Guestbook

I have now just about woken up after our return to the UK after a very busy 4 days! I thoroughly enjoyed visiting Belgium as part of the band. It was an absolute privelidge to play as part of the Menin Gate act of rememberance. Thank you for inviting me and I hope to be able to sent some photos and video soon!

I heard you at the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres on 25 July 2008. Very nice and moving!

Oops ! I almost forgot to mention: HOPE TO MEET YOU AGAIN !

Hi ! I had the pleasure to meet the band during your visit to Belgium. Your performance at Ieper added a beautiful touch to the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate. The next day, when you visited De Haan, at the Belgian coast, it was one of the first warm and sunny days this summer. Although this visit was not published in advance, many people enjoyed the music... on their way to the beach. The people of De Haan and the holiday-makers appreciated and enjoyed your very nice performance !

It was lovely to meet members of the band in Ypres and at De Haan in Belgium last weekend. My brother Edwin arranged for the band to play in De Haan where he lives and encouraged us to visit so it was a fantastic suprise to see the band that originates from the place our Grandmother, Sarah Jane Lewis, was born playing under beautiful blue skies in the bandstand in De Haan (second most beautiful village in Flanders). It was also especially moving to hear the band at the Menin Gate in Ypres in the evening.

Well done to the band who played very well in the extremely hot conditions on Sunday (not very often have we had the chance to say its been too hot this year!).

Although only one day has passed I am now back in Crewe in Cheshire and it seems an age ago. I look forward to coming to hear the band in the near future.

Good luck for the Areas!

hi all!
Just wanted 2 say hi to everyone as i havnt been there for ages. Hope percussion/trombone section still going strong lol.
Hope to see u soon!!

great to see the band still going strong/ I played in the late 70's great memories and if not for the band and experience I gained I would not have gone on to other bands to play in the top section

Go Tommy! You played soprano cornet really well. Keep at it and you'll be fantastic!!

Great to see the old pics, quite embarrasing seeing pics of myself when I played Soprano cornet in the 1970's - brings back many good memories, it was a great part of my life. Keith Reynolds, Soprano Cornet 1972 - about 1975/6 Still involved with music as both a sound tech and Artist & Event Management.

hi, great to see some photos of people i remember, and some frightening ones of myself. I can't believe its nearly 20years since i played in the band. Still banding though.

Saw and heard you guys play at the Menin Gate in Ieper in July. Absolutely fantastic. Enjoyed the banter afterwards in the "Old Bill" bar too! Keep up the good work everyone.

Really enjoyed the concert on Saturday (28/04) @ my church, St Leonard's in Malinslee. Yet another brilliant peformance.

HI WE LOVE THE WEBSITE GOOD PICS

best of luck with the second section today, lets see if wa cant make all make it to Harogate in the Autumn!
Craigy

Hello, good luck with the areas, hope goes well, not going to be there this year couldn't play for anyone who wanted me as had other things on so couldn't make their rehearsals, but good luck and maybe ill see you soon??

hi hope all of you are doin well, i'm havin a great time over here. stayin in a train carriage on the west coast with my friend jamie, and a frenchman named simon who we met.

i'll be in touch real soon with contact numbers and such

This website is very good. I now play in the youth band and I started when I was 6 or 7. Lovely website.

Fantastic result at Wychavon - well done everyone!

Congratulations to you all on a fantastic result.
Sorry we couldn't be with you but we will see you Monday rehearsal

Lost you but now i have found you again.I have not seen many of your concerts this year but I hope to catch up with you again Well done at burton, good luck for the future.
Have a nice christmas to all the band

A big 'Thank you ' to Dave and Carol for organising such a brilliant visit to Belgium. Here's to the same next year!

I saw you performing in Ypres, Flanders Fields, at the Menen Gate on July 31, 2006. Thanks for visiting our country and performing your beautiful music.
Filip
Belgium

I was at the concert last week on July 2nd, 2006 and am enjoying the two CD's we bought. My wife and I are are from the USA and appreciate your tribute to our country. Your band performed marvelously and you were very entertaining.

God bless each and every one of you,
Gary A. Lindemann

First time I've seen the web-site. Some of the photo's are a bit scary, especially the girl wearing the red tights! I bet she's a nightmare!
See you all soon.

Great new site!

Hello,

My name is Gillian Hibberd. Although I have no direct connection with the Brass Band Movement, I have with my husband enjoyed brass and military band music for nearly 40 years, and like many people who begin with little knowledge of the history of brass banding, I am finding it a fascinating and addictive topic.

