About
Fake Plastic Chairs are an award winning party, events and wedding band for Bristol, Wales, The Midlands and the South West. They are a 4 piece band as their flagship line-up with impressive 4 part harmonies and no less than 2 lead vocalists. The core line-up can include 2 guitars or guitar and keyboard which enables them to cover a huge range of songs from the 50's to the current day. They also have a 5 piece or power trio option.
They've played many of the region's best known wedding venues, including Polhawn Fort, Clearwell Castle, Tunnels Beaches, Priston Mill, Plas Dinas, Rhinefield House, Berkeley Castle and St Davids Hotel. Their corporate clients include Nationwide, Microsoft, BBC, RAC, Titan Airways, the National Round Table and many others, and they've played as far afield as Sardinia and the South of France. Other notable venues include the Vox Conference Centre at the NEC, Canterbury Cathedral and the Roman Baths. Individually, members of the band have had appearances at Glastonbury, BST Hyde Park, Reading and Leeds festivals to name a few. They've also performed at prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall, London Bridge and Eden Project.
To see the band in action, watch the video below:
Repertoire
Fake Plastic Chairs' repertoire spans over 60 years of popular music! From the latest hits to cheesy chart-toppers from the '90s, pumping electronics of the '80s, the groovy tunes of the '70s and the swinging '60s, and even the rock 'n' roll of the '50s - it can all be played by this versatile group! Take a peek at Fake Plastic Chairs repertoire below:
For songs with *, Keyboard line-up recommended.
Modern
- Attention - Charlie Puth
- Blinding Lights - The Weeknd *
- Cake By The Ocean - DNCE
- Can't Stop the Feeling - Justin Timberlake *
- Chocolate - The 1975
- Get Lucky - Daft Punk
- Go - Chemical Brothers *
- Good As Hell - Lizzo *
- Happy - Pharrell Williams
- Havana - Camila Cabello *
- Ho Hey - The Lumineers
- Hold Back The River - James Bay
- How Long - Charlie Puth
- I Only Lie When I Love You - Royal Blood
- IDGAF - Dua Lipa
- Juice - Lizzo
- Kathleen - Catfish and the Bottlemen
- Levitating - Dua Lipa *
- Lightning Bolt - Jake Bugg
- Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons
- Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars *
- Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
- My Number - Foals
- Pelican - The Maccabees
- Rather Be - Clean Bandit *
- Rolling in the Deep - Adele
- Shotgun - George Ezra
- Shut Up And Dance - Walk The Moon
- Sugar - Maroon 5
- Sunday Morning - Maroon 5 *
- Take Your Mama - Scissor Sisters *
- Treasure - Bruno Mars *
- Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles
- What You Know - Two Door Cinema Club
Noughties/Nineties
- All Star - Smash Mouth
- All The Small Things - Blink 182
- Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club
- Angels - Robbie Williams *
- Are You Gonna Be My Girl? - Jet
- Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
- Bartender And The Thief - Stereophonics
- Basketcase - Green Day
- Beautiful Ones - Suede
- Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols
- Buck Rogers - Feeder
- Buddy Holly - Weezer
- Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis
- Dakota - Stereophonics
- Dancing In The Moonlight - Toploader *
- Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
- Don't Look Back Into The Sun - The Libertines
- Drive - Incubus
- Drops Of Jupiter - Train
- Everything - Michael Bublé *
- Forget You - Cee Lo Green *
- Get Lucky - Daft Punk
- Harder to Breathe - Maroon 5
- Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives
- How You Remind Me - Nickelback
- Hush - Kula Shaker
- I Believe In a Thing Called Love - The Darkness
- I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor - Arctic Monkeys
- I Don't Need No Doctor - John Mayer
- I Predict a Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
- In Too Deep - Sum 41
- Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
- It's My Life - Bon Jovi
- Jenny Don't Be Hasty - Paolo Nutini
- Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine
- Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters
- Let Me Entertain You - Robbie Williams *
- Lightning Bolt - Jake Bugg
- Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons
- Living For The Weekend - Hard-Fi *
- Love It When You Call - The Feeling *
- Mama Told Me Not To Come - Tom Jones/Stereophonics
- Molly's Chambers - Kings of Leon
- Moving To New York - The Wombats
- Mr. Brightside - Killers
- Naive - The Kooks
- No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age
