Groove Manuva play all sorts of events! We are a professional party, function and wedding band for hire in Yorkshire and play a wide range of music from soul, disco and funk up to current chart music. The band can appear as anything from the 4 piece core band up to an 8 piece show band.
Members of Groove Manuva have been entertaining audiences for the last 20 years and with the band in it's current line up for the last 10 years. We have a wealth of experience between us ranging from performances on the Jools Holland show, the Montreux jazz festival, Glastonbury, T in the Park, European festivals, SXSW in Texas and as part of the BBC Yorkshire symphony orchestra. Members have also performed alongside the likes of the Happy Mondays, Coldplay, Underworld, the Kaiser Chiefs, Joe Strummer and Kate Nash.
But what do you offer specifically..?
The band usually perform for 2 X 60 minute sets at most events. They provide a free laptop playlist service for the breaks and at the end or they can do a full DJ service taking requests for an extra fee.
The live playlist consists of songs taken from our big songlist - However we have a core set of songs that we know fit together really well as a set and are guaranteed to get people up dancing and having a great time! We welcome people to make suggestions from our songlist, but you can also be confident in leaving it to us to pick a really good list for your event. We know what works so why not rely on our experience?!
The band can also provide acoustic music for your afternoon reception as an addition to a band booking or as a stand alone act. The acoustic act consists of acoustic guitar with female vocals and saxophone. It's a really nice chilled out duo who provide a contemporary, relaxed atmosphere to any event you might be having.
If you would like to book our selfie photopod please let us know when you get in touch. This is a self contained 'photobooth' which we can provide which comes with lots of props and a touch screen pod so that you can get some awesome snaps of you and your friends. The pod will email or text the photos to your guest's phones and we can send you all the photos from the night the day after your event.
We are happy to learn a live first dance if you are booking us for your wedding. Alternatively we can play the original version of something from our laptop if you would prefer.
Where are we from and where do you cover?
Band members are generally from Leeds and Manchester and as such, the events we perform at tend to be across the north of England and usually in places such as Leeds, York, Sheffield, Manchester, Harrogate and Liverpool. The band are easily available within about a 100 mile radius of the Yorkshire and Lancashire regions but do often perform in areas further afield. Travel costs will be included in any quotes that we provide.
Groove Manuva are all professional musicians and as such, individual members are occasionally away with other work. In that instance we have a list of exceptional backup musicians who slot in to the band seamlessly so our line up at a given event may be slightly different from our promotional video.
By this point the party should be really swinging! We will play about another hour of live music, making sure you are all having a really good time. When we finish we will keep carefully selected music playing through our sound system until our contracted end time (12am). The packing down process usually takes about one hour.