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National Brass Band Championships
Saturday 29th September, 2007
International Conference Centre, Harrogate
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Big Twigge
19.03.2007, 17:55
Excellent, we're playing on the saturday! I do hope we'll be staying sat night for a beer or two!
Excellent, we're playing on the saturday! I do hope we'll be staying sat night for a beer or two!
Hope you will be up there Saturday night, you can buy your favourite Norfolk based players a drink!
super_sop
19.03.2007, 18:35
oh yes, we are Caroline!!!!
Roger Thorne
19.03.2007, 18:42
you can buy your favourite Norfolk based players a drink!
and a £34 Pizza!
:biggrin:
Big Twigge
19.03.2007, 18:47
Perfect - I'll start saving my beer and pizza money, although Chunky I'm pretty sure it's your round....
Ach Ive just found out we've a band practice at 7:30am on the Sat morning, no long lie, booo!
Crazysop
20.03.2007, 00:48
I cant wait! We've been weighing up accomodation etc tonight. So looking forward to it!!!!!
Anyone know when the test pieces will be announced?
hehe...band weekend away on my birthday :woo
Usually around the end of May/beginning of June. IIRC, in the last few years the announcement has been made in the last Bandsman of May.
Only 6 months to go folks.......our excellent chairman (£5 on Sunday will do fine for that!) has got our hotel all booked, travel down Fri evening, staying over Saturday then up the road Sunday to arrive home just in time for band practice (only joking about the last bit - I hope!).
and a £34 Pizza!
:biggrin:
Can I just point out that the £34 pizza was only down to one member of our band. Your comments are casting a slur over all of us other Cawston members Roger :wink:
Caroline with you being a student its always somebody elses round! :biggrin:
Can I just point out that the £34 pizza was only down to one member of our band. Your comments are casting a slur over all of us other Cawston members Roger :wink:
That's nothing. What about the £40 cocktail. Wasn't that a certain member of the Cawston clan too? ;):tongue:
That's nothing. What about the £40 cocktail. Wasn't that a certain member of the Cawston clan too? ;):tongue:
Ok guilty as charged our generousity knows no bounds! :wink:
Should be a busy weekend as I'm wagging in the 3rd and playing in the 2nd!
Just found out that the contest sec wants to do Harrogate and back in a day because of the finances. Don;t think he realises that its at least 3 hours from Anglesey and we are the first section on that weekend!
Should be a busy weekend as I'm wagging in the 3rd and playing in the 2nd!
Just found out that the contest sec wants to do Harrogate and back in a day because of the finances. Don't think he realises that its at least 3 hours from Anglesey and we are the first section on that weekend!
Your lucky! We're having to get 20 of the band's members a whole day off school so we can leave on friday morning, and then we'll not get back home till sunday night, it'll probably take about 9/10hrs to get to Harrogate from Campbeltown!!
Your lucky! We're having to get 20 of the band's members a whole day off school so we can leave on friday morning, and then we'll not get back home till sunday night, it'll probably take about 9/10hrs to get to Harrogate from Campbeltown!!
Know roughly how you feel - we HAVE to travel 5 1/2 hours for the area each way! We had to do it for Torquay and then I did it the following year in Dundee!
The adjudicators have been announced for the National Finals as:
Alan Hope & Lt Col. Chris Davis OBE
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Know roughly how you feel - we HAVE to travel 5 1/2 hours for the area each way! We had to do it for Torquay and then I did it the following year in Dundee!
Hello Mr Williams,
Remember me, we shared a 'few' pints in thte black horse in our time at Salford. You and me will be locking horns against eachother in the 3rd section!! It will be good to see you mate!
Keith (goodbye to love) Schroeter
Hello Mr Williams,
Remember me, we shared a 'few' pints in thte black horse in our time at Salford. You and me will be locking horns against eachother in the 3rd section!! It will be good to see you mate!
Keith (goodbye to love) Schroeter
Aaah, Mr Scrot.... Schroeter!
How could I forget Keith of Goodbye to Love fame, the person who managed to scare the whales off in Nova Scotia by puking all the way on the whale watching trip!
Good to hear from you, no doubt will share a few more pints in Harrogate (not too many as I'm playing on the Sunday!)
