Liquid Musicians - Bands, DJs and more for hire in London

When you're looking for entertainment for your wedding or event, wouldn't it be nice to keep it as simple and clear as possible?  And to keep fewer points of contact, rather than yet more?  At Liquid Musicians and Liquid Strings, we help you to have the entertainment without the stress of running around, trying to source a string quartets here, a band there, a DJ in another place.  All under one roof means packages, discounts, convenience, added trust - just to name a few benefits.

Contact us with any enquiries and check out our new site - www.liquidmusicians.com.

Bands, jazz groups, DJs and wedding acts for hire in London and the surrounding regions.

Wedding Band for hire in London

If you're looking for a great wedding band in London to hire for your wedding or corporate event, look no further.  We have a small but highly select chosen group of bands, all of which will add big atmosphere and a superb soundtrack to your event.

A wedding band in London can be a solid 4 piece that can play a great range of crowd pleasers, from the 60s to the present day.  So you can have a bit of everything for the different generations and a friendly excellent party band can really play to each individual crowd and get people up and dancing and having a great time.

Another type of wedding band for hire in London could be a larger party band, and all bands have their own styles and ways of performing.  At Liquid Strings, we're getting as much video footage of different musicians for hire - so if there is not video of an act on its individual page, then there should hopefully be soon - keep checking the site, or call us and ask for more details of any particular act.

So, for a great wedding function band,look no further than Liquid Strings - we've played in over 100 venues in London and the surrounding regions.  We love what we do :)

String Quartet in The Mayfair Hotel

We've just had our second engagement in the stunning Mayfair Hotel - Rebecca created a surprise 60th Birthday party for her mum.  As well as playing Happy Birthday, we'd been told that she was a huge Cliff Richard fan, so jumped from everyone singing along to Happy Birthday onto Congratulations, which went down especially well with her in the surprise moment.

The current vogue is for pop covers on string quartet.  Quartets like the Vitamin Quartet in the States have meant that there are lots of string quartet versions of pop songs here online.  Many of these are unavailable to purchase as sheet music, but we have some brilliant arrangers - so nothing is beyond us.  Recent new versions of Toxic by Britney Spears and a Michael Jackson medley are going down a treat in weddings and corporate functions.  Our quartets love playing them as well - it's a break from classical music and they're as much to play as to listen to.

Hiring a wedding string quartet from us in London couldn't be easier - all the wedding string quartets for hire are simply booked and then leave the rest to us - or create your own playlist for the big day!

Wedding Guitarist

It's time for sorting out all the aspects of the wedding, following the successful proposal over Christmas! If you're looking for something great for the ceremony, reception and/or first dance - where better to look than at a fantastic wedding guitarist.
We're honoured to work with some of the finest entertainers and wedding musicians in the country, and Thom is clearly one of these.
Here he is photographed playing Roberta Flack, the First Time I Saw Your Face for Debbie and Steve's wedding in The Grove, Watford.

Debbie emailed me after the honeymoon to say
"Hi Brian,
Hope you are well, I just wanted to drop a note to say a big thank you to Thom for his performance at our wedding, he was amazing."

A guitarist like Thom is superb, as he can play a mix of background classical and light jazz, and then build up to a more uptempo set with vocals that is the perfect link to the DJ or band that you are having later. He's highly experienced, and can create a great atmosphere with his top quality playing and vocals.

Xmas Shopping Music

The lovely folk at four23 hired our gospel singers to pull those nervous xmas shoppers in for a bit of retail therapy, or just giving to loved ones (depending on your point of view)....as always, the singers scored a hit in the chilly December weather and brought some festive cheer as only great live music can!
Call us if you are looking to being this festive cheer to any occasion, with our fab gospel choir for hire - and thanks again to Rebecca, Pip, Elin and the others at four23 for their awesome work - judging by Xmas sales, it worked!

New Year

We had a great Xmas, with the lovely people at Google employing our electric violin and turntables duo for their new office opening at Level 4, in Belgrave House in London. See the picture for their cool surroundings, without the need for any extra backdrop.

