If we were getting married, we’d want to get married at The Ashes in Staffordshire. There’s just something about about the venue that makes Staffordshire wedding bands sound great there. As great as HARD TO HANDLE BAND + DJ sound, we sound even better at this venue. The performance room has warm acoustics which let the harmonics of the music breathe. Or at least that’s what we tell ourselves. The truth is that nobody really knows why some rooms lend themselves to live music being played, but if you are lucky enough to have hired The Ashes for your Staffordshire wedding, there’s a good chance that whichever band you hire is going to sound pretty good.
But hey, why leave things to chance? Sure, you could hire a “pretty good” one of the Staffordshire wedding bands who may sound OK. They may turn up on time, play some of the songs you like and provide some infill DJ-style music from a preloaded Spotify playlist. They may not take an eternity to set up and hopefully not play too loud or get drunk and surly onstage. But this is your big day, an even with memories you’ll want to cherish for years to come. So to make your day full of memories you’ll want to revisit for years to come, you really do need to hire HARD TO HANDLE BAND as Stafford wedding band.
It’s unlikely you will find another wedding band from Staffordshire with the same passion, energy and professionalism as HARD TO HANDLE – since 2008 we have been performing over 2 hours of live band music with our additional live DJ to ensure a full nights’ entertainment. Our massive genre-busting playlist (https://hardtohandleband.co.uk/playlist/) of over 350 songs encompasses rock, indie, pop, soul, country and much more and you are more than welcome to ask us to learn and perform your first dance and other song requests. We’re fully self contained and our live DJ keeps the dance floor full before, inbetween and after our live band sets. We also provide afternoon acoustic drinks reception music, a sound system and lighting so you don’t need to hire any other service for your Staffordshire wedding reception!
Lovely bride Lucy and her husband-to-be Johnny knew all of this when they hired us as their Warwickshire wedding band because they had done a deep dive on our website. They watched our videos, listen to our music, read our handy FAQs (https://hardtohandleband.co.uk/questions-and-answers/) and loved the fact that we provided all the information they needed and were able to answer their questions about how we could structure their evening, take on board their song requests and talk about logistics like how much room we need to set up.
So when we arrived to start the process of assembling our equipment, bride and groom could relax knowing they were in safe hands. And that’s what we want you to do – relax! By the time we arrive, the formal part of your Stoke on Trent or Staffordshire wedding will have concluded, so it’s your time to hand over the reigns to us. We’ll provide non-stop entertainment all night so you can get on with the important business of enjoying yourselves and posing for photos on the dance floor, and just like Johnny and Lucy, at the end of the night you can expect to be saying “the band were excellent, really really good”!
Bride, groom and guests really went to town with song requests, which makes our job sooooo much easier, so when you hire us as your Staffordshire wedding band, don’t forget to ask each of your guests to nominate a song to be played when you send out your RSVPs – it’s a great way of getting everyone involved! Here are the song requests HARD TO HANDLE BAND for Johnny and Lucy:
- Pompeii – Bastille
- Counting stars – One Republic
- Watermelon Sugar – Harry Styles
- I will wait – Mumford & Sons
- Human – Rag ‘n’ Bone Man
- Shake it off – Taylor Swift
- Rolling in the deep – Adele
- Sex On Fire – Kings Of Leon
- Teenage dirtbag – Wheatus
- Mr. Brightside – The Killers
- Chelsea Dagger – The Fratellis
- Kasabian – Fire
- I Predict A Riot – Kaiser Chiefs
- Seven Nation Army – The White Stipes
- Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys
- Use somebody – Kings of Leon
- Gay bar – Electric six
- She moves in her own way – The Kooks
- Are You Gonna Be My Girl – Jet
- Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
- Somebody told me – The Killers
- Last night – The Strokes
- Plug in baby – Muse
- Smells like teen spirit – Nirvana
- Whistle for the choir – The Fratellis
- In the morning –Razorlight
- You got the love – Florence and the machine
- Fresh prince of Bel Air – Will Smith
- All star – Smash mouth
- I’ll be there for you – The Rembrandts
- Angels – Robbie Williams
- Song 2 – Blur
- Common People – Pulp
- Dakota – Stereophonics
- This charming man – The Smiths
- There she goes – The Las
- Park Life – Blur
- Alright – Supergrass
- The Riverboat song – Ocean Colour Scene
- Girls and boys – Blur
- Ever Fallen In Love – The Buzzocks
- Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- My Sharona – The Knack
- Whole lot of love – Led Zeppelin
- Teenage Kicks – The Undertones
- Alright Now – Free
- Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones
- Highway To Hell – AC/DC
- Dancing In The Moonlight – Thin Lizzy
- Down in the tube station – The Jam
- One way or another – Blondie
- Go your own way – Fleetwood Mac
- Gene Genie – David Bowie
- 20th Century Boy – T Rex
- Stuck in the middle – Stealers’ wheel
- Don’t stop – Fleetwood Mac
- Don’t stop me now – Queen
- Play that funky music – Wild cherry
- Slade – Come on feel the noise
- Rebel rebel – David Bowie
- Living On A Prayer – Bon Jovi
- Summer Of 69 – Bryan Adams
- I Saw Her Standing There – The Beatles
- Satisfaction – The Rolling stones
- You Really Got Me – The Kinks
- Wild thing – The Troggs
- Free falling – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- Jumpin’ Jack flash – The Rolling stones
- Johnny B Goode – Chuck Berry
- All Day And All Of The Night – The Kinks
- Pinball wizard – The Who
- Town Called Malice – The Jam
- Dancing in the dark – Bruce Springsteen
- Message In A Bottle – The Police
- Fight for your right to party – Beastie Boys
- Hungry like the wolf – Duran Duran
- Friday I’m in love – The Cure
- Land down under – Men at work
- Tainted love – Soft cell
- I’m still standing – Elton John
- Valerie – Amy Winehouse
- Love machine – Girls aloud
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
- I’m A Believer – The Monkees
- Losing my religion – REM
- Dancing in the moonlight – Toploader
- Mercy – Duffy
- On top of the world – Imagine Dragons
- 500 Miles – The Proclaimers
- Twist And Shout – The Beatles
- Brown eyed girl – Van Morrison
- Country Roads – John Denver
- Does your mother know – ABBA
- Proud Mary (Rolling on the river) – Tina Turner
- Higher and higher – Jackie Wilson
- Sex machine – James Brown
- Superstition – Stevie Wonder
- Respect – Aretha Frankin
- I feel good – James Brown
- Three little birds – Bob Marley
- My girl – The Temptations
- Red red wine – UB40
That’s a huge list, but it’s less than a third the total number of songs on our playlist, and it was our pleasure to play it all. So what are you waiting for? Get in touch!
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
https://hardtohandleband.co.uk/staffordshire-wedding-band/