live band prices

Our band is £650 for 2x60minute set and DJ until 1am. Theyre not a soul band though. Although when you consider the amount of people in the band, travel costs etc then I suppose £1300 is ok.

Thanks Makes me feel better!

It is 8 piece band, travelling 40 miles so I think they would have to charge that much to make it worth their while! Plus they are awesome - and professional!

Sooo want to book them. Music is so important to us - it would make our day and would happily sacrifice a wedding car and a leather bound photo album for a night of brilliant entertainment!

It may sound a lot of money but how many people are in the band? £1000 split between 4 people, taking off fuel, possibly van hire etc you can see how it soon doesn't become a great deal of money for an evening's work, including the ipod and other equipment which they've obviously had to pay out for etc and will probably need to save up to replace bits in due course.

Edit: You said the same thing whilst I was replying I'd say for an 8 piece band - which is at least 2 vehicles probably - that's pretty good value.

Have you been to see them yet? Ours do gigs in pubs So people can see them before you decide. Seen them on you tube and they look amazing! We're having a night out at the end of September to check them out! We can't wait!!

The 4 piece band we are getting are in the Midlands and cost £1100 but they aren't a soul band so not sure how much of a difference this makes.

I think like AJ said, this amount is shared between the 8 of them and if they are having to travel then that price does seem pretty reasonable. Go for it

Our band (not a sould band) are charging £1,000 for 1 x 2 hour set plus dj set and there are four of them in the band.

We paid rates mate of £1000 for 8 piece soul band including a engineer and dj service. They were amazing and it really made the wedding for us so many guests stayed all night. we should have had 2 x 1 hr sets, but they only had a 30min break between 8.00 and 11.30. Afraid we were essex so cant recommend!

We had a Soul Band for our wedding, we refused to book any that we could see gig and we went to see a few!! We wanted a male lead singer which wasn't easy to find..

We finally found one and it cost approx £1600.. totally worth it IMO and all our guests the dance floor was full all night!? If you want there details let me know!