Maddi & The Dreamers

Everything you hear from this Brisbane band is played live. No backing tracks, no laptop filling in the gaps, and a sound engineer comes with them so someone is actually mixing the room rather than hoping the levels hold. The stage lighting gets set to your reception colours. They're musicians with day jobs who keep doing this because they want to, and it shows in how they handle a night: speeches, rain delays, a formality running twenty minutes late, all absorbed without fuss. The repertoire runs past 120 songs, pop through rock through dance floor staples, and a typical show is three to four hours built to climb. Softer material while people arrive and eat, then Dua Lipa and Chappell Roan once the floor fills, then the nostalgic rock and pop to finish. They bring PA and lighting for rooms up to about 300.