Review Centre: 1950s & 60s Style Bands

"A great evenings performance that had our event on its feet."

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"Love for sale played brilliantly at our party, created a really mellow vibe, read the room perfectly and our guests have not stopped complimenting us on our choice of music. Utterly professional and yet very relaxed. Great job and thank you to you all! "

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"As ever your professionalism, enthusiasm and energy drove the party all night ending in a fantastic finale. ? Thanks for the encores I'm sure we could have danced all night such was the momentum you had built up. Good luck in the future. Hopefully see you at the next one."

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"Thank you so much for agreeing to play at our wedding reception. Every song sounded amazing, you got all of our guests on the dance floor and we really loved your version of our first dance – it sounded just like the original!"

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"You have been talk of the weekend, everyone loved you all and you went down perfectly. It was an awesome set by you lads. Massive recommendations, you lot smashed it! Thanks again, it was fab."

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"Saw you at Lil Nashville and thought you were INCREDIBLE! Can't wait to see you again!"

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"Simply couldn’t have asked for a better band to help our guests celebrate our wedding. The dance floor was packed from start to finish. Wish I could get married again just for the party!"

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"Hi Ben Thank you for arranging everything. We had a fabulous time, the guys were simply fantastic! Everyone commented on how great they were. Many thanks and have a wonderful Christmas. Liz"

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"Best wedding ever.....although I'm slightly biased. You guys were so awesome, people are STILL commenting about you!"

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"Amazing musicians thank you so much ⭐️⭐️ "

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"Thank you so so much for performing at Abbie and James’s wedding. You were all simply amazing and you made the party go with a swing. Everybody has mentioned in their letters the wonderful band and you were just fantastic. Dancing all night long. Thank you for agreeing to play and in such a gracious way. We hope you will play again for us if we have another do? Good luck with all your events and would love to know when you are in the North again. "

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"Ian and Tania are a lovely couple, they put themselves out to make our evening go off well. They arrived at our venue in plenty of time to enable them to set up and be ready to make a punctual start. They certainly earned their money as they played virtually non-stop throughout the evening, just stopping for a short time while the buffet was open. Their songs/music was ideal for our party they are very talented as on one occasion, they played a song for us which they were not familiar with but no one would ever have guessed. A few of our guests asked us how we had come across them, because they were so good, and i know that a few people asked Ian and Tania for their business cards. I would definately recommend them to friends. Thank you very much Ian and Tania for a lovely evening."

Reply by Carousel Duo
Hi Chris & Bob Hope you are well and thank you so much for you fantastic review left here on LMM. This was way above what we were expecting and is really kind of you to do this and so glad you were happy with our performance. I hope you have finally recovered from the weekend and hopefully one day look forward to meeting you again in the future. You are a very special couple, thank you again. Kindest regards Ian & Tania.

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"Thanks so much for providing such lively music for Andy’s 50th birthday party. You were even better than I remembered and so many of our friends are raving about you too now and a group of us will definitely be booking tickets for your next gig! You really helped make the party a truly memorable evening and you’re such a nice friendly and thoughtful bunch of guys too – many thanks and see you soon!"

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"The ultra-stylish Kit Packham’s One Jump Ahead band is now 30 years old. For this Sunday afternoon gig at the award-winning Hideaway, they performed a rollicking set of songs ranging from 1940s and 1950s jump/jive, R&B and classic rock ‘n’ roll, to jazz standards and originals, featuring the band’s core seven-piece line-up: Bandleader and composer, Kit Packham on saxophones and lead vocal, Steve Knight on guitar, Perry White on piano, Alex Keen on double bass, Kenrick Rowe on drums, Tracey Mendham on saxophones and vocals, and Simon Da Silva on trumpet and flugelhorn. Striking in a blue pinstripe suit and fedora, Packham resembled Frank Sinatra, and he introduced numbers in a clear and informative way. They opened with one of the band’s original tunes, ‘Swing It’, which immediately propelled people to the dance floor. The band’s perky theme tune, ‘One Jump Ahead’, contained one of Packham’s signature, impactful abrupt endings and deadpan Knight added even more colour to the act by performing a nose flute solo on The Blues Brothers classic, ‘Minnie the Moocher’. White nailed a stunning boogie-woogie piano solo punctuated by thrillingly deep bass notes from Mendham on baritone saxophone on ‘Choo Choo Ch’Boogie’, and they even managed to squeeze in a world premiere featuring Vera Lynn’s World War II song, ‘We’ll Meet Again’: Loosely named ‘The Last Song Of The Set’, it cleverly welded an old song onto a new one. Eventually the two tunes overlapped, bringing the gig to an impressive end. The time flew; a sure sign that Kit Packham’s One Jump Ahead with its thoroughly well-written arrangements and heartfelt blend of comedy and music, had done a fine job of bringing this classy joint to life."

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"Absolutely exceptional. So many people have said it was the best wedding they'd ever been to - and the band were a huge part of that. And from a personal perspective, the fact that they learned and performed our favourite song for our wedding dance was just a dream come true. Thank you so much Global Grooves. "

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