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Article Directory > Wedding Articles Wedding BandWedding Band: Fresh Phenomenon or Tired Tradition?The wedding band! It strikes me as sad that such a concept now exists. Yet there it is, hand in hand with the balding DJ and the drunken Uncle. Although granted statistics would most probably prove that a classical string quartet, or an 18 piece jazz band feature more often on the big day it remains that mention the term to anyone and they will dextrously paint you an image of a shoddy bunch of casual, sloppily dressed individuals of very mixed ages, parading tight trousers, mullets and handlebar moustaches like the 80’s never ended, busking together arrangements of Abba’s Dancing Queen or something from the soundtrack of Grease, whilst gyrating their hips and inappropriately shouting things like “Hey…..Everybody on the dance floor”, “Shake your hands in the air like you just don’t care” and “ Aww…look at all the happy couples!”
I first started thinking about this the other day when I read an article about a wedding band from somewhere in the less liberal parts of the great USA, which had been banned from weddings in one state, because the 60 something year old drummer had married the 15 year old singer. Some people were offended and yada yada yada, but I won’t go into that, as ‘critique’ of conservative Americans is not really the point of this article. The question is this: Is it in fact that this musical crossbreed of popular culture is, despite much deliberation and consideration, the only form of entertainment that will appeal to all ages and cater for all tastes? Is this jack of all trades master of none solution the only practical answer to the wedding entertainment problem, or has the wedding band in fact succeeded in wrapping itself in that tenacious self-knitting shawl of wedding tradition? Do mullets and moustaches now belong at weddings as much as white dresses and bridesmaids? The thought is a scary one, though I guess they would count as the bride’s ‘something old’!
One reason for generic wedding band popularity has to be that by the time the band get around to performing everyone is so drunk on the free wine they don’t notice the S-club medley that segues neatly into Axel F. People in the end like music that they know; music that they can sing and dance along too. The actual quality is often somewhat of a moot issue. This is a shame.
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