Beat Connection
Live Band available in all sizes - built for seamless venue events
We love working closely with venues to deliver amazing events for their clients.
This page contains everything your team may need when Beat Connection is performing at your venue — including our insurance documents, PAT certificates, stage layouts and technical requirements.
If there is anything else you need, please feel free to contact Alex directly on alex@beatconnection.co.uk or 07899 070103.
Our Approach
When you recommend a band to a client or book a band for your own events, we understand you’re putting your reputation on the line. Our job is to bring the party and do a great job whilst working with the event team and making their life easier, not harder.
Our promise to you
Clear and prompt pre-event communication
Meticoulously PAT Tested equipment
Full Public Liability Insurance
Discreet and tidy load-in and load-out
Professional, friendly on-site communication
dB-aware and sound-limiter experienced
Drums and bass free band options for sound limiters
Strict finish time adherence
Flexible options for different room sizes and sound restrictions
We offer multiple line-ups to suit space, budgets and venue requirements.
For large rooms with no sound limiters, we recommend our 7- or 11-piece shows.
For smaller rooms or rooms where sound restrictions are in place, we can offer live bands without drums and without bass guitar to ensure easy volume control.
Our hybrid bands include a custom-made high-quality backing track, with live singers, live guitarists, live saxophone and trumpet players.
Corporate and awards-ready
We regularly support hotels and venues with:
Awards dinners
Christmas parties
Jewish Celebrations
Corporate celebrations
Themed events and black-tie functions
We’re very experienced and comfortable working to a run sheet and adapting around formal segments without losing momentum.
Technical & logistics
✔ Setup time: 60–90 mins
✔ Space requirement: Flexible to room size
✔ Power: 2 × 13A sockets
✔ Limiter compliance: Tailored line-ups on request
Sound Limiters
Sound Limiters are no problem! Just let us know in advance what they are set as, so that we can plan accordingly.
You may also like to know that we have created some hybrid sound-limiter-friendly band options which do not include drums or bass guitar. When a band is asked to turn the volume down, this is often hard to do because the drums come through acoustically and so everything else has to be at least as loud as the drums (or you would only hear drums).
With our hybrid-band options, you can book bands that are made up of live singers, guitarists and sax players, with some professionally-recorded custom-made track that plays the drums and bass in the background, making it perfectly feasible to fully control the volume. These band options include a full DJ service and are also more space and budget friendly for your clients.
Would you recommend us?
We love building long-term relationships with venues and are always happy to discuss becoming a recommended supplier, if you think we are a good fit to work together.
Next Steps
If you’d like a reliable, venue-friendly non-diva-like band that you can recommend with confidence, we’d love to connect.
Meet the Team
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Alex Emmerson
FOUNDER
Having created, fronted and run Beat Connection Party Band and Manhattan Dusk Jazz band since 2002, Alex knows a thing or two about live music and how to ensure clients and venues are happy with our contribution to the event. A keen networker and social butterfly, Alex is always happy to chat or grab a coffee, should you want to find out more about how she can help you make your events unforgettable. -
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Matt Emmerson
MUSICAL DIRECTOR & SOUND ENGINEER
A professional musician and multi-tasker since the age of 13, Matt plays piano, trumpet, drums and violin, is an experienced DJ, producer and sound engineer, arranger and choir conductor. Basically, he’s too talented for his own good, and we don’t like him either. He is mostly seen on stage playing keyboards and trumpet (at the same time) whilst controlling the lighting with his feet. He is pretty awesome to be fair.
