The Touch of Brass programme is hosted by Martin Upfold and co-presenter Julie Hedge is on the air each week on Community Radio Station Swindon105.5.com at 5.00pm — 6.00pm.
Not only can you tune in each week and listen to a new programme, you can also repeat things on 'Catch Up' too.
Martin Upfold
Martin's family banding roots lie with Pelton Fell Band, now the NASUWT Riverside Band with whom his grandfather and great grandfather both played.
He started to play on Eb bass aged 13, and went on to play with Swindon Youth Band, the Swindon Young Musicians Club, Swindon Concert Brass and Aldbourne Band.
He returned to Swindon Band and continued to play with them under the late Francis Cowley. He also had time to fit in playing with the Wessex RAF Voluntary Band and went on to play again with Swindon Pegasus Brass.
He started to work with Community radio station Swindon105.5 in 2008 presenting 'A Touch of Brass' which you can hear between 6pm & 7pm every Sunday evening.
In 2020 he was diagnosed with Parkinsons but has maintained his programme ever since, much to the delight of listeners around the banding world who listen in every week.
Welcome
Martin welcomes listeners every Sunday between 5.00pm & 6.00pm on Swindon105.5 or (FM)105.5, on the App, Now on Digital,
Go to www.swindon1055.com and click on 'Listen Live', or if you missed the show y, click on 'Catch Up'.
You can also leave a message to get a track played at martin.upfold@swindon1055.com or info@swindon1055.com (putting your message c/o A Touch of Brass) or telephone Swindon105.5 between 10am — 3pm, Monday — Friday on 01793 611555 and leave a message.
Sunday 15th February:
5.00pm — 6.00pm
Ceremonial March from Aida (Verdi)
Band of the Coldstream Guards
Pomp and Circumstance March No.4 (Elgar)
Band of the Coldstream Guards
Demelza (Nash)
Swindon Brass
Soloist: Duncan Mead
Rondo from 4th Horn Concerto (Mozart)
Yorkshire Imperial Metals
Hava Nagila (Trad)
Carlton Main Frickley Collier
Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Black Dyke Band
Soloists: Robert & Nicholas Childs
On the Town (Bernstein)
Eikanger Bjorsvik Musikklag
The Rose (McBroom)
Band of the Harwich RBL
Elizabethan Serenade (Binge)
The Lost Chord (Sullivan)
Black Dyke Band
Huddersfield Choral Society
March from A Moorside Suite (Holst)
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Sunday 22nd February:
Bandology (Osterling)
Yorkshire Imperial Metals
Overture to Mack & Mabel (Herman)
Aldbourne
Brilliante
Foden's Band
Soloist: Glyn Williams
A Trumpeter's Lullaby (Anderson)
Miss Blue Bonnet (Simon & Smith)
Brighouse & Rastrick
Soloist: Roger Webster
633 Squadron (Goodwin)
Central Band of the Royal Air Force
The Hustle (McCoy)
Williams Fairey
Benedictus from the Armed Man (Jenkins)
Cory
Don't Cry for Me Argentina (Webber/Rice)
Williams Fairey
You Raise Me Up (Loveland)
Reg Vardy Band
Love Divine
Praise My Soul The King of Heaven
Grimethorpe
