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Frequently-Asked Questions

Does John Travel?

Yes John is more than happy to travel Nationwide. All gigs are priced at a local rate and reasonable travel costs are applied when appropriate.

What does John play?

Sample lists of songs that John performs are available below - John has a broad repertoire of songs and is happy to work with you to completely tailor make your day/event.

Are you available on our event date?

Please feel free to contact John to discuss your date; note that Saturdays - particularly those in the Summer - and Holidays are often booked out a year or more in advance.

Do you take requests?

Yes. John has a broad repertoire of songs and is happy to work with you to completely tailor make your day/event.

Do you use backing tracks?

John is a vocalist and guitar player. In order to recreate that big band sound he uses high quality professionally recorded backing tracks to compliment his talents.

Are you able to play outside?

Yes, but this is Ireland and the weather will always be a factor as electrical equipment is used.

Can you play during the day?

John is a full time professional entertainer and can play events at any time of the day or night. John is always happy to accommodate the individual needs of every customer and work with them to achieve their perfect day.

How can we pay and do you need a deposit?

You can pay by cash, cheque, PAYPAL or online transfer. A €100 deposit is required to secure bookings. An email is then sent to confirm the booking and how and when the outstanding fee should be paid.

Can you provide other band options?

Yes. John can provide 3,4 and 5 piece band options for any event.

Packages including larger bands and additional entertainers can be arranged. Package costs can be spread out and paid by instalments. Special deals for off season and mid-week available. Contact us for details, and be sure to check out our specific Singing Chef website for further information.

Set Lists

John provides a wide selection of music to cater for all tastes; check out some of his sample set lists below.


Sample 80s & 90s Songs

  • Turning Japanese
    The Vapors
  • Hold me now
    Thompson twins
  • Town Called Malice
    The Jam
  • I Fought The Law
    The Clash
  • Rat Trap
    Boomtown Rats
  • Land Down Under
    Land Down Under
  • Wonderwall
    Oasis
  • Faith
    George Michael
  • Oliver’s Army
    Elvis Costello
  • TRUE
    Spandau Ballet
  • Happy Hour
    The Housemartins
  • Going Underground
    The Jam
  • Video Killed The Radio Star
    The Buggles
  • Blister In The Sun
    Violent Femmes
  • All night long
    Lionel Richie
  • Watching The Detectives
    Elvis Costello
  • Ask
    The Smiths
  • House Of Fun
    Madness
  • Come On Eileen
    Dexy's Midnight Runners
  • Walking On Sunshine
    Catriona and the Waves
  • Centrefold
    J Geils Band
  • Friday I’m In Love
    The Cure
  • Can’t Hurry Love
    Phil Collins
  • With or without you
    U2
  • In between Days
    The Cure
  • Just can’t get enough
    Depeche Mode
  • Lip Up Fatty
    Bad Manners
  • Here Comes Your Man
    The Pixies
  • Is She Really Going Out With Him
    Joe Jackson
  • Sit Down
    James

Sample 90s & 2000s Songs

  • Losing My Religion
    R.E.M.
  • Don't Look Back In Anger
    Oasis
  • Fall At Your Feet
    Crowded House
  • Weather With You
    Crowded House
  • Save Tonight
    Eagle eye Cherry
  • The Bends
    Radiohead
  • Breaking The Girl
    Red Hot Chilli Pappers
  • Talking About A Revolution
    Tracy Chapman
  • Everybody's Changing
    Keane
  • Have A Nice Day
    The Stereophonics
  • Babylon
    David Gray
  • Whistle For The Choir
    The Fratellis
  • High And Dry
    Radiohead
  • Keep It All In
    Beautiful South
  • Karma Police
    Radiohead
  • Man On The Moon
    R.E.M
  • Maybe Tomorrow
    The Stereophonics
  • Float On
    Modest Mouse
  • I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio
    The Stereophonics
  • Big Sur
    The Thrills
  • Free Falling
    Tom Petty
  • Don't Go
    Hothouse Flowers
  • Dosed
    Red Hot Chilli Pappers
  • Knocking On Heavens Door
    Guns and Roses

