Singer Guitarist 60's-00's bags of fun!
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Hello, I'm Richie,I have been a professional musician for over 10 years playing all over the world.I am the founding member of my wedding band Happy Hour and play 100+ weddings and events a year as well as my solo stuff.
Over the years i have built up a great collection of guitars and amps as well as building my own recording studio and deliver a live set with a full rich sound and great lighting as well as songs from the 60's to today's hits.I use Bose pa systems,Taylor guitars and i am completely self contained including lighting and Dj softwareI am fun,professional and reliable and promise a great show,if its a party I will use my backing tracks and party with your guests until last orders, or it may be a low key event and I can just play acoustically and blend into the surroundings…Whatever your needs I can accommodate.I will DJ your event as well as play live so there is music all night!, This coupled with my live music sets really covers everything you need for your event!Thanks for checking out my site!Richie.Previous clients include:The OXO tower
Coventry football stadium
Wentworth golf club
Sixways rugby stadium
Cancer Research
Milton Keynes Football Stadium
Hedingham Castle
Zizzi Resteraunt
West Essex Golf Club
The Royal Automotive Club
Epsom downs race course
The Groucho Club
Alton Towers Hotel
The Gherkin
Pinewood studios
Priory Park Southend-On-Sea
Walkabout & Bar Risa’s all over the UK
Mezzaluna Bar Cheshire
York Road School Kent
Rayleigh Mill
Council House Nottingham
Suffolk Show
Malta Festival Sponsored by Budweiser
Italy Festival
Truro Theatre Cornwall
Edinbrough University
Canterbury University
Canterbury College
Laurel Farm Buckinghamshire
Flicks Nightclub Sleaford
The Hilton Hotel London
Park Plaza Hotel London
Marriott Hotel Leicester
West Sands Selsey
Notley Abbey
The London Irish Centre
Penny Hill Park Hotel
The Hilton
ITV
Aldwickbury Park Golf Club
Rookery Hall Hotel
The Marriot Hotel
Langdon Hall Hotel
Lords Golf And Country Club
The Royal Burnham Yacht Club
China Fleet Country Club
Compton Verney Art Gallery
Great Fosters Hotel
Eastington Hall
RAF Brampton
RAF Shawbury
Ghyll Manor
The Lawns
Secruitas
SS Great Britain
BBC
Sky
MTV
Sony
O2Reviews:"Just wanted to say a huge thanks for Saturday night. Myself and my guests thoroughly enjoyed the whole evening and we’ve had loads of people asking after you.""Hi Richie,Just wanted to drop you an email to say a HUGE thank you for Saturday night!! You were absolutely fantastic - you really made our night perfect. Everyone keeps saying how amazing you were - Also thanks for letting the budding Take That singers take to the floor!!
We are already planning another charity event next year, so we can book you again!"Thank you Happy Hour for such an incredible set at our wedding! It really added an extra dimension to our big day.
We have had so many compliments about how good you were, you really got the party going. The video is hilarious.
I can safely say we’ll never forget how much fun we had!"Hi Richie,Not had chance to say thank you as we jetted straight off to Thailand the next day but we are back now!Just wanted to pass on our appreciation for a fantastic evening, it was a wonderful performance from the moment you arrived right through to the final song, I lost count of the amount of people who commented on how good you were and asking where we had found you! Thanks again and I will certainly be posting a reference up on the site in the next couple of days.
Oh and the pics/video were a wonderful touch, our friends and family have loved seeing them and they have given us some lovely memories ahead of receiving our day shots from the photographer.Our appreciation once again,Jason and Amy."Hi Richie,I hope you got back ok on Saturday night. We just wanted to thank you for making our wedding evening so perfect. The music was amazing and everyone really enjoyed it. Slightly biased, but I have never been to a wedding when the dance floor has been so full for so much of the night! Looking forward to seeing the photos.Thanks againClaire and James"I just want to say you were absolutely AMAZING at our wedding, we had the best time and we have been receiving so many messages over the past few weeks from people saying it was the best wedding they'd been to and in no small part due to how great the live music was (I have had a lot of people saying you are the best wedding singer they've ever heard and Dean and I would certainly agree!). The songs and the pace were great and so nice to see young and old on the dance floor together, everyone just loved it!
I also wanted to say thank you for you consummate professionalism from start to finish, you were so kind about the difficulties with the sound, so sorry you had to deal with that but you made it so hassle free and thank you for being so understanding. (Rest assured I have picked this up with the venue separately!)
Also thank you for learning the two tracks, they were perfect and so great (even if Dean forgot all his dance steps...) Lastly I wanted to say thank you so, so very much for letting Dean and his best man get up and perform with you, it meant so much to Dean and was a perfect end to a perfect day.Thanks again Richie, will add you on FB as think I know quite a few people who might be wanting to hire you for their birthdays/weddings now! Also I work in advertising for John Lewis and we quite often have shindigs we need a great performer for, so hopefully i'll get to enjoy your musical stylings again soon!Thanks againElinor and Dean"
"Thank you so much for your awesome set at our wedding on Saturday 28th July. Every single person commented on how great you were and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. I've never seen so many of our friends jumping up and down like lunatics to a full 2 hour set, the dance floor was packed all night.Ben and I couldn't have asked for a more talented and professional musician... and a special thanks from me for the souped up version of Take That's Back For Good - I loved it, and so did everyone else (the bruises on my feet testify to that).
