Spanning 6 decades of music with a near endless repertoire, Phill Hood and The Exclamation have got you covered for all of your Rock, Top 40, Reggae, Retro, Folk, and Celtic needs! We are happy to tailor our set to your event whether it be an east coast kitchen party, 50’s themed sock hop, 80’s throwback night, 90’s alternative party, or a healthy mix of everything!
Notable Past Gigs:
- Toronto Festival of Beers 2011 and 2012
- Various Alexander Keith's Promo Events
- EMG Guinness World Record Holder - Longest Concert 2017
- Phill was a feature act for the International Astronomical Conference in 2015
- Members are also featured in international touring act, The Tartan Terrors
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We’ve just finished our honeymoon off grid and this is the first thing I’m doing with my cell service, because all week we’ve reminiscing about how incredible Phil, Emily, Jake, JW and Charlie were to play after our wedding reception. We had a 100 person wedding for an entire weekend and having these folks play after our reception was the definite highlight for us and our guests. Phil Hood and the Exclamation are very talented, very fun, very easy to work with, and always knew exactly what to play.
I, the bride, didn’t stop dancing all night. Neither did my husband. And neither did our guests. They played an array of tunes, from Tom Petty to Cotton Eyed Joe to a whole bunch of east coast/fiddle tunes. We loved every single song.
We also got three of the band member to play during our ceremony, and during our cocktail hour. It was PERFECT. They learned the song I walked down the aisle to, as well as our first dance song.
I really cannot recommend these folks highly enough.
Thank you so much for bringing so much magic to our wedding day, my friends.
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Phill Hood and the Exclamations played our wedding this past weekend. We seriously cannot say enough good things about them. The music was incredible - the guys are super talented and have a great repertoire! They were so, so easy to work with and very accomodating of our venue's permitted sound levels. They kept our dance floor going for hours (I - the bride - don't think I left the dancefloor once). Phill also played a beautiful acoustic set for us during the cocktail hour. They made our day.
We hired the band for our wedding in September and we couldn't have asked for a better experience. It was a Scottish-Canadian affair so the band tailored their set to provide a Celtic element that was perfect for the day (Phill wore his kilt too!). The music was fantastic and all our guests loved them. They played such a wide range of music that kept everyone dancing. They were also so fun and friendly, mingling and chatting with everyone during the breaks, that they felt like wedding guests themselves.
Throughout the planning for the wedding, Phill was so friendly and professional. He was always very quick to respond to all our questions and requests.
We would highly recommend Phill Hood and the Exclamation for weddings, or indeed any event!
Phil Hood and the Exclamation played our wedding in August 2018. They were absolutely incredible, and completely made the night. They have such a wide repertoire, and seemed to be able to take any request that was given. They were also so friendly to everyone, and very professional to deal with. They arrived early to set up, to make sure everything sounded just right.
I also can't say enough about how great they were to work with in advance of the night. They respond so quickly to emails, and were always able to answer any questions we had.
If you are thinking of booking them for any sort of venue, I can definitely say that you will not be disappointed. Their sound is incredible.
Thanks again to you all.
Jamie and Kayla-Wray
Phill Hood and the Exclamation played at my dad's 70th birthday party in Hamilton this November 2017, and we couldn't have picked a better band! They had an amazing repertoire of music, their energy is incredible and they had everyone dancing - young and old!
The staff at the venue loved the band too - literally, everyone commented on how great they sounded.
Thanks, Phill you guys made our night!
Lindsay
Phil and his band played at our outdoor private party and they were incredible. Phil answered my emails right away and was very helpful making the experience great. All of our guests loved their music and they chose songs that paired perfectly with our theme. I highly recommend them and will book them next year for our event too!!
My husband and I met Phill Hood at a local pub back in 2012 (on one of our first dates!)- and we both saved his card because we were so blown away by his talent. When we got engaged in 2015, we both still had Phill's card in our wallets and he was the first person we called for our back-yard engagement party. Phill played for our intimate group of 60 friends and family members in our backyard and everyone went crazy! They all told us that they have never heard such an amazing musician! He was so kind, accommodating and down to earth, and everyone was in love with him and his musical talents. We actually had neighbours knocking on our door for weeks asking who was playing the beautiful music! After our engagement party (June of 2015), we acted quick to make sure that we booked Phill Hood for our wedding in October of 2016. We had Phill and his band mate Jarred present at our ceremony (prelude music and all ceremonial music), cocktail hour and for dinner. Following dinner, we had the whole Phill Hood and the Exclamation band play for the rest of the evening (until 3am!). All I can say is that our guests are still talking about our music and how fun our wedding was! Everyone was on the dance floor (I don't think I saw one person sitting!) Their energy lit up our whole venue.
