DYRMS
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What is a Volunteer Band?I am hoping to join soon and was wondering what is a volunteer band?
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Aaron Aardvark
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It's a bunch of people who get together to blow and bang and get totally hammered voluntarily. 
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greenfairy
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You forgot "insane" in the above description 
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A
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We're a set of nine bands dotted around various naval establishments, providing musical support to each establishment and to the band service.
We rehearse one or two times a week depending on the band and the VBI (Vollie Band Instructor) in the evenings.
We are primarily for serving members or the RN, civil servants, or families of military personnel and retired bandies as an extra curricular thing (and serving members can get out of other duties if they play with the bands) although you get a good mix of ages and people.
As the booties can't be everywhere at once (as they're usually in the pub) our main gigs are divisions, mess dinners and the like, although we have most of our fun doing our own concerts, usually for a forces charity. We do some pretty high profile jobs, our band have recently done International Festival of the Sea and the Queen's 80th birthday party to name just a couple.
A lot of bands have smaller ensembles as well.
Every year we have a massive festival where we all compete in concert and marching displays, this year it's at Pompey Guildhall on the 1st of July,
and we also do several massed band gigs, in the past we've done tattoos, the Lord Mayor's parade in London, various Navy Days, and the annual trip to Cologne in Germany for their festival. LOTS of beer and a hell of a lot of fun.
We get paid in sarnies and beer.
So in other words, Aaaron was right, we're bunch of people who get together to blow and bang and get totally hammered voluntarily.
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DYRMS
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Thanks for the info!!
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sticky blue
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Hic!!
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ANTS
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| Aaron Aardvark wrote: | | It's a bunch of people who get together to blow and bang and get totally hammered voluntarily. |
I've been in Nelson Band for nearly two months now and I can safelly say that never a truer word has been spoken
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bootybandy
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| ANTS wrote: | | Aaron Aardvark wrote: | | It's a bunch of people who get together to blow and bang and get totally hammered voluntarily. |
I've been in Nelson Band for nearly two months now and I can safelly say that never a truer word has been spoken |
She lied........
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ANTS
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| bootybandy wrote: | | ANTS wrote: | | Aaron Aardvark wrote: | | It's a bunch of people who get together to blow and bang and get totally hammered voluntarily. |
I've been in Nelson Band for nearly two months now and I can safelly say that never a truer word has been spoken |
She lied........ |
ha ha.....they should come to the festival and find out for themselves.....
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ZedHorn
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who are wenot sure about this blowing and banging thing Aaron... thought we were trying to recruit not put him off cos he'll think we're a bunch of dodgy filthy minded pi%$heads.... ROFL :viking:
looking forward to the fest... brrrr rrrrr hic, brr rrr hic ching!
DOC
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Pompey Rich
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Also t here are some Green Fairies who do there utmost to avoid drill
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greenfairy
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Erm. Once. I missed it once. Due to having torn the ligaments in my ankle.
But hey, what would you drummers know, you're hardly ever there 
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Pompey Rich
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Some of us have to work wierd shift patterns. But at least I'll be marching Thursday 
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Aaron Aardvark
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| Pompey Rich wrote: | | Some of us have to work wierd shift patterns. But at least I'll be marching Thursday |
...and that's cause to celebrate is it??  you are weird
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A
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You'll be marchign on your own Rich, we're all off to Winchester for a church service.
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bootybandy
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| Pompey Rich wrote: | | Also t here are some Green Fairies who do there utmost to avoid drill |
You don't have to be a Green Fairy to avoid Drill Rich.....Ask anyone in the RMB and they would all have liked to avoided it.....Hats off to GF for doing her bit for it.  
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