LANCASHIRE WEDDING BANDS
HARD TO HANDLE band bring a high-energy show to Lancashire weddings, featuring 2 hours of non-cheesy dance floor-friendly wedding music + free DJ! Over 700 brides and grooms throughout Lancashire and the North West can’t be wrong…we perform at around 170 weddings and other events around Lancashire and the North West every year, so if you’re planning your wedding, there’s a good chance that one of your guests has seen us perform.
We are an in-demand, talented and entertaining three-piece professional function band with a 350+ song multi-genre playlist which you can mix and match to suit your tastes, and our DJ plays keep the party vibe and the guests dancing for non-stop wedding music all night.
When you ask us for a quote, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover that we are more cost effective than the majority of other professional wedding bands and we provide everything you’ll need for the perfect night’s entertainment without any hidden charges. HARD TO HANDLE BAND in a nutshell:
- Compact professional three-piece band performing live wedding music
- Perfect for small to midsized functions
- 2 hours of live band music spread throughout the night
- Multi-genre repertoire including rock, pop, indie, soul and more
- Choose music from our 350+song playlist or ask us to learn your favourite songs (including your first dance song)
- Live DJ mixing music and taking requests, playing sets before, in between and after the band
- Sound system and lighting
- No entertainment agency commissions or travel and accommodation costs
- Additional drinks reception music
- Fully insured
- A full dance floor, all night!
If that sounds like everything you wanted for your evening wedding band entertainment, get in touch! You can call us direct on 0796 433 5657 or use the contact form
HOW TO HIRE A LANCASHIRE WEDDING BAND
Brides and grooms hire HARD TO HANDLE BAND for many reasons, but we like to think of ourselves as the refreshing alternative to tired old wedding bands who call themselves the “perfect Lancashire wedding band” but play a cheesy setlist they haven’t updated since the 1990s – you know the type of band we’re talking about! In fact, if you have Googled “Lancashire wedding bands” or “Lancashire wedding musicians”, you have probably already seen them listed, visited their websites, listen to one of their interminably dull funk / soul medleys and thought “no, that’s not that’s not for us.”
There are lots of live wedding bands out there, but let’s face it – it can be pretty difficult to find good quality wedding bands online, because even though when it comes to hiring a wedding band Lancashire has a lot of talent, it does seem that the same bands crop up online time after time. Here’s a question: during your search for Lancashire wedding bands, have you gotten the feeling that you’ve have seen a wedding band on one website that was previously going under a different name on another site? If the answer is “yes”, you’d be bob on; this does happen a lot.
There’s a reason why the same live wedding bands keep appearing in your search, and it’s all to do with entertainment agencies. These are websites which allow you to hire wedding bands from a local party band to the “best wedding bands”. If you find one of thse sites and search “live wedding bands Lancashire”, you’re usually presented with a long list of recommended wedding bands.
Typically these sites show a small profile of each of their party bands, maybe a little bit of text, a video and an approximate fee. They’re not very informative because they are designed to get you to make an enquiry. While there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s worth noting that as soon as you request a quote or more information about what music wedding bands perform wedding band, you become locked into a cycle of sales-based phone calls and emails from the entertainment agency.
After a while you may feel like you are being pressured into making a hasty decision to hire one of their so-called “best wedding bands” without being in possession of all the information you need to actually make that decision. Planning your wedding reception is a major life event and hiring professional Lancashire wedding bands should feel exciting and fun, but sometimes these agencies make the whole process feel quite joyless and transactional.
HOW MUCH DO LANCASHIRE WEDDING BANDS COST TO HIRE?
Let’s put it out there right now – HARD TO HANDLE are more cost effective than most of the wedding bands Lancashire has to offer. Have you found that quotes for Lancashire wedding bands or North West wedding entertainment have been ridiculously expensive and way over budget? If you have, we’ll wager it’s because the quotes you have received have come from entertainment agencies. Wedding entertainment agencies are not like price comparison websites – instead they make money from your wedding by charging you a commission for wedding entertainment.
