this is something they will agree to do is to get in touch with them. However, that’s not as easy as it seems, and this is really all about to the best way to hire Cornwall wedding bands.
What is the best way to hire Cornwall wedding bands?
You might think “I’ll search for ‘best wedding bands’ or ‘perfect Cornwall weddings band’ on Google, call and email the band I like, have a chat to the band leaders, get a quote and choose the best wedding band for my event”.
If only it were that simple! Firstly, if you are going to use Google to search for the best Cornwall wedding bands, you will need to prepare yourself for the somewhat arduous task of sifting though tens of websites, many of which feature hundreds of party bands.
What’s going on here? Welcome to the murky world of entertainment agencies, where all is not what it seems. If you have found the HARD TO HANDLE BAND website, we assume you have already gone through the frustrating process of contacting at least one Cornwall entertainment agency, perusing the never-ending list of bands on their website, asking for quotes, being disappointed with the outrageously expensive fees for the event bands on offer – that’s if you even receive a reply, of course.
Entertainment agencies are aggregate sites – they collect lots of Cornwall party bands for hire, display a little bit of information on services offered (never enough) with vague suggestions of fees. A few things you may have noticed – all the descriptions sound similar. That’s because they all written by the agency and designed to make their live wedding music sound as polished (or bland) as possible.
Why? Because they mainly want to offer their services to the corporate event market, where they can charge lot more money for a band playing at prestigious venues than what most brides and grooms have in their wedding budget for live entertainment for their evening reception.
How much does a wedding band cost?
So if you’re wondering why Cornwall wedding music entertainment agency fees for live bands are so high, that’s one reason. The other reason is that entertainment agencies are not like price comparison sites – instead they are businesses, commercial enterprises run by organisations to cash in on the lucrative event and wedding entertainment industries, and as such they charge a commission on top of what the party band normally charge. And guess who pays that commission? Yep, you do.
Of course, most of the Cornwall acts listed on entertainment agency websites are available to hire direct, but you do have to find them, which can be very difficult as wedding bands in Cornwall (and in fact anywhere in the UK) don’t have the same budget as agencies to spend on advertising, which is why the first page of Google results are usually for agencies. Agencies also rename any band they list on their site, making it even harder for you to find and hire party bands direct.
For this reason, it can be very expensive to hire Cornwall wedding entertainment. Added to this, as Cornwall is a large and somewhat sparsely populated county, a lot of Cornwall acts will charge you extra to travel to your event to provide live wedding entertainment.
Some party bands may even charge you accommodation fees, and a few wedding bands might provide you with a ridiculous quote when they realise that they will need to carry their equipment down a flight of steps (we’re thinking of Polhawn Fort here!).
Nevertheless, it is always going to be more cost effective to hire bands direct. Luckily for you, you have found HARD TO HANDLE BAND – we’re more cost effective than hiring party bands through agencies and we have one flat fee with no hidden costs – no travel costs or accommodation, no VAT, no extra fee for learning new songs, and when you ask us for a quote, remember that we’re providing our DJ service free of charge!
What music do wedding bands play?
The type of music a live wedding band will play is dependent on the type of band you hire: jazz bands will only play jazz, party bands will play a mix of pub-style music, large event bands will tend to favour funk or soul medleys. Most of these bands tend to “stay in their lane” – for example a function band that has been put together to service the corporate events market is unlikely to play indie music, and a trendy modern folk band is going to stay away from classic rock.
For your wedding day, it’s a really good idea to look for bands who can play a good cross section of music including rock, pop, indie and more; something to suite the music tastes of all your guests. Of course it’s also important that the band you have hired sound great when playing these different genres of music, and the bets way to achieve this is to hire an all-round party band such as HARD TO HANDLE!
Is my venue too small for a live band?
If you have fallen in love with one of Cornwalls’ compact and rustic private wedding venues, we can totally understand! However, if you have hired one of these smaller wedding venues, it makes sense to talk to your venue manager (or wedding co-ordinator) about the type of wedding acts that are most suited to perform there.
They will tell you that large function bands featuring five or more wedding musicians will struggle to fit into the available space, let alone perform effectively. Larger bands like this might need to spill onto the dance floor, leaving little or no room for your guests to enjoy themselves.
Also, the more musicians are in a band, the louder it becomes, which is especially a problem if your venue has an entertainment licence with requires bands to perform within certain volume restrictions; something that is becoming more and more common.
What is the best Cornwall wedding band?
Your best option is to hire a fun professional band with a wealth of experience performing live entertainment at Cornwall weddings; a band with lots of onstage personality and energy, with an eclectic mix of rock, modern pop covers, indie, soul to get the party started more who can also provide a live DJ option at no extra cost.
And guess what? You have found your perfect professional Cornwall wedding reception, right here. Call HARD TO HANDLE BAND direct on 0796 433 5657 for more information, or fill out the Contact form. We look forward to hearing from you!
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