Who are we?
Meet Surrey-based covers band The Alternators.
Available for hire: Not just any old covers band doing the same boring stuff. Our dictionary says "An alternator is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current." Which suits us: we take the standard, mechanical covers band (by-the-numbers versions of dull songs) and, through our rotating magnetism, electrify the buggers and light up the room. We call ourselves The Alternators for three main reasons: • We alternate between two lead singers (one male, one female). • We do alternative covers – not the screamingly obvious Brown Eyed Girls chased by Mr Brightsides, but ones you'd forgotten you loved, old friends you embrace warmly. • And we sometimes tackle them in a completely different style to the original, or mash up two or more songs. Keeps folk interested, we find. So yes, like every other covers band ever, we do Teenage Kicks. But we do it in a pared-down fashion, all jazzy suspended chords and heartfelt harmonies, to bring out the melancholic longing in the lyrics. And we build it to an epic climax featuring four-part harmonies. And that's just one example.... |
If you wanna have a good time... |
The list of artists covered is growing all the time. Right now it includes A-ha, Arctic Monkeys, Beatles, Bill Withers, Black Keys, Blondie, Blur, Bon Jovi, Bowie, Britney, Bruno Mars, Buzzcocks, Cardigans, Coral, Cure, Dodgy, Doobie Brothers, Erasure, Fleetwood Mac, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, George Michael, Gloria Gaynor, Gnarls Barkley, Hives, Jam, Janis Joplin, Kaiser Chiefs, Magic Numbers, Manic Street Preachers, New Order, Pharrell Williams, Pink Floyd, Police, Pretenders, Queen, Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rainbow, Rihanna, Smiths, Stereophonics, Stranglers, Strokes, Talking Heads, Ting Tings, Undertones, Wheatus, Zutons etc and so on.
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We are available for hire at extraordinarily reasonable rates.
We have our own PA and public liability insurance. And we're all toilet-trained. |