Phill is professional, understanding of your needs/wants, and such a pleasure to work with. He was amazing to work with and I can not wait to have another event, so that I can hire him again!
Thank you to Phill Hood and the Exclamation for making my wedding day so incredible, you rock!!
I've seen Phill Hood and the Exclamation at many venues and events, and they always put on a unique, energetic and exciting show. The breadth of their experience and stage dynamic means you'll get personality, skill and heart with every song, whether it's an original, a trad celtic tune, or a classic cover that they breathe new life into. Each member is a vocalist/multi-instrumentalist, making every show fresh and their set list limitless. I've worked with them in the past and would happily again. Not only do they bring a stellar live show, but they are professional, thorough, attentive throughout the booking process, and always aware of the venue or clients needs. In my many years in the music industry, I've yet to meet a fellow musician or venue with a bad word to say about these gents. Phill Hood and the Exclamation sets the bar high, has a great stage presence and is packed with incredible talent. Absolutely hire these fellas. You won't be disappointed.
Price Range: Contact for rates
Gig Length: 45 - 360 minutes
Languages: English
What Phill Hood and the Exclamation can guarantee you:
- Professional Attitude
- Full |Sound System Backline (by request) and professional equipment
- 10 + hour repertoire spanning 7 decades! (50's Sock Hop anyone?)
- Solo - 5 piece band formats with the option to include a fiddle for East Coast Kitchen Parties, trad sessions, etc..
- Guitar and Fiddle instrumentals for Ceremonies and cocktail hour
- Many genres of music covered including Top 40, Rock, Reggae, Country, Rockabilly, Celtic, Folk, etc...
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Phill is an award-winning singer/songwriter and international touring artist from St. John”s, Newfoundland. Since moving to Toronto in 2003, he has been blessed to have shared the stage with many of the city”s most talented musicians! Having grown up in rugged Newfoundland, Phill was exposed to Celtic music and culture at a very early age, but did not truly embrace it until he left his homeland to study music in Toronto and started to miss the sounds that reminded him most of home. Having honed his craft in many a dark pub, Phill quickly found himself in a network of similar minded musicians as he began to craft a sound deep rooted classic rock, power pop, with subtle maritime and Celtic roots.
Phill's full outfit, "The Exclamation" bring the songs to full capacity with an energy unmatched and driven by the raw desire to make powerful music!
With soaring guitar leads, virtuoso fiddling, a tight rhythm section, and every voice carrying each song in perfect harmony, you get a 5 piece band that sounds like 10!
Whether you're looking for a classic rock throwback, an East Coast kitchen party, or a night of back to back Dance tunes and radio hits, we've got you covered! We love to take requests and exercise our 10+ hour repertoire, so let us replace the jukebox and help you take the party where ever you may want it to go!
All packages include sound and lighting equipment provided by the band.
We utilize a 32 channel digital board, a pair of yorkville FOH speakers, subwoofer, and stage monitors for the band so that we can cater to the volume requirements for any sized venue! We have aux inputs to connect phones/computers to our system for audio playback, and 2 members of the band are also experienced sound techs, so we'll take care of all the A/V work for you so that you don't have to worry about it!