Results: courtesy 4barsrest
1. Middleton Band, Matthew Stringer, 9
2. Barton, Richard Evans, 17
3. Oldham Band (Lees), John Collins, 4
4. Camborne B, Alan Pope, 15
5. Matlock Band, Roger Jepson, 11
6. Dodworth Colliery MW, Eliot Darwin, 13
Soloist:
Rebecca Merritt, Flugel, Camborne B
Full Results courtesy of 4barsrest (http://www.4barsrest.com/news/detail.asp?id=6411)
1. Middleton Band, Matthew Stringer, 9, 185
2. Barton, Richard Evans, 17, 184
3. Oldham Band (Lees), John Collins, 4, 183
4. Camborne B, Alan Pope, 15, 182
5. Matlock Band, Roger Jepson, 11, 181
6. Dodworth Colliery MW, Eliot Darwin, 13, 180
7. Campbletown Brass, Craig Anderson, 18, 179
8. Thundersley Brass, Keith Schroeter, 16, 177
9. Eccleston Brass, Ian Bateson, 2, 176
10. Ripon City, Malcolm Dibb, 8, 175
11. Clifton and Lightcliffe, John Clay, 174
12. Wellington (Telford), Steve Curtis, 3, 173
13. Wotton and Districy Silver, Dennis Grant, 12, 172
14. Perthshire Brass, George Annan, 7, 171
15. Epsom & Ewell, Ted Howard, 6, 170
16. Llwydcoed, Alan Davies, 14, 169
17. Wem Jubilee, 5, 168
18. Porthaethwy Menai Bridge, Chris Williams, 10, 167
Soloist:
Rebecca Merritt, Flugel, Camborne B
Congratulations to the winners! :tup
Better luck next time to Roger & Wem... :(
towse1972
29.09.2007, 18:17
Well done Middleton.!!! Your time has come....
(Your adoring fan, Donna)
cornetgirl
29.09.2007, 19:17
Sorry Wem!!!!! I had no collapsing bongoes this year I'm afraid!
WELL DONE to Barton though - we played a stormer and everyone was really chuffed with performance and result! The rest of the band are somewhere in a pub in Harrogate still I think....!!!!
Rach x
Great result Barton - well done and keep up the good work!
Congratulations to the winners - didn;t get chance to hear any bands as I had to travel back to Anglesey to rehearse with beaumaris for the 2nd section.
All I will say about my performance is DOH!!!!!!! Taxi for one former conductor! Sorry Band - MY FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still, we've never made it to the Finals in the 3rd Section so I suppose it is our best result ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
notsosilentbob
30.09.2007, 13:36
Congratulations to Phil, Fred and all the gang at Middleton from Oldham Band (Lees). Delighted for a fellow North West band to win it if it wasnt to be us :clap:.
I heard quite a few performances but missed yours unfortunately. However, as I said to Fred yesterday, everyone who did hear it said it was the performance to beat so hats off and we hope you had a few of these last night :guiness.
Stuart
sparkling_quavers
30.09.2007, 17:06
Well done Middleton!
super_sop
30.09.2007, 17:25
Yes!!!!!
our best ever result at the third section finals!!!!
COME ON!!!
Anno Draconis
30.09.2007, 17:51
Thanks to everyone for their congratulations, and well done to Barton who by all accounts ran us very close indeed.
I'm sure I speak for the rest of the band when I say
YYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS! Come On! :woo :guiness
A Chuffed-to-bits Rep player (despite my hideous "bullfrog" pic on 4BR :mad: )
KMJ Recordings
30.09.2007, 17:57
A Chuffed-to-bits Rep player (despite my hideous "bullfrog" pic on 4BR :mad: )
Photos are just as revealing as mics when it comes to accuracy ;)
Anno Draconis
30.09.2007, 18:21
Photos are just as revealing as mics when it comes to accuracy ;)
Gee, thanks Keith! I probably ought to be insulted, but nothing's going to bring me down this weekend, not even Wales losing in the Rugby.
I think I should have had a word with Iwan Fox though, I'd have preferred them to crop me out of the photographic crime in question and leave Lou on her own! Maybe they're making up for using the winning group photo they took while I was still in the khazi.....:eek:
KMJ Recordings
30.09.2007, 18:23
Would I insult you? :D
I'd better get my invite to the aftershow party - I was unreachable when Fred rang me with the good news....we told you that you were good ;)
Back in sunny Perth after a good journey home, made far better time on a Sunday than a Friday night. Well done all the prizewinners, we were undone by our tendency to rush things a bit , particularly in the first movement.
Reckon that half of our band managed the biggest cheer of the day though, celebrating ever-so-slightly prematurely when second place went to band number SEVEN.......teen....
Oh, and our MD got his photo on 4BR - or at least his bottom half, clad in his tartan trousers.
sterlingsop
30.09.2007, 18:57
Well done Middleton!
Thanks for your congrats - we've had a brilliant weekend and I think it's fair to say there are some very sore heads today!!
Congratulations to all bands for this weekend, especially to Oldham Lees who came 3rd in our section. The Northwest have come up trumps with 2 out of 3 in the frame AGAIN! Well done Oldham :clap:
sterlingsop
30.09.2007, 18:58
Well done Middleton.!!! Your time has come....