We wouldn't hesitate to recommend you to our friends and can't wait for another opportunity to book you again!
Also, on the acoustic set... We missed it due to the photos being taken but all the guests said how brilliant you were and how it added to the whole atmosphere to have live music set in those beautiful gardens. THANK YOU!""Richie was all we could have hoped for and more! His music was amazing, he was great fun, with infectious energy with the perfect balance of setting the atmosphere but not overtaking the evening. Our guests, literally, could not stop dancing! He made our evening reception. He listened to our requests, of what to include and what not to and created a set that was just mind blowing! Anyone wishing to book a lively and thoroughly entertaining singer need look no further - there's no question that Richie is your guy.11 out of 10 all round!!"
Set List/Services
50s
Rock n Roll Medley - Various
Johnny B Goode- Chuck Berry
Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And The Comets
60s
8 Days A Week - The Beatles
Back In The USSR – The Beatles
Twist and Shout – The Beatles
I wanna hold your hand - The Beatles
Saw her standing there - The Beatles
Runaway - Del Shannon
Daydream Believer - The Monkees
Do You Love Me - Dirty Dancing
Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Jumping Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
Suspicious Minds - Elvis
Lets Twist Again - Chubby Checker
La Bamba - Richie Valens
Shake a Tail Feather
Hippie Hippie Shake- The Swinging Blue Jeans
Runaround Sue- Dion and the Belmonts
Sorry Suzanne - The Hollies
70s
Burning ove - Elvis
Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Take It Easy - The Eagles
Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
I Fought The Law - The Clash
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
Ever Fallen In Love - The Buzzcocks
Rockin' all over the world - Status Quo
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Superstition- Stevie Wonder
Peaceful Easy Feeling - The Eagles
December 63 - The Four Seasons
My Girl - The Temptations
80s
Go you're own way - Fleetwood mac
Romeo and juliet - Dire Straits
Friday I'm In Love - The Cure
Happy Hour - The Housemartins
Together in electric dreams - The Human League
Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
Baggy Trousers - Madness
Summer Of ‘69 - Brian Adams
Footloose-Kenny Loggins
Should I Stay Or Should I Go- The Clash
Livin On A Prayer- Bon Jovi
Walk Of Life - Dire Straits
Run To You - Bryan Adams
I don't like mondays -The Boomtown Rats
90s
Sit Down - James
Driftwood - Travis
Just the way i'm feeling - Feeder
Cannonball - Damian Rice
Mirrors - Justin Timberlake
Basketcase - Green Day
Don’t Look Back In Anger - Oasis
I’ll Be There For You - The Remembrents
Dreaming Of You - The Coral
Monkeywrench - Foo Fighters
When You’re Gone – Brian Adams & Mel C
Dance the night away – The Mavericks
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Deep Blue Something
1000 Miles – The Proclaimers
Tubthumping – Chumbawamba
Save Tonight – Eagle Eye Cherry
You and me song - The Wannadies
The One And Only- Chesney Hawkes
Mmmbop- Hanson
Baby I'm Amazed-Lonestar
Obviously-Mcfly
Staceys Mom - Fountains Of Wayne
Local Boy In The Photograph - Stereophonics
Babylon - David Grey
Wonderwall - Oasis
00s
Ho Hey - The Lumineers
we are young - Fun
America - Razorlight
Just the way i'm feeling - Feeder
Lego house - Ed Sheeran
A Team - Ed Sheeran
Happy - Pharell Williams
Fix you - Coldplay
Hot and cold - The Baseballs
Fix you - Coldplay
Razorlight - America
Happy - Pharrel Williams
Last Night - The Strokes
Someone like you - Adele
Let Me Entertain You- Robbie Williams
Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
5 Colours – Mcfly
Obviously – Mcfly
Year 3000 – Busted
Sleeping with the light on - Busted
American Idiot - Greenday
All The Small Things - Blink 182
Rock Show - Blink 182
Dammit – Blink 182
Buddy Holly- Weezer
Fall To Pieces - Razorlight
Mr Brightside - The Killers
Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellies
I Predict A Riot - Kaiserchiefs
Shes So Lovely – Scouting for Girls
Song 2 - Blur
Buck Rogers - Feeder
Dream Catch Me – Newton Faulkner
I'm Yours - Jazon Mraz
Kiss me - Sixpence None The Richer
Chasing cars - Snow Patrol
Greatest Day - Take That
Hey Soul Sister - Train
Learn To Fly- Foo Fighters
Locked Out Of Heaven- Bruno Mars
Candy- Robbie Williams
Thinking Of Me- Olly Murs
Rule the World - Take That
Rude - Magic
Thinking out loud - Ed Sheeren