Sample Country Songs

  • Dance The Night Away
    The Mavericks
  • Bad Moon Rising
    Credence Clearwater Revival
  • Peaceful Easy Feeling
    Eagles
  • Jackson
    Johnny Cash
  • Walking In Memphis
    Marc Cohen
  • Act Naturally
    Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
  • Ring Of Fire
    Johnny Cash
  • Ain't going down till the sun comes up
    Garth Brooks
  • Forever And Ever Amen
    Randy Travis
  • Past The Point Of Rescue
    Mick Hanly
  • Lying Eyes
    Eagles
  • Folsom Prison Blues
    Johnny Cash
  • Thunder Road
    Garth Brooks
  • Ruby
    Kenny Rogers
  • Country Roads
    John Denver
  • The Gambler
    Kenny Rogers
  • Standing outside the fire
    Garth Brooks
  • Wagon Wheel
    Darius Rucker
  • The Galway girl
    Mundy
  • Friends In Low Places
    Garth Brooks

Sample Good Time Songs

  • My Way
    Frank Sinatra
  • American Pie
    Don McLean
  • Delilah
    Tom Jones
  • Rhinestone Cowboy
    Glen Campbell
  • Maggie May
    Rod Stewart
  • Lay Down Sally
    Eric Clapton
  • Let Your Love Flow
    Bellamy Brothers
  • Saturday Night At The Movies
    The Drifters
  • Crazy Little Thing Called Love
    Queen
  • Mrs Robinson
    Simon and Garfunkel
  • Is this the way to Amarillo
    Tony Christie
  • Bright Side Of The Road
    Van Morrison
  • Sugar Sugar
    The Archies
  • Build me up Buttercup
    The Foundatations
  • Make Me An Island
    Joe Dolan
  • Not Unusual
    Tom Jones
  • Take It Easy
    Eagles
  • Things
    Bobby Darin
  • Hurt So Good
    John Mellencamp
  • Sweet Caroline
    Neil Diamond
  • Concrete And Clay
    Unit Four plus Two
  • Good Looking Woman
    Joe Dolan
  • Help Yourself
    Tom Jones
  • Call Me Al
    Paul Simon
  • Make Me An Island
    Joe Dolan
  • Stuck In The Middle
    Steelers Wheel
  • 500 Miles
    The Proclaimers
  • Crackling Rose
    Neil Diamond
  • Make Me Smile
    Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebel
  • Rocking All Over The World
    Status Quo

Sample Irish Songs

  • The Fields Of Athenry
    Paddy Reilly
  • Don't Go
    Hothouse Flowers
  • Whiskey In The Jar
    Thin Lizzy
  • Brewing Up A Storm
    The Stunning
  • Sally Maclennane
    The Pogues
  • Irish Rover
    The Pogues and The Dubliners
  • N17
    The Sawdoctors
  • July
    Mundy
  • Galway Girl
    Sharon Shannon and Mundy
  • Saints And Sinners
    Paddy Casey
  • Fiesta
    The Pogues
  • Whole Of The Moon
    The Waterboys
  • Hills Of Donegal
    Goats Don't Shave
  • Used to Love Her
    The Sawdoctors
  • Dirty Old Town
    The Pogues
  • Wild Rover
    Traditional
  • Fisherman's Blues
    The Waterboys

Sample Modern Songs

  • Are You Ready For Love
    Elton John
  • Lego House
    Ed Sheeran
  • Fill My Little World
    The Feeling
  • Times Like These
    Foo Fighters
  • This Love
    Maroon 5
  • Last Night
    The Strokes
  • Lonely Boy
    Black Keys
  • When You Were Young
    The Killers
  • I Gotta Feeling
    Black eyed peas
  • Hey Brother
    Avicii
  • Day We Caught The Train
    Ocean Colour Scene
  • Learn to Fly
    Foo Fighters
  • In The Morning
    Razorlght
  • Little Lion Man
    Mumford and Sons
  • Sex On Fire
    Kings of Leon
  • Let Me Entertain You
    Robbie Williams
  • Little Lion Man
    Mumford and Sons
  • Jerk It Out
    Caesars
  • Don't Stop Believing
    Journey
  • When We Collide
    Matt Cardle
  • She Moves In Her Own Way
    The Kooks
  • We Are Young
    Fun
  • Get Lucky
    Daft Punk
  • Dani California
    Red Hot Chilli Peppers
  • Locked Out Of Heaven
    Bruno Mars
  • Spitting Games
    Snow Patrol
  • Wheels
    Foo Fighters
  • Riptide
    Vance Joy
  • Human
    The Killers
  • Jenny don't be hasty
    Paolo Nutini

