A band down my local does a cover of Ignition by R Kelly, and surprisingly it sounds good (better than the original).

 

Kinky Afro - Happy Mondays
I Am the Resurrection - The Stone Roses
She's Lost Control - Joy Division
The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie
Violently Happy - Bjork
That's Entertainmenet - The Jam
Not Like Everyone Else - The Kinks
Al Capone - Prince Buster

The list goes on.................

 

arctic monkeys sun goes down

oasis acquise/morning glory

green day when i come around

hard fi feltham is singing out

kooks she moves in her own way

green day waitng

 

Good call Bubba, Geno by Dexy's .. a proper crowd pleaser.. any Madness track usually gets the floor up too..even a Bob Marley track can be worked to suit.. Reggae is always a good thing to get the place dancing.think theres far too many pub bands doing the Grenday/Stereophonics/Kaisercheifs thing now its a bit passe'....

 

sleeper: 'inbetweener', or the shirehorses version: 'stupid bleeder'

Undertones: my perfect cousin.

 

supergrass : 'sun hits the sky'...best modern day keyboard solo EVER. ( apart from owt by Ray Manzarek of course )

 

Many years ago I was involved with a mobile disco. I asked the experienced guys how they decided which records to play and was told, "Look at the audience. Make a good duess at their average age and play what they listened to when they were between 16 and 21."

On that basis and your estimate of the likely audience age, you're looking at anything from early eighties onwards. I guess the biggest guitar based band around then were the Jam.

As others have suggested, good songs from earlier would go down well. Classic sixties stuff should go down well, too. Combine sixties and Jam and do "David Watts"!

"Summer of '69" (Bryan Adams) can go down well and give the band a chance to enjoy themselves.