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Funky Profiles – Undercover Superstars

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

Band Name: Undercover Superstars

Describe what you do in less than 10 words: Undercover singing act (waiters, guests, firemen) booked to surprise and entertain. (That was almost 10!)

Top tune you like to perform: ‘Dont Stop Me Now’ always works well as the begining is slow and often we do that bit from out of site so therefore the guests are thinking ‘where is this voice coming from!?’ then we burst out into view as the song gets going and as it’s a really high impact song, it gets everyone buzzing!

Favourite gig ever: There are so many amazing stories with this act. Because every gig we do involves a different scenario, we have out set scenarios but every event is different so it always involves a little thought. One gig I will be a waitress, the next I’ll be an Army Office! It’s so exciting! My favourite gig however would be one we did many years ago down in Torquay. I think this was actually one of our first events and it was just amazing to see the reaction from people. We had a waitress and a waiter who broke out into an argument half way through service, then after the waitress had stormed off our lovely waiter Tommy decided to make it up to the crowd by singing them a song. The show unfolded from there and we literally had people dancing on the tables. It was madness!

 

Best piece of advice you can think to give someone planning an event and booking an undercover act: Just to let your imagination run wild! There are so many possibilities of songs and scenarios, think outside the box and make your event different. We can help tailor make the scenario to your event but just give us as much information as you can on the timings/ the types of people at the event / what music you like or think would work well. It is so much fun to plan these gigs!

Tell us one performance you are looking forward to right now: It’s hard to talk about the events in advance as often we are the surprise element, so I don’t want to spoil any surprises by mentioning them however! We have a fantastic Wedding coming up where the Bride & Groom have really thought about the event and created something fantastic with us.

www.undercoversuperstars.com

Undercover Superstars Past Events

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

We are reminiscing about some of the wonderful events we have been involved in..take a look at a couple of the Undercover Superstar events..

A couple of years ago in December, our Undercover Superstars Rachael & Damien surprised a Natwest Lunch at Althorp House. Rachael had been working Undercover at the lunch as an events supervisor when all of a sudden a lost German walker came wandering into the room. All the guests were sat down enjoying their after dinner coffees in such a beautiful room, when in walks a man in muddy walking boots and a wooley hat! ‘Excuse me’ he announced in his strong German accent, ‘I am trying to find the Diana Memorial’. When Rachael explained that he was interupting a Natwest Lunch he burst into a rage complaining about how he couldn’t get a mortgage. The guests obviously found him quite humorous and one lady shouted out ‘Step into my office’ as she pointed towards her knee for him to sit on. After a lot of comotion, Rachael ushered him out the room and apologised for the disruption. Then suddenly out of no-where came a voice…’Toniiiight, I’m gonna have myself…a real good time’ and out bursts our German wonderer singing ‘Dont Stop Me Now’ as he runs around the room, pulling people off their chairs and dancing with them. After a lot of applause from the crowd, with Damien milking it with several bows, no one seemed to notice there was another song starting and then suddenly, Rachael burst through the door singing ‘Im So Excited’ by the Pointer Sisters. Everyone stayed on their feet and joined in dancing and singing, some even made it onto the tables! The guests were all so shocked that the event planner had now transformed into a dynamic performer and was now racing round the room belting out a disco track!
After Rachael had sung her song, both the singers announced they were actually the ‘Undercover Superstars’. The crowd joined in and sang along to a finale song of ‘Aint No Mountain High Enough’ and then were left to go back to their coffees. What an entertaining Tuesday afternoon lunch!

The above picture was taken at a recent wedding where we had the Chef, the Event Planner and the Waitress scenario.

At another event we hid three undercover superstars at a Military event, dressed as Military Police! Half way through the meal, three of our artistes interrupted the meal and announced that three people had illegally parked their vehicles (which just so happens to be a HUGE no-no in the military, and they just so happened to be the three top MPs there). The whole audience looked shocked that these three very important people had not parked in the appropriate place, and there was an embarrassed hush as they all got up to leave the room.
Before they made it to the door, all of a sudden, one of our undercover ‘officers’ whipped her beret off, shook her beautiful long blonde hair down her shoulders, and began to sing ‘Santa Baby’ (it was Christmas time)… the whole room went crazy as they realised she wasn’t actually an officer at all! The other two undercover ‘officers’ then burst into song, and before they all knew it everyone was on their feet partying away with our Undercover Superstars!

The great thing about the Undercover Superstars concept is that we can tailor make it to suit your event and ideas. We have our scenario templates we can use however every event is different and needs to be addressed individually. The same applies to song choices, whilst we have our standard ones that we offer, we can be very flexible with this. Often we are asked to learn a companies theme song which as you can imagine, goes down very well at their corporate parties.

Take a look at the website and please do contact us, even if just to brainstorm ideas on whether the Undercover Superstars are right for your event.

 

 

 

 

Undercover Superstars hi-jack B&Q!

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012

I wanted to write a little about what we got up to yesterday!! We were asked as the Undercover Superstars, to hi-jack a B&Q conference! It was great fun, and a really good example of the kind of thing Undercover Superstars can be used for…a corporate flash mob!

