to have found myself developing a distinct fondness for brass bands?

[hatwoman]

at the weekend I had the great privelege to sit on my doorstep in the evening sunshine (two days on the trot in fact) with a cup of tea, surveying a lovely view of an old village street (which is actually quite like a sqaure) with a hill rising up in the background, while a brass band played just 20 metres infront of me.

pieces like Danny Boy, Shostakovich' Second Waltz and the lovely, if rather suprisingly provenanced (not sure if that's a verb but never mind), theme to Jurassic Park. It was positively magical.

Today I have been listening to the same stuff on YouTube (the clip of Danny Boy from Brassed Off is plain dangerous if you're a softy like me) and I have admitted to myself that I love this stuff.

Is this middle age?

Is the wickerman a pagan effigy letthereberock?

extraordinary

Well yes,but it's also a film,and it's that which terrifies me. I'm not even sure if there is Morris dancing in the film,but I always associate the two.

Oh, abra, a salvation army band used to come every Christmas eve and play on our road where I grew up- they still do as my family still live there- makes me want to cry!

Love a brass band, makes me cry too. It stems from when I worked in a hospital and they used to come and play on every ward on Xmas day - it was lovely :)

Boysare :)

Cantpool :)

Isn't that the most amazing performance? I WEPT when I heard it first, so powerful

YADDDDNBU. I howl like a baby every Remembrance Sunday and hear the brass band playing Nimrod from the Enigma Variations.

And they can be awfully jolly too.

awwww cp

Letthere- I googled it and the film came up but also pagan wickerman burners who looked a bit...,
I forgot the maypole dancers from my list :)

We took DD to watch a brass bnd playing yesterday afternoon. Apart from the kids, DH and I were the youngest by about 20 years . Loved it though and DD was happily swaying along.

joric, my daughter plays trumpet: mainly because I love listening to brass bands. No way am I letting her give up. It's such a warm, human, kind of music to listen to.

Mental note to introduce children to a trumpet ASAP - great idea.

Really wish I'd got one for my wedding day :)

I cry through most of Brassed Off because of the music. I never hear any brass bands round here :(

Off to YouTube...

I think I have secretly always liked this kind of thing abra! agree with what you said about it being warm - I wish I knew why it makes me cry though, some choirs have the same effect!
No, don't let her give up, it's lovely :)

Try a brass band with a difference - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (bit of a mouthful, but great band) - we saw them at a couple of festivals last summer and they were really good.

Try

omg camperfan my lip would not stand that kind of treatment

[tender chops]

I love brass bands There is a brill brass quartet who come to princes st in edinburgh at Christmas from st petersburg and play carols. I love to stand and listen - they are ace.

love brass bands. sadly not many around in london :( would love to play in one.
the music is so versatile.

I am awfully fond of a good male voice choir. I invariably end up sobbing in a heap by the end of the first number

camper :o !

I've found my spiritual home!

I adore brass bands, and have played in a couple for 12 years now. I love everything about them - the sense of team work, the hard work involved practising pieces, the joy of playing a concerts and contests, the feeling of total happinesswhen you get a good result at a competition and frustration when you don't. There is also the social life which is fantastic

It brings people from all walks of life together and is a brilliant hobby to have.

Totally cheesy post, I know but brass bands are my passion (hence my nickname - it's my real life nich name too!)