The one work do your peopleactually turn up to, and remember. Connect The Vibe, private soul and R&B parties for companies.
Private soul and R&B parties for companies. Planned, staffed and run, end to end.
Every work party is the same. Forced fun, half the room gone by 9.
We throw the one they'll remember, done end to end, with a short report on how it landed.
No icebreakers. No name badges. No one thanking everyone at 7:45.
The best December dates go through the summer. Founding rate for the first 3 clients.
No pitch, no deck, no slide about synergy.
The guarantee: a full, buzzing room, or we make it right.
No hard sell.
The music
What it is. What it isn't.
No Sweet Caroline. No Mr Brightside. No Wonderwall. None of the wedding-DJ cheese.
What it isn't
The cheesy corporate-disco singalong everyone has sat through.
What it is
Soul and R&B, Motown, disco, funk, soulful house, classic UK garage and old-school reggae. Proper music people actually feel.
Why now
The timing is now.
In 2026, if it's not worth turning up for, they won't.
Four things are moving at the same time. That is not usually the case.
In-person is back
85% of event professionals expect their budgets to rise in 2026, and cost per head is up about 6%.
Source: Amex GBT 2026 Global Meetings & Events Forecast
Budgets are up, and scrutinised
Event spend is up, but finance wants every night to justify itself. That is why we hand you the How It Landed report, an honest read on whether it actually worked.
Source: Amex GBT 2026 Global Meetings & Events Forecast
Engagement is on the floor
Only around 1 in 10 UK staff report being fully engaged, yet highly engaged teams are 23% more profitable and see up to 43% lower staff turnover. The annual do carries more weight than it used to, and getting it wrong is expensive.
Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025; Q12 meta-analysis
Soul and R&B is having a moment
Sold-out day-parties, RnB Lovers packing arenas, soul back in the charts. The music your 25 to 65 crowd already wants is having a real cultural moment.
Built by an operator who spent a decade carrying an enterprise sales number, President's Club at Zoom.
Why I built this
Charlie Hurley
Founder. Enterprise sales operator. Came up as a soul and R&B DJ, now curates the nights.
Grown-up music, grown-up companies.
Built by someone who has lived both sides of the room. A decade carrying an enterprise sales number, and years earlier coming up as a soul and R&B DJ around the live and festival scene. The music, the DJs and the network are genuinely mine, not hired in for a website.
Years carrying an enterprise number
Enterprise revenue closed
DJ and artist network, curated not booked
For over ten years I carried a target in enterprise software at Zoom, Agora and Hofy, President's Club at Zoom, and sat through every kind of work party going. Alongside it I came up DJing soul and R&B, and spent years in the live and festival scene.
Two worlds, one obvious gap. Nobody was pointing festival-grade DJs and this exact music at a company crowd who would properly turn out for it.
I don't play these nights myself. I curate them, bring in the DJs and artists I have known for years, and direct the whole thing for you.
Connect The Vibe is the party I always wanted a company to throw. So we throw it for them.
The offer
One product. Two audiences.
For your people, and the people they do business with.
For People and Culture.
Team nights, The Green Room
The internal night that fills the room and holds it. A retention tool that your team enjoys, not endures.
For Marketing, Brand and Events.
Client nights, The Guest List
A private night for the accounts you already have and the ones you want next. No pitching, no stage, no panel. Real time in a room they were pleased to be in.
Whichever room it is, the mechanism is the same. One night, built around the crowd actually in it.
We don't throw events. We connect the room.
We are not any of the usual options.
Buyers ask what we are instead of, so here it is straight.
We win when the goal is the best night your people or clients will actually turn up to.
Hear the sound
Warm room. Grown crowd. The records that raised them.
Motown and soul, disco and funk, R&B, old-school reggae and lovers rock, and classic UK garage. The records a grown crowd knows every word to.
Mood and atmosphere. Real event photography follows from the founding clients.
What people say
Endorsed by the people who fill these rooms.
Founding clients · 2026
New, and honest about it.
