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Post Match Analysis:
London & Southern Counties Regional Championships 2002
Second Section:
Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre
Saturday March 16th
Adjudicator: James Scott
Commences: After 3rd Section Prizes
Competing Bands:
1. Northfleet Brass (D. Lewis): 11 186
2. Becontree Brass (W. Rumford): 3 184
3. Broseley Brass (P. Fenson): 10 183
4. Horsham Borough (L. Baron): 8 182
5. Stonesfield Silver (T. Brotherhood): 6 181
6. Cantium Brass (J. Goold): 13 180
7. Brighton Silver (E. Flood): 2 179
8. Wantage Silver A (M. Pegram): 14 178
9. Cawston (C. Swaep): 1 177
10. BAE Systems (K. Woodger): 12 176
11. Woking Brass (G. Wyatt): 4 175
12. Crystal Palace (M. Gray): 7 170
13. Littleport Brass (J. Hammond): 9 169
Disqualified: Grimsdyke Brass (Harrow) (K. Ransom): 5
Top two qualify
James Scott was the thoughtful adjudicator for the Second Section
and he used all his years of top class musicianship to make sure
that the most musical and technically most secure performances won
the day. He remarked that he felt that many bands would have approached
the Ewald set work possibly thinking it was an easy piece to play,
but they should have known better: the easier things look, the harder
they usually are.
And so it proved, as more than a few bands fell foul of trying to
blow their way to victory and sacrificed their chances on the gibbet
of strident untunefulness. So many were simply loud and out of tune.
Not so Northfleet Brass who played off the number 11 draw and gave
a wonderful performance that secured a clear two point victory over
Becontree Brass in second place. Both bands displayed exactly the
qualities James Scott was looking for, and benefited accordingly,
whilst Broseley Brass under Paul Fenson just missed out on the trip
to Torquay after giving a very secure and confident performance
prior to Northfleet taking the stage. That proved a good comparison,
and Northfleet certainly displayed enough tight ensemble playing
and in tune playing to deserve the three point margin over them
and secure the winners enclosure.
Fourth place went to Horsham Borough, who we thought would come
a little higher in our preview, whilst Stonesfield Silver played
right to form (for us anyway) to take home the predetermined 5th
place. Cantium Brass made up the frame with 6th spot, which was
a fine return following their promotion from the third section.
Brighton Silver improved a place from last year to come 7th, whilst
Wantage Silver dropped 5 places from 2001 to come 8th (and drop
from our preview position of 4th). Cawston came home 9th, which
was an improvement of one place from last year and BAE Systems couldn’t
live up to our pre match prediction of a possible 3rd place and
dropped to 10th.
Our tip for the top, Woking Brass will be cursing our prediction
as they fell from 5th last year to 11th this time around (sorry
ladsand lasses for giving you the kiss of death in predicting you
would win) and Crystal Palace improved from 13th in 2001 to come
home 12th this year. The final placing went to Littleport Brass
who may face relegation after coming last to go with their 12th
place of last year.
So well done Northfleet and Becontree, who really went for it and
showed that our predictions for them both were more than a little
way out. Shows how much we know about second section London banding
doesn’t it!
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