The Collective

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The Collective

Weddings and Smaller Events :

If you want a live band to perform at your wedding, birthday party or staff Christmas party, our 5-piece band are the perfect option. Available for all budgets, this 5-piece create a huge and energetic sound to keep your guests dancing all night long.

Corporate Events :

The Collective also offer the option of a 6, 7 or 8 piece band for those on a slightly bigger budget, perfect for corporate events, university balls or larger weddings. This includes the options for extra brass sections and additional vocals to really wow your guests or clients.

Biography

The Collective are an amazing group of professional musicians hailing from Leeds. Each member is a graduate of Leeds College of Music and has performed together for the last 9 years.

Their repertoire covers a huge range, including: 60's Rock'n'Roll, 70's Funk and Motown, 80's Disco and Ballads through to modern day Rock and Pop classics. Their performance skills match the high quality music they provide and guarantee a full dance floor all night long.

As a band, The Collective provide the professionalism you should expect; highly reliable, smartly dressed and punctual, with the ability to cater for every audience. Whether reminiscing to our 60's classics, or partying to the current chart smash-hits, The Collective can provide the perfect musical backdrop to any occasion. From Stevie Wonder to The Killers, Aretha Franklin to Zara Larsson, Michael Jackson to Kings Of Leon, The Collective really do provide something for everyone.

A wealth of experience is contributed from each member of the band, and in addition to their outstanding musical ability, a great lighting system and high quality PA support every gig. The Collective have played at hundreds of venues up and down the country, recently including Edgebaston Cricket Ground, St James Park, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Newburgh Priory, Goldsbrough Hall and Swinton Park, among many others.

Your Event
Customers get the choice of 2 x 1 Hour Sets or 3 x 40 Minute Sets. The Collecitve also offer a range of pre-band reception warm ups at varying prices, including:

-Soulful melodies from our piano and vocal duet: Covering a range of jazz standards and pop classics, BackBeat's Piano and Vocal Duet are the perfect warm up to your event, ready for the full band extravaganza!

-Solo Piano: You might want to hear the distant sound of smooth piano playing whilst you're eating your dinner, or maybe you want something a little different as you walk down the aisle? A beautiful lounge piano playing that will remain unobtrusive yet entertaining could be the perfect backdrop.

-Smooth grooves from Acoustic Beats: Sometimes less is more, so if you're in need of a little less for your night's entertainment, then why not use The Acoustic Beats. Three members of BackBeat combine to create a groovy, cool alternative on Acoustic Guitar, Cajon and Vocals.

-Solo Classical Guitar. A beautiful and melodic classical guitar provides the perfect Backdrop for your wedding breakfast. A combination of Classical, Baroc, Spanish or Modern Popular hits can be offered by our highly talented and experienced Classical Guitarist.

Line-up

Standard 5-piece:
1x lead singer
1x Keyboard, Piano, Synth, Backing Vocals
1x Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals
1x Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
1x Drummer

Extra Line-up(s)

The standard 5-piece band can be extended to a 8-piece (including a 2-piece brass section) upon request.

We also offer a range of pre-evening performances such as:
~ A lounge pop/jazz Piano set
~ Soulful Piano and Vocal set
~ Classical Nylon Guitar
~ Laidback, cool grooves from an acoustic section comprising of Vocals, Guitar and Cajon.

Also included

PA size : 1600w.
PA Details : HK AUDIO ELIAS PX 1600W (2 tops, 2 Subs) BEHRINGER EUROLIVE F1320D Floor monitor wedges x 3 YAMAHA
MG166CX LIVE EFFECTS MIXER Shure Beta 52A Microphone AKG C1000S Shure SM57 x 4 Trojan Mk II 12U Pop Up Mixer Hard Case D1004 Tuff Bags Balanced XLR Multicore, 8 Way, Male to Female, 15m Behringer MDX-4600 4 Channel Comp/Gate HK AUDIO ELIAS PX BAG TOP HK AUDIO ELIAS PX BAG SUB Stjk-2Xmonojks 1M Insert Lead x 6 Multiband Graphic EQ, 3 x DI Boxes Belkin SurgeMaster, 8-Way, 4m x 4

Lighting size Variable dependant on size of venue - suitable for up to 400 people.

Lighting details : Minimum rig = 2 x KAM Lighting DMX512 and Kam LED Par Kit Lighting Package. DMX connected. PLEASE NOTE - far more available depending on venues size/requirements. We tend to keep our lighting rig to a minimum when indoor venues have their own substantial rig to cut down on setup time. We have access to larger lighting rigs should no existing lighting be in place. (Please confer

Location

North East based and will travel to these areas: Midlands, North East, north-wast, Scotland, Wales, Ireland.

Previous Clients

Edgebaston Cricket Ground, St James Park, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Newburgh Priory, Goldsbrough Hall, Oulton Hall, Lightwater Valley and Swinton Park, among many others.

Saw this group last night in York. Wow. Blown away. If ever they are playing down in Milton Keynes I want to know. I will go and watch for definite. Well to to the whole group. You smashed it

-Michael Green

Alex,

Thank you again for providing us with such a good band again 3rd year running it was a fab night, I'm having a couple of years off now so just wanted to say a big thanks, and we will be in touch again

Regards

Cherry

-cherry Immink

"Alex,
Thank you again for providing us with such a good band again 3rd year running it was a fab night, I'm having a couple of years off now so just wanted to say a big thanks, and we will be in touch again
Regards
From cherry Immink" Oct 2011

Hi guys, just wanted to thank you again for a great show yesterday. If anyone has any doubts about booking you for their wedding point them in my direction and I'll let them know how good you are and what a pleasure you were to deal with! Thanks. Xx
Nicole Spencer

The Collective played for us at a Charity night we held for the neo-natal unit in Leeds. They made the night for us, everybody was up dancing and enjoying themselves. Certainly the band at the top of my list for next year's event!
Beverley Witter, Event Organizer

What a band! We couldn't have wished for a better band on our big day!
Catherine and Lee Hewitt

We just wanted to say a big thank you for playing at our engagement party. Everyone told us how fantastic they thought you were and we'll remember the night for the rest of our lives. Thank you for making it so special.
Tom Stafford and Steph Brewer

The Collective delivered everything we could have wanted. They looked great, sounded great and were highly professional throughout the evening. I've recommended them to my sister for her upcoming 40th birthday bash! Thanks guys!
June Whittaker

We will never forget our first dance and this was largely thanks to The Collective doing an excellent rendition of I'm Yours by Jason Mraz. It was a perfect end to a perfect day.
Joshua and Susan Goldstein