Guestbook

Name: Julia   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 07/02/2012 22:04:00

Congratulations to all members of the Training Band on your Gold award at GBBA contest on Sunday. Another fine result - well done :)

Name: Robert Morgan   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 30/01/2012 15:35:00

Really pleased with the playing from all the training band members at Cross Keys on Saturday. Well done to George, Ieuaf and Ollie for their solos and congratulations to Otis for winning the best soloist in the section prize.

Name: Julia   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 28/01/2012 21:41:00

Congratulations to everyone in the Training Band on your 3rd prize and best soloist prize at Cross Keys today. Very well deserved by you all!!!

Name: Sue   Location: Churchdown - Gloucester   Date: 20/01/2012 19:18:00

Well done the band what a fab array of photos, I am even on one, what a marvelous history.

Sue

Name: Robert Morgan   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 06/01/2012 15:38:00

Have a look at the Wessex BBA association web site. Looks good to see our name up in lights!!

http://www.wessexbba.co.uk/

 

Name: Elwyn & Margaret Of The Wrinklies.   Location: Yerstill.   Date: 22/12/2011 11:43:00

Happy Christmas !!! everyone.      It was a good night in The Courtfield.   With playing like there has been this last year, who knows maybe; LOCK UP YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ALBERT HALL HERE (HEAR) WE COME.

Name: John   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 16/12/2011 13:48:00

Excellent Christmas Concert.  Forest Theatre was packed on a very cold evening. Well done the Band and Great Western Chorus led by Phillip Harper.  Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous 2012.

Name: Deb   Location: Cam   Date: 05/12/2011 18:12:00

A great night at the band social and Ali's 40th, thank you to those who organised it and made it such a good night and thank you Mark for the great photos smiley

Name: Elwyn   Location: Yerstill.   Date: 29/11/2011 12:43:00

Just read my last epistle; don't know how I managed it but it should have read ABBOTSBURY not Almondsbury, spoiled my own pun. Congratulatons  to THE BAND upon a successful sortie into the lands to the south.

                                                                                                                                      Elwyn of THE WRINKLIES.smiley

Name: John   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 28/11/2011 15:17:00

Brill result at both the GBBA and WESSEX BBA,  Congratulations to you all, well done Ian HOLMES.

Name: Elwyn & Margaret Of The Wrinklies   Location: Yerr !   Date: 24/11/2011 21:36:00

Belated congratulations on the GBBA result. I (Elwyn) was having a not very good day, so I wasn't there to enjoy.

Best of luck at Weymouth this weekend. Don't go swanning off to Almondsbury anyone and missing your blow.

Elwyn & Margaret of THE WRINKLIES.

Name: Mark Lythaby   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 22/11/2011 07:48:00

For the full contest results see the GBBA website 

http://www.gbba-online.org.uk/contests.html#contest11oc

Name: Robert Morgan   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 21/11/2011 15:50:00

I couldn't have said it better Paula and fully endorse all your comments.  Great day for the band with an excellent performance of Jubilee and Paganini.  Getting the bucket and spade ready for next weekend!  See you all Wednesday.

Name: Paula   Location: Cheltenham   Date: 21/11/2011 10:12:00

Just to say.... Well Done to both Lydbrook bands Yesterday!  Silver Award for Lydbrook Training, and Youngest player for Alice! Solid start for the main band to build on, which we did.

Best Cornet, Best Flugel, Best Horns, Best Euph, Best Basses, Best Percussion, Instrumentalist of the section and of the day, Best March, Best Test Piece, and lastly but by no means the least,,,, Mr Holmes Conductor of the winning band!  Not a bad day at the office.

And now a day at the seaside to come.......

Name: Julia   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 17/11/2011 20:51:00

Good luck to all in Lydbrook Band and Training Band at GBBA contest this weekend!

Name: Deb   Location: Cam   Date: 17/11/2011 16:48:00

Loving the old photos smiley

Name: Kristyann   Location: Fod   Date: 09/11/2011 21:59:00

Thanks to everyone who voted for Rhiannon in the Ambition AXA Award for The Arts.  Delighted to let you know that she has made the Final!

Name: Mark   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 08/11/2011 17:56:00

Well done to all the members of Lydbrook Training Band who took part in The Schools Prom as members of the Gloucestershire Youth Brass Band, held at the Royal Albert Hall, London.  Truely amazing.

