Thank you Concentus

If you’re not careful, brass banding can get a bit formulaic. You trundle along with the usual cycle of contests, summer fetes, Christmas carolling and bandstand performances, staying in your comfort zone in terms of music, venues and audiences. Every so often though, you need to mix things up a bit, and responsibility for keeping […]

First Section – here we come

By most people’s standards, and for lots of reasons, it’s been a tough start to the year for LGB Brass. So we toddled off to Stevenage on Sunday 17th March for the London and Southern Counties Area Contest with mixed feelings. The piece (Darrol Barry’s Rise of the Phoenix) hadn’t sparked too much a flame […]

Tom Littlewood

LGB Brass is very sad to share the news of the sudden passing of horn player Tom Littlewood on Sunday 13th January 2019, aged 35. Tom was one of those people at band who had a smile and a friendly or welcoming word for everyone, from new members to returners and old hands, both the […]

The Band Remembers in November

The first couple of weeks of November are always busy for LGB Brass, and this year was no exception. We kicked things off at Lewes bonfire on the 5th – our second bonfire of the season, having been part of festivities at Hailsham a couple of weeks earlier. Commercial Square Bonfire Society, as ever, made […]

Ash is off to a great start

Training band member Ash Richardson has been awarded the Mayor’s Cup for Most Improved Young Player 2018, receiving the cup and a £50 Bonners voucher kindly gifted by the Mayor’s office. The cup was donated in 2009 by Councillor Mike Chartier, and was presented this year by the current Mayor of Lewes, Councillor Janet Baah. […]

Blowing our own trumpets

The LGB Brass fanfare trumpet crew was out in a slightly drizzly Lewes again at the end of March, supporting the inauguration of the High Sheriffs of East and West Sussex. This has become a regular job for a section of the band, and it’s always enjoyable doing something a bit different. If you’ve like […]

A day of firsts

Well. It’s been nearly a week now, but it still doesn’t quite feel real. On Sunday 18 March LGB Brass travelled to Stevenage to take part in the London and Southern Counties regional contest of the National Brass Band Championships. The pilgrimage to Hertfordshire is an annual one for the band, and 2018 would be […]

Tom and Emma at the finish line

No half measures for LGB Brass members

On Sunday 4 March LGB’s repiano cornet player Emma Ruffle took on the Eastbourne Half Marathon in support of mental health charity Mind. The band were well represented at the event, with flugel/bass player Alex Emberley appearing at the start on behalf of the RNLI, and former member Tom Elliott joining Emma on the course […]