This is something you may already know, however each year we speak to lots of people looking to hire a Lancashire wedding band who are dismayed by quotes hundreds of pounds over their budget they receive from entertainment agencies for the so-called “very best wedding bands”.
Quite often they find that this quote is just for the wedding band and doesn’t include additional DJ music. This because entertainment agencies know that you will need some form of music to be played inbetween the bands’ sets and will use the offer of a DJ as a bolt on to get you to spend even more money. This is why it’s always going to be more cost effective if you hire any wedding band Lancashire has to offer direct rather than going through an agency.
By the way, if you do find yourself in this predicament, just make sure that the additional service the agency has sold you is actually a real live DJ, because all too often when the wedding band set up, you won’t see a DJ booth, you won’t see extra lights; all you’ll see is a phone with a pre-loaded Spotify playlist that one of the Lancashire wedding band members presses play on and the walks away from after their sets. If this is their set up, it means your guests won’t be able to request songs, they will be disappointed, the dance floor will clear and your big night won’t be what you had hoped for.
Hiring the best Lancashire wedding bands doesn’t have to break the bank, but the only way to avoid budget blow out is to hire a wedding band direct. HARD TO HANDLE offer our 2 hours of rock, pop, modern hits, indie and more and our DJ service, as well as a top of the range sound system and lighting all for one fee. Unlike many Lancashire wedding bands we don’t have endless arrays of bronze, silver and gold packages because we don’t want you to feel like you are spending more money than you have to, and we never use the magic “from” word. You will definitely be able to hire us for less than those large expensive wedding bands the agencies have tried to sell you, and when you call us, you come through to us direct.
WHICH LANCASHIRE WEDDING VENUES ARE HARD TO HANDLE BAND SUITABLE TO PLAY AT?
If your venue hosts wedding receptions and parties, then HARD TO HANDLE BAND are suitable to perform there – it’s as simple as that. A Lancashire wedding band performs at variety of venues, and many venues will host the different types of wedding bands Lancashire has to offer, from the very best wedding bands to a local party band, but venue managers love HARD TO HANDLE because we liaise with them in advance to ensure they know what we will be doing and we know their requirements.
In short, they know that we are one of the best wedding bands Lancashire has to offer. It’s a process we believe that any wedding bands which calls themselves “professional” should do – as a bride or groom you should be confident in the abilities of Lancashire wedding bands to be not just wedding musicians but able to organise aspects of your wedding reception evening that directly involves them.
This is why we provide venues managers with copies of our public liability insurance and electrical testing documentation as well as talking to them about how we load into the room, what time their staff will be clearing the room to allow us to start setting up, what time catering staff will be serving your evening food, announcements they need us to make and whether there are any volume restrictions we need to abide by and any announcements they need us to make. Before looking at hiring wedding bands this is definitely something to consider.
If you have already spoken to your wedding venue manager about hiring a function band, you may well be aware of volume restrictions. If not, it’s worth checking as a growing number of venues require wedding bands to perform within a certain volume limit.
For example, if your venue tells you that any live wedding band you hire need to perform at 98 decibels or less, this isn’t just a suggestion that the wedding band are free to adhere to if they feel like it – it’s a requirement.
Moreover, quite often it’s an order that has been imposed on the venue by a local council body as a condition of live music licensing as a result of more than one overly noisy Lancashire bands having performed there previously. So the venue will measure the volume the band perform at and if they exceed that level, the power to the room will be cut.
As highly experienced professional musicians HARD TO HANDLE BAND understand the importance of performing within such restrictions – they are in place for a reason and need to be adhered to. Of course, our live music will still sound great, your guests will still fill the dance floor and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you did find your own personal best wedding band!
So with this in mind, if you are still searching for one of the best Lancashire wedding bands, what are you waiting for? Call us direct on 0796 433 5657 or complete the contact form and we will get right back to you.
