Refrain Productions
Refrain Productions brings together five interactive shows, performed by professional musicians. Here are the questions organisers ask us most often before confirming a date: the running order, the technical requirements and the administration. If your question isn't here, write to us and we will reply quickly.
Our crew arrives several hours early to set up sound, lighting and screens. The evening opens with a proper live concert. Then the audience joins in from their phones: they sing, play, vote or request songs, depending on the format you choose.
One continuous set with no interval, which we fit around the schedule of your event: meal, speeches, awards. We adapt the timing to your programme, not the other way round.
Between two and five, depending on the format and budget. The line-up is shown on each show page and agreed with you in our proposal.
No, and that's the whole point. Our musicians are on stage to accompany, guide and put everyone at ease. Nerves disappear within seconds, and most participants ask to go again.
No. Everything runs in the phone's browser, with no installation and no account to create: just scan and play. Our crew brings its own network, so the venue's connection isn't needed.
Yes, when accompanied by an adult. For safety reasons, they never go on stage alone.
Both. In our quiz and contest formats, team mode is the best way to bring people together at a seminar or staff event; playing solo still works well for a passing crowd.
Yes. Our bands' repertoire covers nine languages, from the 1950s to today, and the evening can also be hosted in English or Spanish.
Yes. A few additions are included free of charge to suit your audience or your company; beyond that, the preparation work by our musicians is costed in the proposal.
Yes. All five of our bands share the same technology and the same pool of musicians, so a quiz over aperitifs followed by a live karaoke after dinner runs as a single, seamless evening.
Guiding you is what we do. Depending on your audience, your venue and the moment in the evening, we'll recommend whichever of our five bands will work best, and we'll tell you frankly if another format would suit you better.
A stage area, a power supply and, for outdoor events, a fallback option in case of rain. Our crew brings everything else.
Yes, our bands are fully self-sufficient: sound, lighting, screens, control desk and network. If your venue is already equipped, our technicians will adapt to it.
A minimum of six metres by four, or ten by six for the full line-up with screens.
Between an hour and a half and three hours, depending on the scale of the set-up, plus the get-out at the end of the evening. We agree these time slots with the venue in advance.
Yes, weather permitting. An indoor room or covered shelter as a fallback is essential: our bands' equipment can't be used in the rain.
As loud as you want it, and never deafening by default. Sound limiter, neighbours, local authority restrictions: tell us your constraints and our musicians will work around them.
No. The system runs on our own local network, even in a marquee or a venue with no mobile signal.
A stage manager from our team always travels with the band: they set up, run the technical side during the show and pack everything away afterwards. You have a single point of contact on site, and the musicians can stay focused on the stage.
Our artists' salaries and social charges, transport, equipment, set-up and breakdown, the live performance and the background music between sets. We also take care of all the administration: booking, assignment contract and employment contracts.
Both. We can issue an invoice, or handle a GUSO declaration for occasional employers such as town halls and associations. We discuss this from our very first conversation, before anything is signed.
A fully costed proposal that includes all charges, followed by a contract signed in duplicate. There are no hidden costs to discover afterwards.
Your date is safe. We rely on a permanent team and a network of musicians who are well versed in the same repertoire, so a replacement is handled in-house, without affecting your evening and at no extra cost to you.
Every proposal is priced to order, based on the format, the number of musicians, the size of the audience and the distance. Tell us your budget and we will be honest about what is possible.
The organiser does. Copyright fees are not social charges, so they are not part of the assignment agreement: they must be declared to the local SACEM office. Private events such as weddings, birthdays and family gatherings are exempt.
We are based in Occitanie and our bands perform throughout France, as well as in Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy and Spain. Travel, meal and accommodation costs are included in the proposal.
As soon as you know your date. Weekends from May to September and dates in December go first. We can hold a seven-day option on request, and the date becomes firm once the contract is signed.
Tell us your date and venue, and we will reply with a clear proposal and the band best suited to your event.
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