North Lanarkshire weddings are mostly hotel weddings, and hotel weddings live or die on the band. You've got a room full of people who've been there since two o'clock, a buffet at nine, and a dancefloor that either fills at half past or sits there empty while everyone finds a reason to be at the bar. Picking an act that can read that particular kind of night is the whole job.
It's a specific skill and not every good band has it. Some acts are brilliant in front of a crowd that's already up and hopeless at getting them there. The ones we'd point you at for a Motherwell function suite are the ones who know to open with something the parents recognise and hold the big numbers back until the room has committed.
Our bands play Hilton Strathclyde, the Tudor Hotel and Dalziel Park regularly, along with most of the function suites around Motherwell, Airdrie, Coatbridge and Cumbernauld. Name your venue when you get in touch and we'll tell you who's worked it.
The first set is the one that matters
The bands that do well in a North Lanarkshire function suite tend to be the ones who treat the first set as a job of work rather than a warm-up. Get twenty people up early, and the rest of the room decides the night is happening. Leave it until the second set and you're trying to talk a hundred seated people into standing up, which is a much harder sell and one that plenty of perfectly good bands never manage.
Checking dates and prices
Every act on the site has an instant date and price check, so you'll know in seconds whether they're free on your date and what they'd cost. Their page carries full live video, the current setlist, and reviews written by couples who booked them. Look at three or four, check your date on each, and you'll have a shortlist of available bands inside ten minutes.
How your booking is protected
Every booking contracted, with the paperwork handled for you
Direct access to your band once the booking is confirmed
Your balance held in a ring-fenced client account, released to the band only once they've confirmed in writing that they're on their way to your venue
Fourteen days to change your mind after your reservation fee, refunded in full
Emergency replacement cover if a band is ever physically unable to perform, with the final say on any alternative staying with you and your balance returned if you'd rather not go ahead
Our commission is charged to the band, not added to your quote, so booking through Coast costs you exactly what booking the act direct would. In more than 25,000 events we've never had to leave a couple without a band, and we've always found a suitable replacement when one was needed. If you'd rather skip the scrolling, ring us for a no-obligation chat and tell us what your crowd is like. That's usually enough to get you a shortlist of three.