CHOOSE A COST-EFFECTIVE FULLY SELF CONTAINED LIVE BAND
The problem is this: too much choice. Hundreds of Lancashire wedding bands vying for your attention on a bewildering array of websites, all of whom claim to be perfect for your north west, Greater Manchester or Lancashire wedding. If you’ve watched more performance videos, listened to more music and read more reviews than you ever thought possible, you’re probably getting a wedding headache and are ready to throw in the towel. We understand! But before reading any further, consider that HARD TO HANDLE BAND perform over 2 hours of dancefloor-friendly, instantly recognisable high energy live music with your first dance song, additional drinks reception acoustic duo music as well as DJ services in one fully self contained cost effective afternoon and nights’ amazing entertainment!
INDIE ANTHEMS, ROCK, POP LIVE BAND MUSIC AND DJ SERVICES
So the question is, how to choose the perfect band for your Lancashire or Greater Manchester wedding when there seems to be so many talented musicians in and around the north west. Lancashire wedding musicians come in all shapes and sizes, from small groups like an acoustic duo playing background music, Lancashire musicians playing indie anthems through to the type of large party band featuring sax players playing soul, funk, dance and pop and corporate events. And while you might consider hiring one of these bands to entertain your wedding guests, what you really need is one of the high energy Lancashire bands who can create the perfect soundtrack for your big day, performing a diverse range of music all night long with added DJ services to get the party started and keep your wedding guests on the dance floor; a fully self contained band with a playlist boasting the greatest hits from various genres and instantly recognisable songs in a style that will mean happy guests on the dance floor for your special day. In other words, the perfect band!
HOW TO HIRE A WEDDING BAND – AND HOW NOT TO HIRE A WEDDING BAND!
And as so many Lancashire cover bands and Greater Manchester bands may seem to offer all of the above, how do you ensure you’re choosing the perfect band for your big day? Clearly it’s got to be about more than just the music; more than just hiring some talented musicians in the hope that they will create happy guests all night long. Maybe a different approach to finding the perfect band for your big day. While some brides and grooms may consider trawling venues around the north west, watching Lancashire bands play their mix of pop, soul and rock n roll in a live setting to ascertain whether the function band playing is the right fit for them, we would suggest that seeing Lancashire cover bands performing in a pub or club or even doorstepping Lancashire wedding venues is an entirely different prospect to hiring professional musicians to entertain your wedding guests, because even though they may play a broad repertoire of indie anthems, rock, dance, pop, rock n roll and more, the types of musicians who play in a pubs and clubs in greater Manchester and the North West may not be suitable to play your big day.
GET YOUR GUESTS DANCING
It’s about more than just finding Lancashire wedding musicians who can perform diverse range of music; it’s about the feeling you get from watching the bands’ videos online. Do they connect with you? There’s a chance that if you get a good feeling just from watching their videos that they are talented musicians who will have the ability to get your guests dancing. Finding a party band with a comprehensive website showing all the details you need to help you make an informed decision about the live music you want for your wedding guests is definitely a sign of a band who will entertain you ad your guests on your wedding day.
FIRST DANCE SONG, DRINKS RECEPTION, EVENING ENTERTAINMENT AND MORE
We believe that HARD TO HANDLE are the perfect band for you! With our huge genre-busting playlist of rock, indie and other styles, we are more than just another party band or corporate events band. Unlike other Lancashire wedding musicians we specialise in performing to smaller groups of wedding guests and our video reviews at Lancashire wedding venues show how happy brides and grooms are. You can ask us to learn your first dance song, provide drinks reception acoustic duo music, background wedding breakfast DJ services, and play the greatest hits of classic and contemporary bands. Our huge live band sound means we don’t need to use any additional musicians such as sax players or backing singers, so we provide you with a fee for our services, it will be an accurate quote and we won’t try to upsell you.
Hire Hard to Handle band in Lancashire
Get in touch! For enquiries or just to find out more about Hard to Handle band, fill in the form below. We aim to respond within 24 hours. If you haven’t heard from us by then, we may not have received your enquiry so please call us direct on 0796 433 5657.