The Big Shoogle
Overview
- 3-4 piece Ceilidh and covers band
- All Ceilidh dances professionally called
Price Range
Prices range from £850 to £1800
About
The Big Shoogle are an uptempo Scottish Ceilidh and covers band with influences from rock, cajun, zydeco, rockabilly and swing, all added together and shoogled..!
The band play swingy traditional Scottish and Irish ceilidh tunes in their own inimitable style, and will call all the dances for guests who may be unfamiliar with them. So, even if you are dance-lexic (!) and can’t tell the difference between a Dashing White Sergeant and a haggis supper, The Big Shoogle will have you birling around the floor like an expert! This is all done in an informal and humourous way, creating a real party atmosphere. You KNOW when you’ve been Shoogled!
They are, in fact, one of the most exciting bands to come out of Scotland in a long time. Their music has taken around the world playing for weddings, corporate events and ex-pats’ St Andrews societies in Russia, Europe and the Middle East.
They play for all the well-known favourite ceilidh dances as well as some new, more unusual ceilidh dances – some of which not for the faint-hearted...
From haunting Scottish airs and waltzes to thundering jigs and reels, your granny will adore the slow ones and you will shoogle your socks off to the jigs, reels and fancy feels.
However, while they are perfectly happy to play for ceilidh dancing for the whole evening, in addition, they, as one of the most versatile bands around today, have a repertoire of songs enabling them to diversify if the function requires so. They play their own versions of well-known crowd pleasers in a zydeco, cajun, rock style as well as covers of current mainstream chart and classic floor-fillers. Audiences find it difficult to believe that the range of music and sounds all comes from the same three band members.
The band can be dressed in kilts, tartan trews, in black or black and white. Whatever is fitting for the occasion.
Based in Glasgow they do indeed play at many functions and festivals in the UK but do travel. They have played in top venues UK-wide and overseas for every kind of audience imaginable in Paris, Brussels, London, Copenhagen, Moscow, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Florence, Pisa, Bishopbriggs, Bonkle and Ballybunion. International festivals like Celtic Connections, Lorient and headlined the Ceilidh Tent at this year's T in the Park. They are as comfortable playing to large festival audiences and corporate events as they are at small functions.
Numerous “blue-chip” clients appear on their engagement lists, from Hollywood A-List actors and supermodels to TV personalities and major corporations.
They are self-contained with their own sound system and lighting and, needless to say, are very professional in all respects.
If Carlsberg made ceilidh bands, they probably wouldn’t be as exciting as The Big Shoogle
Where are they based?
The band are based in Glasgow but regularly play throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK.
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Sample Set List
The Gay Gordons
The Grand March
Dashing White Sergeant
Canadian Barn Dance
Strip the Willow
Military Two-Step
St.Bernards Waltz
Eightsome Reel
Highland Schottische
Pride of Erin Waltz
Virginia Reel
Gaelic Waltz
Circassian Circle
Eve Three-Step
Cumberland Square Eight
Hoolihan’s Jig (Hooligans’ Jig!!)
The Flying Scotsman
Orcadian Strip the Willow
The Swedish Masquerade
The Riverside Jig
Circles Four
The Siege of Ennis
The Big Shoogle will play for many Scottish Country Dances if guests know the steps. Some examples are:
Hamilton House
The Duke of Perth
Reel of the 51st Division
They will also play for the following “modern” dances:
Quickstep
Foxtrot
Old Time Waltz
The Big Shoogle – Songs
Honky Tonk Woman –The Rolling Stones
Chelsea Dagger – The Fratellis
500 Miles – The Proclaimers
Jeepster – T- Rex
Upside Down – Paloma Faith
Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
Uprising – Muse
All Right Now - Free
The Galway Girl –Steve Earle
Run – Snow Patrol
Human – The Killers
Smoke on the Water – Deep Purple
Pay Me My Money Down –Bruce Springsteen
The Walk of Life – Dire Straits
Teenage Kicks – The Undertones
Dirty Old Town – The Pogues
Song 2 – Blur
Pencil Full of Lead – Paulo Nutini
10 out of 10 – Paolo Nutini
Highway to Hell – AC/DC
Oh Mary Don’t You Weep – Bruce Springsteen
Another Brick In the Wall –Pink Floyd
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
Dakota – Stereophonics
Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
I Feel Fine – The Beatles
Satisfaction – Rolling Stones
The Irish Rover – The Pogues
It’s All Over Now – Rolling Stones
Rockin All Over the World – Status Quo
I Got a Feeling – Black Eyed Peas
I Saw Her Standing There – The Beatles
Sideshow Blues –Todd Snider
You and Me Always - The Wannadies
Caledonia – Dougie MacLean
Wild Mountain Thyme – The Silencers
Loch Lomond
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