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Top 10 Swing Singers & Swing Bands For Hire 2026

Check out this year's top ten list of the hottest swing singers and swing bands available to hire for your wedding reception

Top 10 Wedding DJs For Hire 2026

Check out this year's top ten list of the hottest wedding DJs available to hire for your wedding reception and/or wedding cer

Top 10 Rock & Pop Wedding Bands 2026

This year's top ten list of the hottest wedding bands for hire in the UK right now!

The Professional Guide to Party Survival

If anyone knows a thing or two about staying healthy, looking good and bringing the party during the hectic holiday months, i

Seasonal Wedding Ideas...to steal

As festive nuptials become more popular, we asked some Christmas brides & grooms for their winter wedding tips…

Alive’s Christmas Cocktail Recipe #1 - The Mule Stable

By Rich Hearn

Another oh-so-cool cocktail from our pro mixologist! James is back to show you how to make this year's ultimate winter warmer

Alive’s Christmas Cocktail Recipe #1 - The Mule Stable

By Rich Hearn

Easy, delicious and drool-worthy! Cocktail guru James Molden shows you how to make this year's must-have tipple, The Mule Sta

Ain't No Party Like A Theme Party

To make sure your invites are greeted with a ‘Yay!’ and not a yawn, we’ve separated the wheat from the Toga-Party chaff. From

Singing Waiters Discount

By Rich Hearn

Get 10% off our ‘celeb’ Singing Waiters. You have 48 hours!

Free Party Playlist

By Rich Hearn

Check out 2016’s Ultimate Christmas Party Playlist, created for you with love from Alive! A nice mix of classics and a few co

Free Cool Christmas Playlist!

By Rich Hearn

We love Christmas songs. We also love inventive and artistic cover versions. So we’ve unearthed our favourite tracks that tic

Free Un-Christmas Playlist!

By Rich Hearn

If by now the deluge of Christmas music is driving you to suicide-by-mince pies, this is the playlist for you.

Free NYE Party Playlist!

By Rich Hearn

Check out your free New Year’s Eve Party Playlist, created for you with love from Alive!

Your Perfect Christmas Party Playlist by Alive Network

Need the soundtrack to your seasonal party but don’t know your Aled Jones from your Alex Turner? Step forward the music exper

Alive's Musical Surprise!

By Rich Hearn

Our talented team perform a Christmas classic, just for you! Watch their ‘John Lewis advert-worthy’ performance below! Go ful

Day 22: Alive’s final surprise!

By Rich Hearn

Our talented team perform one last time, just for you! Go fullscreen and turn it up!

Turkey Christmas Dinner Recipes

Alive’s very own Gordon Ramsay lookalike talks turkey and shares his secret recipe for a seasonal scene-stealing gravy&

Get 10% off Rat Pack artist Christopher Basie

By Rich Hearn

Chris’s festive pressie to you is 10% off his standard solo package. The discount only lasts until Monday 12 December, so if

Get a magical 10% off our characters from Disney’s Frozen!

By Rich Hearn

Whether you’re four or 40, no one is immune to a bit of Disney magic. Proving that fact is our Elsa and Anna, who have perfor

Get 10% off the smooth and stylish Ross Knight...

By Rich Hearn

Whatever event you’re currently planning, there’s no occasion that can’t be made more stylish, more polished, and more genera

Booking A Dancer Or Dance Group, Everything You'll Ever Need...

Everything you'll ever need to know about booking a dancer or dance group. Find out what a dancer will do at your event, how

Win a gorgeous Corsley Cruiser Record Player...

By Rich Hearn

Recently joined the vinyl renaissance? Always been an analog enthusiast? Or do you need a killer gift for the music lover in

WIN £100 to spend on your party outfit!

By Rich Hearn

Choose the stunning flapper dress featured in our Christmas Magazine, or another gorgeous garm at LittleBlackDress.com, and w

Win A Spa Day For Two!

By Rich Hearn

We know it’s been a long year and you deserve a break from planning, shopping and spreadsheets. We’re giving you the gift of

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