For HARD TO HANDLE wedding band, playing at the West Mill in Derbyshire is like a reuniting with an old friend – we have played there so many times that we know how many steps connect the load in area on the grand, imposing forecourt to the performance area on the second floor. We know the colour of the beams in the break out room on the ground floor. We know that despite the relatively low ceiling, our DJ booth and speakers fit comfortably. We know that even though the venue has a sound limitation device installed which governs the maximum performance volume and prevents DJs and bands playing too loud, our vast gigging experience means that we can achieve a great all round sound without the need for excess noise.
We also feel that as so much has been done to make the site of the old water mill complex into a top end heritage-style Derbyshire wedding venue, it behoves Derbyshire wedding bands like HARD TO HANDLE BAND to bring their most professional approach to the game. Ergo, we liaise with both the venue and yourselves as bride and groom regarding arrival, set up and performance times, song requests and any special parts of the evening you have planned such as surprise fireworks so that everything runs as smoothly as you would wish on your big day. Of course weddings seldom run entirely to time, and at venues where the wedding breakfast and evening entertainment are taking place in the same room, that can mean a small window of time for the band to set up (which by the way is no problem as long as you have hired HARD TO HANDLE are your Derbyshire wedding band).
Fortunately, as a bride and groom, one of the benefits of hiring the West Mill and your venue and HARD TO HANDLE as your Derbyshire wedding band is that the venue hosts your wedding breakfast and speeches on a different floor to where the band sets up, so that even if you find your wedding breakfast running late with that uncle making an interminably long speech, we will already be set up by the time your evening guests arrive. Our live DJ will be able to play low-level music to greet your evening guests while your wedding breakfast is still taking place on the floor below, so that by the time your daytime guests filter up to the performance room, the party will have already started!
Lovely Roisin and Will hired HARD TO HANDLE BAND a full nine months before their big day – showing the kind of foresight needed to hire one of the most popular and in-demand live wedding bands performing in Derbyshire – and immediately got to work with the fun task of deciding the songs they wanted us to play. You could of course leave the choice of music up to ourselves and our DJ (because we perform at over 200 wedding receptions each year, we have built up the requisite knowledge to be able to work the room, playing the songs we know will keep your guests on the dance floor), but it’s a lot more fun to go through our 370+ song genre-busting live band playlist, choosing the kind of music you would like the band to bust out to keep you all on the dance floor. Here’s what they came up with:
Dancing in the moonlight
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Friday I’m in love
I’m a believer
This Charming Man
Tainted Love
Superstition
Teenage Kicks
Town called Malice
My Generation
Losing My Religion
Sweet child o’ mine
All Star
La Vida Loca
She’s so lovely
Crashed the wedding
Fight for your Right to party
Proud Mary
Dirty Old Town
I’ll tell me ma
Don’t look back into the sun
Rockstar (Nickelback)
You’ve got the love
Don’t start now
Shake it off
Pink pony club
All the Small Things
Sugar, we’re going down
Teenagers
Smells like teen spirit
Bet you look good
Take Me Out
Killing in the Name
Basket Case
We Built This City
That’s one superbly eclectic playlist – rock, indie, pop, soul, and emo. And because LOVE playing song requests we were totally happy to oblige! Happy groom Will thanked us at the end of the night and then went back to working the room, re-emerging to communicate via the medium of mime as we spoke to lovely Roisin on video, who gave us her approval with a resounding “hell yeah!”
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HARD TO HANDLE BAND – 2 hours of killer rock, pop, indie and more + free live DJ!
Tel: 0796 433 5657
E: info@hardtohandleband.co.uk
https://hardtohandleband.co.uk/derbyshire-wedding-band/