Solid Steel
We’re Solid Steel and we’re a modern professional UK-based steel band or ‘steel drum band’ as our American cousins mistakenly call it! We’re available for hire with musicians based mainly in London, but with contacts to associate steel pan players throughout the country.
Beyond the Solid Steel core we are a small family of musicians that spans 3 generations. We regard ourselves as good musicians above all else and most of us have a second instrument we also play at a professional level.
What also distinguishes us from other steel bands is that we can offer vocals and other instrumentation to play the diverse repertoire that you can see here in our playlist.
We travel all over the country and abroad, playing fully live to audiences at private and public events with (but mostly without!) a tropical theme like Caribbean nights, birthday parties, weddings, corporate events, product launches, and- because of the greater mobility we offer than most steel bands- big sporting events and carnival parades. We perform in prestigious and not-so-prestigious venues as diverse as hotels, festivals, schools, tv and radio studios, village halls, shopping centres, pubs and restaurants. In so doing, we make it our business for our steel band to transport our audience’s imagination to the most idyllic sun and rum-soaked Caribbean holiday ever!
We’re not just a steel band that gets busy in the summer. As a professional band we perform all year round and when we’re not busy playing we’re busy teaching.
Solid Steel band’s corporate clients
Over the last 10 years we have performed successful engagements for:-
Allied Domecq
American Express
Anglia Co-op
ASDA
Bank of England
Barclays Global Investments
BBC Worldwide
British Red Cross
BSKYB
Cadbury UK
Canary Wharf Management
Canon
Capita
Carphone Warehouse
Center Parcs
City Airport
Condé Nast Publications
Credit Suisse
Ernst & Young
Eurotunnel
GlaxoSmithKline
Grey Advertising Group
Guinness
Institute Of Actuaries
Lloyds TSB
Mazda Motors UK
Mercedes- Benz UK
Merlin Entertainments
Merrill Lynch
Metro Bank
Microsoft
Ogilvy & Mather
Pfizers
Reuters
Royal Bank of Scotland
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
Royal Thames Yacht Club
Saatchi & Saatchi
Schroders
Strutt & Parker
Toyota
Unison
Virgin
Warner Bros
Solid Steel band’s corporate venues
Nationwide, more and more wonderful venues have opened their doors to corporate hospitality business. As competition has become fiercer these venues have upped their game by offering excellent service alongside the unique characteristics and charms they offer. A great corporate event can now take place not just in a hotel or restaurant but in an art gallery, museum, roof garden and sports stadium, to name but a few. Sporting arenas aside (please see Parades), here are some of our favourite venues we’ve played in over the years:-
Anugraha Hotel, Egham
Birmingham NEC Arena
BlenheimPalace, Oxfordshire
Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire
Cafe Royal, London
Celtic Manor, Wales
Chelsea Physic Garden, London
Chester Race Course, Cheshire
Claridge’s, London
Clearwell Castle, Gloucestershire
Coq d’Argent, London
Cowley Manor, Gloucestershire
Down Hall, Essex
Earls Court Arena, London
HighchereCastle, Berkshire
KensingtonPalace, London
Kensington Roof Gardens, London
KewGardens, London
Knebworth House, Herts
Leeds Castle, Kent
London Zoo
Lowry Hotel, Manchester
Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
Madame Tussaud’s, London
Millennium Dome, London
NaturalHistoryMuseum, London
PainshillPark, Surrey
Queens Eyot, Windsor
Sea Life Aquarium, London
Sheraton Hotel, Damascus, Syria
Sheraton Skyline, Heathrow
Sporting Club, Monte Carlo
Stockbrook Manor, Essex
SyonPark, Middlesex
The Brewery, London
The Dorchester, London
The Mall of The Emirates, Dubai