After setting up the Nezzyonbrass website I started to get very itchy feet. At first I assumed it was a horrific dose of athletes foot but then it dawned on me I needed to play in a band again. I last played in 2007 for Newbridge conducted by Paul Holland and have since been taxiing […]
For those of you who have stumbled upon this web site and are wondering what is a Brass Band?, I will do my best to enlighten you and put in it layman’s terms. A brass band consists of groups of brass instruments of various sizes and tones. At the top and squeaky end is the […]
Andy Smith Recorded April 2015 In this episode of the Podcast Nezzy gets behind the microphone and talks to Andy Smith – principle cornet of the Flowers Band Gloucester. Andy started his banding career in the Grangetown SA band following in his father Eric’s footsteps. From those early days he crossed over to main stream brass banding […]
Richard Davies A.K.A. Dickie (ex flugel – Cory) had recently announced on Face book that he was buying a fish tank. There were a few tongue in cheek comments – then I posted a few suggestions for brass band music to keep the fish occupied… Devil and the deep blue sea, Oceans, Galleons Reach, The […]
When it’s time to leave your band, for whatever reason, it is not a pleasant experience. If you are a hard nosed, pig headed, don’t give a monkeys type of bander – you don’t need to read this because you won’t give a tinker’s toot anyway!!! For those of us with a conscience, shame, guilt […]
This first appeared on 4barsrest a few years back – but it’s still relevant as these people will always exist… Players come – players go; bands go up and down the sections like yo-yos; conductors become celebrities and then disappear into obscurity; supporters moan and groan one minute and then think the brass band movement […]
Andrew Jones Recorded December 2013 Andrew Jones was born in in Ponteberym near Carmarthen in West Wales. Many family members were heavily involved with the nearby Crwbin Silver Band and inevitably at the age of 8 he joined making his debut on cornet. Andrew progressed rapidly and became a founder member of the National […]
Rodney Newton Recorded November 2013 In this first episode of the Nezzy on Brass Podcast Nigel Seaman talks to Composer Rodney Newton. Rodney has had a long and varied career as a music consultant to the London Film School, worked as a freelance arranger, music journalist, music critic, lecturer, adjudicator and General Editor of a […]
Brass band Christmas carolling – not for the faint hearted ‘Twas in the winter of 1969 when I experienced my first Christmas banding job. Wigston Temperance Band were out every Christmas and carolled around the streets of deepest Leicestershire come rain, snow, flood or permafrost. On this occasion it was the latter and I was woefully […]