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Bond Tribute
If you are planning a Bond themed evening for your birthday party, anniversary, wedding, corporate, fundraising event then please contact The Name Is Band – Bond Tribute Band for a quote!
The Bond Tribute Band – The Name Is Band perform the Bond themes – either with or without our girl dancers and with or without pyrotechnics. The set is bursting with Bond themes such as Diamonds are Forever, From Russia With Love, The Man With the Golden Gun, Thunderball, Skyfall, Live and Let Die, You Know My Name, Nobody Does It Better and so many more! The Name Is Band only ever perform fully live – there are no backing tracks or miming involved when we perform for your event.
The James Bond Tribute Band can also play a second set of covers, containing the best numbers from the 1960’s to date – Tom Jones, Tina Turner, Amy Winehouse, James Brown, Earth Wind & Fire, Kaiser Chiefs, Adele, Florence and the Machine plus many others. The set is guaranteed to get all your guests on the dance floor.
If required, we can also supply an easy listening cocktail set for your guests arrival -some laid back, jazzy, swing numbers to set the atmosphere for the evening or we can supply a swing set later in the evening if that’s more your style!
So if you want to know more about The Name Is Band – Bond Tribute Band – get in contact! We’d love to hear from you!
Nobody Does It Better
….. than the James Bond Tribute Band The Name is Band! An awesome live 10-piece Bond Tribute band consisting of some of the finest musicians on the circuit!
Bond music is timeless and there are so many variations and versions from performers such as Adele, Lulu, Matt Munro, Tom Jones, Chris Cornell, Garbage, Shirley Bassey, Nancy Sinatra, Tina Turner, Aha, Duran Duran and many more!
The Bond Tribute Band perform a cabaret style set of Bond themes and we particularly like Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simon from the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. Nobody Does It Better is such a simple song, beautifully sung with lovely words that even manage to capture the title of the Bond Film as a line within the lyrics.
The Bond Tribute Band The Name is Band have a fabulous version of this song on our website for you to listen to. If you are looking to book a Bond Tribute Band for your Bond themed event then please get in touch with our own Miss Moneyspent!
Adele – Services to Music
Adele won an Oscar for her Bond Theme Skyfall for the Bond film with the same title. Adele co-wrote the music and lyrics for Skyfall and it became a number one hit!
Adele has now received membership of the Order of the British Empire for her services to music as part of the Queen’s 87th Birthday celebrations – the physical award will be bestowed on her later this year in a formal ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
This is fantastic news and the James Bond Tribute Band The Name is Band think that Skyfall was a cracking Bond Theme! In fact, it’s one of our favourites to perform at Bond themed parties and events! To hear our version please visit the website.
Skyfall
Skyfall – this bond theme has been recorded by the Bond Tribute Band The Name is Band. Originally recorded by Adele for the Bond Film Skyfall in 2012 which starred Daniel Craig as the suave 007 Agent. The song was actually released at 0:07am on the 5th October as this date was apparently called “James Bond Day” and marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Dr No.
Sadly, the original Skyfall recorded by Adele was the last Bond theme to feature the amazing Derek Watkins on trumpet. He was a hero to many trumpet, and brass, players all over the world having a unique and unmistakable sound and technique and had played on every Bond sound track. He was, quite simply, a legend! A truly remarkable and gifted musician. To see a clip of Derek and an absolutely stunning version of My Way – follow this YouTube link – you’ll see for yourself why he performed on every Bond Theme and why he has been so inspirational to so many brass players – a very classy performer and in a league all of his own!
The recording by Adele apparently had 77 musicians performing this bond theme and over took two days to record. The Bond Tribute Band are just 10 people and we took a total of 4 hours to do all six new tracks in the studio but we think our version of this piece of bond music is authentic in sound and dynamic. This is one of our favourite bond themes to perform.
The Bond Tribute Band The Name is Band only ever perform totally LIVE and only as a 10-piece. You won’t find any backing tracks used in any of our performances. If you are looking for a band for a James Bond Event then please get in contact – we’d love to hear from you!