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At that level the judges have to be hyper-critical of every little thing. A clipped note in the Open could cost you several places. I'd be surprised if every single band didn't have at least several criticisms levelled at them. All bands at that competition, regardless of placing, are extremely...

Thanks for your kind words :) We were pleased with our performance and more importantly our conductor was too! It's fun to be back in such a wonderful competition playing against the best bands in amazing venue (with an awesome composition!). Really, genuinely enjoyable. Makes the hours of...

Hi guys, Wondering if anyone has a Warburton 5SV top lying around that they'd be willing to sell? Looking to try something new but don't particularly want to pay the full whack on what is an experiment! If you've got any other Warburton tops, let me know - I might be interested. Cheers...

Make sure you take the plug out of the wall first! :)

Anyone managed to get on the music page and watch it yet?

Thanks for all the kind comments regarding our performance. The band is delighted to win back the trophy after such a long wait, praise must go to Russel for his hard work and laid back approach on the day, I don't think the band has ever been so relaxed on stage! Congratulations must also go...

I'm a student at the University of Glasgow studying history. We don't have a brass band but Whitburn takes enough time out of my 'studies'! It would be interesting to see if there were enough players interested in starting a band up though!

Hi Ella, I don't know if anyone has already contacted you from the band but Whitburn would be willing for you to attend a few rehearsals and take it from there. We've got some big contests coming up, notably Brass in Concert and the Scottish Open. We're a great bunch of people, plenty of...

I'm going for Grimthorpe BAUV Fodens Black Dyke Faireys YBS (although hopefully we can pull off a wee sneak into the top 6!)

Oooops, my bad! Should learn to double check before I open my big mouth! Yeh it's a top Db at double BB but it's still high enough, especially at the end of the piece! Have you had any run through's of the piece with Hepworth? If so, what's it like? We havn't had a go at it yet, still on...

Top D's for sop are getting fairly common-place now I think for the upper sections! There was a couple of (optional) runs to a top Eb in 'Journey'. A couple of concert pieces we've played recently have had top C#'s in them (Mary Poppins, Scherzo). Ohh, and the new British Open test piece has...

Anyone think this might be a joke? Read the first line of the criteria: Procedure ON APRIL 1ST AT MIDNIGHT, GMT (UT), rightnowmusic.com will email the score and parts for the test piece directly to competing bands. Until that time, the piece will never have been published or commercially...

Congrats to all the nitten boys on a fantastic result on sunday. Good days contesting in a fantastic venue! See you at the RAH!

he he, i get 10.0 Mbps on the Uni LAN... :) only paid £20 for the year too!!! (and there's no download limit!)

1.) Yeah, am playing with Whitburn - i'm an open 'virgin' so i'll hopefully have a good time 2.) hope to hear as many bands as possible... if i can afford the ticket in... (poor student) 3.) Dunno... is very hard to tell without knowing who is playing what. 3 very good pieces though!

I'll be there with the Innerleithen crowd as usual! :D Me bruno (still not on the same planet as the rest of us) maxy boy and a newbie Ross Brotherston!! Lookin forward to playing the Gael & the Cornet feature...will be interesting to see what Alba (new alan fernie piece) is like... See...

Good luck to te Co-op, Whitburn and all the Scottish bands...its about time we brought something back across the border!!

Michael Fleming was 12 :shock: when he played for Whitburn on 2nd horn at the 'Nationals' last year in the Albert Hall...is that a new record???

Totally agree with LauraDoll. If it had been against the rules the 3 bands wouldnt have got anywhere near the stage & also the Coop, Kirky and Whitburn aren't stupid enough to breach the rules in that manner. There does seem to be some confusion as to what the rules actually are but this...