BandVolt for cover & wedding bands
For cover and wedding bands - setlists, bookings, and the fee
A wedding band is several setlists, a diary of bookings, and a fee that has to be split without a row. A covers band has the same problem on a Friday residency. BandVolt keeps the arrangements you actually play, the running order, the date, and the money in one workspace.
BandVolt is a workspace for cover bands and wedding bands. Each song keeps every version you upload - the key you moved it to, the medley, the shortened edit - and a setlist can point at the version that set uses, with key, BPM, lyrics, and time signature on screen in rehearsal. Ceremony, drinks, and evening sets are separate lists, linked to the booking on a shared calendar. Gig fees, deposits, and costs go in a ledger everyone can see. A free Electronic Press Kit gives couples, venues, and agents one link: bio, music, photos, videos, booking contact, and upcoming shows. A streaming playlist is still a fair way to learn the original record. BandVolt is where your arrangement lives. It is not a music-stand app or a sheet-music library. Basic is free; Premium is £9.99 a month for the whole band.
Your arrangement, not the original record
Learning a cover from the released recording is what a streaming playlist is good at. The moment the song changes key, becomes a medley, or loses a minute for the first dance, that playlist is rehearsing the wrong version. Upload your arrangement - a rehearsal recording or a bounce - as a version of the song. The setlist for that wedding points at that version, and playback puts key, BPM, lyrics, and time signature on screen.
Comments pin to the second on that recording, so a note about the key change or the cut stays on the take the band is learning. BandVolt does not record the rehearsal for you, and it does not show a chart on a music stand. A PDF chart can live on the song as a supporting file.
Ceremony, drinks, evening - and the date they belong to
Build a named setlist for each part of the day and link it to the booking. The same song can be one version in the ceremony set and another in the party set. When the couple changes the first dance, you edit the list once and every member sees it. Unreleased medleys and edits go in the set, which a streaming playlist cannot hold.
The booking itself is an event on the shared calendar: date, time, venue, the setlist, and files such as the running order or the stage plot. Flag it and it can show as an upcoming date on the band's free Electronic Press Kit. Send a couple or a venue a public link to a song, or on Premium a whole set's worth of audio as a collection, and they can press play with no account.
The fee, without the awkward meeting
Log the gig fee, the deposit, travel, and PA hire in one ledger, with the receipt on the entry and recurring costs such as rehearsal room rent. Everyone sees the same numbers, which is what makes splitting the fee arithmetic instead of an argument. There is a year summary when the books need to be looked at properly.
The band pays once. Basic is free with 10 workspace slots. Premium is £9.99 a month with 25 slots - about £2 each in a five-piece - not a seat fee per dep. Deps join as members. On Premium, someone who only needs a few songs can be invited as a Contributor or a Reviewer on those songs, without the rest of the workspace.
The features you will use most
- Setlists
A setlist that can point at the live arrangement rather than the album cut, carries unreleased songs, puts key, BPM, and lyrics in front of the band in rehearsal, and prints a numbered stage sheet when you need paper on the monitors.
- Schedule
Gigs, rehearsals, and studio time on one calendar every member can see - with the setlist and the tech rider attached to the event rather than buried in a chat thread.
- Version history
One song, every mix it has ever had, in chronological order. No more guessing whether the file in the chat is newer than the one in the shared drive.
- Timestamped feedback
Every note lands on the waveform at the second it is about, attached to the version it was written for - so "the verse feels off" becomes "1:47, the triplets are rushed" and the band can actually act on it.
- Finances
The band's money out of one person's spreadsheet and into a ledger everyone can open - income, expenses, receipts, recurring costs, and a year summary that settles the argument.
- Electronic Press Kit
Publish one public link for a promoter, a booker or a journalist: bio, featured tracks, photos, videos and booking contact. No website of your own needed.
Frequently asked questions
Can a wedding band keep ceremony, drinks, and evening sets separate?
Yes. Each part of the day is its own setlist, and each entry can use a specific version of a song. Link the setlists to the booking on the shared calendar so the band opens the event and sees the sets, the venue, and any files attached to it.
Should we stop using a streaming playlist to learn covers?
No. A playlist is a fair way to learn the original record. Use BandVolt for the arrangement you actually play - the key change, the medley, the edit - and for the running order, the booking, and the fee. Setlists are on the free tier.
Can a couple or a venue hear us without creating an account?
Yes. A public share link plays a song in the browser with no account, and you can revoke it. On Premium, a collection link does the same for an album or EP. The free Electronic Press Kit is a separate public page with bio, music, photos, videos, booking contact, and the shows you flag on the calendar.
Does BandVolt show sheet music on a stand?
No. Rehearsal playback shows key, BPM, lyrics, and time signature, and Print is a numbered list of song titles. Charts can be uploaded as PDF files on the song. A specialist music-stand app is the right tool for reading notation on stage.
Read more on this
- Spotify playlist vs a real rehearsal setlist Many bands rehearse to a Spotify playlist. Here is what it can't do - unreleased songs, live arrangements, keys and BPM - and what a purpose-built setlist tool does instead.
- The five-minute setlist How to build and share a setlist without the spreadsheet - sequencing a set that works, keeping the live arrangement rather than the album cut, printing a stage sheet, and keeping one current version everyone can see.
- Rehearse the live version, not the album cut BandVolt setlists can use any version of a song - album cut, extended live arrangement, or abridged edit - plus unreleased tracks no streaming playlist can hold.
- The gig nobody put in the calendar Half the band found out about the show from the venue's Instagram. A shared band calendar fixes the scheduling chaos that kills good bands.
- Splitting band income without the awkward meeting How bands actually split gig money - even splits, expenses-first, and points systems compared - plus why a shared ledger turns Sunday afternoon negotiations into a five-minute glance.
- What to put in a band EPK (and what promoters actually read) What to include in a band EPK, how promoters actually use one in the ninety seconds they give it, how to write the bio, and a checklist to run before you send the link.
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