Funk The Revolution
based in
Filling your dance floor with an array of Soul, Funk & Pop hits both old & new, Funk The Revolution are cool, stylish and full of groove! Professional musicians, the band's members have worked across the world performing with artists such as Jamiroquai, M People & Brand New Heavies plus gracing the stages of Glastonbury & Love Box!
2010’s Dance Floor Stompers
Uptown Funk –Bruno Mars
Treasure- Bruno Mars
Locked Out Of Heaven- Bruno Mars
Finesse - Bruno Mars (5pce With Keys)
Get Lucky- Pharrell Williams
Happy- Pharrell Williams
I Can’t Feel My Face- The Weekend
Love On Top- Beyoncé
Heaven- Emeli Sande (5pce With Keys)
Waiting All Night- Rudimental
Rather Be- Clean Bandit Feat. Jess Glynn
2000’s Groovers
American Boy- Estelle
Crazy- Gnarls Barkley
Beggin’- Madcon
Mercy- Duffy
Black & Gold- Sam Sparrow
Valerie- Amy Winehouse
Crazy In Love- Beyoncé (with 2pce Brass)
80’s/90’s Party Starters
Ain’t Nobody- Chaka Khan
Somebody Else Guy- Jocelyn Brown
We Are Family- Sister Sledge
All This Love- Gwen Mccrae
Kiss- Prince
I Wanna Dance With Somebody- Whitney Houston
Im Every Woman – Whitney Houston
All Night Long – Lionel Ritchie
You Got The Love- Candi Staton/Joss Stone
Can You Feel It- Jackson Five
I’m Coming Out- Diana Ross
Upside Down- Diana Ross
Never Too Much- Luther Vandross
Finally – Cece Peniston
60’s/70’s Disco/Soul Classics
Le Freak- Chic
Got To Be Real – Cheryl Lynn
Good Times- Chic
Everybody Dance- Chic
Lost In Music- Sister Sledge (5pce with Keys)
Thinking Of You- Sister Sledge
Proud Mary – Tina Turner
I Wanna Be Your Lover – Prince
Whats Going On – Marvin Gaye
Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
I Wish- Stevie Wonder
Superstition- Stevie Wonder
Master Blaster – Stevie Wonder
As- Stevie Wonder
Another Star – Stevie Wonder
Higher Ground- Stevie Wonder
Isnt She Lovely – Stevie Wonder
Signed Sealed Delivered -Stevie Wonder
Respect- Aretha Franklin
I Got You (I Feel Good)- James Brown
Sex Machine – James Brown (5pce Male Vocal)
Long Train Running- The Doobie Brothers (5 Pce Male Vocal)
Rock With You – Michael Jackson
Blame It On The Boogie- Michael Jackson
Play That Funky Music- Wild Cherry (5 Pce Male Vocal)
September- Earth Wind & Fire (with 2pce Brass)
First Dance
All Of Me- John Legend
At Last- Etta James
Thinking Out Loud- Ed Sheeran
Better Together- Jack Johnson
L.O.V.E. - Nat King Cole
Lovely Day - Bill Withers
Lets Stay Together - Al Green
Jazz Accoustic Set (See Booking Options For Details)
Moon Dance – Van Morrison
Lady Is A Tramp - Sinatra
L-O-V-E – Sinatra
Mac The Knife – Bobby Darin
Hit The Road Jack
Fly Me To The Moon – Sinatra
Nature Boy – Nat King Cole
Summertime – Billie Holiday
King Of The Swingers
The Girl From Ipanema – Stan Getz
Fever – Peggy Lee
Feeling Good - Nina Simone
Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You – Frank Sinatra
Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye
Mercy Mercy Me – Marvin Gaye
Don’t Know Why – Norah Jones
Layla – Eric Clapton
Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
Use Me – Bill Withers
Just The Two Of Us – Bill Withers
Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay- Otis Redding
Walk On By – Dionne Warwick
What You Won’t Do For Love - Bobby Caldwell
If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys
Make You Feel My Love – Adele
Someone Like You – Adele
Son Of A Preacher Man- Dusty Springfield
Everything – Michael Buble
Your Song- Elton John
"We would recommend them in a heart beat!"
The wonderful Funk The Revolution recently played at our wedding and were truly spectacular. So many guests commented how amazing they were - we w...
"Got everyone on the dance floor!!"
Funk the Revolution were absolutely amazing! We asked them to learn and perform our first dance, a song they’d never done before, and they did an incr...
We really took our time choosing the perfect band. We both love soul, funk and disco but could not find the quality we were looking for to suit our bu...
"Funk The Revolution Were An Absolute Dream!"
Funk The Revolution were an absolute dream to deal with. Even though their van sunk into the mud "TWICE" they still delivered an amazing performance. ...
"Davinia's voice is stunning. We had so much fun!!"
Funk the Revolution played in the evening at our wedding and they were even better than we expected! The set list we chose from had a great selection ...
These guys are really tight and well rehearsed as a band. Individually they all put in great performances too. As you can tell we were really pleased...
"Absolutely blown away by this band!"
So many things to say about this band Completely took our entire wedding by surprise with the quality of music they produce, by the neatness of ever...
"heir sets were superb, filling the dance floor for the full 2 hours"
We booked Funk The Revolution for our wedding in Leatherhead through Alive Network, The only way we could see them in action was through the website. ...
