We also had an AGM to discuss the future of the band and we are all working hard together to do best for the band. Big congratulations to the following awards:

Player of The Year: Hannah Dickie

Most Improved Player of The Year: Simon Keen

Bandsmen of The Year: JOINT Matt Pitt and Les Stewart

Thank you to everyone for a great contest season.. lets enjoy the Summer with lots of concerts and a trip to the French Open to look forward to! Team Fulham!

The band will spend the next 13 days working hard to give our best performance in the Second Section at the London and Southern Counties Brass Band Area contest. So raise your pint of Guinness and come and support Fulham on our quest for victory!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Despite several different versions being distributed to the bands Fulham are looking to improve on last year’s result. We have been working on the piece throughout November and December and have an intense rehearsal schedule over the next 2 weeks. The band would like to thank conducting brothers John Ward (of 2013 London and Southern Counties Second Section winners and recently promoted Thundersley Brass Band) and Richard Ward (of 2013 London and Southern Counties Champion Section winners Zone One) for putting us through our paces at some of the rehearsals and under the baton of Rob Richardson we look forward to seeing all our friends and supporters in Skegness! And if you can’t go then we do hope to come home with a worthy result and a good time had by all… Come on Team Fulham!

Fulham Brass Band

There are 2 very important concerts for us which we would love to have as many people as possible attend: On Sunday December 9^th at 7:30pm you are invited to our rehearsal venue St John’s Church in Fulham Broadway for a FREE evening of Christmas carols and brass band pieces for our Fulham Brass Band Christmas Concert.

Also on Friday December 14^th at 7:00 pm Clarendon Hall in Twickenham we are collaborating once again with Regent Brass and Richmond Youth Music Trust for a fantastic evening of talent and Festive Brass! Tickets can be purchased on the following link: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/193711

These concerts end an exciting year for Fulham Brass Band, with new conductor Rob Richardson working us hard for The Butlins Mineworkers competition in January we have a lot to look forward to in 2013 so keep checking back for all of the latest news! It should be mentioned that in the last couple of months we have lost 2 very special long-term players in the band: Alison Jackson (2^nd cornet) left after Whychavon to pursue her love of orchestral playing and Asako Mochizuki (percussionist) has recently moved on up to the exciting championship section! We wish them both all the best and hope they stay in touch, and of course thank them for the years of dedication that they have both put in to the mighty Fulham Brass Band.

We hope to see as many of you as possible in December at our main concerts and all our carol gigs :) So grab your finest singing voice and come down to South west London for some Christmas fun!!

As a central London Brass Band based in Fulham (rehearsing on Monday nights), we have a large group of players from around the world, and are a young, hard-working team with a strong desire to succeed in national competitions plus a busy calendar of exciting projects! The next main project that we are working towards after the Christmas period will be The Butlins Mineworkers Championship in Skegness in January 2013, come and join us for an exciting weekend up North!
For further information please contact Matt Pitt (Band Manager) in confidence on enquiries@fulhambrassband.co.uk

Fulham Brass Band received a request from BBC Radio 1 at short notice to supply a brass quintet for a somewhat undercover mission at the station. We were unaware at the time of the nature of the gig, except that we were to play live for about 1-2 minutes on air on Thursday September 6th…

Earlier in the day, Matt Pitt, the band manager, circulated the parts for Liberty Bell, so it was clear that the job wasn’t going to depart too far from standard brass band fare. The 5 players, Steve Carney, Clare Jenneson, Matt Pitt, Les Stewart and Paul van Uden, met up at the studios on Great Portland Street. It soon became clear that the purpose of this job was to disrupt one of the DJs while he was on air.

 The players were briefed by Jen Grieves, the BBC assistant content producer and other production staff that we had been booked by Radio 1 DJ Greg James to enter the studio of new Radio 1XTRA DJ, Charlie Sloth and catch him by surprise. This apparently was the culmination of a number of disruptive pranks carried out during the week that had escalated with time. Greg figured that a live brass band on air would represent the ultimate in surprise forces. I think he was right.

 On cue, we were rapidly ushered in to the studio, armed with our instruments of mass disruption, to play the first 90 seconds of Liberty Bell. Clearly the DJ and his guests were not expecting this and were thus numbed into silence. Fulham had clearly achieved their objective and received the honour (?) of becoming the official Greg James band.

On leaving we posed for photographs with our support act, Mr. Tinchey Stryder, who was a real gentleman and graciously gave his time to talk to us. I suspect that we haven’t converted him to brass band music, but you never know. Many thanks to him and the BBC for an interesting and fun gig and we hope that this will lead to other and bigger things in the future.