Booking Us

Alongside the songwriting projects and album releases, Broken Watch are also a well-seasoned covers band that are available for bookings. The band is available for pub gigs, parties and other private functions. They’ll even come and play in your garden or front room if you want!

The band offers two basic services, a ’small venue package’ and a ‘large venue package’ to suit the needs of different customers.

Small Venue Package

This package is ideal for smaller venues or residential areas where volume and space might be an issue. The band uses a Yamaha electronic drum kit (which sounds just as good as the real thing) which means that the music can be as quiet or as loud as the customer wants it. This option also involves a smaller sound system, takes up less room and therefore leaves more space for dancing! The band will provide a basic disco lighting system.

The standard charge for this service is £150+ travel expences.

Large Venue Package

This package is better for larger venues and halls as the band uses a very pretty Ludwig drum kit with a spectacular range of symbols. This kit sounds and looks great, but it does take up a bit more stage space and does mean that the music will be a touch louder; which is exactly what you need when entertaining a larger crowd. The band will provide a quite spectacular range of lighting to make the Broken Watch experience a memorable one.

The charge for this service is £250+ travel expences.

Travel Expenses

To calculate how much travel expenses will be incurred, the band uses a very simple catchment-based calculation. We work out how many miles, by road, the gig will be from our central meeting point - the Bowling Green PH at Weeley, Essex - postcode CO16 9AD. We then apply the following scale of charges:

So, for example, if we are playing in Clacton-on-Sea, there is normally no additional charge for travel, but further affield say Colchester, 12 miles away there will be an additional £10 charge and for Braintree, some 28 miles away, there would be a charge of £20… and so on.

Notwithstanding these standard charges, our fees are negotiable and, for charity events, we will only tend to ask for travel expenses.  

Cover Versions

Apart from the songs they write themselves, the band play the following well-known numbers written and recorded by some of pop music’s biggest stars:

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

If there are particular songs that you would like played that do not appear on this list, if you give us plenty of notice we can do our best to learn them ready for the gig. However, please bear in mind that because we are essentially a 3-piece group, we are restricted in terms of what styles of music we can perform and we wouldn’t necessarily be able to do all good songs ‘justice’. We are always happy to discuss this though and, who knows, you might help us to expand our repertoire!