"Fun and great band with top sounding musicians"
Fun and great band with top sounding musicians. Everyone loved their music and were hugely impressed, good stage presence too. The communication ahead...
"If you want your guests to dance all night book Funk The Revolution."
The band were very easy and professional from the moment we sent them our first email. They promptly answered all concerns that we had and did not mak...
- Professional musicians bringing a sweet combination of experience and passion, allowing them to play anything from Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder to Rudimental and Emeli Sande. Davinia’s soulful vocals roar through any genre from pop to funk and everything in-between.
- Using the industries top quality backing tracks, Funk The Revolution are able to create performances including horns and synth bringing a larger fuller sound.
- Members have worked across the world with artists such as Jamiroquai, M People & Brand New Heavies plus gracing the stages of Glastonbury & Love Box!
- Performed at some of the U.K’s most renowned venues including Jazz Café, Ronnie Scotts, Ministry of Sound, Brixton Academy, Shepherds Bush Empire and o2 Academy.
Line up:
Default lineup: 4 members
4 Piece Band: Female Vocals, Guitar and Backing Vocals, Bass and Backing Vocals, Drums and Backing Vocals.
Funk The Revolution are a fresh, vibrant London based band ready to bring the party to your event, nationwide. With a natural funk sound, this eclectic mix of musicians brings a sweet combination of experience and passion, allowing them to play anything from Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder to Rudimental and Emeli Sande. Davinia’s soulful vocals roar through any genre from pop to funk and everything in-between.
With the industries top quality backing tracks, Funk The Revolution are able to create performances including horns and synth bringing a larger fuller sound. You’d be forgiven for thinking there were 6-8 musicians rocking the stage - all for the budget of a 4 piece.
Collectively the band have played some of the U.K’s most renowned venues including, Jazz Café, Ronnie Scotts, Ministry of Sound, Brixton Academy, Shepherds Bush Empire and o2 Academy. The members have a wealth of experience under their belt. Sharing the stage with top artists including, Jamiroqua, SouIllSoul, Nitin Sawney, The Brand New Heavies, MPeople and many more touring the world playing a variety of stages from arenas to legendary festivals including, Glastonbury, Bestival, BoomTown Fair and Download. They are equally at home playing events from weddings to cooperate events and Galas.
Meet The Band
Layla Ley – Main Lead Vocals
At age 11, Layla was singing with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra ( NYJO founded by Sir Bill Ashton) and continued to attend their educational workshops for 7years, and performed with the Jazz Big Band in various places around the UK such as The 100 Club in London, Wigan Jazz Festival, Epsom Downs Horse Racing Derby and many more.
Layla has had the honour of provided backing vocals for Espa, Marcus Foster, BBDiamond, Joseph J Jones, Alpines. performing at many Festivals such as ‘Lovebox’ ‘Secret Garden Party’ and “Glastonbury’ and has been on two Tours playing at venues such as Hammersmith Apollo and Manchester O2 Academy.
In 2008, Layla featured on Sam Smiths Album as a backing vocalist.
Davinia– DEP Lead Vocals
Davinia has a young, funky style and coupled nicely with mature and passionate vocals that breeze through styles from soul to pop and funk. Her repertoire covers songs beyond her years, stretching from 1950’s to current chart material.
Andy– Band Leader, Drums/Backing Vocals
Andy has had the opportunity to share stages with the likes of Jamiroquai, Brand New Heavies, M People, Soul2Soul, Nitin Sawney and John Mayall and The Blues Breakers ft Eric Clapton on Guitar). Andy has also had the honour of recording for producer Toni Economides, Louie Vega from Masters at Work and Robert Miles. Studied a music degree at BIMM London.
Has had the recent opportunity to play with the likes of Mo Pleasure (MD Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Earth Wind & Fire, Ray Charles) Zalon Thompson (Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson) and Gareth Brown (Drummer for– Westlife, Paloma Faith, Lily Allen). Edoardo has also had extensive experience as a sound engineer standing along side some of the U.K finest sound engineers. Studied a music degree at BIMM London.
Edoardo - Bass/Backing Vocals
He is a bass and double bass player and has performed in the UK and all around Europe with various bands featuring a wide range of musical genres. He got a degree in Jazz music and a bass diploma, both with honours, and he likes to share his experience in live performance and knowledge of theory/harmony teaching music and bass guitar. He was in the band of Chantae Cann in her London gig in 2017 and he has a Bass&Voice duo where he challenges himself to develop a rhytmic and harmonic approach on the instrument using loop and fxs.
Choose any of the following booking options when you hire Funk The Revolution from Alive Network
- Additional Male Lead Singer Add £288
Add
- 3 Piece Brass Section Add £786
with Sax, Trumpet and Trombone
- 2 Piece Brass Section Add £524
with Trumpet and Sax
- Keyboard Player Add £288
Add
- Acoustic Jazz Trio Add £458
1 x 60 minutes set with guitar, vocals and cajon
- 1am Finish Add £210
For the standard 4 piece band to finish at 1am
- Free Music Playlist Offer Free
Book Funk The Revolution within 7 days of making your enquiry and receive their pre-mixed music playlist to be played between the band's live sets free of charge!
- Free first dance request Free
Funk The Revolution will learn you first dance free of charge
Choose one of the following performance options when you hire Funk The Revolution from Alive Network
- 2 x 60 minutes £0
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