Unbroken Attendance at band Practice

[Will the Sec]

OK....

When did you last "miss" a rehearsal?

Don't count holidays, illness or disaster striking after you've set out for a rehearsal. (So, car breaking down on way doesn't get counted, but working late at the office does!)

I'll give you a starter for 3rd May 1988.

 

[jess the drummer girl!]

uuuhhhhh...tuesday!!!!

 

[Trigger]

If you don't count the weekend of my birthday in November and my best friends 18th which was two years ago, then I have never missed a rehearsal as long as i've been playing in a brass band. I have however had one and a half weeks off at the end of my academic year to catch up on uni work that I was behind in because of never missing band throughout the year and that was a good couple of years ago. I don't know if that counts :?: :? But either way, these are the only things I have missed in about seven years of banding. Still can't beat Will the Sec though!! but that's probably becauase I was only five when he last missed a rehearsal! :wink:

 

[backrowbloke]

Other than work and a singular family inlness, I've never skived from band

 

[deave]

I haven't missed band for a year this easter, and the year before that only one rehearsal....

Sadly, i'm missing the grand shield with my band to go to my sister's wedding. I would go late, but my mum is coming from Australia, two aunties from new zealand and another from vegas.

Band outcast or family outcast??? probably BOTH!!

 

[katej]

Apart from missing rehearsals due to illness or family or holiday , I can't recall ever having missed one. I started banding in 1987 although i did have a big gap of 14 years!!
I even told work that I couldn't work their biggest day of the year and turned down double time to go to the areas this year. Commitment to banding or wot? Or is it that I just don't like my job? :lol:

 

[louise0502]

i have to miss a junior band concert this year because it's my prom! That's quite a good reason, i think anyway

And my school concerts are always on wednesdays, so i have to miss band then. But other than that, not a lot

 

[lynchie]

not since i quit music school when I was 12... missed a concert, and since i was playing the introduction to the first piece it wasn't appreciated...

 

[Will the Sec]

If you don't count the weekend of my birthday in November and my best friends 18th which was two years ago, then I have never missed a rehearsal as long as i've been playing in a brass band.

So, according to the goalposts set, less than a year, then?

Other than work and a singular family illness, I've never skived from band

Nope. "Working" counts as an absence. Just a few weeks then?

Apart from missing rehearsals due to illness or family or holiday , I can't recall ever having missed one. I started banding in 1987 although i did have a big gap of 14 years!!

"Family" things count as an absence. Your fourteen years is invalid, madam.

not since i quit music school when I was 12... missed a concert, and since i was playing the introduction to the first piece it wasn't appreciated...

So, how long then?

Frankly disappointing! I was expecting SOMEONE to say "43 years six months" :!: :!: :!:

Will

PS PARDEW OUT!!!!!

 

[katej]

Will
I actually meant family disasters that arise when u have 4 kids!!

However since joining Wellington last year in Sept I have not missed a rehearsal. I spent 6 hours rehearsing with them today in fact.
Kate

 

[Trigger]

If you don't count the weekend of my birthday in November and my best friends 18th which was two years ago, then I have never missed a rehearsal as long as i've been playing in a brass band.

So, according to the goalposts set, less than a year, then?

Well that told me eh! :lol: :lol: :wink:

Yep that looks about right. But considering that these two rehearsals are the only rehearsals that I have missed in my seven or so years of brass banding, I'm not too disappointed in myself. Especially when you consider that some people miss band because of Eastenders or other equally appalling excuses. I even took a job that means I have to get up at 5am in the morning so that it doesn't conflict with evening rehearsals and weekend band jobs. Now that's commitment -especially for a student!! :? :wink:

 

[Accidental]

I was expecting SOMEONE to say "43 years six months" :!: :!: :!:

I can't match that ('cos I'm not old enough), but depending on your definition of "holiday" I can honestly say I have never missed band without a cast-iron reason (death in the family, holidays, can't-move-without-my-head-falling-off-migraines, etc!), not even in the middle of exams, and I've been banding for over 25 years now.

Ouch - just made myself feel well ancient! :shock:

 

[brasscrest]

September 1984 through July 1991, missed nothing. Took a leave of absence in 1991, came back to the band in September 1998, have missed one gig since (in October 2000, because of a work commitment).

 

[lynchie]

not since i quit music school when I was 12... missed a concert, and since i was playing the introduction to the first piece it wasn't appreciated...

So, how long then?

Frankly disappointing! I was expecting SOMEONE to say "43 years six months" :!: :!: :!:

Well that would be 7 years now... unfortunately, only being 19, and only having started playing at the age of 10, the whole 43 years thing would be a bit tough... ask me in 36 years!!

 

[TIMBONE]

the moon

I usually miss rehearsals when there's a full moon, if I am playing trombone, the hairs on the palm of my right hand get stuck in the slide. If I am playing BBb, I try to eat it, and the band can't afford a new BBb.

 

[Liz Courts]

I missed a band engagement to offer my support to other bands at the regionals this year... :roll: well, we were only given a weeks notice for the concert, and I probably would have been working anyway if I hadn't asked for the day off already!!

My attendance wasn't too bad last year though...

 

[Will the Sec]

Accidental said:

death in the family

This is an acceptable reason for missing band, though I made sure my granny's funeral was not on band day...

So... it's still May 1988, then?

 

[Despot]

October 1979. Never missed practise unless I absolutely had to.

 

[Dave Euph]

In my old band (Shropshire Youth Brass) I went 3.5 years without missing a rehearsal ... until my local choral society had a concert the day of a rehearsal, and I had to miss the rehearsal to perform ... and after that up until the end of my 4th year - none again!

Unfortunately, for various reasons my record hasn't been as good this year for my differing bands ... but with the uni wind orchestra I have yet to miss one and uni brass band I have missed just the single this (academic) year...

 

[WoodenFlugel]

Crikey folks - I thought I was a committed bandsman but reading some of the posts here has made me feel quite inadequate!

The last time I missed a rehearsal, given the criterion was two and a half years ago when I missed the rehearsal after a contest to see Dyke in concert. It was a good job actually because we were pants at the contest so I missed out on the subsequant rollocking