(Your adoring fan, Donna)
Cheers Donna!! xx
Anno Draconis
30.09.2007, 19:15
Would I insult you? :D
No comment ;)
I'd better get my invite to the aftershow party - I was unreachable when Fred rang me with the good news....we told you that you were good ;)
I'd better get mine too; I kept hearing rumours of Bob having some champagne all weekend, but I haven't had a sniff of it yet!
Just realised that my previous post was my 1000th on tMP, so a momentous weekend all round :eek:
super_sop
30.09.2007, 19:29
May i add my congrats to Middleton. by all accounts a fantastic rendition of the piece.
well done indeed.:clap:
On a slightly sour note, i didn't get to hear any bands at the weekend. I point blank refuse to pay to go and listen to bands in my own section. especially after the amount of money it cost us all to get there, perhaps this is why the hall was so empty for the majority of the day? Points for another thread me thinks.:mad:
Again Congrats to all the prize winners at the weekend, especially the third section champions of Great Britain, Middleton Band:clap:
Thats Campbeltown home at last, nearly 11hrs on the coach and feeling rather fragile! 4am we got to bed this morn!
Well done to the prize winners, bit disappointed we were just out the top 6th but proud of how our kids played!
And I nailed my top Ds at the start of the piece as I was covering the EEb Bass fanfare part at the beginning! Not many pieces start with top Gs and Ds on BBb Bass!!!!!!!
And it was a fantastic game of 'BOGIES' whilst waiting for the results! :-)
Markbone
30.09.2007, 21:47
Just back in Campbeltown as Bb Bill says, really enjoyed the weekend in Harrogate! Well done to Middleton!
Crazysop
30.09.2007, 22:10
:bounce Woo Hoooooooo! :bounce
What a weekend!
Thanks for the congrats, well done all, only a point between each, close contest!
A Chuffed-to-bits Rep player (despite my hideous "bullfrog" pic on 4BR :mad: )
I was so chuffed to see our pics on 4BR, then I looked at it properly. OMG whats going on with my neck/cheek at all, had no idea it looked like that:eek: ???? He he he fame at last lol, they should have put your name on the pic too Andy-
Lou and Andy at Harrogate ( I want that one!) :biggrin:
Crazysop
30.09.2007, 22:22
just had a better look, its a bit of hair not a whopping big wrinkle!
no mexican wave but well done Jake for starting the Bogie wave made our day... not as good as the areas i may add but thanks everyone for their participation .... it broke the atmosphere lol
Anno Draconis
30.09.2007, 23:00
just had a better look, its a bit of hair not a whopping big wrinkle!
Me and you need a serious word about your new avatar :mad:
How was York?
Just a quick congrats to Campbeltown and to Matlock for their placings and plus of course, congrats to Middleton on their win.
I hope you all had headaches in the morning from the amount of beer consumed! :-)
Willie - you are a dirty stop out - 4am! Thats not like you at all! ;-)
Crazysop
30.09.2007, 23:45
Me and you need a serious word about your new avatar :mad:
How was York?
Mwa ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, ok I'll change it, just 4 u.
I would just like to say congratulations to Middleton Band on thier winning performance at the nationals. I would also like to congratulate Carl (I know he is no longer the MD sadly) because he has done an excellent job in getting Middleton as far as they have. I know when I was a member there Carl was a great MD.
I feel Carl should recieve some recognition - well done :biggrin:
x Yvonne x
Congratulations to Middleton and Oldham, pity we couldn't make it all 3 North West bands in the top 6 but we had a great time!
Was my birthday on Saturday and the band did me proud.........many sore heads Sunday morning at breakfast!!
Back in sunny Perth after a good journey home, made far better time on a Sunday than a Friday night. Well done all the prizewinners, we were undone by our tendency to rush things a bit , particularly in the first movement.
Reckon that half of our band managed the biggest cheer of the day though, celebrating ever-so-slightly prematurely when second place went to band number SEVEN.......teen....
Oh, and our MD got his photo on 4BR - or at least his bottom half, clad in his tartan trousers.
Seven...teen
I reckon I was the main offender, and that now probably ranks as my most embarrassing moment of all time!!:oops:
Good weekend though, just packing our bags for the bahamas! (playing over there!)
Well done to the winners, and everyone else. It was a great weekend. Pity the bandsmens tickets didn't allow us to watch the other bands... although I did manage to storm in to see Campbelltown free! I enjoyed their performance, although from where I was sitting the acoustics weren't very good. Good clean performance though... :clap:
McMaximus!!!
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