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I was Band Captain in 2006/7 and I indeed wore Band Captain's buttons. As far as I know, Part of the reason we wore buttons down to sleeve was to help distinguish us from Monitors or those with Academic Buttons (Button Grecians). I was neither, but had responsibilities for looking after the band. Ju...

Compared to that thin piece of scaffolding with holes in it... I suppose not!

BC is indeed Band Captain. Here are the perks Bling (No one else has as many buttons!) Being a Button Grecian- even if you aren't a monitor nor have academic buttons A Key to Music School (Coolest place to be) Radio interviews with local radio stations The ability to make Lunch Parade as fast or slo...

SG Privileges are nowhere near as good as BC ones

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After a conversation with Great Plum at the CHA Carol-.... Jolly (i think that is the best adjective), we have come up with an ingenious system of defining Old Blues based around the current system. YOB (Young Old Blue): OB's between 18-30 (To be addressed as 'Oi!' or other similar greeting?) MOB (M...

I was working unfortunately. But my spy (i.e my mother) told me it was excellent!

Erm, Get a mac?

Hello Everyone. Just to let you know, the Band concert is on Sunday coming in Big School. Anyone who was in the Band should come and catch up and listen to the fantastic music that is put together for the most jollorific of occasions. If anyone fancies a trip down the Bax afterwards...... (Mine's a ...

Also, just to add to that previous comment, we adopted the policy for both the Illustrious and Twickenham trips that the players that we took were the best in the band. To correct myself, we had Two LE players, one on French Horn and one on Euphonium, both are very good at their instruments so were ...

Well, actually, we had an LE on that trip to twickenham and two LE on the trip to Illustrious so it is very much possible to be young and get into the band for these events!

This concert will include the following pieces

O Magnum Mysterium (Morten Lauridsen)
Quartet for Four Trombones (Flor Peters)
Gloria (John Rutter)

Its at St Martins in the Fields- and best of all

ITS FREE.

So if your free...come!

The concert went brilliantly! In a way yes the band is like the old dance band. The big band is now lined up as a Jazz Big Band. It has as its normal line up, 5 alto’s 4 tenor’s and a bari sax, 9 or 10 trumpets 4 trombones and tuba (me), drums, piano, bass guitar, guitar and an auxiliary percuss...

Hi there, my name is Geoff Janes and I would like to tell you about the forthcoming band engagement's. On the 11th November, the Band will be in London taking part in the Lord Mayors show. This year we will be back near the City of London dignitaries, about 120 I think! Feel free to come and support...