Best entertainers in Broadview
Broadview is the inner north, the streets between Main North Road and Hampstead Road with Prospect on one side and Enfield on the other, and from here the city's acts are so close that the distance on the cards is nearly the same for all ten. It's Adelaide's list, plainly: the reviewed ten are based in the city, minutes away, and the neighbouring pages at Lightsview and Walkerville show the identical names. Use this page to compare them against each other, not to worry about who'll come.
They'll all come. Cover bands top the mix, then duos, wedding bands, singers and a strong set of party bands, and the inner north has the rooms for every one of them: old church halls and bowling clubs off Prospect Road, pubs along Main North Road with a back room, and the interwar houses with a deep backyard that Broadview still has more of than the western suburbs do. That last one matters, because a yard with room for a band and a fence line that isn't a metre away is getting rarer, and a party band in a Broadview backyard on a summer Saturday is about as good as a home party gets. Warn the street and give the act a finish.
Top picks in Broadview
Top picks are the nearby performers with the most visible reviews, then rating, then the closest; further afield the closest come first, and premium listings break remaining ties. Distances are straight-line from Broadview. Ask each act whether they travel to your venue and what that costs.
Questions people ask about entertainers in Broadview
How much to hire a band in Broadview?
The lineup and the length of the night, and nothing for travel, since the whole list is a few minutes away. A backyard job may need the band's own PA and lights where a pub back room supplies them, and that's the difference between two quotes for the same band. See the from-prices on the band listings on this page for what the inner north is being quoted now.
Is Broadview close enough for a last-minute booking?
Distance won't be the problem; a city act can be in Broadview in a quarter of an hour. Availability will be, on a Saturday in the wedding months or the Christmas run. For a weeknight or a Sunday afternoon a fortnight's notice is often enough, and the reply usually comes fast because the date's free.
What's the best act for a big backyard party in the inner north?
A party band, if you've got the yard and the street on side; that's the one kind of room where Adelaide's party bands beat everything else on this list. A cover band is the safer pick for mixed ages, and a duo is the answer when the yard's smaller than it looks in daylight. Whatever you choose, set the finish time before the quote, not after.
Booking tips
Compare, don't just pick
With the ten this close, ask two of the acts you like about the same date and room. Their replies will tell you as much as the profiles about who reads a brief properly.
Halls have unwritten sound rules
Church halls and bowling clubs in the inner north often come with a caretaker and a volume rule that isn't written down anywhere. Ask the venue what the last band was allowed, and pass it on.
Christmas is the crunch
The inner north's work parties and the city's wedding season land on the same December Saturdays. If your date is one of those, ask in October and don't sit on the quote.