Do you need an explosive, exciting band to recreate the best guitar-driven songs from the last four decades? The Souvenirs are a dynamic three-piece from Glasgow. They’ll bring the magic of your favourite bands to life, performing a show full of fun-packed, foot-stomping nostalgia that's guaranteed to blow your mind!The Souvenirs have been playing together under different guises for over 15 years. As well as providing fantastic entertainment for weddings, parties and corporate events, each member is a professional working musician. Zac Ware (guitar and vocals) currently plays with The Proclaimers. Simon Cottrell (bass and vocals) is currently working with Max Richter and Kelli Ali (Sneaker Pimps) and together with Zac has toured with country artist Laura Cantrell, recorded and toured Japan with Memphis band The Scruffs and worked with various members of Teenage Fanclub and Belle and Sebastian among others. They have written and recorded music for award-winning childrens' programmes for the BBC, written and performed titles and stings for Channel 4 and are regular session musicians. Alan Cruikshank (drums and vocals) completes the trio with his versatile drumming and soaring backing vocals.Together, this band will bring you an evening of musical souvenirs that will be treasured for a very long time!

The Souvenirs playlist includes:

From the 60’s:-
The Beatles: All You Need Is Love, Back In The USSR, Something, Money, Strawberry Fields
Tony Christie: Is This The Way To Amarillo
Chuck Berry: Johnny B Goode
The Byrds: Feel A Whole Lot Better
Jimmy Cliff: You Can Get It If You Really Want
Eddie Cochran: Something Else
Cream: Sunshine Of Your Love
Bob Dylan: All Long The Watchtower, Knocking On Heaven’s Door, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Rolling Stone
Jimi Hendrix: Hey Joe, Purple Haze, Wind Cries Mary, Little Wing
The Kinks: Sunny Afternoon, You Really Got Me
The Monkees: Daydream Believer
Elvis Presley: Hound Dog, Blue Suede Shoes
The Rolling Stones: Honky Tonk Woman, Get Off Of My Cloud
From the 70’s:-
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City
The Buzzcocks: Ever Fallen In Love
Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights
Deep Purple: Lazy
The Eagles: Take It Easy
Fleetwood Mac: Oh Well, Black Magic Woman, Albatross, Need Your Love So Bad
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel: Come Up And See Me
The Knack: My Sharona
Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love
Pink Floyd: Money, Wish You Were Here, Brick In The Wall, Comfortably Numb
The Sex Pistols: Pretty Vacant, My Way
Simon and Garfunkel: Mrs Robinson
Stealers Wheel: Stuck In The Middle With You
The Stranglers: No More Heroes
T Rex: 20th Century Boy
The Undertones: Teenage Kicks
Van Morrison: Brown Eyed Girl
The Who: Substitute
Neil Young: Cinnamon Girl
From the 80’s:-
Brian Adams: Summer Of '69
Buggles: Video Killed The Radio Star
Duran Duran: Hungry Like The Wolf
Eric Clapton: Wonderful Tonight
Elvis Costello: Oliver’s Army
The Jam: Town Called Malice
James: Sit Down
Joe Jackson: Is She Really Going Out With Him
Kim Wilde: Kids In America
Madness: It Must Be Love
Gary Newman: Cars
The Only Ones: Another Girl, Another Planet
The Primatives: Crash
Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
REM: It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
Roy Orbison: Drove All Night
The Vapours: Turning Japanese
The Violent Femmes: Blister In The Sun
Yazoo: Only You
From the 90’s and beyond:-
Blur: Girls And Boys, Song 2
The Eels: Novocaine
Green Day: Basket Case
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Under The Bridge
Primal Scream: Get Your Rocks Off

Testimonials:

"We just want to say a huge thank you for playing at our wedding at Glen Tanar Ballroom on the 22nd Nov 2008.Faced with booking a band for the event I was very concerned that we were going to end up with the usual tripe that seems to saturate the marketplace…. I breathed a huge sigh of relief when we discovered The Souvenirs!! I was really looking forward to seeing you guys play and knew it was going to be a great night but you completely surpassed all my expectations. The setlist was exactly what we wanted and the band sounded great. All the guests at the wedding commented on how great the band were - Everyone was very professional, down to earth, friendly and accommodating…. Exactly what you would want at a function!! If i ever need to book a band again, The Souvenirs will be top of my list!!If you have a recording (live or otherwise) I would love to get a copy?Let me know if you guys ever play down London way!!Cheers,Paul and Sue"a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Mi5ibGlicy5jb2 0vbXl0aGVtZS9teXNwYWNlLWNvbnRhY3QtdGFibGUucGhw"Photography by Brendan Love