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Brass band players get it in the neck with new vampire book...

Make sure you get your MD to conduct with a stake in rehearsal from now on, as a new horror book by Angela Blythe sees a brass band pursued by a music loving vampire...

Vampire
  Guess who may be getting it in the neck...

If you ever thought brass banding couldn't reach out to a new audience then think again.

What about vampires?

Sticky Valves

Author Angela Blythe has just released her first book of the Saddleworth Vampire series, entitled, 'Sticky Valves' — a wickedly dark take on the vampire horror genre that has already shot to number 1 in the best seller charts through Amazon.

It tells the tale of Friarmere Band who find themselves in a bit of a bloodsucking predicament (as you do) when they are making their way back home from a competition on a particularly spooky night.

Gory tale

It soon becomes a very gory tale of survival — with the added attraction of brass band music making thrown into the mix…

Speaking to 4BR, the respected author, who just happens to be a tenor horn player and mother of Fairey Band percussionist Rick Blythe, said getting members of a brass band to be central characters in the book was a neat way of combining the two loves of her artistic life — music and horror.

"I couldn't think of a better way to combine both at once,"she said. "Both have elements of black humour and satire in their mix, so it quickly became a very dark northern fairytale with a twist."

I'm not giving the plot away by saying that you won't quite believe what the tuba players do with their mouthpieces…

Tuba mouthpieces

Angela added: "I really enjoyed writing the book and response has been fantastic. It is a gory story aimed at an audience who would have enjoyed the 'Shaun of Dead' type of films — scary, but fun.

I'm not giving the plot away by saying that you won't quite believe what the tuba players do with their mouthpieces…"

The book will form the first of a six-part series that Angela hopes to write on a regular ten week cycle — with the second already completed and the rest sketched out.

Buy it now

It can be purchased through Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1549622250/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=4barsrestcom-21&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1549622250&linkId=5bc76bb4e87ad9171b8659b9991be4ca

For more information visit Angela's website at: www.angelablythe.com

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