| July 15, 2023 • 6:00pm - 10:00pm | Wedding Reception |
| June 24, 2017–June 25, 2017 • 8:00pm - 1:00am | Wedding Reception |
Phill Hood and The Exclamation Repertoire
The Allman Brothers Midnight Rider
Amy Winehouse Valerie
Aviici Wake me Up
Avril Lavigne Complicated
Barenaked Ladies Brian Wilson
Barenaked Ladies Old Apartment
Barenaked Ladies (Bruce Cockburn) Lovers in a Dangerous Time
Big Star Ballad of El Goodo
Black Keys Lonely Boy
Black Keys Gold on the Ceiling
Blink 182 All the Small Things
Blink 182 Dammit
Boston Peace of Mind
Brian Setzer Jump, Jive and Wail
Cee Lo Green F*** You
Chuck Berry Johnny B. Goode
Danny and the Juniors At the Hop
Dolly Parton Jolene
Don Henley Boys of Summer
Eve 6 Inside Out
Mumford and Sons Little Lion man
Mumford and Sons I will wait
Mumford and Sons The Cave
Neil Diamond Sweet Caroline
Sublime What I got
Sublime Santeria
Sublime Smoke 2 joints
Sublime Badfish
Garth Brooks Friends in Low Places
Green Day When I come around
Green Day Basket Case
Green Day Time of your life
Led Zeppelin Hey Hey What can I do (I've got a woman)
Pearl Jam Better man
Harvey Danger Flagpole Sitta
RHCP Under the bridge
Pink Floyd Another Brick in the wall
Doobie Brothers Long Train Running
Rolling Stones Jumpin Jack Flash
CCR Have you ever seen the rain
CCR Up Around the Bend
CCR Proud Mary
CCR Bad Moon Rising
Chumbawamba Tub Thumping
Tom Petty Free fallin' (E Major)
Tom Petty Learning to fly
Tom Petty I won't back down
Tom Petty Yer so bad
Tom Petty Last Dance with Mary Jane
Tom Petty Running Down a Dream
Tom Petty You don't know how it feels
Tom Petty The Waiting
Tom Petty American Girl
Tragically Hip Ahead by a Century
Tragically Hip Bobcaygeon
Tragically Hip Wheat Kings
Tragically Hip Courage
Tragically Hip New Orleans is sinking
Supertramp Give a Little Bit
Great Big Sea Old Black Rum
Great Big Sea When I'm Up
Great Big Sea Lukey
Great Big Sea Billy Pedal
Great Big Sea The night Paddy murphy died
Great Big Sea Going up
Great Big Sea Run Run Away
Great Big Sea Ordinary Day
Great Big Sea The Recruiting Seargent
Fastball The Way
Fleetwood Mac Go your own way (D Major)
Fleetwood Mac The Chain
Fleetwood Mac Dreams
Eric Clapton Layla
Elle King Exs and Ohs
Bob Dylan All along the watchtower
CSNY Ohio
Neil Young Old Man
Neil Young Heart of gold
Neil Young Hey Hey My My
Neil Young Helpless
Neil Young Keep on Rockin in the Free World
Neil Young Harvest Moon
Bad Company Feel Like Making Love
Beatles I want to hold your hand
Beatles Drive my car
Beatles All my loving
Beatles She loves you
Beatles I want to hold your hand
Beatles help
Beatles Hey Jude
Beatles Get back
Beatles dear prudence
Beatles back in the ussr
Beatles A day in the life
Beatles Something
Beatles Golden Slumbers Medly
Beatles With a little help from my friends
Beatles blackbird
Beatles and your bird can sing
Beatles I'm only sleeping
Beatles Nowhere Man
Beatles Taxman
Beatles You've got to hide your love away
The Monkees I'm a believer
The Band The Weight
The Band Ophelia
The Band The shape I'm in
Bruce Springsteen I'm going down
Bruce Springsteen I'm on fire
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen Radio Nowhere
Bruce Springsteen Dancing in the Dark
Bryan Adams Cuts like a knife
Bryan Adams Summer of 69
Bryan Adams Run to you
The Eagles Hotel California
The Eagles Take it Easy
Cheap Trick Surrender
Cheap Trick I want you to want me
Dropkick Murphys Kiss me I'm Sh*tfaced
Dropkick Murphys Shipping up to Boston
Eddie Cochrane Summertime Blues
Styx Come sail Away
Crowded House Hey Now
Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight
Ed Sheeran Thinking out loud
Foo Fighters Everlong
Gnarls Barkley Crazy
George Michaels Faith
Michael Jackson Billy Jean
The Jacksons Blame it on the boogie
The Jackson 5 I want you back
Journey Anyway you want it (C Major)
Journey Don't stop Believing (A Major)
The Penguins Earth Angel
Queen Crazy Little Thing Called Love
U2 With or Without You
U2 Where the streets have no name
U2 Pride (In the name of Love)
U2 One
The Who Baba O'Reilly
The Who Pinball Wizard
The Who Squeezebox
Buddy Holly Oh Boy
Buddy Holly Rave on
Weezer Island in the Sun
Weezer Buddy Holly
