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I saw Grimethorpe a couple of years ago at a concert in Worthing - you know what? THEY HAD UNREGISTERED PLAYERS ON STAGE! This is awful! We the concert going public expect to see the band that won...

Band from Norway in a lower section suggests otherwise!

@Philip (or indeed any other adjuducators on here) - could you give an opinion on the point made earlier that adjudicators might be influenced by markings on the score? (Musical markings, not "Hey...

slightly off the topic but related: I have asked the question also of my local association who have a rule that the score should be an unmarked copy - which by definition is going to have to mean a...

Saw this today on facebook and am in -I love the musical concept and the crowdfunding method to get there.

I have to also congratulate the Adjudicator whose on stage comments for the first set of results were the best I have heard in a long while - real explanations as to what he thought was good and not...

But one visits you daily so perhaps you can ask - although would a RMN know this sort of thing?

I have from time to time been prescribed beta blockers for a neurological problem - are you saying @james that would prohibit me from taking part in a band contest?
What about people on steroids for...

Congratulations - nice to see a band coming back!

All the time this registry exists it will be used to keep people OFF the contest stage. It's still a pig no matter how much lipstick you put on it.
I play in 2 bands and periodically conduct other...

Mike, the national contest registry by default already excludes people who don't contest nationally so it is incomplete data already!
On the other point, have you never wondered how you get so much...

As far as the band disbanding issues is concerned, I was actually describing an issue that a central registry failed to control - yet that is ostensibly what it was there to do! Having a registry...

Not at all - but I wasn't the one shouting and disrespectfully spelling out my opinion. You have got to accept that there are opinions which differ to yours which not make the person any less mindful...

I'd have to agree with Bayerd - the triggers were a major step forward in improving intonation.
The next great innovation for me were Vincent Bach mouthpieces - and the demise of the awful Kosicup!...

That could be achieved with a voluntary and free membership group- dead easy to achieve on the Internet. If all we want to do is know how many bands and players there are.

Sorry, but the person here not getting the simple concept is yourself. No other organisation that gets Arts Council goes through this charade of registering their individual members!

And please...

@Matt you seem to have a fixation about the health of the movement - this is really very simple: the health of the brass band movement is measure by the number of bands that are able to exist and...

Nope, no mistake in my reasoning - the health of banding is measured by the number of people playing in bands not the number of people registered to play in contests. The number of people in bands...

And you don't think that is already happening now? Just look at the number of posts/press releases saying "x band are pleased to have signed 5 new players for the forthcoming regional contest" - and...

Not forgetting Black 7 White nos 1 & 2 - both have wartime songs in there. And whilst written afterwards, you could justify The Dambuters, A Bridge Too Far and the Luftwaffe March from Battle of...

Matt, the point about the scratch band is they did it within the rules. All the members left their original band to go contesting with the new band - the registration helped them not one iota and...

They did - his spokesperson simply said in repsonse to a text to him saying "Thatcher is dead", he responded with "Scargill is alive!"

Ok, as supporting Mr Baker's comments isn't enough for you and as you ask so nicely:


It's a non contest as far as national Gradings are concerned
It's isolated to a specific geography of the...

It's a poor example as it is a totally different kind of contest. Fortunately, Andrew Baker has written a far more eloquent response than I could right now.

@Mike,
You accuse the Daily Mail mentality of tarring all benefit claimants with the same "scrounger" brush whilst doing the same thing yourself about the more well off! I am fortunate enough to be...