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Re: Pershore Festival -----Back Biters!!!

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Subject: Re: Pershore Festival -----Back Biters!!!
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 18:53:24 +0100
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-----Original Message-----
From: L R Eccleston <loz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06 July 1998 10:16
Subject: Pershore Festival -----Back Biters!!!

>I played at the weekend at the 'Pershore Festival' with my own band and
found out >some alarming home truth's.Firstly, the pathetic display of 'BACK
BITING' that >occurred between certain band's........No comradardery at all
between bands just a >loathsome regard for one other that verges on
'Vomiting blood'!

You've only just realised this?  Where have you been for the past umpteen
years?!

>The amount of ill-feeling between bands and therefore people is utterly
intolerable!
>I predict that within 10 years banding will destroy itself.....

Hurrah!  Then we get down to the real business of making music, of which
'banding' is the direct antithesis.

>(One of the) main things needed to progress (is) a feeling of joining
together and >becoming a universal banding area with common goals and
aspirations is the >other.Sadly we do not offer that in our area, and never
will.

I'm not sure that having 'common goals and aspirations' are quite desirable,
or indeed necessary for progress, but you are right that such things are not
offered.  However, I understand that these are matters for which Brass Band
Federation was recently formed. Whether or not it gets much support from
bands at large remains to be seen.

>The weekends Festival on a musical level went very well indeed....

Then that's all that matters.

Best wishes

Alec

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