Annual Dinner 2002

Annual Dinner 2002

The CUBB Awards 2002 were presented by Tom Price, Ben Russell and Aidan Sproat. Here is the complete list of nominations, along with explanations. The names of the winners are underlined.

The Andrew Leach Award for Drinker of the Year

Andrew Brennan

for speedy drinking on the first night of tour.

Rob Richards

for obvious reasons…

Pete Massey

for sustained drinking prowess throughout the year.

Becky Collis

in the name of sexual equality.

The Big JC Award for Navigation

Big JC is presented with a compass in honour of his navigational achievements.

Jon Cameron (aka Big JC)

for repeatedly leading the band very scenically on tour.

Bob the Bus Driver

for spending 3 hours driving round Bristol on the way to Bath.

Tim Styles and Paul Davis

for taking a group of 11 drunkards to Wales in the middle of the night.

John Bichard

for navigating around the room blindfolded during the “feel the bandsman” round of the tour quiz, bumping into everything he could find.

The Blankety Band Award

Awarded to the winners of the tour quiz

Cornet 1

consisting of Andrew Brennan, Jon Thwaite, and some other people I can't remember…

Bob the Driver

for knowing more about the band than anybody else on his team.

The Chris Green Award for Social Prowess

Chris Murrils

because it's traditional.

Heather Barber

for hiring an anonymous cornet player to play Reveille at 9.30am on Friday of tour when half the band was asleep.

Andy Mosedale

for being that cornet player.

Rob Townrow

for bleaching his hair specially for the RAG Blind Date.

Defenestration of the Year

Jon Cameron

for fighting back most while being defenestrated.

Becky Collis

for being the first person to be defenestrated.

Andrew Mosedale

for managing to avoid defenestration despite playing the Reveille and whistling loudly on the coach.

Chris Howlett

for being defenestrated by the largest number of people.

Conductor of the Year Award

Ofer Golan

for setting the tempo in all our pieces.

The Turd of Honour

Awarded for devotion beyond the call of duty

Chris Kemp

for cleaning the floor of the hostel in the middle of the night.

Bob the Driver

for cleaning the toilets on tour.

Mrs. Ofer

for coming on tour and putting up with all of us for four days.

Audience of the Year

St Benedict's Catholic School

for consisting of approximately zero people.

Corpus MCR

for refusing to let us leave until we'd played yet another last carol of the evening…

Wesley Methodist Church

for actually being there and, better still, singing along.

St Alfrege's Church Hall

for providing a choir of old women armed with packets of crisps to accompany us.

Solo of the Year

Ofer Golan

for “Riverdance”.

Ofer Golan

for the intros in “West Side Story”.

Ofer Golan

for the third movement of “Music for a Festival”.

Ofer Golan

for the popping champagne corks in “A West Country Fantasy”.

Pot Tactician of the Year

Awarded for top quality toilet tactics

Andrew Brennan and random Bloke in the gents

for planning to urinate in the sink.

Katie Digger

for selflessly selecting the ant-infested toilet block for the girls on tour.

Rob Richards

for urinating on every signpost between Bristol and Wales, and some of them twice.

The whole band

for simultaneously descending on the public conveniences at the coach park in Bath.

The People's Award for Best Quote

Decided by an online vote by past and present band memebers

Kieren Hollingsworth

Special mention for contributing so many quotes over the past two years.

Helen Lansley (6 votes)

“I don't want to be an infant ing teacher.”

Alex Thomson (7 votes)

“It's not a bonnet, it's an antimacassar!”

Andrew Leach (12 votes)

“Do you not know how important I am?”

The Witchfinder General's Award for Witchfinding

Andrew Pick

because you can tell by looking at him that he's found a few witches in his time.

Steve Hardiman

for staying up all night to look for witches.

Katie Digger

for being chairman of the witchfinding committee.

Helen Griffiths

for owning a cloak that any self-respecting witchfinder would be proud of.

The Speedy Spawn Award for Spawn Sack Racing

Andrew Brennan

for pure speed.

Becky Collis

for damage and aggression.

Jon Thwaite

for survival skills.

Ramsey Farragher

Well, at least he tried…

The Big Jets Award for Comedy Achievement

John Bichard

for walking into every chair in the room while trying to “feel the bandsman” in the tour quiz.

Ramsey Farragher

for comedy vehicle modification of the pedal go-karts on tour. (See pictures below)

Steve Houghton

for poking himself in the eye on tour.

Kieren Hollingsworth

for general contribution to the field of comedy.