National Championships of Great Britain - Qualifying Bands - Second Section

[Di]

National Brass Band Championships

Sunday 30th September, 2007

International Conference Centre, Harrogate

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[Chunky]

Could somebody please confirm the date for the 2nd section. According to 4 barsrest classified http://www.4barsrest.com/classifieds/concerts_detail.asp?id=2563 the 2nd section is on the Saturday!

[Owen S]

Could somebody please confirm the date for the 2nd section. According to 4 barsrest classified http://www.4barsrest.com/classifieds/concerts_detail.asp?id=2563 the 2nd section is on the Saturday!
According to the announcement on the Kapitol website, the 2nd section is on the Sunday afternoon.
Link (http://www.kapitol.co.uk/news.php)

I notice that the 4barsrest classifieds also list the regionals pieces as the set music.

See you there Chunky.

[Chunky]

According to the announcement on the Kapitol website, the 2nd section is on the Sunday afternoon.
Link (http://www.kapitol.co.uk/news.php)

I notice that the 4barsrest classifieds also list the regionals pieces as the set music.

See you there Chunky.


Cheers for that Owen. And yes see you there!

[BigHorn]

I'm so jealous, our band convincingly beat 4 of the 2nd section finalist bands at Butlins only a couple of months ago. :mad:
Missed out yet again by one place - coming 3rd for the last 3 years. It should have been us - Sulk :(

[Chunky]

I'm so jealous, our band convincingly beat 4 of the 2nd section finalist bands at Butlins only a couple of months ago. :mad:
Missed out yet again by one place - coming 3rd for the last 3 years. It should have been us - Sulk :(

So sorry BigHorn! Would not swap our Butlins result for the result at area under any circumstance!

[Owen S]

I'm so jealous, our band convincingly beat 4 of the 2nd section finalist bands at Butlins only a couple of months ago. :mad:
Missed out yet again by one place - coming 3rd for the last 3 years. It should have been us - Sulk :(
Well, if it's any consolation, we took the area performance we were capable of on stage at Stevenage last Saturday, but we left the Butlins performance we were capable of in Staines bandroom on the Thursday night before.

Good luck next year.

[Lotta]

Anyone know when the Finals Test pieces are announced?

:)

[Di]

Usually around the end of May/beginning of June. :)

[Chunky]

Usually around the end of May/beginning of June. :)

That long to wait :rolleyes: Hotel is booked, coach is booked, all we are waiting for is the piece now!

[Di]

The judges have been announced for the National Finals:

Colin Hardy & Philip Harper

http://www.kapitol.co.uk/

[postie]

Results from 4 bars rest:

1. Newbridge (Celynen), Paul Holland, 3, 189
2. Beaumaris B, Gwyn Evans, 8, 186
3. Phoenix West Midlands Brass, David Maplestone, 13, 184
4. Wakefield Metropolitan, Norman Law, 10, 183
5. Kippax, Alan Morrison, 16, 181
6. Wardle and Anderson District Brass, Sean Conway, 2, 180

Soloist: Euph, Nigel Thomas, Newbridge

[Griffis]

Fantastic result for Welsh banding, and well done to all my friends at both Newbridge and Beaumaris!

P.S. Remember Iwan, no unscheduled stops on the way home ;)

[dyl]

Da iawn Cymru!

At least Welsh banding is in a better state than Welsh rugby! ;)

[mutedropper]

Congratulations to Newbridge and Beaumaris

[hellraiser]

Da iawn Cymru!

At least Welsh banding is in a better state than Welsh rugby! ;)

indeed!
da iawn beaumaris a newbridge

[iancwilx]

indeed!
da iawn beaumaris a newbridge

What's "*&^{~#|><\+>" in Welsh ?

Seriously; heartiest congratulations to the Welsh Bands, a well deserved triumph.
Did our Yorkshire beer agree with you ?
(Even if snooty Harrogate bums up the prices)
- Wilkie
(Kippax)

[dyl]

What's "*&^{~#|><\+>" in Welsh ?
"*&^{~#|><\+>gogogoch"

[stopher]

WAHEY!!!!! Well chuffed with 2nd with Beaumaris yesterday. Bit of a late one last night and have given up teaching today - its keyboard and headphone lessons via distance learning!

Congratulations to Newbridge and Iwan (will never hear the end of it from him now!

Plus at least Welsh Rugby has improved immediatley now that Gyppo Jenkins has had the boot! It was like having George W Bush as head coach the rubbish he was spouting!

[iancwilx]

"*&^{~#|><\+>gogogoch"

Ha! Ha! - LOL
I should have guessed that shouldn't I ??
- Wilkie

[beckyboop]

Congratulations to all at Newbridge, you have some fantastic players round the stand, and I believe some excellent new players (well done Eb instrument players)!
Well done to all the other prize winners too!

[no2taz]

Fantastic result for Welsh banding, and well done to all my friends at both Newbridge and Beaumaris!

P.S. Remember Iwan, no unscheduled stops on the way home ;)

LOL nice one Dewi I can report that we did not have any unscheduled stops on the way home this year. However Iwan was repeatedly trumping out the trombone part along with the CD following the Curry house last night lol

Had to drive home with the windows open lol hehe ....

A great weekend for Welsh banding. looking forward to Burry port this weekend now

[no2taz]

Well done Beaumaris and all the other bands who competed this weekend.

[Keith Lewis]

Well done to all the bands especially Newbridge:clap:.

We had a fab time and 7th was a reasonable result.

A special thanks must go to the stage-crew of the contest as a mobile phone went off in the third movement of our performance:frown: This is the second contest in a row we have had a techinical interruption to our performance, perhaps we must have really upset someone, somewhere??;)

[flashbarry]

Congratulations to all the bands who performed Tocatta, Elegy and Scherzo this weekend, especially Newbridge.

Hope you enjoyed working on it.

Good luck to those of you who move upto the first section, hope you enjoy working on James Cook Circumnavigator!!

Best wishes,

[no2taz]

Congratulations to all the bands who performed Tocatta, Elegy and Scherzo this weekend, especially Newbridge.

Hope you enjoyed working on it.

Good luck to those of you who move upto the first section, hope you enjoy working on James Cook Circumnavigator!!

Best wishes,

Thank you we did enjoy working on th piece and we hope it showed in our performance.

Thank you for a great work.