Bakers Back

On Wednesday Leigh Baker, that ace composer and arranger returned to take the bands rehearsal. Our resident MD Alan Coe looked on and could be seen taking a healthy interest in the basses and the overall bands sound.

Leigh kicked off the rehearsal with a lovely slow hymn tune dedicated to his mother in law, the late Mrs Beg. As always, a lovely arrangement using the notes B, E and G (to form her last name). Cleverly woven in were a couple of well known hymn tunes and solo features that moved smoothly around the band. The arrangement lost some of its sparkle because the trombones section was on holiday or otherwise engaged.

That brings me on nicely to the lifts at Rotherham Police Station. They eat trombone players. Wednesday was no exception and solo trombone Andy Hindley spend 2 hours in the lift whilst the engineer arrived. Andrew the consummate professional did not waste rehearsal time and had soon reached a high score on his mobile phone game. 2nd trombone Craig Wolstenholme suffered a similar experience 6 months ago, and he entertained residents of the police cells who are adjacent to the lift shaft. The theme from the "Great Escape" went down well.

Back to the rehearsal and Leigh gets stuck into our programme for the Hardraw Scar Contest. We are playing our signature march and Leigh spent time getting into the march and making it sparkle. The other pieces are secret at the moment as we don't want the competition to know.

Another new player joins the ranks of the front row and yours truly tries to fulfill a life time ambition of moving to the back row.

No rehearsal over the bank holiday weekend, see you all Wednesday