West of England Bandsmen's Festival, Bugle, 15/6/24 Morning March.

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Ай бұрын

The annual Bugle Contest, a wonderful experience with a great, familly atmosphere and held in the open air in Molinnis Park, Bugle whatever the weather which, this year was really good despite forecasts to the contrary.
Before the contest, some of the competitors march on Fore Street, a fairly busy B Road, to the contest venue holding up traffic in both directions for the duration!!!
In order we have Bugle Silver, Illogan Sparnon, St. Pinnock, St Austell Town, Mount Charles, Bodmin Town, Roche, Camborne Town & St. Dennis bands.
Marches played are Black Dyke - Greenwood, Royal Trophy - Rimmer, True & Trusty - Greenwood, Imperial Echoes - Safroni, True & Trusty, Washington Grays - Grafulla, The Middy - Alford, On the Quarterdeck - Alford and March of the Heralds - Nicholls.

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@christianpatte5045 24 күн бұрын

In England Ilike this Bands with special sound 😊 it's superb from France

@herbiestrainsbands346 22 күн бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it Christian!

@stevehill1776 29 күн бұрын

Great sound Bodmin

@doraldeddy1836 Ай бұрын

Good to see you Mr Blake with St Dennis band. Lovely posting, with some great music! Thank you for posting.👍 Very impressed to see so many young’uns taking on the banding jobs.

@herbiestrainsbands346 Ай бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it and yes, as always youth is the future!!

@stevehill1776 29 күн бұрын

Fantastic to see the toung people of St.Dennis and all in step. Well done

@herbiestrainsbands346 25 күн бұрын

Absolutely Steve, start 'em young!!!

@royharper9224 Ай бұрын

Bodmins got a great sound , specially the Sop !! ❤ all great though well done to all and thanks for sharing made buttering the days sandwiches go quickly 😂

@herbiestrainsbands346 Ай бұрын

A change of march for Bodmin, always used to play Army of the Nile, but great to hear this old 'warhorse'!!

@royharper9224 Ай бұрын

Great , love the little uns clapping , making memories 😊 used to play in a town band eons ago so much fun and enjoyment playing music in a great team !!

@herbiestrainsbands346 Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Roy. It's such a great atmosphere down there!

@user-jf2le4uy3z 29 күн бұрын

I play with Bodmin. We were not expecting to get the deportment prize.

@herbiestrainsbands346 25 күн бұрын

@@user-jf2le4uy3z Great old march, just the right tempo - well done!!

@JJ-hw5ol Ай бұрын

Last band down is St Dennis playing ‘March of the Herald’.

@user-jf2le4uy3z 29 күн бұрын

Bodmin got the deportment. Yes. Bodmin gang. 👇

@clivehughes2179 Ай бұрын

How splendid to see and hear these amateur bands who spend many hours practising for events such as this - can anyone tell me the names of the marches played by the first three and last bands = thank you

@herbiestrainsbands346 Ай бұрын

Hello Clive, thought I'd got away with it!!! I've edited comments with full listing. Glad you enjoyed it and appreciate the comment!

@clivehughes2179 Ай бұрын

@@herbiestrainsbands346 thank you

@brymorian 24 күн бұрын

Years ago, the Somerset. Carnival were always led by the brass or silver band the of the town whose carnival it was. I played in the Wells silver band, A better time then seventy years ago.

@herbiestrainsbands346 22 күн бұрын

I started in a local town band in the early 70's and yes, we did about five or six local carnivals and perhaps it was a strange discipline for someone in their early teens, but always enjoyed it. There's also no doubt that whilst standards are higher generally in bands these days, there is a shortage of players with fewer youngsters getting involved and I think the pandemic took it's toll too!!

@brymorian 22 күн бұрын

@@herbiestrainsbands346 Started when. I was eleven yo. Living in a rural village in 1952, hardly anyone had private transport, and a chap from a village closer to Wells than we were, used to cycle two miles to pick me up, and sit me in his crossbar, turn around and go back through his own village and the another two miles to Wells. I then went to one of the older bands men who used to teach me in his garden shed!! Good old days.

@herbiestrainsbands346 16 күн бұрын

@@brymorian That's how it was though, Remember having to catch a bus to band after a half mile walk with a Euph, I was 12. People wouldn't let their kids do that today!!! But yes, good times!

@brymorian 16 күн бұрын

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@CharlieGroh Ай бұрын

Wow...yank here and familiar with the British Brass Band idiom (ala "Brassed Off") and I'm assuming these groups sit down later and play their a**es off. That said, Bodmin knocked me out..."Washington Greys" is one I performed in high school here in Southern California...bitchin'! (Haha, we invented that word here in surfland!) BTW, I play tuba and next life will definitely play a trumpet...or, better yet, a piccolo!

@herbiestrainsbands346 Ай бұрын

Hello Charlie. Think I'm right in saying this is the only 'test piece' contest (on the playing field after the march) held in the open air in UK, could be proved wrong though. Sometimes if it's not raining the wind might be coming in sideways, sometimes both!!! You're not wrong about Bodmin and great to hear such a classic for a change. I played tuba also for 47 yrs and always said I'd come back as a Soprano Cornet player!!! Glad you enjoyed it and appreciate the comment.

@CharlieGroh Ай бұрын

@@herbiestrainsbands346 haha, me as a flute! Just said that yesterday! But, yanno, I kinda like being a farm animal. ;0)

@herbiestrainsbands346 Ай бұрын

@@CharlieGroh lol!! Check back later in the week Charlie, I've got the end of the test piece performance by St Dennis to upload - give you an idea of dealing with nerves and a blustery wind on the stand!!!

@harryweir5414 Ай бұрын

Oh no! What happened to Pendennis?

@herbiestrainsbands346 Ай бұрын

Not all the bands march Harry as it's not mandatory. TBH a variety of 10/12 bands is about right, 9 this year. Pendennis were certainly performing in the contest propper.

@brymorian 16 күн бұрын

Herbiestrains. They don't know what they are missing, the rubbish they are listening to with their phones stuck to their ears!! I am glad I am at I am not young again, best regards.