The Mob

Remix1 - Curtis Carrington on Sax http://drumrunners.org/node/1032

Phone 07932 448627 at 8.30pm on Wednesday 17th Febrary to be part of the next Remix.

Or join us in person at 7.30pm at The Bang Bar, The Parade, Basing View, Basingstoke with your Instrument / Voice / Rap and join in with a unique blend of Carnival / Gypsy Ska Drum n bRass. 

Battle of the Bands

27 February 2010

7pm

At the Irish Centre, Council Road, Basingstoke

14th November 2009

Drum n bRass are moving!

We are now playing at The Bang Bar on Wednesday evenings.
Come along and bang a drum / toot a tune!
FREE ENTRY!

7.30pm

Drum n bRass play carnival rhythms and catchy tunes and are totally interactive.

PLUS!
On a monthly basis "Drum n bRass" will also be hosting a Family friendly "Sunday Social"
and we are looking to "Pimp a tune" of a local band who are willing to play a short set at these events.

Support Live Music!

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Contact Paul for more details.
Mobile 07932 448627
paul@drumrunners.org
www.drumrunners.org/drumnbrass1

Korean Percussion group

"Gong Myoung"

performing at South Street Arts Centre, Reading.  8pm 14 October 2009.

Tickets at special rates - contact Box office for more details.

Tel 0118 9606060

For creative practitioners around the Basingstoke and Deane borough.  This will be an informal monthly event along the lines of Winchester’s ‘Café Culture’ which will provide an opportunity to come out and meet professionals and other like-minded people in a relaxed setting.  The focus will be on a guest speaker who’ll present current local and national creative developments or issues, which are open to debate.  This will also be an occasion to announce your upcoming projects, exhibitions or other news.

The Creative Café will be meeting upstairs at the Tonic Bar, London Road every last Thursday of the month (initially 24th September, 29th October and 26th November) at 6:30 for 7:00pm. If the pilot is successful the partners would hope to continue with the Creative Café in the New Year.

Creative Cafe Announcement

Creative Cafe Invitation

If you would like to receive an invitation to this free monthly event and sign up for e-mail updates to share information on what’s happening in the creative community, please contact:

Ceri Adams at ceri.adams@basingstoke.gov.uk

Drum n Brass are playing as part of the Mayors Charity Concert.

Lots of acts performing!

This will be a huge feast of musical talent

3 October 7.30pm at The Anvil, Basingstoke

>Click here for Flyer

28 June

3pm - 8pm

Bang Bar, Basing View

Come along and hear some chilled grooves with D.J sets from MOOK and SKA BOY STEVE + Live music from the Drum n bRass group.

For more info contact paul@drumrunners.org

3 July 7.30pm

Open Mic

Central Studio

www.centralstudio.co.uk

Contact shane.leeuwen@qmc.ac.uk

FREE Concert in Oxford

Relaxing after todays Hook Fun Run.

Ivor,Moni,Alan,Mandy,Kevin,Sue,

Greg,George and Paul (behind camera)

Highlights were;

Drying off in the sunshine.

Playing some wicked rhythms.

Supporting the runners.

At the end we tricked the crowd in thinking we had run 10 miles.

,and I run backwards :-)

Eating and drinking.

Meeting two new players, Alistair and Sally.

Ordering a cup of tea with a set of agogo bells.

Ivor finding the beer tent.

Wheeling George home in a wheel barrow (hang over!).

Christening Kevin as Hampshire Strawberry.

Upstairs at The White Hart - Drum n bRass.

Photo by Colin Hunt 

Brass players - not all in pic but the players are  Jo,Colin,Philip,Ben,Howard,Emily,Ben,Lee.

Photo by Colin Hunt

FUNDRAISING EVENT - LUCY BETTERIDGE is doing a sponsored tandem skydive for PAG on 4th May. If you would like to sponsor her and can get further sponsors, please download a sponsor form ....... Click Here

http://www.pagforspecialplay.co.uk/

The newly formed Drum n bRass group are pimping the tunes of local artists.

Punky Pimp! performed at Basingstoke Live 2009

Look out for the new PMT's 

A great start to the Drum n bRass project and a big thanks to all of you who have been adding to the exciting dynamics that this group is creating.

The phonetics or guide notes for the drums can be found at the following link -

Guide Notes - Phonetics

I could see a realisation in many faces at last weeks rehearsal that it IS sounding really good, but it can only get better from this point onwards.

*** N.B Anyone passing by Winklebury please contact me if you can give Cecilia a lift.

The plan for next week is to work with a few new brass players that have said that they are coming and to work on favourite tunes from the list and to start work on a new rhythm called "Laz or Rachinitza" and some middle eastern scales to create our own arrangements from a simple starting place.

We are planning to play at various locations in the Spring and Summer and it would be good to get an idea as to whether you are happy to do this and your availability for the folowing dates;

a) 25th April - Southsea Castle (daytime - Time TBA)

b) 26th April - Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke 2pm - 5pm - Performance at Over 55's Forum - All proceeds to Prostate Cancer Mobile Monitoring -Equipment for B.& N.H.NHS F.T and local Doctors

c) 17th May - Hook Fun Run (daytime - Time TBA)

d) 20th May - Performance at The White Hart, Basingstoke 7pm - 10pm * With Special Guest.

e) 22nd May - Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading 7pm - 10.30pm

f) 25th May - Reading Carnival 12pm - 4pm

g) 13th June - Unicorns Fete, Basingstoke 2pm - 9pm (but not playing all day)

h) 21st June - Race for Life, Basingstoke (11am - 1pm)

i) 26th June - Workshop and Performance (7pm - 11pm) with "Fanfare en Petard" Street Band from France who are this year playing at Glastonbury Festival. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt2TfPE8cE&feature=related

j) 27th June - After Party Gig at South Hill Park (as part of the Big Day Out Festival) Time TBA - Please advise if you can do either daytime/evening or both. Drum n bRass will be playing individually but also together with a New Orleans Jazz band/Brasilian Samba Band/Oxford Street Band/Fanfare en Petard. So far we are going to show them all "Romski Cocek" and Horns of Plenty from Oxford are going to teach us "Custard in my underpants", oh yes it has a tune too. See Links http://www.hornsofplenty.co.uk/band/ODS/HoP-and-BoP-Custard.mp3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBD6VCFaNUs

k) 28th June - After Party Gig at South Hill Park (as part of the Big Day Out Festival) Time TBA - Please advise if you can do either daytime/evening or both. Drum n bRass will be playing individually but also together with a New Orleans Jazz band/Brasilian Samba Band/Oxford Street Band/Fanfare en Petard.

l) 4th July - Sandhurst Festival - 4.30pm - 6pm and on the same day

m) 4th July - another chance to perform at Chineham Festival, Basinsgtoke 7.30pm - 9pm

n) 11th and 12th July - Basingstoke Live Festival - busy days but with lots of chances to get involved with the Festival.

o) 12th September - Green Fair, Brookvale, Basingstoke 10am - 5pm (but not playing all day)

p) 10th October - Pumpkin Festival, Netley near Southampton 10am - 4pm

As you all may know, we are not looking for 100% commitment and we can not always plan to have a full band but please reply as soon as you can as we have to do a lot of planning for this year to make this a success for all of us.

Some gigs will at least pay expenses and some will pay generous expenses and we always plan to do car share to save the environment.

Best regards

Paul

Romski Cocek - Week 2 of Drum n bRass workshops

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Currently looking for more Brass players to join our new Drum n bRass workshops.

For more information contact:

Jason Knight

jason@drumrunners.org

07843 348656 

Paul Midgley

paul@drumrunners.org

07932 448627