Please note our POLICY & CONDITIONS OF HIRE.
1. SPACE; We DO need a good, big dance floor, preferably UN-carpeted, roughly one square yard per person. (Our kind of dancing requires more space than many people and hotels may realise). We have played in barns with pure concrete floors, and in horse training barns.
2. DANCING; We are a barn-dance/ceilidh band for people who want to get up and dance, rather than just sit there to be entertained. This is why we do not take "pub" work. Also, we are a "country-dance" band, but this is not he same as a "country & western" or "cowboy" band. Please be sure that an evening of country dancing is what you really want. Perhaps it might be clearer if you think of us as "Liverpool Barndance Band"?
3. DISCO? A Disco can impede our progress with the dancers, but we we would share the evening with a Disco, providing we have the main stage, and the Disco would finish the night, usually from 11.00 p.m..
4. HOW MUCH? Our fees are negotiable, but we are often told that we ask much less than other local bands. From April 2008, we have been asking a basic £380, for wedding parties or corporate events in Liverpool.
For "non-wedding/corporate"dances, in Merseyside county, we would play for about £280.
For venues outside Liverpool, travel costs would apply. Increases in fuel prices may affect these prices, and tunnel tolls may apply.
5. RANGE? Our normal range is Merseyside County, South Lancs, & Halton, but further afield can be negotiated.
6. INSURANCE; our band does have Public Liability Insurance of £5million, with Musicians Insurance Services. We can email a jpeg of our current certificate.
If your venue is using a movable "disco" floor, you should check they have insurance covering personal injury caused by their supplying their kind of flooring for our kind of dancing. In some cases it will save time and money if no such floor is laid down. This would mean dancing on carpet, and though this is less than ideal, it would at least be all on the same level, and probably increase the danceable area.
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HOW TO BOOK US
1. CONFIRMATION; We prefer to confirm a definite booking in writing, by posting you two signed copies of what we have agreed, giving contact details etc. (Please email a postal address.) You should then sign both copies, keep one, and return the other copy with the £40 deposit.
2. DEPOSIT. When dealing with new clients, we usually ask for a non-returnable deposit. Since April 2005 this has been £40, but may be raised to £50 fairly soon. For regular clients, we may waive the need for a deposit, but we would want an equal amount to be agreed as a Minimum Cancellation Fee, with effect from the date of our agreement.
We would like a final confirmation from you about two weeks before the date. An email or phone call will be fine, just to make sure neither side has forgotten or found problems.
3. PAYMENT will be expected on the night, at the end of our performance, and preferably in cash, as we all live in different towns.
4. CANCELLATION; any deposit would be forfeit, OR a cancellation charge of at least £40 would be required from anyone from whom we had not asked a deposit.
Cancellation within seven days before the event would entail payment of the full fee.
If we have to back out, and cannot provide replacement band or musicians, then clearly we will refund your deposit, and we will try to help you find other musicians or bands to take our place.
Also, anybody can fall ill or have a family emergency or similar problem, and so we cannot be held to provide the musicians as shown in our pictures. We do have friends who can deputise for each of us, and this may prove necesary at times.
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