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Booking a Band for your Wedding
There are lots of bands to choose from when it comes to wedding entertainment/music and searching for the right band for your wedding can be a bit of a minefield. You will no doubt end up spending hours looking on line for a band and still be none the wiser after hours of searching. Visit our main website!
Added to the fact that weddings are expensive you may not want to “splash out” on a live band and only have a small budget available which will be restricting your choice. However, it is worth considering that the next biggest item that will be on view to your guests on the day of your wedding (after the venue, bridal dress, ceremony and reception) will be the evenings entertainment.
Bearing this in mind, it is worth spending a little extra on a live band for your evening celebrations, especially as there isn’t anything that can compete with a lively, interactive, professional, experienced and reliable band that really know how to get your guests involved in your wedding celebrations! You will have a fantastic time! Your guests will have a great night! Your wedding will be the talking point for weeks, months and years afterwards!
As Doctor Chocolate are a 9-piece (10 including our sound engineer) the price for the band isn’t going to appeal to those with a small budget available. However, the cost for the band isn’t huge either or unrealistic either and we work really hard to keep our costs to the absolute minimum so the savings can be passed back to you.
Sometimes hiring a cheaper band who are not as experienced or reliable can fit your budget better but in the long run turn out to be more expensive – as they may not play as well on the night, they may not actually turn up or they may arrive with equipment that just isn’t up to the job and sounds awful. If you’ve seen a band in a pub, they may sound great and look as if they would suit your event, but your wedding day will have a mix of generations attending, may turn up and play in jeans and a t-shirt and may not actually know how to interact with your guests.
Doctor Chocolate are not expensive by any means – the band are actually the same price as some 4-5 piece bands on the circuit – but… we are extremely good at what we do and we really know how to get any crowd on the dance floor and having a great night! As professionals we also turn up on time, set up and sound check on time, are respectful and polite to the venue, staff, guests etc and we always give 100% every performance and our only aim is ensuring you and your guests have an amazing evening.
Doctor Chocolate are an established, experienced, professional, reliable and lively 9-piece band with an excellent reputation. We only ever perform as a 9-piece band – and we have our own sound engineer making 10 of us in total. By only ever performing as a 9-piece we can ensure our performance is always the very best it can be. All songs are performed with the same musicians ensuring a tight and professional performance.
Don’t take our word for it – you can see some of our 100% LIVE videos on our website – these were not recorded in a controlled studio with sound engineer and gizmos – the videos were recorded 100% live whilst we were performing for a charity event in November 2013. On some of the videos you can even see some of the guests bopping about in front of the stage having a fab time!
Doctor Chocolate – cover, wedding, party band come with an excellent PA system – a QSC, that is clear and has a warm and vibrant sound but we also come with our own experienced sound engineer – you’ll see him at the back of the room tweaking and twisting different knobs on the desk or adjusting levels via his ipad! This ensures our sound is great all night long and keeps us within any sound limiters or noise restrictions there may be at the venue.
Doctor Chocolate also come with our own stage lighting. We have two par bars on either side of the stage (4 LED lights on each side), four colour flood lights on top of the speakers facing the stage and four scanners around either the drum kit or from our lighting frame at the rear of the stage. Where venues permit, we also bring along our smoke machine.
Whatever the occasion, wherever the event – you can be sure that if you book Doctor Chocolate for your wedding – we will be an awesome addition to your event and give the WOW factor with lots of audience interaction, stage movement and crowd pleasing hit songs from the 1960’s to present day chart hits!
Give us a call! Contact us by email! Check out our Facebook Page! See the website for reviews and latest news!
Wedding Band at Forde Abbey
Wow! What a venue. Party, covers and wedding band Doctor Chocolate had the pleasure of playing here at the weekend and it is simply stunning for weddings!
Beautiful grounds, beautiful building and lovely staff! It was an absolute pleasure to perform here!
If you have a wedding, party or celebration of any kind coming up then you need Doctor Chocolate! We are a fantastic band based in the South West of England and are available for any and all events.
We play music for all generations from all generations. With music from the sixties to present day chart hits there will be something we play that you just HAVE to get on the dance floor and boogie along with. If you are looking for a covers band, a party band, a wedding band, a corporate band, a charity fundraising band then you need Doctor Chocolate! We have many years experience of performing for all types of events and celebrations and we know how to interact with different crowds and age groups.
So whatever event you are planning – get in contact for a free, no obligation, fully inclusive and highly competitive quote today! We’d love to hear from you.