The first three clients get a founding rate in exchange for photos and a reference. The named quotes below are from operators and artists who have worked with Charlie directly.
"I've DJ'd at Garage Nation, Kisstory and a lot of big events. Most focus on the crowd, not the connection. What Charlie is doing is different. He understands how to bring the right people together and create an environment where conversations actually happen naturally. You can feel that straight away."
DJ Frenchy
Garage Nation · Kisstory
"I've known Charlie for a long time and he's always understood people and energy. That ability to bring people together in the right way is what creates real connection, and it's clear that's what he's built this around."
Lemar
Recording Artist
Well-connected across the UK R&B, garage and soul scene, with long-standing relationships with artists, DJs and the communities around them.
Pricing at a glance
Start with one night. See how it lands.
All-in pricing. One number covers venue, food, drink, festival-grade DJs, production, a delivery lead on the night and the How It Landed report.
Most teams start with a single edition. If it lands, book the year as The Residency.
One night, the easy first step
The Session
Up to 50 guests.
From £18k
The intimate room. DJ-led, done for you, all-in.
The Social
Up to 100 guests.
From £25k
The one most teams start with. Festival-grade DJ, full production.
The Main Event
Up to 200 guests.
From £50k
The big room. Bigger production, room for a live performer.
Or the full year, The Residency
The Residency
Four nights a year. Your mix.
Your four editions for the year, built to your calendar from the three sizes above, in whatever mix fits. Every Residency includes at least one flagship: a Main Event done properly, or for a smaller firm their biggest night done up, with a named or multiple live acts on top.
The price is the sum of the four editions you choose. Billed per edition on a quarterly rhythm, not a lump sum.
From £100k
Most Residencies land £120k to £180k a year. Named headline acts quoted on top.
The proof
Every party ends in the How It Landed report.
A short, honest read on how the night actually landed. Not a highlight reel. Back within 5 working days.
Illustrative example, not real client data.
The business case
The bit your finance team will want.
Forgettable is expensive. We do the other thing.
This is not new budget. It is the money you already spend on the Christmas do, summer social, client entertaining and kickoffs, most of it forgettable. The Residency consolidates that into one partner, cheaper than piecemeal: a produced 200-person corporate event on the open market runs £60k to £100k-plus with agency fees on top, so four nights for £100k is a discount.
The Green Room, team night
Bought by People and Culture, or the founder. The return is retention and engagement.
- Replacing one UK employee costs about £30,000 on average, and £40,000 to £100,000 for a senior finance, tech or specialist role.
- Highly engaged teams see up to 43% lower staff turnover (Gallup).
- Only 10% of UK employees are engaged. The other 90% are not, and disengagement costs the UK economy an estimated £257bn a year.
Keep one senior person who would have walked and the year has paid for itself, before any engagement value.
The Guest List, client night
Bought by Marketing, BD or the client-owning partner. The return is client relationships.
- Retaining a client is 5 to 25 times cheaper than winning a new one.
- A 5% lift in retention adds 25 to 95% to profit.
- More than 8 in 10 executives prefer face-to-face for building stronger business relationships (Forbes Insights).
- One key account in finance, recruitment or an agency is worth £100k to £1m-plus a year.
Keep or win back one key account and it is worth many times what the year costs.
The honest limit, both lanes: no attribution. We do not promise pipeline or a measured return. The proof is the How It Landed report: turnout, energy, feedback and a would-recommend score. That honesty is what makes the case credible. See the full maths on the pricing page.
Not ready yet?
See it work before you commit.
We'll send the first How It Landed write-ups from the founding client nights the moment they're published. Turnout, stay-rate, feedback in their words. The proof, before you book a thing.
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Start the conversation
Right, shall we sort your party out.
Send the details and get a plan and a price back within 48 hours. Book a call only if you want one to lock it in.
A plan and a price within 48 hours, no obligation. Founding rate for the first three clients. Full-room guarantee, deposit-funded, balance on delivery, so the risk sits with us, not you.