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North London Brass and our friends, Grays Town Band, combining this evening to play ITV's 'Text Santa' live Christmas Eve show with Ant & Dec, Holly Willoughby and backing Beverley Knight with her...

Hello Ben

North London Brass is an innovative and expanding network of bands based in the northern suburbs. We currently run local bands in four locations:

- NLB Edmonton (N9) on Monday...

Thanks for your encouragement, Wherryman, and you do make a fair point, only I think you misunderstand my motivation both for the work I do and for having posed the original question. It's not a...

I don't quite get your drift, but if you mean do I get paid for running North London Brass, then the answer is yes, in theory, or at least I might do if we ever make a profit. I am a professional...

Wherryman, thanks, but I'm not sure how easy it is to define 'ordinary' brass band management, though I accept that we are quite unusual.

It seems that there are many variations to the model...

Generally, no-one with official responsibility at our band pays subs. Indeed, if they are professional musicians involved in conducting, teaching and mentoring, it is usual for us to pay them. If...

One of my band colleagues had a similar problem with his cornet - after much debate and testing, we discovered a tiny hole had opened up in part of the tubing, at a joint, which we only spotted as we...

To answer that, Dave, we only run for 40 subs-paying weeks a year and about half of our members are junior players (who attend free) or are people who play just orchestral rather than brass band,...

That's interesting, thanks. Travel costs certainly are a significant factor for some bands.

Firstly, we (North London Brass) only play and rehearse within a relatively small geographical in North...

Great discussion, so far. Thanks, everyone. Some useful insights being gained.

With regard to the instruments, at our band we do currently charge a nominal hire fee as this is the only way we can...

I'd like to offer and open up for discussion an opinion that brass band members' subscriptions in the UK are, in general, unrealistically low and out of line with membership fees expected for...

PS - North Londoner: There's a London Gay Orchestra?[/QUOTE]

Yep. Here's a link to their website: http://www.lgso.org.uk/

It looks really interesting, but I can't join as I'm not gay enough ......

Such rancour! Now I hardly dare mention our next project for 2012, which was going to be male voice choir... erm

Thanks for your encouragement, nook1938.

The process of advertising started yesterday when I started this thread on tMP, posted it on Twitter and Facebook and sent an email to everyone in our...

Well, I'm now sorely tempted announce the formation a complementary, men-only brass band ('Twenty-eight Mates', perhaps?) if only to keep this fascinating discussion rolling ;)

But seriously, I...

I think you're right, Hobgoblin, or at least in the sense that it would be wrong if we were forming just one single band, but Twenty-seven Sisters will be just one of the bands in our North London...

No harm in having a laugh, but North London Brass started utterly from scratch in January 2010, we now have over 150 musicians rehearsing with us each week over three brass bands, symphony orchestra,...

Yes, Ian Roberts, we are now in the 21st Century. Your, no doubt, good-humoured observation is typical of the comments that inspired North London Brass to launch a band where female musicians can...

North London Brass is launching a new 100% female, traditional British brass band to be based in London N14 from 3 February 2012.

North London Brass (NLB) operates a network of thriving, mixed...

North London Brass is launching a new 100% female, traditional British brass band to be based in London N14 from 3 February 2012.

North London Brass (NLB) operates a network of thriving, mixed...

Hello, Ayrton. It looks as if you're based in Guernsey, which will probably make my response less than helpful to you, but if you're working in the London area or if there are any other aspiring...

Please can you help us spread the word about our new, traditional brass band, NLB Muswell Hill, launching on Wednesday evenings in London N10 from 15 June 2011.

This new Muswell Hill band is part...

Aha! I'd bet that uniform looked even better on you, Alan!

Thanks very much. Hope all's well with your band too.

Regards

Martyn

Oops, and I meant to add 'please feel welcome to PM me or to email me on martyn@fourhillsltd.com'

North London Brass is launching a new brass band in Edmonton on 14 March 2011 to rehearse weekly on Monday evenings at St Peter's Church, Bounces Road, Edmonton N9 8JP.

NLB Edmonton is accessible...