Some photos can be seen on the Classic FM website

http://www.classicfm.co.uk/events/schools-proms/monday-line-up/schools-prom-live-peformances-gloustershire-youth-/

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Name: Kristyann   Location: Fod   Date: 03/11/2011 23:50:00

Hey Everyone - need your help! Rhiannon has made the final 5 in the AmbitionAXAAwards in the Arts categories for her trombone playing and we need you to vote for her so she can make the final 3. The winner of her category will get a personal development package worth up to 40K! could you vote by visiting http://www.ambitionaxaawards.com/content/arts/rhiannon-symonds and clicking on the vote button.  You need to reply to the email that AXA send you to complete your vote.. We only have until sunday to get her into the final 3 so if you could vote we'd be really grateful.  

Hope everything is going well for the band

Kristyann

Name: Julia   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 01/11/2011 18:03:00

Good luck to the Lydbrook contingent of GYBB with your upcoming performance at The Albert Hall - we will be there cheering you on, feeling very proud of you all!

Name: Robert Morgan   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 30/10/2011 14:39:00

Good to hear from you Andrew and to see that you are still following the band's progress. I don't think Roy Newsome came to Lydbrook but I'm sure you remember the great time we had with him and Philip Wilby when you were secretary of the GBBA and we organised the National Youth band course and concerts in Gloucester Cathedral and Monmouth School. What year was that? Look forward to seeing you at the GBBA contest on the 20th November and glad you haven't lost your sense of humour!!

 

 

Name: Andy Mason   Location: Mitcheldean   Date: 30/10/2011 07:39:00

great to see the band doing so well i didnt know about it but i would have loved to have been at the wilby concert  thats my kind of concert .i met roy newsome on a few occasions and was sad to hear of his passing .im trying to recall wether or not he came to lydbrook though i dont think he did.however he was a great inffluence to us all.i dont get much chance these days to attend events but if im free ill come and support you at the gbba . its great to follow you on this new site which is not only a credit to the the band but typical of lydbrooks proffessional endeavour. well done and happy xmas to you all.

ps forgive my spelling mistakes . i was a student at the cannop college of further knowlege where acorn picking was a prime subject and reading and writing was put on the back burner.

Name: John   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 16/10/2011 11:20:00

Brill Concert ....on another level....well done the Band. Thanks to Prof Wilby & Ian Holmes.

Name: Julia   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 13/10/2011 21:51:00

Really enjoyed Saturday's concert, especially the Organ Symphony at the end. Congratulations to you all !!!

Name: Anon   Location: Uk   Date: 11/10/2011 15:00:00

Mr Newsome RIP

Name: John Heritage   Location: Bedford   Date: 10/10/2011 20:26:00

Great website! Warm wishes to Ian Holmes and Nigel Galliot from an old chum!

Name: Robert Morgan   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 03/10/2011 10:11:00

Well done to all the training band for their concert on Sunday evening at Gloucester Salvation Army. Special thanks to all the soloist who did so well. I will put a full write up on the News page in due course.

Name: Elwyn & Margaret Of The Wrinklies   Location: Yer.   Date: 24/09/2011 17:29:00

Looks like this is the first Wrinkie entry on the new bright site. Nice to have some music playing as you climb aboard.  Regards to all who have a look at this website.  Elwyn & Margaret.

Name: Deb   Location: Cam   Date: 23/09/2011 19:49:00

Absolutely fab website smiley Thank you Sally,Emily and Mark.

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Name: Sally   Location: Ross   Date: 23/09/2011 08:51:00

So pleased you all like what you see smiley

Name: Julia Lythaby   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 22/09/2011 22:09:00

Well done guys - the website is a real improvement.  It's fresh and interesting - great to see the regular updates from Rob, please keep them coming.  Congratulations!

Name: Robert Morgan   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 22/09/2011 17:20:00

Great to have all sections of the website up and running and again many thanks to Sally, Emily and Mark for their work on this.  My experience of websites is that not many people contribute to it, so let's all join in with comments on the guest book and any items/photos for the news section or gallery.

Name: John   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 22/09/2011 16:02:00

Congratulations on the new  website it's great. Like the March - LYDBROOK.  Brill !!!

Name: Mark Lythaby   Location: Lydbrook   Date: 21/09/2011 22:21:00

The new website is looking great. smiley