| 3 x 45 minute sets over a 3 hour period: |
| Pubs/Bars: from £280 |
| Private Events (within 20 mile radius of Abingdon): £490 |
| Background music from a playlist in between the sets free of charge. |
Charles Brown is an experienced singer/songwriter/guitarist from Berkshire and his energetic, funky style will have you uncontrollably tapping your feet, clapping your hands and dancing like you wouldn't believe was possible to a solo acoustic artist!
Charles is available for bars, functions and weddings and most regularly plays in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire & Oxfordshire. He is willing to travel further afield for a relevant fuel surcharge.
He also plays in duos or up to as much as a 5/6 piece if the occasion requires something more to get the party started! His band have been playing together for several years now in various different lineups and have performed at weddings and functions a plenty. You can expect soul/funk/pop and country to name but a few genres these guys will throw at you and the 3-part harmonies take the performance to a new level of aural perfection.
Based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire
= areas covered (up to 500 miles)
= free travel (up to 20 miles)
7 Days – Craig David
A Drop In The Ocean - Ron Pope
A-Team – Ed Sheeran
A Thousand Miles/Human Nature - Vanessa Carlton/Michael Jackson
A Thousand Years - Christina Perri
All Of me - John Legend
All Right Now - Free
Ain't Nobody - Chaka Khan
Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
Angels - Robbie Williams
Back For Good - Take That
Barbie Girl – Ben l’oncle Soul
Beautiful – Christina Aguilera
Big White Room - Jessie J
Billie Jean –Michael Jackson
Black Baloon - Goo Goo Dolls
Boys Of Summer – Don Henley
Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson
Breakeven – The Script
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Deep Blue Something
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
Cannonball – Damien Rice
Castle On The Hill – Ed Sheeran
Chariot - Gavin Degraw
Cigarettes & Alcohol - Oasis
Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
Clocks – Coldplay
Closer – Neyo
Cold Coffee - Ed Sheeran
Come On Talk - Bernhoft
Country Roads - John Denver
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
Crazy - Seal
Cry Me A River – Justin Timberlake
Dakota - Stereophonics
Dancing In The Moonlight – Toploader
Dancing On My Own – Calum Scott
Don’t Stop Believing – Journey
Don't You Worry Child - Swedish House Mafia
Dream Catch Me – Newton Faulkner
Drive – Incubus
Driving With The Brakes On - Del Amitri
Drops Of Jupiter – Train
Dynamite – Taio Cruz
Earthbound - Connor Reeves
Elderly Lady - Pearl Jam
Empire State Of Mind – Alisha Keys
Everlong – Foo Fighters
Faith – George Michael
Faithful - Go West
Fall At your Feet - Crowded House
Fields Of Athenry - The Dubliners
Fireflies – Owl City
Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra
Forever In Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond
I Need a Miracle - Fragma
Freedom - Wham
Free Falling – Tom Petty
Galway Girl – Steve Earl
Geek In The Pink – Jason Mraz
Get Lucky - Daft Punk
Give Me Love - Ed Sheeran
Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
Gotta Get Thru This – Daniel Beddingfield
Handbags and Gladrags – Rod Stewart
Heal Over – KT Tunstall
Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Heartbeat – The Fray
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Hero – Foo Fighters
Hey Brother - Aviici
Hey Jude – The Beatles
High & Dry – Radiohead
Hole Hearted - Extreme
How Come - Ray Lamontagne
How You Remind Me – Nickleback
I Belong To You - Lenny Kravitz
I Feel Good - James Brown
I kissed a girl – Katie Perry
I saw Her Standing There – The Beatles
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
I’m a believer – The Monkeys
Impossible – James Arthur
In My Head – Jason Derulo
In the air tonight – Phil Collins
Iris – The Goo Goo Dolls
Isn’t She Lovely – Stevie Wonder
Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars
Killer – Adamski (Seal)
King Of Wishful Thinking – Go West
Kissing My Love – Bill Withers
Kiss Me - Olly Murs
La La La - Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith
Lady – Miloko
Learn To Fly – Foo Fighters
Lego House – Ed Sheeran
Let It Be – The Beatles
Let Me Entertain You – Robbie Williams
Let Me Love You - Mario
Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
Like I can – Sam Smith
Live Forever - Oasis
Living In The City – Stevie Wonder
Local Boy In A Photograph – Stereophonics
Long Train Running – The Doobie Brothers
Love Yourself – Justin Bieber
Lovely Day – Bill Withers
Lying Eyes - The Eagles
Maria Maria - Santana ft The Product G&B
Message In A Bottle – The Police
Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight
More Than Words – Extreme
Moves Like Jagger – Maroon 5
Moving Too Fast - Artful Dodger
Mr Brightside – The Killers
Mustang Sally – The Commitments
My Hero - Foo Fighters
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
Nothing Ever Happens – Del Amitri
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now – Starship
Numb –Linkin Park
One Way – The Levellers
Ordinary People - John Legend
Otherside - RHCP
Over My Shoulder - Mike & The Mechanics
Poker Face – Lady GaGa
Polly - Nirvana
Price Tag – Jessie J
Push - Matchbox 20
Reason - Hoobastank
Red – Daniel Merriweather
Rendezvous - Craig David
Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash
Roll To Me – Del Amitri
Rolling In The Deep – Adele
Rude - Magic
Runaway – The Corrs
Save Tonight – Eagle Eye Cherry
Save Yourself - James Morrison
Say It Right – Nelly Furtado
Say Something - A Great Big World
September Song – JP Cooper
Sex On Fire – Kings Of Leon
Shape Of You – Ed Sheeran
She Said – Plan B
Shine A Light - Mcfly
Shout – Tears For Fears
Sign Your Name - Terence Trent D'arby
Signed, Sealed, Delivered – Stevie Wonder
Slide – The Goo Goo Dolls
Smooth - Santana
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwole
Stand By me – Ben E King
Stay With Me – Sam Smith
Stitches – Shawn Mendes
Straight Up/Careless Whisper - Paula Abdul/George Michael
Streetlife - Randy Crawford
Stuck In The Middle – Stealer’s Wheel
Sunday Morning – Maroon 5
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Suspicious Minds – Elvis
