The band were booked for the wedding reception of my son and new wife.

The guys were brilliant, music was excellent, they were very smartly dressed and so pleasant to deal with.

From the initial booking of the event I was kept updated, the manager Gary responded straight away to any queries I had.

Overall a very professional band. I would not hesitate to recommend them.

Price wise, they were also one of the best and charged only half of what other bands quoted.

We were able to offer a 50% discount due to a cancellation on an adjacent date

Thank you Sarah Jane for the easy booking and cheerful responses to my endless pre-booking questions, and to Gary for providing perfect music for my father’s birthday. Lots of our guests commented on what fun it was to have calypso music. Gary is delightful. Thank you.

“After researching, reading endless reviews and talking personally to dozens of Caribbean Steel Drum bands, we decided to book Steelasophical… They didn’t disappoint, they were professional, entertaining and overall amazing. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Steelasophical to any future clients.”

Naomie (Wedding Planner)

Simon 10/10

Thank you for arranging the music for us. We had a wonderful day.

Lizz 10/10

Great music, with lovely musicians! Thank you.

Jess 10/10

Brilliant – everyone commented how great the duo were. Many thanks- definitely book again in the future.

Nathan 10/10

Caribbean Steel were excellent and everyone at our corporate summer party loved the music, would highly recommend them.

Samantha 10/10

The band were booked for the wedding reception of my son and new wife. The guys were brilliant, music was excellent, they were very smartly dressed and so pleasant to deal with. From the initial booking of the event I was kept updated, the manager Gary responded straight away to any queries I had. Overall a very professional band. I would not hesitate to recommend them. Price wise, they were also one of the best and charged only half of what other bands quoted.

Arlene Dixon 10/10

I would like to say how much the band was enjoyed. Extremely positive feedback from the attendees of the function. Please pass on our thanks and feedback to the band.

Julie 10/10

Hi Gary and Kush, I hope you are both well. I would just like to say a massive thank you to you both for coming along and performing at our Sports Awards last week. You were great and the audience loved it! I have attached a picture for you that was taken on the night. Kind regards and a huge thanks again!

Cally Cardines Project Officer (Sportivate)

ARC Music Production International 

International selling artist Gary Trotman with music selling in over 42 countries worldwide

This is a World record company specialising in authentic, roots, traditional music from virtually every country in the world. After listing to an concept album of mine called PanBrassOrama, they trusted in Steelasophical to award recording contracts which resulted in the production of 2 of the very best selling and most popular Caribbean Steeldrum albums ever!

Selling world-wide in over 42 countries and available through every major music reseller (including iTunes, Amazon, HMV, Sony Music). The first album was realised in Nov 1999, and to this day retains its high retail price, where others have been deleted from catalogues or have had their prices slashed to medium / low due to falling sales 

Martin Young, Come dine with me winner. 

Gary Trotman as seen on TV with a winning musical entertainment performance on this iconic TV food show.

“I was chosen to appear on c4 come dine with me in April. It was a Caribbean theme evening and I thought what better way to entertain than to have a steel band. Gary was amazing. It was like we were really in Barbados. I honestly believe that it was because of his amazing performance that I went on to win.”

Thank you so much Gary

After your wedding day … our Steelpan band / DJ will not provide any further services after the wedding has finished, unlike a photographer for example who will have to edit your photos and put them into an album. It can be really useful for for other brides to hear about your experiences with your Steelpan band / DJ and if you get a moment, you should definitely leave a testimonial about your Steelpan band / DJ on an independent review site: free index, Google reviews, Facebook, trip advisor, etc.

Drop your Steelpan band / DJ an email and asks if they have a preferred platform for this. If you have any feedback about the services provided then it can be really helpful for the Steelpan band / DJ to know what you thought was really good and if there were any improvements that you could think of, or any areas where you felt the services was not as good as you expected.

Gary Trotman is renowned for the pictures and videos he takes during many of his performances

Steelasophical Steelpan Dj | Lighting

For Toni & Callum wedding we provided lighting fx, uplighting and large LOVE lettering

Music Choice Selection

We know that your mother in law probably wont share your passion for heavy metal, indie folk, fidget house, garage or jump up drum and bass.

This is where our skill and musical knowledge comes into play.

