About
Fiction is a cover band for hire in Melbourne, VIC.
Sally and Phil front Fiction, and they're the two you deal with from the first message through to the day itself. No agency layer, no swapped-out lineup. The band works Melbourne weddings, corporate events and private functions, and won the ABIA award for Best Live Wedding Band in Victoria in 2023. Reception music runs as three 50 minute sets, with a cocktail trio and an acoustic ceremony duo available either side of it. The song list leans modern pop and party: Valerie, Pompeii, Uptown Funk, Shut Up and Dance, Blank Space, Sweet Home Alabama, April Sun in Cuba. Requests get learned if there's time. Sound and lighting are supplied, so they need two separate power outlets and a flat clear space. Public liability insurance held.
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The show
The more you tell them about your event, the better the plan gets, and that's genuinely how they work. Specific songs can be learned for you if you ask early enough. They're accommodating about the details, and they'll answer whatever questions come up along the way. Friendly people who happen to play well, which is a better combination than it sounds.
On the day
Two separate power outlets, and a clear flat space for the gear to go up. All the sound and lighting equipment comes with the band, so nothing needs hiring in on your end.
Performance options
Three packages, and each one can be reshaped to suit you. The biggest covers the entire event, with the band set up before guests arrive and packed down after they've gone: live ceremony music from an acoustic duo including the processional, signing and recessional songs, a pre-ceremony set as guests arrive and a post-ceremony set as they leave, then a 45 minute cocktail trio, then three 50 minute reception sets. The middle option drops the ceremony and keeps the cocktail trio plus the full reception. The smallest is the reception on its own, three 50 minute sets or the equivalent. Add-ons include a mirror photo booth, a ceremony duo or trio, a dinner set, extra 45 minute cocktail sets, a male vocalist and a professional MC. Depending where your venue is, travel and accommodation for the band may need arranging.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured
Song list
79 songs
500 Miles - The Proclaimers
All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor
All Night Long - Lionel Ritchie
And Many More
April Sun In Cuba - Dragon
The Best - Tina Turner
Bitch - Meredith Brookes
Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Cake by the Ocean - Dnce
Cant Stop the Feeling - Justin Timberlake
Chandelier - Sia
Come On Eileen - Denys Midnight Runners
Crazy - Gnarles Barkley
Crazy in Love
Drops Of Jupiter - Train
Easy - Faith No More
Everybody - Backstreet Boys
Exes & Ohs - Elle King
Fire and the Flood - Vance Joy
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Forget You - CeeLo Green