Sample Old Time Songs

  • One Day At A Time
    Margo
  • Old Flames
    Foster and Allen
  • The Galway Shawl
    Traditional
  • Streets Of New York
    Wolfe Tones
  • Red Rose Café
    The Fureys
  • Wild Colonial Boy
    Traditional
  • Where Do You Go To My Lovely
    Peter Sarstedt
  • Spancil Hill
    Traditional
  • Grace
    Jim McCann
  • Molly Malone
    Traditional
  • Black Velvet Band
    Traditional
  • Streets of London
    Ralph McTell

Sample Rock Songs

  • Hotel California
    The Eagles
  • Rocking All Over The World
    Status Quo
  • Superstition
    Stevie Wonder
  • My Sharona
    The Knack
  • Don't Stop Believing
    Journey
  • Born To Run
    Bruce Springsteen
  • My Generation
    The Who
  • Life In The Fast Lane
    Eagles
  • Jumping Jack Flash
    The Rolling Stones
  • Summer Of 69
    Bryan Adams
  • Living on a Prayer
    Bon Jovi
  • Brewing Up A Storm
    The Stunning
  • Satisfaction
    The Rolling Stones
  • Dancing In The Moonlight
    Thin Lizzy
  • Jessie's Girl
    Rick Springfield
  • The Boys Are Back In Town
    Thin Lizzy

Sample Rock & Roll Songs

  • Rock Around The Clock
    Bill Haley
  • Mrs Robinson
    Simon and Garfunkel
  • Crocodile Rock
    Elton John
  • Me And Julio
    Simon and Garfunkel
  • Rave On
    Buddy Holly
  • Saw Her Standing There
    The Beatles
  • La Bamba
    Richie Valens
  • Hard Day’s Night
    The Beatles
  • Shake Your Tail feather
    Ray Charles
  • Twist And Shout
    The Beatles
  • Jailhouse Rock
    Elvis Presley
  • Do You Love Me
    The Tremelos
  • Great Balls Of Fire
    Gerry Lee Lewis
  • Reet Petite
    Jackie Wilson
  • Shake Rattle And Roll
    Bill Haley
  • Oh Boy
    Buddy Holly
  • Burning Love
    Elvis Presley
  • All shook up
    Elvis Presley
  • Hucklebuck
    Brendan Bowyer
  • Day Tripper
    The Beatles
  • Back In The U.S.S.R
    The Beatles
  • Rocking Robyn
    Jackson 5
  • Houndog
    Elvis Presley
  • Twist Again
    Chubby Checker
  • Never Can Tell
    Chuck Berry
  • The Young Ones
    Cliff Richard
  • Runaway
    Del Shannon
  • Return To Sender
    Elvis Presley
  • Please Please Me
    The Beatles
  • Hold Your Hand
    The Beatles

Sample Slow Songs

  • Stuck On You
    Lionel Richie
  • Fields Of Gold
    Sting
  • Make You Feel My Love
    Bob Dylan/Adele
  • In My Place
    Coldplay
  • Chasing Cars
    Snow Patrol
  • One
    U2
  • The A Team
    Ed Sheeran
  • The Voyage
    Christy Moore
  • If Tomorrow Never Comes
    Garth Brooks
  • Heaven
    Bryan Adams
  • With Or Without You
    U2
  • Baby Can I Hold Your Tonight
    Tracy Chapman/Boyzone
  • Angels
    Robbie Williams
  • Cannonball
    Damien Rice
  • Man Who Can't Be Moved
    The Script
  • Crazy Love
    Van Morrison
  • Romeo And Juliet
    Dire Straits
  • Beneath You're Beautiful
    Labrinth
  • First Cut Is The Deepest
    Cat Stevens/Rod Stewart
  • Lucky Man
    The Verve
  • Stuck In A Moment
    U2
  • Yellow
    Coldplay
  • Your Song
    Elton John
  • You Got A Friend
    James Taylor
  • Wonderful Tonight
    Eric Clapton
  • Lego House
    Ed Sheeran
  • Alison
    Elvis Costello
  • Better
    Tom Baxter
  • Run
    Snow Patrol
  • Handbags And Gladrags
    Rod Stewart/The Stereophonics