Updated
2003 Playing
Schedule
Newbury
Spring Festival - A chance to hear Black Dyke
The new
playing schedule is now available. Rogation
is now in the plan and begins the playing season
on 25th May. There is a new event staged with
the Festival on 24 th June. We are joining the
Croquet and Tennis clubs in a " Come and
try it. You might like it" event from 3.30
onwards in the Band Hut and surrounding area.
If anybody knows of a potential junior who would
like to have a go at a brass instrument please
bring them along.
For
those who haven't already booked through Robert
it seems the tickets for the Black Dyke concert
on the 11th May are selling fast. This concert
is part of the Newbury
Spring Festival which celebrates its Silver
Jubilee this year. Bob says this is a
good excuse to link to the Black Dyke site;
so here
it is.
Concert
Details
Profound apologies for the
slow start to this years web site. Things are
being adusted under the bonnet to make updating
things easier as we move into the playing season
proper. I am afraid we have lost the postcards
but there is a new link to the various index
pages as they build up over the
year. The 2002 pages will be available again
soon.
It seems that some of the links
in the archive pages have collapsed. I hope
to put this right in the coming week.
Robert has written
to Robert Jackson voicing our disquiet at the
terms of the new Licencing Bill. Mr Jackson
has signed the early day motion as we requested.
The BBC has been following the various protests
on its website.
The latest news is that Kim Howells ( described
as "the greatest threat to live music since
Oliver Cromwell") is now in talks with the
Musicians Union. According to the Guardian
on March 4 he seems to have totally to have
misunderstood the nature of the Bill.
"We saw it as a civilising bill, relaxing licensing laws, cutting down on
bureaucracy. It was only when it started going through the Lords we realised how
it would be interpreted."
The mind boggles!!!
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