PREVIOUS QUOTES/TIPS OF THE WEEK (21-30)
Quote #21 : "Your
hands can probably go faster than my tongue" (Claire issues a challenge
to Chris Martin before the contest)
"The winners of the Best Bass Section...Band Three - Battle Town"
(Words none of us thought we'd live to hear!)
Tip #21: Drummers! Always
check the snare before starting the Test Piece. Then check it again. And again
if necessary.
Quotes
#22 : "I keep a bag of marshmellows (sic) in my room and toast
them in bed over those little night-lights" (Olau)
"Olau, you are sad" (Sheila)
"Physically
I'm twenty-one, mentally I'm four" (Shelley)
"I'm just going home to relieve Russell" (Kirsty)
Tip #22: Band can't keep in line at
marches? Trouble remembering which foot to start on? Cornets won't
stop chatting?
Simply put a television camera somewhere along the route and hey
presto! Instant "military discipline"!
Quote
#23 : "I can't
finish this" (Peter, astonishly, calls it quits before the
end of the pint)
Tip #23: By all means leave your music
on top of your car whilst loading, but do not attempt to drive away
before removing it. If you should somehow forget this rule, ensure
that you realise as soon as possible and remedy the situation.
Quotes
#24 : "If
I close mine, does yours get harder?" (Stuart to William)
"How do you make it hard?" (Chloe)
The best quote this week was from Shelley, but as this is essentially
a family website I can't print it here.
That said, if anyone reeeally wants to know, just ask! Needless
to say, it involves a fire engine.
Tip #24: Don't mix your drinks if you
want to ride rollercoasters the next day.
Quote
#25 : "I like
a little nibble every now and again" (Russell)
Tip #25: Don't live in Hastings if
you're worried about having your car nicked.
Quote
#26 : "I'll
give her one after the rehearsal" (Pete W about Ruth M)
Tip #26: Don't challenge Ruth Cavilla
to an eating contest
Quote
#27 : "Ugh,
that sounds like a bloody foghorn!" (Ruth C misses the point
of The Padstow Lifeboat)
Tip #27: Don't take a tennis ball to
band. Unless you fancy climbing onto the school roof.
Tip #28: To avoid elderly-relative-humiliation in front of the whole band: If there's any chance of your Gran turning up to the fête you're playing at, don't dye your hair red until afterwards.
Quotes
#29 : (Conductor
to back-row) "I need more dynamics"
(back-row player) "I'm playing as loud as I can!"
(spotted during an "unnamed" band's rehearsal by
one of our equally "unnamed" Uni exiles)
"Watch out; Olau's tend to bounce out and stab people!"
(Shelley)
Tip #29: If you are going to be getting very, very drunk celebrating
contest success, don't spend lots of money on expensive cornet
study books that a) you will, in your inebriated state, leave
behind, and b) you would never have used anyway.