Wedding Band Gloucestershire - South Wales' Brotherhood

Wedding Band Gloucestershire - From South Wales Across the Severn

Gloucestershire is the cluster of wedding-venue country running from the western edge of the Cotswolds up through Elmore, Cirencester and Stow on the Wold. From our South Wales base it’s over the Severn and up the M5 - the western Gloucestershire venues are closer to us than they are to most English bands working the Cotswolds, which is why the South West circuit forms a natural extension of our home patch.

Gloucestershire wedding venues

The venues above are the Cotswold and Gloucestershire rooms we’d recommend for live entertainment. The county runs across several quite different venue types:

• Purpose-built wedding rooms: Elmore Court’s Gillyflower stands out - it was designed for live music, with acoustics that suit a full band properly.
• Cotswold barn venues: Cripps Barn, Stone Barn, the Great Tythe Barn and others. Honey-coloured stone, exposed beams, the now-familiar barn-wedding template done well.
• Country-house and manor venues: Manor by the Lake, Calcot, Bibury Court and Tortworth Court down on the South Gloucestershire edge near the M5. Larger ballrooms, more formal evenings, suit bigger lineups.
• Historic-listed venues: Thornbury Castle, Owlpen Manor. Real history, but real access constraints too - confirm equipment routes with the venue early.
• Pub-restaurant venues with function blocks: Gupshill Manor in Tewkesbury is the obvious one - a 600-year-old inn with a standalone function room out the back, all catering in-house, reception only.
• Farm estates with exclusive multi-night hire: Norton Grounds at Aston Subedge near Chipping Campden is the example we know best - 120 acres taken over for two or three nights, two stone barns side by side (one for dining, one for the band), a tipi and a marquee paddock, no fitted sound limiter and accommodation for around twenty on site.

How a Brotherhood wedding day works

Our usual wedding shape: a chilled first set of around 30 minutes with the first dance and any other formal dances landed inside it, then two 50-minute dancefloor sets blended together in our own style. DJ playlists run in the gaps and after we finish. Ceremony and drinks-reception music handled by our acoustic line-ups if you want full-day coverage.

We bring our own PA and lighting and run in-ears, no floor wedges - which matters in a stone-walled barn where the room itself already does a lot of the acoustic work. The 5-piece Brotherhood (vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keys) is the workhorse lineup at most Cotswold venues; 6-piece adds sax for couples who want more lift; 8-piece+ with brass works in the larger country-house ballrooms.

The three bands all work in this area:

The Brotherhood - the main party band; suits the barn venues with room for a full lineup.

The Sisterhood - female-fronted alternative; works well in the more formal country-house rooms.

The Apple Tree Theory - acoustic folk and reggae; suits relaxed barn weddings looking for something less party-band.

Travel from South Wales

From our South Wales base, the closest Gloucestershire venues are an hour or so over the Severn; the Cotswold villages add another half-hour up the M5 and across. We travel for the day. Gloucestershire weddings often pair with our wider catchment - the Cheltenham wedding band page covers the town and its Regency venues in detail, alongside Gloucester, Bristol and Bath.

Book your Gloucestershire wedding band

Planning a wedding at Elmore Court, Cripps Barn, Manor by the Lake or anywhere else in Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds? Check our availability for your date.