Advice Please - street bands needed in London

Subject: Advice Please - street bands
From: GUEST,Guest in London
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 11:05 AM

I am looking for some "dance" bands that can perform in the street either strolling or if necessary static, but without any serious amplification or staging. Either a large group that normally supports a dance team (we would use the dancers too) or a ceilidh type band that just plays the music.

Any suggestions/offers ??

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 12:12 PM

DO you mean London as in England? Just asking as this is an international site and there are other "Londons." *smile*

Good luck!

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: Scrump
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 12:14 PM

What sort of event is it?

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 12:19 PM

How much are you paying?

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: GUEST,Answers:
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 12:31 PM

Yes its London, England
Its an outdoor free festival
How much will we pay? Depends how much it costs!

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: David C. Carter
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 12:38 PM

When is this event?
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Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 03:57 PM

June

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: SylviaN
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 04:36 PM

Peter, Hi
As you know, there are plenty of members of Mudcat who can either help you or know someone who can, but I don't really know how much further you are going to get with discussions on this site, as any negotiations will need to be made between you and whoever chooses to contact you, not on Mudcat. Unless I am mistaken, as a guest no-one can send you a private message.

How can you be contacted?

Cheers

Sylvia

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 05:06 AM

I don't want to negotiate here - I want some suggestions and recommendations so I can contact the bands concerned

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 05:14 AM

The Unicorn and Folk London magazines have lists of ceilidgh bands, morris and other dance teams, with their contact details. You can get the magazines from any folk club in the London & Home Counties area. Or if you email me at [e-mail] I can scan the relevant pages and send them to you by email.

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 05:42 AM

Are you connected with 'Guest,Londoner', who started a thread called
Ceilidh Bands? last November?

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 07:14 AM

I am indeed conected - in fact I am the same person - and I got some useful names from that thread.
This one on the other hand is proving hopeless!

Let me try again!

We are organising a free public event in central London in June with several dance actvities already planned and a big audience expected.

However, in my opinion (please dont lets debate this - thats not why I have posted) most of the music accompanying dance teams is pretty insipid. Its usually unamplified, much too quiet - and its often very dull.

Ceilidh Bands on the other hand are great, and we hope to have two of them as well - but they need a static PA system and a stage.

So what I'm looking for is a group that sits between the two (a bit like the strolling jazz bands, samba bands, brass bands etc). I don't mind if they come with a dance team - and I don't care what sort it is - thats not my main priority - what I'm after is the music.

Yes I can pay a decent fee.

Can anyone suggest a couple of names?

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: Scrump
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 08:12 AM

AS Sylvia says above, GUEST,Guest, you would likely get a better response if you joined Mudcat properly, so we can PM you. We don't want to discuss or negotiate fees, etc., in an open forum. I assume several people here (including me) would be able to help, so please consider making it easier for us to do so by joining Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 09:02 AM

Wow, am I being particularly stupid?

I do NOT want to discuss fees or dates or negotiations in here as I have already made clear.

I just want to know the names of some bands that might be suitable so that I can contact them separately

If, a your post implies, you are actually a performer who might be interested, I suggest you try answering the question rather than thinking up some new ones. If this place isn't a suitable one for me to ask the question then I'll find somewhere else!

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: Scrump
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 09:59 AM

GUEST, Guest: Many of the contributors to Mudcat - not all by any means - use pseudonyms (I do, for example) and do not use their own names here. Each of us has our own reasons for this. You yourself seem not to want to reveal who you are here, so you should be able to understand that.

All we are asking is that you register for Mudcat (you can of course use a pseudonym to protect your real identity) to make it easier for us to contact you privately via Personal Message (PM). Registering with Mudcat is very quick and easy to do and costs nothing. I can't see why you would refuse to do this, to help those who would help you.

This suggestion is inteneded to be helpful.

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 10:21 AM

Scrump has a very good poiint there Guest - If you dont put YOUR contact details in here , why the Hell shoud we ?

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 10:59 AM

No reason at all - except I understood you were people or knew people that might want some work and I'm offering to pay!

Never mind - I'm sure there will be someone who is interested somewhere

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: GUEST,Geoff
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 11:07 AM

Guest, your approach seems sensible,so to save you the bother of using a search engine try this:www.allhandsaround.org.uk
Cheers.

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: Scrump
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 11:20 AM

Doh! We are interested but we don't know your &%£$#@! contact details!

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 11:31 AM

This is obviously the wrong place to come for suggestions about bands because 1) people haven't actually heard any, and 2) some people's primary interest is to look for something with which they can argue. Not everyone, but enough emphatic, persistant ones that anyone who might have had an on-topic suggestion may very well have been discouraged. I'd help if I could, but hopefully you'll find a place other than Mudcat with less of a hornets' nest reaction to a request for band names, or perhaps a place where people will try to answer the question you actually asked.

He wants names of London dance/ceilidh bands: "Can anyone suggest a couple of names?"

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: SylviaN
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 02:49 PM

Peter, OK, no negotiating, no arguing, just suggestions.

Band I can recommend is "Bandanglo", new band that Keith Kendrick has put together with really good musicians.

You can contact Keith on from his website - www.keithkendrick.co.uk.

Hope that's alright.

Cheers

Sylvia

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: Anniecat
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 09:45 PM

Just a little suggestion - my friends at Pig Dyke Molly might be able to help out. They have been known to go to London and perform at Queen Elizabeth Hall at the South Bank. Look on their website www.pigdyke.co.uk for a great Molly Dancing Team!

Subject: RE: Advice Please - street bands needed in London
From: GUEST,Alison
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 05:19 AM

Please give us your contact details. A fellow member of All hands around has already given you the link to our web site with our details. The web site doesn't perhaps make it clear that we also play acoustic without dancers. I don't spend much time on clandestine activities on Mudcat, so my email address is below.

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