Diet Kirk
Silver Member
Anyone else found that as a musician picking your wedding band is a tough task?
First there is the pressure, everybody seems to assume that as a musician any band I pick will end up being the best wedding band they have ever seen = eek!
Second, style. I'm a rock and metal fan, my wife to be is an RnB, pop music, with a hint of rock fan. Just about the only genre we can agree on is that we both love the Treme TV show soundtracks and that old 1920s prohibition speakeasy style jive stuff. Strangely our first dance is planned to be the incubus track 'I miss you', where we are thinking of starting with the string quartet version and morphing into the original incubus track.
These last two years I've discovered a love for brass, so I'd really like a New Orleans marching style brass band, but one that would play a handful of your typical wedding songs in their style, plus a couple of interpreted metal tracks and classic New Orleans things. But I think it would add a lot of they had a singer.
My wife to be thinks that our wedding guests will be a bit confused by that and need to hear Beyonce's single ladies sung properly to 'get it'.
Plus being in the UK, there doesn't seem to be a lot of 'unique' sounding options!
Am I alone in this pain? Anybody else in the UK found any great wedding bands that are a little bit different from the norm?
First there is the pressure, everybody seems to assume that as a musician any band I pick will end up being the best wedding band they have ever seen = eek!
Second, style. I'm a rock and metal fan, my wife to be is an RnB, pop music, with a hint of rock fan. Just about the only genre we can agree on is that we both love the Treme TV show soundtracks and that old 1920s prohibition speakeasy style jive stuff. Strangely our first dance is planned to be the incubus track 'I miss you', where we are thinking of starting with the string quartet version and morphing into the original incubus track.
These last two years I've discovered a love for brass, so I'd really like a New Orleans marching style brass band, but one that would play a handful of your typical wedding songs in their style, plus a couple of interpreted metal tracks and classic New Orleans things. But I think it would add a lot of they had a singer.
My wife to be thinks that our wedding guests will be a bit confused by that and need to hear Beyonce's single ladies sung properly to 'get it'.
Plus being in the UK, there doesn't seem to be a lot of 'unique' sounding options!
Am I alone in this pain? Anybody else in the UK found any great wedding bands that are a little bit different from the norm?