Tell me about awesome NYC-area wedding bands

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I'm getting married next June on Long Island. We're having a DJ for the party after the party, but we'd like to have a band for the reception. I would love a great band with real range! And lots of percussion!

Anybody had or heard a great, interesting wedding band in the New York area?

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

yo la tengo was a wedding band at one point.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

this guy has a good wedding band:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5342/office221roykevin11474639015oz.jpg

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Who would have ever believed there'd be snarky answers to your question?

I'd recommend the band Travesty (travesty.com) they played my wedding. They were affordable, very nice and they had the entire dance floor packed all night. Excuse the awful website, they play much much better than their site would indicate.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

mark my words, hilarity will ensue in a couple weeks when this thread hits #1 on google search terms "NYC wedding bands".

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

We had Luna back in 2000 (right after they got dropped by Elektra, which might have helped). From what we heard while talking w/booking people, most bands this side of Sonic Youth will do weddings, and it's surprisingly affordable. Yo La Tengo were supposedly available as well, but they were on tour at the time.

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Black Dice played at our wedding. Passed out the earplugs beforehand. Incredible night that was.

― mirrorshall, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I think this is how Sebastian Bach of Skid Row started out. I'd contact his PR people:

The William Morris Agency
[email protected]

or you can try

[email protected]

― punis (punis), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

THE FAKE ACCENTS WILL PLAY YOUR WEDDING

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

After They Might Be Giants won a New York Press poll for "best local band" one year, a Press writer referred to them as a "wedding band." He meant it as an insult. This was in the late 90's, I think.

(I have no idea if They Might Be Giants would actually perform at a wedding, mind you...)

― James, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Gogol Bordello.

― zach mercer (suizen), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

^^ that would be a good time

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Just out of curiousity, how much did it cost to get Luna to play your wedding?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I think you should hire the Zip Code Rapists. I hear they're cheap.

― punis (punis), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh, oh! You should get Andrew WK (he's NYC-based!) to do it, and have your couple's song be "Never Let Down," which is this decade's "Bridge over Troubled Water."

― punis (punis), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I don't want to give the figure, as I don't know how they'd feel about it, but let me stress that we were far from rich at the time [probably the lower reaches of middle class]. I'd guess that most people doing a smallish wedding with a reasonable budget could have managed it. xpost.

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

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