Welcome to the DANCE ON website! Here's a little introduction to the band, although the DANCE ON line-up is so adaptable that the word 'band' doesn't really do us justice! We all work as professional musicians and it's fair to say we have played at pretty much every conceivable type of wedding celebration, swanky corporate party, posh black tie ball, birthday knees-up and shindig that you can imagine!! We offer a full range of musical services which can suit the tone of your event from start to finish - here are just some of the different line-ups we have recently performed in . . .
- the full and feisty party band at numerous weddings and corporate events up and down the country - a guaranteed dancefloor filler playing a winning selection of everyone's favourite songs - from big band swing, rock 'n' roll and motown soul to seventies disco, eighties pop, grungy rock and current chart hits.
- we provided mood music for a corporate drinks reception at the Savoy Hotel in London with a more laid back quartet - think Norah, Ella and Sinatra, with a little bit of Stevie Wonder and Corinne Bailey Rae.
- a duo with a classical pianist and trumpeter playing Purcell, Mozart, Debussy at quite a formal church wedding ceremony near Oxford, where we also included a piece of music that the groom had written as a bridal march for his future wife.
- a jazz pianist, singer and saxophonist at a more informal wedding ceremony in a beautiful old Welsh theatre, singing the bride and groom down the aisle to "Signed, sealed delivered I'm yours".
- a groovy hammond organ trio - think Austin Powers - at a uni ball in Bath - yeah baby!
We'll always try to accommodate your requests for any particular music you would like as much as we possibly can - and if by chance there is some music you'd like at your event that we can't perform live - say some Mongolian folk music, a rousing chorus from a male voice choir or the latest 50 Cent release, then we will happily play it for you on CD.
If you book 'Dance On' you are sure of getting great musical entertainment from a band who enjoy what they do and have a lot of experience behind them... despite their youthful appearances!!! Members of the band have performed in such prestigious surroundings as the Albert Hall, Shepherds Bush Empire, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho and Camden's Jazz Cafe, as well as appearing on MTV, VH1, "Later - with Jools Holland", Channel 4, BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4... and have played with the mighty Tom Jones, Scissor Sisters, India Arie, Kasabian, Super Furry Animals, Gomez, Morcheeba, Limahl of Kajagoogoo fame, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Ruby Turner and lets not forget the fabulous Max Bygraves! Corporate clients have included the NHS, the British Transport Police, British Gas, Marks and Spencer, Cardiff City Council, Capital Gold FM, Deloitte and Touche, Securicor and many others.
'Dance On' uses a comprehensive Mackie sound system and stage and dancefloor lighting. As part of the service on a 'Dance On' booking, background music or dance music will always be provided when the band are not performing.