Event Services
Rik and Bob share the microphone the same way they share everything else in this band. Two hosts, so the room never waits on one person to finish a sentence, and the running order stays on time without anyone chasing it.
An MC is the person who tells your guests what is happening and when. We do that job as part of the booking, working from a running order agreed with you and your planner before the day, and the same people calling the room are the people playing the music.
Most of an MC's work happens before anyone hears them. Someone has to know what comes next, who is standing where, whether the kitchen is ready and whether the speeches have run long. On the night that turns into a handful of short announcements, and if those land well nobody notices there was an MC at all.
The scale of it: a standard wedding reception needs about thirteen separate announcements spread across roughly five hours, from telling guests cocktail hour is over to the send-off. We counted them out, with timings and who each one is really for, in who announces what at a wedding reception.
What we call, depending on the event:
The wedding party in, the couple in, the first dance, parent dances, the invitation to eat, the speeches and who is giving them, the cake, the last dance and the send-off.
The welcome, the speakers on and off, award categories and recipients, the auction and the raffle, sponsor thank-yous where you want them, and the close.
This part comes from the band being two frontmen instead of a frontman and a backing group. Either of us can take the microphone at any point, so an announcement never waits for one person to get back from the other side of the room, and a long stretch of hosting does not fall on one voice.
It also means the announcing and the music are the same decision. When a speech runs four minutes past, the person deciding what happens next is already holding a guitar.
Names get checked out loud in advance. A mispronounced surname in front of two hundred people is the one MC mistake nobody forgets.
Worth saying plainly, because a page selling a service should.
In each of those cases we work alongside your MC rather than replacing them, and the handover points go in the running order like everything else.
We do not publish a rate, because the honest answer depends on things we do not know yet: how long the event runs, how much of it needs the microphone, whether the band is playing the ceremony as well, and where the venue is. Tell us the shape of the day and you get a number rather than a range.
If you want the background before you decide, do you need a separate MC if you have a band works through the trade honestly, and who announces what at a wedding reception lists every announcement a reception actually needs. For the whole evening in order, see wedding music services.
Yes, and it is part of the booking rather than an add-on with its own contract. Rik and Bob share the microphone, working from a running order agreed with you beforehand. The advantage is that the people deciding what happens next are the same people playing, so a speech running long changes the music without anyone conferring.
The wedding party in, the couple in, the first dance, parent dances, the invitation to eat, the speeches and who is giving them, the cake, the last dance and the send-off. Which of those you want announced is your call, and anything you would rather happen quietly stays unannounced.
We do not publish a rate because it depends on how long the event runs, how much of it needs the microphone, whether the band is playing the ceremony too, and where the venue is. Tell us the shape of the day and you get a number rather than a range.
Ask about the setlist, the show, or what we need from your venue. If you want a date looked at, I can send it straight to the band.