I am doing post-graduate research for my Masters Degree in Histories and Culture at Brighton University and for my dissertation I have chosen to investigate and analyse the current role of the brass band movement in the culture of Britain. I am particularly interested in researching how deindustrialisation, technological advances, gender and ethnicity have affected Brass Bands, together with an examination of what the future might hold for the movement.

I feel the research should be valuable resource for all having an interest in the movement and I am writing to you as I need the urgent assistance of past or present band members and enthusiasts willing to let me have information and views.

I would be extremely grateful if you could have a look at the questionnaire that can be found on my web site www.brassbands.org , copy and paste it into a word processor or email programme, add your comments and email it to me at BrassBandsOrg@aol.com. If you need any further information, or would like to speak to me direct, please give me a ring on Brighton (01273) 732684.

It would also be a huge help in making this a really worthwhile survey for the real benefit of the movement If you could print out the poster that can also be found on my website, and display it in your bandroom or other appropriate place so that as many people as possible are encouraged to participate. I will publishing my dissertation there as soon as it is completed.

Finally I appreciate that you must have a very busy schedule but any help that you or any fellow enthusiasts can give me would be very much appreciated, and thank you for the very real pleasure all involved in banding give to the listening public.

Many thanks in advance for your help and happy banding!

Would Dave Brown of Cape Town, South Africa please get in touch with the website again as responses from the website to his email address are being returned as 'address not known'.

All the best for the areas at Burton this coming weekend. Hope you do really well.
We will be back very shortly, see you soon!!

Just wanted to 'big up' Ollie James for doing a fantastic job when he helped us out at the Preston on the weekend. He played very well, is a great bandsman and a credit to all of you guys at Porthywaen. Best of luck at the areas and will see you all soon.
James
Sop, Jackfield Band.

Hi everyone, congratulations on the great new site (I'm at least 3 months out of date as usual!!)

I joined the band in 1942 and played the cornet - E flat bass. Our tutor was the late Mr. Len Evans. Our conductor was a Mr Gillam followed by Reg Pugh and more recently Mr John Pugh MBE. I found the site very interesting and think I may have the undated picture at home. The comradeship between the players was second to none. In later years I trained some of the junior players and I was playing solo cornet with Brian Pugh when we won 1st prize at Belle Vue Manchester. I was in the band for 35 years and made some great friends.

Happy New Year To All @ PSB

Very proud to see the website and to see the band and how it has succeeded over the years it was a big part of dads life.It makes the whole family,grandchildren and now great grand children feel honoured to feel a part of it.

Great new site guys! Are you adding a links section?
If so can you include SY11 Magazine please....
Please keep us updated with all your latest news.

Yay, a bright and shiny new website! Maybe need a new picture on the homepage tho, I look about 15! See you at Christmas, Lots of Love

And with some more hair Brian?!

Brilliant new website guys.Great to see you doing so well.Its funny to see what Brian (and others) looked like before they got old!!!!!!.Im over in Newzealand at the moment playing for the Waitakerie brass band based near Auckland.Just heading into summer here now and its hot and sunny all the time.The best thing about being here is that there is no standing outside woolworths playing xmas carols this year!!!!.Will be strange doing christmas concerts outside in the sun though

You must be looking at a different website Brian......!!

Nice to see there were some handsome cornet players in the late 70s

it is nice to find out about my grandads band and my daughter thinks it is great too. Amber is ten years old

great new site, good to see the band doing so well.
managed to spot myself and a few others faces i remember from the 80's
keep up the good work
craigy

Hello! Nice website, but what happened to the band between '89 and '98?!! See you soon! Rich. PS Well done basses!! (Brings back a memory or two!!)

I have taken the liberty of adding your web site to the searchable database of
bands on the Brass Band Portal. The site's entry will become viewable to
the public within 24 hours. I have also added it to the brass band database
search engine; sites are spidered about once a week, so you will have to wait
a few days until your site appears there
http://www.bandsman.co.uk/bb-links.htm

Love the new website, caught a glimpse of myself in the photo section of 1999!
All the best everyone!

like the site......

New website woo hoo very swanky, well best get back to doing studenty things like sleeping!

Congratulations on 2nd place last Sunday. Well done Carol.

From your big sis!

Great web site - we like it - back to work now though!!
Well done basses

Congratulations to you all on a splendid performance today at Wychavon.
We thoroughly enjoyed the experience of the day with you all.
Here's to the next one!!!

How splendid! Wish Judi and I could have accompanied you all to Belgium. Keep up the info

Thanks for the details of the website, great concert at The Marches on Sunday for Operation Homefront.

Great website and one I can work thank you

Hello, great new web site!