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St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 2:20 pm
by Alice Goble
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:33 pm
by Vièr Bliu
Sex and the City - and the band! Nice juxtaposition
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 5:51 pm
by Momto2
They're lovely Alice, thank you very much indeed
You managed to catch exactly the right DM!
xx
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 7:44 pm
by Alice Goble
That's good hear, glad I got the right one.
he looks very smart, especially in the third photo.
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:26 pm
by little_r
SMILE! christ they all look very serious!
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:27 am
by englishangel
They are trying to march AND play quite a complicated riff (?) at the same time.
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:25 am
by J.R.
.. and the drummers ranks are near perfectly straight.
The late 'Bill' Bailey would have been proud.
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:58 pm
by Alice Goble
I'm very proud of 'my little drummers'! I was the senior drummer last year.
Gosh we really look grumpy don't we!! It's mostly a look of sheer concentration - having to keep on the right foot, watch both ways down the line to keep straight, play in time, stick drill, getting it right... drummers have a hard time in band! Especially in Beating Retreat. We had to memorise the formations around the Quad whilst everyone else just had to follow us and moan when we got it wrong!
I watched the band (I mean drummers
) today at open day and gave them 9 out of 10! wheeling was a bit shoddy, they don't seem to have the hang of it yet.
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:16 pm
by J.R.
.... and not a mention or any piccys of any buglers !
Are they a thing of the past these days ?
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:54 pm
by Alice Goble
Yeh.. it's not just the drums that make up the band!
There is 'Bugle Band' every Tuesday and Friday instead of full band at lunch parade... but that's started to become a bit of a drum thing.
Were you a bugler in the band then?
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:43 am
by J.R.
Alice Goble wrote: Yeh.. it's not just the drums that make up the band!
There is 'Bugle Band' every Tuesday and Friday instead of full band at lunch parade... but that's started to become a bit of a drum thing.
Were you a bugler in the band then?
Yup !
From joing Coleridge B, until leaving. Senior Bugler eventually.
Whenever I hear Last Post, the hairs on the back of my neck still hackle up and I get goose pimples.
Nothing like being the solo performer at The Retreat, which in my day, was an evening parade, (as it should be), a day or so before the last day of summer term.
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:56 am
by jhopgood
J.R. wrote:Alice Goble wrote: Yeh.. it's not just the drums that make up the band!
There is 'Bugle Band' every Tuesday and Friday instead of full band at lunch parade... but that's started to become a bit of a drum thing.
Were you a bugler in the band then?
Yup !
From joing Coleridge B, until leaving. Senior Bugler eventually.
Whenever I hear Last Post, the hairs on the back of my neck still hackle up and I get goose pimples.
Nothing like being the solo performer at The Retreat, which in my day, was an evening parade, (as it should be), a day or so before the last day of summer term.
I thought we "Beat Retreat" after the Leaving Service.
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:59 pm
by J.R.
I think you're right, as usual John.
The Retreat IS a military evening evening parade.
I do find it a shame it now has to be performed in the afternoon of leaving.
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:36 pm
by Alice Goble
It would have been nice to 'beat the retreat' in the evening with the evening sun and light. Especially when the last post and the day thou gavest is played at the end.
Re: St. Matthew's day 08
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:45 pm
by jhopgood
Alice Goble wrote:It would have been nice to 'beat the retreat' in the evening with the evening sun and light. Especially when the last post and the day thou gavest is played at the end.
It was nice and for leavers, even quite moving.
Quite emotional when you realise that after the Retreat, it was leave everything, instrument, clothes, friends....a whole way of life.