- Parklife - Blur
- Place Your Hands - Reef
- Reptilia - The Strokes
- Rocks - Primal Scream
- Roll With It - Oasis
- Rolling in the Deep - Adele
- Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
- Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
- She Moves In Her Own Way - The Kooks
- She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
- She's So Lovely - Scouting For Girls *
- Shine - Take That
- Shotgun - George Ezra
- Shut Up and Let Me Go - Ting Tings
- Sit Down - James
- Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
- Smooth - Santana/Rob Thomas *
- Song 2 - Blur
- Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
- Steady, As She Goes - The Raconteurs
- Sunday Morning - Maroon 5
- Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
- Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
- The Bartender and the Thief - Stereophonics
- The Day We Caught The Train - Ocean Colour Scene
- This Love - Maroon 5
- Times Like These - Foo Fighters
- Two Princes - Spin Doctors
- Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon
- Valerie - Amy Winehouse/The Zutons
- Vertigo - U2
- Weather With You - Crowded House
- When The Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys
- Yellow - Coldplay
- You Get What You Give - New Radicals *
Seventies/Eighties
- A Little Respect - Erasure
- Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
- All Right Now - Free
- Boys Of Summer - Don Henley
- Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
- Can't Get Enough - Bad Company
- Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
- Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
- Dude Looks Like A Lady - Aerosmith
- Enter Sandman - Metallica
- Every Breath You Take - The Police
- Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac *
- Harvest Moon - Neil Young
- Heard it Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
- Heart Of Gold - Neil Young
- Highway To Hell - Ac/Dc
- I Wish - Stevie Wonder
- Jump - Van Halen
- Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel
- Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
- Long Train Running - The Doobie Brothers
- Lovely Day - Bill Withers
- Message In A Bottle - The Police
- Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
- Power Of Love - Huey Lewis And The News *
- Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
- Respect - Erasure
- Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) - Elton John
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
- Stayin' Alive - Beegees
- Stuck In The Middle - Stealer's Wheel
- Summer Of '69 - Bryan Adams
- Superstition - Stevie Wonder
- Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns 'n' Roses
- Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Take On Me - Aha *
- The Power of Love - Huey Lewis and the News
- This Charming Man - The Smiths
- Tiny Dancer - Elton John
- Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles *
- Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
- You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon *
- You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi
Fifties/Sixties
- Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
- Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Andy Williams
- Day Tripper - The Beatles
- Daydream Believer - the Monkees
- Drive My Car - The Beatles
- Hard to Handle - Otis Redding/Black Crowes
- Help - The Beatles
- Hey Jude - The Beatles
- I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
- I'm a Believer - The Monkees (Smash Mouth version)
- Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
- Jumping Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
- My Generation - The Who
- Proud Mary - Tina Turner Version
- Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
- Stand By Me - Ben E. King
- Twist And Shout - The Beatles
- You Really Got Me - The Kinks
Acoustic set songs (not limited to)
- Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell/Counting Crows
- Boys Of Summer - Don Henley
- Can't Find My Way Home - Steve Winwood
- Don't Let Me Down - The Beatles
- Fire & Rain - James Taylor
- Free Fallin - Tom Petty/John Mayer
- Harvest Moon - Neil Young
- I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
- Imitation Of Life - REM
- Jenny Don't Be Hasty - Paolo Nutini
- Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer
- Maneater - Hall & Oates
- Seven Days In Sunny June - Jamiroquai
- Stand By Me - Ben E. King
- The Ballad Of John & Yoko - The Beatles
- Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
- Tiny Dancer - Elton John
- When The Stars Go Blue - Ryan Adams