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Come and See Doctor Chocolate Live
Doctor Chocolate would recommend that you go and see any band you want to book for your event! The entertainment on the evening is such an important part of the night and it’s easy to get it wrong. A pub band can be excellent in a pub environment but not all of them are quite so good when booked for a wedding or special occasion. They may not have their own equipment, pa, lighting and have to borrow it all in, they may not be used to such a diverse crowd and they may turn up and perform in jeans and a t-shirt!
You can be sure that Doctor Chocolate are an experienced and reliable band and we are fully self contained with our own top of the range PA system and lighting – and we certainly know how to get a crowd going!
It’s not always possible to come and see us live – most of our events are private bookings so we wouldn’t invite you along to come and see/listen to us in the same way you can be sure we wouldn’t invite anyone along to your event either! However, we do have some open events through the year that are open to the public to come along to – just keep an eye on our Facebook page for details!
Alternatively it may be possible for you to come along to a rehearsal. We get together once a month to run through new songs and ideas/structures for songs. This is where we get to the bare bones of the songs and really thrash them out, make lots of mistakes and run and re run the numbers until they are perfect and ready to be performed in public! If we are having a normal monthly rehearsal then it may be possible for you to pop along and meet us. Just ask for details when you make your enquiry.
Better still – if you want to see what we look and sound like then we’ve uploaded 22 videos to our website. These videos were filmed at a charity event in November 2013 – they are 100% fully live – there is no studio recording here – this is exactly what the band sound and look like at an event! This live recording is a lot better than some bands studio recordings! Have a look for yourself here!
Reliable bands
Doctor Chocolate have been on the circuit for over 25 years. In all that time we have never double booked the band on the same night, we have never cancelled an event or turned up later than agreed and we have never ever let any client down. We have covered for many bands that have though and often receive a last minute phone call asking if we are available due to a client being let down by another band! Sadly this seems to happen a lot and it can be a distressing time for you, the client.
However, you can be confident that when you book Doctor Chocolate for your wedding, party, charity fundraiser, ball, prom, festival or celebration of any kind that we will be there on time and perform the very best sets with the best music from the 1960?s to date: disco, funk, soul, rock, rock and roll etc and we can pack that dance-floor all night long!
We have our own top of the range equipment and this is worth over £25,000, all fully pat tested, stage and dance-floor lighting and we also have public liability insurance. We are a fully contained, experienced and professional band. So if you want to guarantee the best entertainment for your event contact us now for a competitive quote!
Wedding and Party Band
Doctor Chocolate perform songs from all eras and genres so there is always something for everyone in our sets. Doctor Chocolate perform for two x one hour sets and provide recorded music via ipod for the times when the live band are not performing. Doctor Chocolate are experienced at events of all times, functions, parties, weddings, festivals, corporate events, fundraisers and proms to name a few.
Doctor Chocolate only ever perform as a 9-piece band and always fully live. Ideally we would need space of 12’x15′ to perform in but this is a very rare occurrence and we can fit into smaller spaces as needed – we just don’t fling our elbows out with the dance moves as much!
As an experienced and reliable band we have the knowledge of performing at different events for different age groups and know exactly what is required of us at events and how to get every crowd involved in the evening. As an experienced and professional band people are often surprised at how affordable we are. We are hugely competitive for a band of our size – sometimes a lot less than a 5/6 piece band would charge you! However, we are not “cheap”. We always say you get what you pay for – if you pay peanuts… well, you know the rest!
Book a reliable, experienced and excellent band for your event – book Doctor Chocolate for a vibrant, full and explosive performance that will leave the competition standing….! Visit our main website or like our Facebook page to keep updated on the latest news and events. Contact us for a quote or more information
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Doctor Chocolate, wedding, party and function band in Bristol, are now on Twitter!
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We’re new to this and would welcome any support so follow the ultimate party band in the South West on @docchocband
Song List for Doctor Chocolate – Wedding & Party Band Bristol
Doctor Chocolate are often asked what songs we include in our sets. Well we have an extensive list of songs that we play and it’s hard to choose what we can cram into two hours so we only choose the best songs from the 1960’s through to current chart hits. Not all the songs we choose to play at weddings, charity events and corporate events have brass in the original recordings – but as we have an awesome brass section it would be criminal not to use them – so we adapt and change the songs to give them a big, round and full sound. You can be sure that we carefully pick our sets of floor filers and there is something for every generation in our sets. We always have a packed dance-floor – no matter what the occasion!
We are currently working on some new numbers for the sets to keep them fresh and funky and have a few rehearsals scheduled in for the month of February.
To give you an idea of some of the songs we do please see below. We have an extensive set available so not all the songs we perform are listed – just a selection. Where the song is highlighted please click on it to be taken to our website where you can see and hear the band perform the version of that song 100% live!
