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Midland Area Venue (fwd)

To: Brass Bands <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Midland Area Venue (fwd)
From: Darryl Rayner <drayner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:42:19 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: Rob Green <agreen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Priority: low
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I am forwarding this message on behalf of a friend who is not (yet)
subscribed on the list. I might add that having played at Nottingham with
the City of Birmingham in the past, I am also in agreement with these
sentiments.

Darryl

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Unlike many of you who have written in, I have seen both sides of 
the Midland Area Contest - as a player and as a steward. I am 
however, in complete and total agreement with the condemnation of 
the venue as one totally unfit for the staging of brass band contests. 
It is not a pleasurable venue for either players or organisers (though it 
may be convenient travelling distance for the majority of the 
committee members!)

I also echo the sentiments of others with respect to the lack of warm-
up area, appalling acoustics, the disgraceful catering facilities, but 
those points have already been well covered. My main point 
however, is one based upon my working experiences and that 
concerns Health and Safety. 

If an H & S Inspector was to attend the contest, he or she would call 
an immediate halt to proceedings, on the grounds of the access 
problems and sheer numbers of persons in the building. I shudder to 
think what would happen in the event of a fire or other emergency. 
Perhaps that is the line of argument that should be taken in our 
efforts to get the venue changed.

 BigChap27@xxxxxxx wrote: 

>Whilst I appreciate that we ex "South Midlands and East Anglia" 
>bands have to doff our cap in the direction of the old "North Midlands" 
>area committee and thank them profusely and continuously for letting 
>us play in their contest when our Area was disbanded some years 
>ago, surely we have now served our probation.

Quotation from old North Mids Committee Member  I received first 
hand "I'd like to see the area split again" and "the South Midlands 
Committee was bankrupt when we took them over". Rather confirms 
the above contribution doesn't it.

Regards

Robert Green
City of Birmingham Brass
WMBBA Committee
<agreen@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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