Lakeside Entertainments Contest 2006 - Important Information

Because of severe parking problems at Lakeside the Entertainments Contest on Sept 10th has been relocated to The Mapperley Plains Social Club on Plains Road Mapperley Nottingham NG35RH. All timings remain the same and full refreshment facilities and bar is available. Individual band secretaries will be contacted directly.
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Lakeside Details

Lakeside Entertainments Contest 10th September 2006
All is now set for a fine day of brass music at Lakeside in Nottingham. It is regretted that the planed Championship/first section and the top prize of £1000 has had to be postponed till next year, this is due to the fact of other [...]

Battle of the Bands Contest

Yet again Tony managed to gain another two prizes, this time at The Ireland Band’s Entertainment contest. Playing band number three we managed to gain second prize and the best soloist prize.
The programme was:

Stingray
2nd movement from Gordon Langford’s  Sinfonietta
Georgia  - Cornet Soloist Andy Allison
Bramwyn
At the [...]

Whit Friday Marches 2006

What a fantastic day we had on this years Whit Friday marches, we may not have won any prizes but we did manage to get to 9 playing venues. We did have a slight panic attack a couple of days before the event when Janet Bailey was taken into hospital so [...]

Lakeside Invitation Contest 2006

Carlton Brass, in association with Lakeside, announce that after the success of last years Lakeside invitation entertainment contest this years contest will take place on Sunday September 10th.
This years contest will see several changes. The first being that there will now be a championship/1st section. The second being that the [...]

Strata Brass win Lakeside

Strata Brass win Lakeside

Strata Brass and David Hirst come out on top at the lovely surroundings of the Lakeside.
Strata Brass conducted by David Hirst came [...]

All Hands to the Pump

Lakeside Brass Extravaganza
On the 11th of September [...]

Whit Friday 2005

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click here see a video of the band march down at Delph
Video of Carrbrook march down
Short clip of The Contester [...]

The 2005 Area Contest - Special Report

A report from our special correspondent Phil (he knows cos he was there)
Areas day 2005 had arrived. Three months of practice on Vaughan Williams’ Variatiations for Brass Band behind us and we were off to Burton-on-Trent Town Hall to play it one last time.
The day was certainly a memorable one, full of laughter, tragedy, fights, [...]

NEMBBA Contest

Following on from our success at The Butlins mineworkers Open we came a creditable second at Derby being beaten by one point by Silk Brass. A good result and run out for the area contest.