Our talented steelpan players and Dj specialise in making beautiful pan versions of songs that were never meant to be performed on a steelpan. You will love the cool tropical flava covers, your friends will love them too …!!

We will hunt out killer floor fillers, discover amazing remixes and find the best way of performing the music you love at your wedding or party

That would be great, thank you so much. 

We thought it would be nice to support a local band in Nottingham but it’s not turned out very well – their correspondence has been terrible so lost confidence in them but have now decided it’s not worth the risk especially if it’s both afternoon and evening entertainment and on our wedding day – losing the deposit is fine – they only requested £55 as we booked 18 months in advanced. 

We understand you would want 40% deposit which would be fine – We’ve watched a lot of your youtube videos and read your reviews 🙂 

Kind regards

Oxford Brookes Freshers Ball

Steelband+Dj+Lighting

Steelband (Solo | Duo | Trio | Fouro)

Caribbean Mobile Dj

Lighting and FX

PA Hire

Steelasophical Steel Band Core Repertoire List

SAMPLE REPERTOIRE

Somewhere over the Rainbow – (IZ Tropical Version & Acoustic)
Under the sea
Lorraine – Soca
Blue Bossa
Ole Lday Walk A Mile and a Half .. and She Dingolay – Calypso
Besame Muchos – Bosa
Guantanamera – Bossa Nova
Girl From Ipanema – Bossa nova
Island In The Sun – Traditional
Lady In Red – Ballad
Lady In Red – Reggae
Never on a Sunday -Cha Cha
Sloop John B – POP
Spanish Eyes – POP
Yellow Bird – Traditional
Oh Happy Day – Gospel
Yesterday – POP & Acoustic Versions
Autumn Leaves – Bosa
Bermuda Triangle – Tropical POP
Feelings – Bolero
How Insensitive – Bossa Nova
Jamaica Farewell – Traditional – this is the song used in the James Bond Movie Casino Royale
Just The Two of Us – R&B
Let It be Me – bolero
Hello – POP
I Just Called – POP
I love You Because – Country and Western
Put Your Sweet lips – Country and Western
Quizas – Latin
Sway – Latin
Isnt She Lovely – POP
Lovely Day – POP
River of Babylon – POP
Rivers of Babylon – Soca
You Got a Friend – MOR
Summertime – Trad Jazz
When I Fall In Love – Smooth Jazz
Redemption Song – Reggae
No Woman No Cry – Reggae
One Love – Reggae
Sweat – Reggae
Red Red Wine – Reggae
The Tide is high – Reggae
Blue Moon – Reggae
Is This love – Reggae
Night Nurse – Reggae
Three Little Birds – Reggae
Lambada – Latin
Congaline – Soca
El Cumbancero – Soca
Dollar Whine – Soca
Hot Hot Hot – Soca
MarryAnne – Soca
Now That we’ve found Love – Soca
When the saints go marching in – Soca
Say Say – Soca
Sugar Bum Bum – Soca
Valtatee – Soca
Layla – Pop
Brown Girl In the Ring – Calypso
Brown Girl In the Ring – Soca
Byhia Girl – Soca
Mash It Up – Soca

RECENT ADDITIONS:

Hotel California – Reggae

Happy – Pharrell Williams

Get Lucky – Pharrell Williams

Message in a bottle

Oh Bla Di

Wonderwall

Mas que nada

Chan Chan

St. Thomas

Lovely Day

Lately

Samba de Orfeu

Valerie – Amy Winehouse (reggae)

Angels – Robbie Williams

All of me –  John Legend

Rainorama – Lord Kitchener

Samba de O

Like a star

Comandante Che Guevara

Another Star

Just the two of us

Just the way you are

Aint no sunshine

Street Life

Master Blaster

Agua de Beber

The Chicken

Mas Que Nada

Danza Kuduro

Clara Nunes Feira

Cano Estremera –  Part Time Lover – Salsa

Part Time Lover – Stevie Wonder

Turn Me On

Get Lucky

Shes Not There

How wonderful you are

Lately

Story of the blues

Sultans of swing

Diana

Walking by myself

Imagine – Lennon

Chok there – Apache Indian

They cant take that away from me

Ayer

El Cuarta de Tula

Monkey Man

Watermelon Man

Your first last everything

You’re 16

and more to come ….