It was a super early morning – we had to arrive at 7a.m at the big B&Q head offices in Southampton (which meant leaving as early as 4.30am for some of our singers! Thats the time we usually get home from a gig, haha). 8 of our vocalists (including myself) turned up to an empty building, and began to rehearse our performance of ‘Our House’ by Crosby, Stills and Nash, which has been used on the B&Q adverts. We had a wonderful mix of singers, and we don’t often have so many booked on one event (generally it will just be 3 vocalists) so it was lovely to hear all the voices working so well together.

Once people started arriving to work we had to blend in. We were all dressed in ‘corporate casual’ wear, as this was the way everyone else dresses in the office. Its a huge estabolishment, so we were able to blend in without people wondering who we were.

Employees started to gather in the huge canteen/reception area – around 2000 of them! We placed ourselves around the room, scattered amongst the other employees, chatting away and pretending we’d been working there for years. The presentation started, which was a really interesting talk  (honestly – we all learnt loads!) about branding, and more specifically, B&Q’s branding and their plans for the next 2 years.

Towards the end of the presentation, the introduction to ‘Our House’ started playing over the PA, and suddenly Damien, one of our singers, jumped up out of the audience and started singing. Everyone seemed pretty shocked but they all had a huge smile on their faces! After the first verse, all 7 other vocalists stood up from wherever they were posted in the conference, and began to sing, making their way to the front of the room. Everyone reacted really well and all the employees were singing along, and waving their hands in the air!

It was great fun, and a really interesting experience seeing the inner workings of B&Q and how they run. They sure do have a fun work ethic, and their employees genuinely all seemed to love what they do. In fact, a lot of us were so inspired by their presentation, we forgot we were singers for a minute and were 100% B&Q employees, haha :)

Thanks to Contraband Events for getting us involved in this! And here’s a picture of us with Pudsy the bear!! (B&Q do a lot of charity work, so he was paying them a visit too!)

MIB Music Musicians performing for big name artistes…

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Our musicians have been up to all sorts lately! As well as rocking out at functions all over the country, they have been travelling the world performing as session musicians for some big name artistes…

I love the fact that our players have such fantastic careers elsewhere – its what makes our bands so great!

You’ve already seen our Lindsay & Russ with David Hasslehoff (or if you haven’t, scroll down to recent posts to see the video!), but check out a few of our other guys…

Tommy is still touring lots with Professor Green. Check him out here singing lead at the Radio 1 Big Weekend….

Our awesome MIB saxophonist Marco has been touring the UK with cheeky chappy Olly Murs…

MIB Guitarist Luke Higgins has been performing with Claire Maguire, who had hit single ‘Last Dance’ earlier this year. Check out this lovely acoustic performance featuring just the two of them…

Motown Supreme guitarist Sandy Buglass has been working with up and coming artiste ‘Florrie’, and has just been joined by Funkadelics drummer Chris Boot! Watch out for these guys, touring a lot this Summer.

Vinnie Lammi (percussionist for Live Loungers and drummer for MIB & Funkadelics) is off to Germany to perform with the lovely Mel B of the Spice Girls, and a selection of the MIB musicians are the in-house band for this weeks ‘London Rocks’ concert, performing with all the artistes including the awesome Kezi Silverstone and Steve Rodgers.

If you’re interested in booking our musicians as a session band for an originals artiste, check out our sister site, www.the77collective.com :)

Good times ahead we think!

Our latest naughty Singing Waiter Scenario Ideas

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

We’ve been doing all sorts of naughty Undercover Superstars scenarios lately – it seems like just lately all of our clients have decided they have their own ideas as to how it can work at their event (and rightly so too!), and they’ve really come up with some gems!!

There are soooo many I could write about which have been hilarious, but this one has to have been one of my favourites I think…

We hid three of our vocalists undercover at an army event. One played an ‘overly chatty’ waitress, and we had a male and female who were the ‘camp guard’. They were dressed in wonderful army outfits that were provided by the client, and entered the room in the middle of a fun ‘quiz’ that the guests were taking part in. The idea was that our two guards would interupt, and announce that some of the officers were illegally parked and had to move their cars immediately (which is very much frowned upon within the Army!). Our female Guard, who was played by the lovely Nadine, then whipped her beret off, let her hair down, and burst into a sassy version of ‘Santa Baby’ (this was at Xmas time!).
This was followed by the male guard, bursting into song, and then the waitress absolutely shocking everyone and bursting into song from the back of the room.

The show went down a storm, and was a massive talking point for the whole evening. To make it even funnier, the client who booked us hadn’t told a soul, and when things kicked off, he got a HUGE telling off from his boss, who thought that the camp guard really were going to ruin the party! LOL

We all had a proper giggle doing this one anyway. Its brilliant working towards a clients ideas because everyone has a different take on how it can work!

What would you do at your event? Undercover Firemen? A naughty secret singing guest? Or have you got any other ideas? We’d love to hear from you!

Undercover Superstars are up for Act of the Year – vote now!

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Well its safe to say we are brimming with pride in the MIB Music office today! Our very own Undercover Superstars have made it through to the finals of The Event Awards ‘Act of the Year’ category. Apparently this is one of the most prestigious awards the industry has to offer, so we’re very excited!

The winner is decided by votes online, so please help us out by voting here  – we need your votes!!

Sera xx