The band made the long journey to Stevenage on Saturday 19th March in order to compete in the 2nd Section of the Regional Qualifying Contest for 2022. This was organised by the London and Southern Counties Region of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain and, due to the Covid pandemic, is the first to take place in this… Read more »
It was a good day at the office for the the band at the scaba Spring Contest at Reigate College yesterday. In its first contest performance since January 2020 the band, competing in the 2nd section, came 2nd in both the test piece and the march competitions. The contest was held as one open section section and out of all… Read more »
The band has 75 video clips on YouTube dating back to 1990. Follow the link if you would like to see some of them (if the link doesn’t take you straight there, please copy and paste it). https://www.youtube.com/user/BAESYSTEMSBrass/videos
The band is looking forward to competing at the Butlin’s Mineworkers Open National Brass Band Festival over the weekend of 11th and 12th January 2020. This is the first time that the band has attended the festival which, years ago, was solely for Colliery bands. However, the demise of the coal industry lead to Butlin’s opening the festival up to the… Read more »
The band are delighted to have been placed 6th out of 18 bands in the 2nd Section at this year’s London and Southern Counties Regional Contest which took place at Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre over the weekend of 16th and 17th March. Drawn to play 11th, the band were the 2nd to play after the interval and received very… Read more »
The band have been working hard on this year’s 2nd Section test piece, Darrol Barry’s ‘The Rise of the Phoenix’, in preparation for the annual London and Southern Counties Regional contest which takes place this over coming weekend 16th and 17th March. The contest will be held in Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre and the band have been drawn to… Read more »
The Band took part in the scaba Autumn Contest at the Hawth in Crawley once again this year. Having been drawn to play 3rd out of 7 bands competing in the 1st Section, and playing Philip Sparke’s super piece ‘The Saga of Haakon the Good’, the Band were happy to be placed 3rd making us the highest placed nationally graded… Read more »
Playing Philip Sparke’s Endeavour, the Band were placed third in the first section of the 2011 Autumn Contest at Folkestone’s Leas Cliff Hall on 8th October 2011. This was a particularly pleasing result on a difficult piece as the contest was held only two weeks after the Band’s performance at the National 3rd Section Finals in Cheltenham.
BAE Systems Brass Band qualified for the 2011 National Brass Band Championship and appeared in the 3rd Section at Cheltenham on 25th September 2011. The qualification came about by virtue of the band winning the Regional earlier in the year at Stevenage. Playing the set test piece ‘Darkness Visible, by Richard Grantham, the band finished 12th making it the highest… Read more »
The Band came first in the third section of the 2011 Regional Championship Contest at Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre on 20th March 2011. As a result, they have been invited to compete in the National Championships in Cheltenham during the weekend of 24th and 25th September 2011. The Band produced fine performances at the Stevenage contest in 2009, 2010… Read more »