Are you the band...?

Welcome to the first post of my blog! 

Together we shall explore the triumphs, trials and trips to the buffet table of a working wedding band from the UK. Don't worry, I'll not be endlessly plugging the band, I simply want to share some of the good, bad and frankly bizarre things we come across in our travels as we criss-cross the country playing rock stars (to other people's songs) in front of the ever-inebriated throngs.

But...why "Are you the band...?"....?:

Much to our never-diminishing bemusement, as we're unloading what are clearly drums and guitars and speakers and amplifiers from the vehicles into the venue, this is the one question that we are asked on a remarkably regular basis, by venue staff and wedding guests alike. 

But where I once was totally confuddled by the question - I mean, we're carrying musical instruments into the place, of course we're the band, durrrr - I have now learned to see it for what it is, it's an interest in what we're doing - most folk immediately go "..oh sorry, of course you're the band, daft question", but they can't help saying it ..it's shorthand for "Hey, a band! Wow, that's cool, I wanna talk to them, see what they're like..."

And so these days I take it as a compliment, rather than a daftness. And hey, at least they talk to us, it's the ones that DON'T ask us if we're the band that we really worry about...

So next time you see a bunch of guys taking drums and guitars into a venue and you find the daft question spilling from your lips before you can stop yourself...YES, we are the band, and you are most welcome.

Come on in, let me tell you all about our adventures......