Funk The Revolution
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!
Price from £2,134 + travel
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“Great performance and lovely people”
William W
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Set List / Repertoire
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
Acoustic Lounge Set (see booking options for details)
Summertime – Billie Holiday
King Of The Swingers
Wonderwall – Oasis Jazzy Version
The Girl From Ipanema – Stan Getz
Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You – Frank Sinatra
Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye
Use Me – Bill Withers
If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys
Aint No Sunshine - Bill Withers
Lovely Day - Bill Withers
Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
Feel Like Making Love - D’Angelo
Lets Stay Together - Al Green
I’d Rather Go Blind ¬- Etta James
Stronger Than Me – Amy Winehouse
Say Yes - Floetry
On & On - Erika Badu
Use Me - Bill Withers
Just The 2 of Us - Bill Withers
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
44 Customer Reviews
| Performance quality: | 5 stars |
| Sound quality: | 5 stars |
| Behaviour: | 5 stars |
| Communication: | 5 stars |
| Audience engagement: | 5 stars |
| Value for money: | 5 stars |
Great performance and lovely people
5 stars - Funk The Revolution are Highly Recommended
William W booked Funk The Revolution for their event in London • October 2021
“Funk the Revolution really made our party special - everyone loved their performance. Andy was extremely helpful before the event, always responding quickly to any questions. Set-up was quick and efficient despite tricky acoustics. Highly recommended.”
Brilliant band and brilliant organization!
5 stars - Funk The Revolution are Highly Recommended
Niamh booked Funk The Revolution for their event in Warwickshire • September 2021
“Funk the Revolution performed at our corporate event of 400+ guests and absolutely smashed it! The crowd loved the set list and the atmosphere the band created. In addition to that Andy was incredibly helpful prior to the event in assisting us with AV set-up for our in-house band. Brilliant band and brilliant organization!” 5 stars of course”
Fantastic band for our wedding reception 10.09.21
5 stars - Funk The Revolution are Highly Recommended
Hannah D booked Funk The Revolution for their Wedding in Essex • September 2021
“Funk The Revolution performed at our wedding in September and they were fantastic! We particularly loved our first dance song which they learned for us. We also had a laptop DJ service for the sets in between which worked out great. Thanks for being so flexible with us! The band came with a great sound engineer and the band's manager Andy who was great at communicating with the venue in advance and on the night.”
Unbelievable funk! Real enthusiasm. The band made our small, covid-compliant wed...
5 stars - Funk The Revolution are Highly Recommended
Jeremy C booked Funk The Revolution for their Wedding in Essex • September 2020
“These guys were flawless. Their live sets got all of our guests going. There were only 30 of us due to covid restrictions, but everyone felt uplifted by the funky music. The band didn’t just go through the motions. They really wanted to be at our wedding and wanted to show off their talents. Massive thanks guys. Hope the difficult situation for performers like you resolves itself in the not too distant future.”
Fantastic wedding party in Cornwall
5 stars - Funk The Revolution are Highly Recommended
William M booked Funk The Revolution for their Wedding in Cornwall
“We booked Funk the Revolution for our wedding in Cornwall. They were extremely friendly, professional, and played wonderfully. They got the crowd going and the dance floor was full all evening! Would not hesitate to recommend them - a seriously good band.”
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Price from £2,134 + travel from London
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4 Piece Band: Female Vocals, Guitar and Backing Vocals, Bass and Backing Vocals, Drums and Backing Vocals. (Plus Sound Engineer)
Full Biography
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.
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