North West Area 2012

On Sunday 26th February both the Senior and B band took part in the North West Area contest at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool.  Both bands went to the contest very confident in the knowledge that we had prepared performances that could persuade the adjudicators to award us qualification to the national finals in the championship section and the 3^rd section respectively.

The senior band were only playing later in the day so by the time we got to Blackpool the B band had already played and MD Peter Ashley was very pleased with the bands performance of their test piece ‘Olympus’ and was still hoping that it would be good enough to take them to the finals.  It was a similar story also with the senior band, because after we had left the stage it was hand shakes and hugs all round after a very clean and solid performance of ‘Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’ from the band and soloists alike.

Come results time it was not to be our year for qualifying for the finals.  The B Band came a very creditable 8^th out of an 18 band line up and the senior band were 5^th out of 12 against the North West’s finest.


Full results courtesy of 4BR below.

Test piece:

The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea, Derek Bourgeois

1 Leyland Michael Bach 10 -

2 Fairey Ian Porthouse 5 -

3 Foden’s Allan Withington 4 -

4 Co-op Milnrow Marieka Gray 11 -

5 Pemberton Old Wigan DW Mark Bentham 8 -

6 Blackburn & Darwen Nick Sheppard 7 -

7 Co-operative Funeralcare NW Jef Sparkes 2 -

8 Wingates Andrew Berryman 1 -

9 Bollington Brass Peter Christian 6 -

10 VBS Poynton Colin Short 3 -

11 Ashton-Under-Lyne Simon Stonehouse 9 -

w Longridge Mark Peacock - -

Test piece:

Olympus, Philip Harper

1 Besses Boys James Holt 17 -

2 Whitworth Vale & Healey John Binns 7 -

3 Trinity Girls Stuart Barton 9 -

4 Hazel Grove Nigel Beasley 18 -

5 Farnworth & Walkden Peter Ashley 6 -

6 Cheshire Constabulary David Woollam 14 -

7 Rivington & Adlington Brian Harper 15 -

8 Pemberton Old Wigan DW 'B' Peter Ashley 10 -

9 Lostock Hall Memorial Graham Martin 4 -

10 Blackpool Brass Tariq Ahmed 8 -

11 Eccles Borough Marieka Gray 11 -

12 Boarshurst Silver David Ashworth 5 -

13 Skelmersdale Prize David Chapman 2 -

14 Nelson Brass Roy Waite 1 -

15 Stalybridge Old G. Smith 16 -

16 Old Hall Brass John North 3 -

17 Eagley Neil Parkinson 13 -

18 Formby Anthony Higham 12 -