About
1 Reverend FUNK & The Horns of Salvation is a cover band for hire in Melbourne, VIC.
No backing tracks, no karaoke, nothing pre-recorded. This Melbourne funk outfit plays everything 100 percent live, and they'll tell you straight that they're not a wedding band in the polite sense. What they do is old school soul, funk, R&B, Motown and Stax: James Brown, Aretha, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, The Temptations and Tower of Power, pulled right through to Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars and Daft Punk. The band builds from a 5 piece with sax up to a 10 piece with a full horn section and dual lead vocals, and they can send in a soloist or a chilled jazz trio early before the funk arrives. Sets usually run as 2 x 60 minutes or 3 x 40, with PA and lighting available on request.
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The show
It's all played live. No backing tracks, no karaoke, and the players are full-time professionals rather than blokes who dust off a guitar on Saturdays. What that buys you is a band that can respond to the room instead of following a click. Expect dancing.
On the day
PA and lighting can be supplied and matched to the size of your event, so you don't have to source production separately. That extends well beyond their home patch too, right across Australia and New Zealand, and into Oceania and Asia.
Performance options
It scales a long way, and all of it stays live. At the quiet end there's a soloist for a ceremony, or a jazz duo, trio or quartet on request. Then the funk line-ups start. Five piece is lead male vocal, drums, keys doubling bass, guitar and sax. Six adds a dedicated bass player. Seven brings in a trumpet or trombone or a female vocalist. Eight has both trumpet and trombone. Nine puts a lead female vocal out front alongside the male. And the ten piece adds one more on top of that, either a second female vocal, a second trumpet or a bari sax.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured
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Song list
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Jazz Chill vibes early on? Funk, Soul, RnB, Dance, Pop & Rock later on?
A special song played live?
