http://www.focubb.org.uk/ 2012-04-03T10:35:25+02:00 http://www.focubb.org.uk/ http://www.focubb.org.uk/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-03-29T22:01:55+02:00 christopher.ashford http://www.focubb.org.uk/history:cubb?rev=1333051315&do=diff We hope to use this wiki to collect together a history of both the History of CUBB and History of FoCUBB. The beginning... Cambridge University Brass Band was set up in 1987, as an entirely student-run and self-funded university society. Since its early days, the band has enjoyed large membership, and has attracted high quality brass players from all over the country. The society's aim was, and remains, to promote the unique music and musicianship enjoyed in a traditional brass band. This has … text/html 2012-03-25T00:20:58+02:00 wkeen http://www.focubb.org.uk/history:contest2012?rev=1332631258&do=diff [CUBB at UniBrass 2012] MD Peter Edwards' second UniBrass saw the band undertake a less 'blasty' programme in accordance with the previous adjudicators' comments. This time, we even had a couple of PowerPoint presentations going on in the background for two of the pieces -- CUBB goes high-tech. Sadly, this didn't win us as many points as we'd have liked. Still, there's always next year! text/html 2012-03-25T00:05:51+02:00 wkeen http://www.focubb.org.uk/history:contest2011?rev=1332630351&do=diff CUBB entered the very first UniBrass Contest in 2011 with high hopes, not really knowing what the rest of the field, or the contest itself, would be like. Lead by our fearless conductor, Peter Edwards, the band chose a fairly challenging programme and just played the pieces completely straight, with no silly 'entertainment' nonsense.