Weezer Say it ain't so
Weezer Pork and Beans
Weezer My name is Jonas
Weezer El Scorcho
Weezer Buddy Holly
Weezer The World has turned and left me here
Jimmy Eat World A Praise Chorus
Jimmy Eat World The Middle
Jimmy Eat World Hear you me
John Cougar Meloncamp Hurts so Good
Kings of Leon Use Somebody
Lynard Skynard Simple Man
Lynard Synard Freebird
Lynard Synard Sweet Home Alabama
Free Alright now
Rihanna We Found Love
Steve Milller Band Rockin me Baby
Steve Milller Band The Joker
Steve Milller Band Fly like an eagle
The Cars Just what I needed
Bob Marley Could you be loved
Bob Marley Redemption Song
Bedouin Soundclash When the night feels my song
Broken Bells Holding on for life
Keith Urban Somebody Like You
The Killers All these things that I've done
The Killers Mr. Brightside
The Killers When you were young
Radiohead High and Dry
Radiohead Karma Police
Third Eye Blind Semi Charmed Life
Blind Melon No Rain
Semisonic Closing time
Semisonic Singing in my sleep
Oasis Wonderwall
Oasis Don't look back in anger
Oasis Champagne supernova
Oasis Morning Glory
Otis Redding Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
Marcy Playground Sex and Candy
Men at Work Land Down Under
Toto Africa
Toto Hold the Line
Bon Jovi Living on a Prayer (A minor)
Bon Jovi Dead or Alive
AC/DC Shook me all night long
Paul Simon Me and Julio
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall
The Police message in a bottle
The Police Roxanne (B minor)
Peter Gabriel In your Eyes
Ther Proclaimers 500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be)
Rick Springfield Jesse's Girl
Duran Duran Hungry like the wolf
Old Crow Medicine Show Wagon Wheel
The Lumineers Ho Hey
Dire Straits Walk of Life
MGMT Kids
Taylor Swift Trouble (A Major)
The Cure Just like Heaven
The Cure Friday I'm in love
The smiths bigmouth strikes again
The smiths there is a light that will never go out
The Buggles Video killed the radio star (G Major)
Spirit of the West Home for a rest
Spirit of the West If Venice is Sinking
Steelers Wheel Stuck in the Middle with you
The Turtles Happy Together
Matt Good Band Hello Time Bomb
Our Lady Peace Clumsy
Tom Cochrane Life is a Highway (G Major)
Tom Cochrane and Red Rider Big League
Three Dog Night Joy to the World (A Major)
Stray Cats Stray cat strut
Stray Cats Rock this town
Gene Vincent Double talkin baby
Elvis Presley Hound Dog
Little Richard Long tall sally
Leonard Cohen Halleluia
Rush Limelight
Tommy James and the Shondells Crimson and Clover
Thrush Hermit Before you leave (C Major)
Joel Plaskett Work out fine
Sloan Everything you've done wrong
Stompin Tom Connors Farewell to Nova Scotia
The Fables Heave Away
Daft Punk Get Lucky
The Smashing Pumpkins Tonight Tonight
The Smashing Pumpkins Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Steve Earle Copperhead Road
Steve Earle Galway Girl
Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash Jackson
Johnny Cash Ring of Fire
John Denver Country Roads
Elton John Tiny Dancer
The Waterboys Fisherman’s Blues
Arcade Fire Rebellion Lies (B Major)
Arcade Fire Keep the Car Running (D Major)
The Outfield Your Love (G Major)
Eddie Money Two Tickets to Paradise
Eddie Money Take me Home tonight (F Major)
Goo Goo Dolls Slide (A Major)
Goo Goo Dolls Iris
Collective Soul December
Collective Soul The World I know
Magic Rude (C Major)
John Mayer Trio Good Love is on the Way
RHCP Under The Bridge
Ryan Adams Gimme Something Good
Alanis Morrisette Ironic (D Major)
Deep Blue Something Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Fables Heave Away
The Pogues Fairytale of New York
The Pogues Streams of Whiskey
The Pogues Dirty Old Town
Van Morrison Brown Eyed Girl
Van Morrison Caravan
Van Morrison It Stoned me
Walk the Moon Shut up and Dance
Wintersleep Weighty Ghost
Traditional Irish/Scottish
Leaving of Liverpool
Come out ye Black and Tans
Wild Rover
Irish Rover
Star of the County Down
Mountain Dew
Whisky in a Jar
I’ll Tell me Ma
Molly Malone
Fields of Athenry
Loch Lomand
Wild Mountain Thyme
and an assortment of traditional fiddle tunes!
and many more!!
2 outlets and a stage. We'll provide the rest!
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