- Ain’t No Stopping Us Now -McFadden & Whitehead
- All Right Now – Christina Agueleria
- Baggy Trousers – Madness
- Beat It – Michael Jackson
- Believer– The Monkees
- Blame It On The Boogie – Michael Jackson
- CarWash – Rose Royce
- Celebration – Kool and the Gang
- Dancing in the Street – Martha and the Vandellas
- Dancing on the Ceiling – Lionel Richie
- Disco Inferno – The Trammps
- Does Your Mother Know– Abba
- Get Ready– The Temptations
- Gimmie Some Loving – Billy Ocean
- Higher and Higher – Jackie Wilson
- Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
- First My Last My Everything – Barry White
- I Don’t Feel Like Dancing – Scissor Sisters
- I Feel Good – James Brown
- I Wish – Stevie Wonder
- Inside Out – Imelda May
- It’s Not Unusual – Tom Jones
- La Vida Loca – Ricky Martin
- Last Train to Clarksville – Monkees
- Let Me Entertain You – Robbie Williams
- Lets Stick Together – Roxy Music
- Love Train – The O Jays
- Locked out of Heaven – Bruno Mars
- Mama Told Me Not To Come – Tom Jones
- Mercy – Duffy
- Mustang Sally – Wilson Pickett
- 9 to 5 – Dolly Parton
- Nutbush – Tina Turner
- One Step Beyond – Madness
- Pencil Full of Lead – Paulo Nutini
- Proud Mary – Tina Turner
- Rolling in the Deep – Adele
- September – Earth Wind & Fire
- Shake Your Tail Feather – Ray Charles
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered – Stevie Wonder
- Smooth – Santana
- Soul Man – Sam and Dave
- Superstition – Stevie Wonder
- Think – Aretha Franklin
- Tiger Feet – Mud
- Valerie – Amy Winehouse
- Wake Me Up Before You Go Go- Wham
- Walking on Sunshine – KC and the Sunshine Band
- We Are Family – Sister Sledge
- You’re the One That I want – Grease
And so many more from all the decades: 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and present day chart busters!
Wedding Band Available
Doctor Chocolate are based in the Bristol area but we will travel all over the UK and have taken bookings in Bath, Birmingham, Cheshire, London, Kent, Cheltenham – you name it – we’ve probably played there!
Doctor Chocolate are a live 9-piece wedding and party band. If you are looking for an awesome wedding band who are experienced, professional, reliable and know EXACTLY how to get your guests on the dance floor and keep them there – then contact Doctor Chocolate for an all-inclusive quote.
The price you are quoted at the time of enquiry is the full price you’ll pay – there are no hidden charges or nasty surprises when you receive the contract! Want to see us perform live? Check out our facebook page for public events where you can come along and hear the band.
Alternatively – visit our website for our 100% LIVE video recordings!
Doctor Chocolate Function & Party Band
Based in and around Bristol and the South West Doctor Chocolate are one of the UK’s leading function and wedding bands. We have an excellent reputation as a reliable, professional, lively and fun live 9-piece band. We guarantee you a fully confident, professional performance each and every time!
If you live in the South West of England in Bristol, Wiltshire, Cheshire, Plymouth, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Exeter, Bath, Cotswold, Swindon, Cheltenham, Torbay, Weymouth, Salisbury areas then you may have already heard about Doctor Chocolate or attended an event where we have performed.
So if you are looking for an awesome wedding, party or function band for your event then look no further! Doctor Chocolate are one of the South West’s best bands.
Ring Sarah on 0796 7709018 or Justin on 07867 791733 today for more information or email sarah@doctorchocolate.co.uk and we’ll get right back to you!
Specialising in weddings, parties and corporate events!
Doctor Chocolate are a 9-piece wedding and party band and we’ve played all over the South West and the UK!
We specialise in weddings, parties and corporate events and have performed for thousands of events over the past 25 years. You can be assured of a fully professional and confident performance with sets guaranteed to get your guests on the dance-floor and keep them entertained all evening.
When the live band are not performing we can supply recorded music via ipod through our top of the range PA system. Alternatively we can supply a DJ for your event to in-fill when the band are not performing.
Doctor Chocolate have an extensive set list and our standard evening consists of two x one hour sets with everything supplied that’s needed – PA, lighting, talented and fun musicians, awesome party sets and an awesome evening’s entertainment guaranteed!
If you’ve not heard of us before then have a look at our 100% LIVE videos! They were recorded at a charity event in Weston – all fully live – so what you see is exactly what you’ll get at your event! Lively, fun, interactive and awesome party sets!
We’ve played all over the South West region including Taunton, Weston, Bristol, Swindon, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Bath – you name it – we’ve probably performed there!