Sweet Dreams – Eurythmics
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Love – Anita Baker
Take It Easy – The Eagles
Take On Me – AHA
Teardrops – Womack & Womack
Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
The Joker - The Steve Miller Band
The Voice - John Farnham
There She Goes – The La’s
Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
This Ain’t A Love Song – Scouting For Girls
This Is What It Feels Like - Armin Van Buuren
This Love - Maroon 50
Thong Song – Sisqo
Throwback – Usher
Ticket To Ride – The Beatles
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
To Be With You – Mr. Big
Too Close – Alex Clare
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Tracks Of My Tears – Smokey Robinson
Treasure – Bruno Mars
Treat You Better – Shawn Mendes
Trouble - Ray Lamontagne
Twist & Shout – The Beatles
Umbrella – Rihanna
Use Somebody – Kings Of Leon
Valerie – Amy Winehouse
Walking Away - Craig David
Weather With You – Crowded House
What’s The Story Morning Glory – Oasis
When She Was Mine - Lawson
Wherever You Will Go – The Calling
Wild Rover - The Dubliners
With Or Without You – U2
Woman Trouble – Artful Dodger
Wonderwall - Oasis
Wordplay - Jason Mraz
XO - John Mayer
Yeah – Usher
You & Me - Lifehouse
You Make it Real - James Morrison
You Make Me Wanna - Usher
You Need Me – Ed Sheeran
You’ve Got The Love – Florence & The Machine
Power close to performance area, shelter from sun/rain (if playing outside). 3 x 3 metre area (solo), 1 parking space
Yes, I/we are completely self-contained with our own PA and have a couple of uplighters if required
Simple directions, any additional information that might be useful (for example parking/loading location), food & drink details (whether we can be provided with either/or whilst we are there) and timings in terms of being able to arrive to setup and soundcheck
We can play music from my phone playlist between sets, or can plug in a phone from the client (provided they have a cable that will be able to plug into our setup - Twin phono to whatever the phone connector is)
I played for several years for the Commissioning Ball event at Sandhurst Military Academy. It was an incredible event with several thousand in attendance and is the event that marks the young army cadets becoming officers. I was always very well looked after, they had top level equipment/stage and it really felt like you were a celebrity pop artist (I can only imagine!).
I have been influenced by so many artists over the years - Michael Jackson growing up in the 80's and then the Rock of Queen that my dad used to listen to and the soul music that my mum always listened to! So I have a very varied music palette. It's super difficult to say who my favourite artist is, as I have so many from different times in my life, but I would say Michael Jackson early on, The Levellers and Green Day in my teenage years and then R&B/dance music in my 20's & 30's with Craig David and Usher being 2 of my favourites... Now I'm in my 40's I'm trying to go back in time to discover more soul/motown and always love Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. Greatest song of all time? I'll let you know if I ever discover it!
I was in bands as a guitarist/singer throughout my teenage years and had guitar lessons in my late teens. A few years later I had singing lessons from an Opera singer who used to sing in Carmen in London. Following that, I was writing my own music and traversing the London original music scene until my mid-20's. It was then, whilst on a night out for my sister's 30th, we went into a bar and the musician there had the flu and was ready to pack up and finish... I asked him if he minded if I played a few songs, which he said would help him out. I ended up playing for an hour and the manager booked me to replace that same musician as the resident singer/guitarist from that moment on for the next 2 years! Since then, I have been gigging as a semi-professional alongside a day job and then recently took the plunge to be fully professional musician during the Covid pandemic! Bad timing, but luckily on the otherside, music has picked up where it left off
I love playing at all sorts of events and I personally believe that too much of any type wouldn't be good. For me adapting and changing to fit the event/style of your surroundings and clientele and is all part of the skillset which I love as a musician. It keeps me on my toes and makes every gig/event different!
Arrival 1 hour before the start of performance.
I'm happy to play outside, as long as there is suitable cover from the elements, with a flat level surface and a power supply close to the performance area
I am happy to try to learn specific songs before the event, provided there is enough time to do so. I normally try to limit this to 3 new songs. I am always happy to send across my up to date song list in it's entirety, so that the client can pick a handful of songs, or even point out songs that they don't like, so that I can formulate a set around what I believe the clients' music tastes are. I always try and ask for a measure of trust in this process, as after all I have been doing events and gigs for over 15 years, so have a large amount of experience in what works in certain events/scenarios. I'm always convinced that if the client is willing to work with you, that you can make any event a truly special one for all concerned.
I get a lot of people mentioning Ed Sheeran with regards to me, because I use a loop pedal and create layers and live loops in front of your very eyes! However, I'm so much more than just that and the majority of my clients describe me as having a very diverse selection of songs/genres and delivering them in a very interesting and engaging way, so that they are drawn in to see what is going to happen next!
I can play up to a Maximum of 3 hours playing time. You are welcome to change the playing time to be less than that, but unless it is an extremely local gig, it won't normally make the price any less, as I still have to travel to and from the venue and setup/set-down my equipment (travel & equipment wear and tear). Standard sets tend to be 2 x 45 minutes, or 3 x 45 minutes over a period of 2 and 3 hours respectively.
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