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Acid Brass

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Subject: Acid Brass
From: D.LANCASTER@xxxxxxxxxxxx 28 Feb 97 11:40:20 GMT
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:40:02 GMT
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Did anyone see the feature in yesterday's Guardian (27.2.97) about 
Williams Fairey and their recording of a CD of acid house dance 
music? It has come as an offshoot from a concert series at the 
Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts called Acid Brass which 
opens on Saturday evening this week.  According to the article the
arrangements have been made by Rodney Newton of the Royal College of 
Music, and organiser Jeremy Deller says "it is going to be quite 
bizzare.  Some of them sound really sparse.  It'll sound like Phillip 
Glass.  Brass bands represent a northern industrial power and pride 
which doesn't really exist any more.  Acid house emerged when this 
power and pride were disappearing" ie after the miners' strike - see 
Brassed Off...

This I would love to hear, but the draw of Phil Wilby and Dyke/YBS 
etc and the prospect of a visit to the Karachi Club may be too great.
If anyone does go, lets hear about it.  (Are you there, Mr 
Stonehouse?)

Acid Brass CD available from April from Mute Bank (0181 964 0029).

PS I had a call from Bram Gay last night re my letter to the Bandsman 
and the list about the 200 plus mistakes in Tintagel.  Apparently 
nobody else has complained since the work was published in the 30s, 
so I can only assume that the percussionist is supposed to finish a bar
before the rest of the band does, and that the discords in the bass line (parts 
not score) are wholly intentional.  My mistake.

PPS best of luck to all the competing in area contests this weekend, especially
any Third Section solo trombonists out there.  Go for it.


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