Thanks to Stephen Rosenthal for hiring us - it was a pleasure to meet you and the very friendly and nice people from Google. We had fun, and Naomi commented that is was the 1st time ever that a client had helped her and Matt take down at the end of the night. She was very happy about this!

As well as that, we provided live gospel singers for Ron Dennis, and also outside Addidas, Covent Garden, played in a beautiful Christmas wedding at the Cavalry and Guards Club, a charity event in Brick Lane, and a Christmas party for Black Sun in Fulham Palace - to name a few of our events. The 20s theme and its fashion continues with Duncan and his guys doing a great prohibition set in their own suave way.

If you're looking for live musicians for hire in any event you're planning for 2012, please do call us - 07958 031797 - we're always delighted to look for the most unusual acts as well as those who just keep getting successfully booked because they're so damn good.

Happy New Year to all from Liquid Strings.

Liquid Strings at Green Business Awards

New artists to Liquid Strings are the fantastic wedding harpist Louisa and the brilliant jazz wedding pianist Joe.

Recent events include a host of weddings and also last wednesday we provided a string quartet for the Sunday Times Green Business Awards in The Roof Gardens, Kensington. The event was excellent, and we had a fab night!

Visit London Awards and More

We have just provided a great string quartet for the Visit London Awards at Westfield Shopping Centre. The piece was by Marc 01, who is a tenori-on expert. For those not aware (I, for one was not), this is a Yamaha instrument that looks and sounds very futuristic. You get some idea from the photo here. We played a straight version of Beethoven's 5th through microphones at the very start of the evening. Half way through, the beats kicked in, and the tenori-ons appeared. It was great fun, and we enjoyed working for SML Events - who were a lovely bunch of people, and created a great event!

Other unusual events were a recent Faroe Islands fashion event in Digitaria, Soho - where I played some highly unsual music by Sunleif Rasmussen. It was great, and whoever says people in fashion are superficial can eat their words. I've played this kind of music before - and usually, audiences cannot handle it for longer than a couple of minutes. I was amazed that these guys actually watched, as if it was a concert. Humanity faith-restoring stuff indeed.

Wedding string quartets are still hard at work, with December bringing weddings in Marble Hill House, Richmond - and Great Fosters Hotel, Twickenham - to name but two.

And the string section for Liquid Strings is hard at work with more concerts for Ioannis's Doxa Deo Church. We are looking forward to this, and on the same night, Julian and his jazz trio are perfroming at Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Bloomsbury Street. And we haven't even started the Xmas rush yet (sorry I mentioned the X word....)

New artists for Liquid Strings inculde a fantastic cello and dancer act, (perfect corporate entertainment for Christmas parties), a wonderful Big Band for hire and an amazing new gospel choir, who really have to be seen to be believed - but are amazing singers. They are ideal for weddings, parties and big events. Have a listen on their page.

October 'Green Shoots'

We are working like crazy to provide the right people for the events that you require. I am not convinced by the idea of 'green shoots'. I keep reading and hearing different points of view, but we have had to tackle the recession and the lack of overflowing budgets with smaller, bespoke options.
Not everyone requires such smaller bookings. In December, we are providing a string section for hire for 2 events held by Doxa Deo Church in London. One will be in Wimbledon, and one in Stratford Picture House. We love this, as playing miked up with a great band is a refreshing change from the standard classical music we often play. It is always a highly enthusiastic service, and led by the excellent singing and keyboard playing of Ioannis Dekas. We hope to get some film footage to put on the site as well this time.
Apart from this, we've provided Julian's solo guitar hire for several weddings, and over the summer in association with Courtneys at Paddington Recreation Park there were some fantastic duos including the brilliant corporate entertainment from Liquid Strings electric violin and keyboards/turntables Matt and Naomi. If a string quartet sounds a bit much, a string trio for hire can be excellent, and see the photo of Brian, Victoria and Stefano entertaining the guests at Putteridge Bury Conference Centre at Nick and Kelly Booth's wedding.

Ok, enough for now - got lots of work to do.