
London Bands For Hire
Make your event unforgettable with one of our exclusive London bands for hire. Featuring only the highest calibre musicians, our London party bands guarantee to keep your guests on the dance floor!
All London Function BandsMake your event unforgettable with one of our exclusive London bands for hire. Featuring only the highest calibre musicians, our London party bands guarantee to keep your guests on the dance floor!
All London Function BandsBrowse through our exclusive roster, featuring the very best function bands in London. Performing everything from classic oldies to contemporary pop, rock and indie, you're sure to find a band that fits the bill.
We work alongside a wide network of local London cover bands and musicians, handpicked for their professionalism and exceptionally high level of musicianship.
Our experienced team book live bands for thousands of events every year, so if you're in need of some friendly advice, please feel free to get in touch.
We represent a wide and diverse roster of London cover bands, performing everything from old school classics to modern pop music.
You’ll find the majority of our London cover bands have put together a setlist to include a range of music to cater for guests of all ages. From 50s and 60s rock 'n' roll to 70s disco, 80s anthems, 90s indie, rock, dance and more.
So, whether you’re into London rock 'n' roll legends such as The Rolling Stones, Led Zeplin and Queen, or you’d prefer a more contemporary set featuring the likes of Mumford and Sons, Bastille and Florence and the Machine, you’re sure to find a live band to suit your tastes.
If Motown and soul is your thing, you may be interested in one of our epic London soul bands, featuring some of London’s top vocalists and musicians.
Our London party bands are experienced in every type of event making them the ideal live entertainment for all of the following:
Bands For Hire is one of the UK’s leading wedding band suppliers, head over to our London wedding bands section for more information.
All of our London bands are available to hire for events across Greater London including:
Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames and Westminster.
Along with our evening function bands, we also represent a whole host of other London musicians, perfect for corporate entertainment, wedding music and daytime background music.
For ceremony musicians, you may be interested in our range of string quartets and wedding harpists, perhaps notching up the tempo later on in the day with one of our acoustic or jazz bands for hire.
For that added element of sophistication, why not hire a London jazz band to perform as your guests arrive, throughout the wedding meal or for the mains evening entertainment. Our roster of jazz musicians includes everything from small jazz bands to full swing bands with brass section and vocalists. Visit our London Jazz Bands section to view all of our jazz bands in London.
There are a several factors that can affect the price of a live function band, mainly the number of musicians, the experience of the band and the travelling distance.
As a guide, you can expect a trio to start at around £1000, with 4-piece bands ranging between £1200 and £2000.
We always outline exactly what’s included in your quote, but as a guide, you can expect all prices to include the following:
For evening events such as corporate events, birthday parties and charity balls, the band will arrive in good time to ensure they are all set up and sound checked before guests arrive. This is usually at around 5:30 pm.
For weddings, bands will base their quote on a standard arrival time of approximately 5:30 pm/6 pm. If the band are setting up in a different room to the meal and speeches, they'll be able to set up straight away. Otherwise, the band will usually wait until the meal and speeches have finished avoiding any interruptions.
All of our bands and happy to work with your schedule. As a general guide, we recommend starting the band's live sets no earlier than 8:30 pm/9 pm.
Function bands typically take around an hour to set up and sound check, with some larger bands requiring up to 2 hours.
We’ve made booking a London band a simple and stress-free process, simply follow the steps below:
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Along with our London bands for hire, we also represent a wide range of London based muscians including London Harpists, London string quartets and acoustic bands in London.
Our team of wedding band experts have put together a whole range of live music guides and blog articles to help you with your planning.