tMP Brass at Easingwold?

[sudcornet]

Easingwold March contest is held each year on the last Saturday in June. It is run along the lines of the Whit Fridays. Each year around 20 bands and attendant followers converge on this small Market town in North Yorkshire from about 4.30pm onwards. The attraction (other than having a chance to win about £7.50) is that Easingwold has 8 or 9 pubs around it's market place and all of them are soon full of bandsmen (scary thought huh?) It is a super contest and meeting place for the BB community and the format ensures a good night out...(ie:- 10mins playing/ 4 hours in/outside the pub).....So, now I've sold the event, what is the likeliehood of 30ish tMP'ers playing suitable instruments attending the contest. The itinerary would likely be choosing a couple of marches that everyone can play, meet up in a car park for 20 mins rehearsal, do the gig, retire to the pub(s). I know some of you will be playing there with your respective bands, but, as far as I'm aware, there is no ruling about players playing with more than one band(there's no registration anyway).
So what do you think?
Sud.
:guiness :guiness :guiness :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :wow

 

[cornetgirl]

Sounds good - I'll just check the jobs list - yup, count me in!!!

Rach x

 

[HBB]

If you can get me out of my science exam : <looks at Sparkling Quavers> I could do it ...... drat!


I've just found out I can do the Whit Friday March now though .... yey!

I think it would be extremely interesting, fun and constructive if a band from tMP could meet up ............


Ben

p.s. watch this space!

 

[ersop]

Easingwold

Nigel,
Easingwold is an excellent night, I've already been booked by one band and had a 2nd on the fone. However, many years ago now, the bulk of Ever Ready attended assisted by some deps. We actually won the contest, but were disqualified as we were deemed to be a scratch band and therefore outside the brief of the contest. I thought it was absurd at the time and havent changed my mind, but perhaps you should check with the organiser Dennis Hill before assembling a band. I would hate people to be dissapointed, as we were.

Why dont we just make one of the pubs tMP HQ for the evening, that way anyone playing can meet the non players there and mingle.

Just a thought, I'll be there whatever, and if you get the go-ahead for a scratch band, and you need a Sop player then count me in.

 

[Straightmute]

Count me in. I'll wag or blow.

D

 

[Roger Thorne]

Count me in too - plus a car load from Shrewsbury

:wink:

 

[Aidan]

il check my diary when i get back from NEW ZEALAND!
but id be up for it...

 

[TheMusicMan]

il check my diary when i get back from NEW ZEALAND!
but id be up for it...

Hey Aidan - hope you're doing your bit for tMP across from 'down under' ?? Met anyone interested in signing up at tMP yet...?

 

[Hilary Mateer]

Sounds like fun and nobody else has asked me to play this year :cry:

I let myself be persuaded into playing BBb bass last year :twisted: Very silly

Hilary Mateer

EEb Bass

 

[michellegarbutt]

I'll certainly come along on Baritone and I can produce a Bb player who could play on stage but he couldn't manage the march around the square

 

[Roger Thorne]

I think it would be extremely interesting, fun and constructive if a band from tMP could meet up ............

Hope you have more luck getting a band together than I've had trying to organise a quiz team!

:cry:

 

[sparkling_quavers]

I will check our gigs diary and if I am free count me in!! (along with a few others from here I am sure!) 8)

 

[HBB]

I think it would be extremely interesting, fun and constructive if a band from tMP could meet up ............

Hope you have more luck getting a band together than I've had trying to organise a quiz team!

:cry:

A quiz .. when .... where???? I've never heard this :shock:

 

[sparkling_quavers]

A quiz .. when .... where???? I've never heard this :shock:

The test the nation durgh!

 

[Keppler]

That's a quiz? *ding*

 

[Wonky_Baton]

The places are usually gone quite early so its best to get in quick. Its my fortieth birthday on the sunday after Easingwold so i am starting to celebrate on the saturaday at the contest and by the time the bus gets back it will be party time 8) . If anyone sees me lying in the gutter make sure i get on the Safari coach. Its white and blue :wink:

 

[BoozyBTrom]

i will be available for a blow. But if we play late on may not be in much of a state to play.

 

[Mrs Fruity]

Oh no! - my 40th birthday's the same weekend as Easingwold (I think - is it 21st June?) That means I'm older than Alan Seymour - woe is me!!! I thought I might be younger than at least one person in Houghton except my husband.

 

[twigglet]

A big yes from me, sounds like fun

I will probably be in said car load from shrewsbury with Roger! Will be nice to put faces to avatars!

 

[Big Twigge]

Can i play too?.....sounds like muchos fun!!!!! :lol: