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4BR at the Masters

4BR will be at the All England International Masters Competition in Kettering on Sunday – and you can follow all the action as it happens.

Kettering
 

22 bands line up to battle it out on ‘An Epic Symphony’ at the Lighthouse Theatre in the Kettering Conference Centre in Northants this Sunday.

From the off

4BR will be there from the off, to provide our usual coverage on each performance through the 4BR site, on 4BR Twitter and with our customary video blogs and action pictures from Ian Clowes at Goldy Solutions.

4BR will be there from the off, to provide our usual coverage on each performance through the 4BR site, on 4BR Twitter and with our customary video blogs and action pictures4BR

Coverage

We will be giving our usual thoughts and opinions on each of the performances as soon as they are done and dusted from 10.00am onwards, plus our concise Twitter thoughts and Twit Pics of the competing bands on stage on #masters2010

Results

We will get the results up as soon as we get them (you should sign up for them free on our SMS service http://www.4barsrest.com/news/detail.asp?id=11681 and our retrospectives and postcard will also by up as soon as we recover from the trip.

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