The London Steel Band - Steel Band

This modern and professional UK based steel band are available for hire with musicians based mainly in London, but with contacts to associate steel pan players throughout the country. They are a small family of musicians that spans 3 generations who all play at a professional level.

What also distinguishes them from other steel bands is that they can offer vocals and other instrumentation to play the diverse repertoire that you will see in the song list.

The band leader's father led one of the UK's first steel bands in the 1950's 20 years after the instruments were ‘invented’ in Trinidad.

There was no such thing as an all-acoustic 3-piece steel band even in Trinidad back then (with each band member exclusively playing a steel drum) and it hasn’t emerged anywhere else other than in Britain since either. 

 

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* only ever played as an instrumental with no vocals

21st Century Pop Covers

  • Happy - Pharell Williams
  • Rude - Magic!
  • Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
  • Stay With Me - Sam Smith
  • Get Lucky - Daft Punk
  • All About That Bass - Megan Trainor
  • Rather Be - Clean Bandit
  • If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys
  • Like Glue* - Sean Paul
  • Make You Feel My Love - Adele/Bob Dylan
  • Hey Ya* - OutKast
  • Price Tag - Jessie J
  • Rolling In The Deep* - Adele
  • Smile - Lily Allen
  • I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
  • Someone Like You - Adele
  • Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
  • Turn Me On - Kevin Lyttle
  • Umbrella*Rihanna
  • Valerie - Amy Winehouse

Calypso, Soca & Island Songs

  • Bahia Girl - David Rudder
  • Ban Moin En Ti Bo - Traditional
  • Brown Girl In The Ring - Traditional/Boney M
  • Brown Skin Gal - Traditional
  • Dollar Whine - Colin Lucas
  • Don’t Stop The Carnival - Alan Price
  • Hot, Hot, Hot - Arrow
  • Island In The Sun - Harry Belafonte/Traditional
  • Jamaica Farewell - Harry Belafonte/Traditional
  • Linstead Market - Traditional
  • Mango Walk - Traditional
  • Obeah Wedding - Mighty Sparrow
  • Old Lady Walk A Mile - Lord Kitchener
  • Sloop John B - Traditional/The Beach Boys
  • Sly Mongoose - Traditional
  • St. Thomas* - Sonny Rollins
  • Sugar Bum Bum - Lord Kitchener
  • Under The Sea - Disney
  • Who Let the Dogs Out? - Anslem Douglas
  • Yellow Bird - Harry Belafonte/Traditional

Cuban & Brazilian Styles

  • Blue Bossa - Kenny Dorham
  • Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil) - Ary Barroso
  • Cachita - Rafael Hernández
  • Chan Chan - Buena Vista Social Club
  • Girl From Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto
  • Guantanamera - José Fernández
  • La Bamba - Ritchie Valens/Los Lobos
  • Lambada - Kaoma
  • Meditation - Antonio Carlos Jobim
  • Moliendo Café - Hugo Blanco
  • Never On Sunday - Melina Mercouri/Nana Mou...
  • Oye Como Va - Tito Puente/Santana
  • Peanut Vendor (El Manisero) - Moises Simons
  • Piel Canela - Bobby Capó
  • Quizás, Quizás, Quizás - Osvaldo Farrés
  • Samba De Orfeu - Luiz Bonfá
  • Sunny - Bobby Hebb
  • Sway - Dean Martin
  • Sweet And Gentle - Alan Dale
  • Tristeza - Astrud Gilberto

Pop & Soul Covers

  • Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers/Michael Jackson
  • And I Love Her - The Beatles
  • Breezin’* - George Benson
  • Dancing Queen* - Abba
  • Englishman In New York - Sting
  • Fields Of Gold - Sting/Eva Cassidy
  • Here, There And Everywhere - The Beatles
  • Imagine - John Lennon
  • Killing Me Softly* - Roberta Flack/Fugees
  • Lately - Stevie Wonder
  • Let It Be - The Beatles
  • Lovely Day - Bill Withers
  • My Girl - The Temptations
  • Spanish Harlem* - The Drifters/Aretha Franklin
  • Sunny - Bobby Hebb
  • The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
  • What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye
  • Yesterday - The Beatles
  • You Are The Sunshine Of - Stevie Wonder
  • You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon

Reggae & Ska

  • Englishman In New York - Sting
  • Help Me Make It Through - Gladys Knight/John Holt
  • I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
  • I Shot The Sheriff - Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • Israelites - Desmond Dekker
  • Jammin' - Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • Johnny Too Bad - Jimmy Cliff
  • Kingston Town - UB40
  • Monkey Man - Toots & The Maytals
  • Montego Bay - Freddie Notes & The Rudies
  • Mysterious Girl - Peter Andre
  • No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • One Love - Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • Red Red Wine - UB40
  • Rivers of Babylon - Boney M
  • Stir It Up - Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • Sweat (A La La La La Long) - Inner Circle
  • Three Little Birds - Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • Tide Is High - Blondie
  • Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley & The Wailers

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