Do Marching Band Festivals Count?
So, some of my friends were in a Marching Band festival this week. The general idea is that, in a set time limit, you have to march through 6 villages and perform in their band stand. Modern marches are therefore Sitting In Traffic waiting for the five bands ahead of you to finish in the bandstand, so you can leg it down the high street playing oom-pa-pa and trying not to get absolutely soaked in the English Summertime. They're judged on their marching and the playing.

So anyway, my friend looks out of the window before they get to the first village, and decides he's going to make it more interesting. So he pours 6 pints of cider into a vacuum flask, tapes it to the side of his tuba the judges won't see, and threads a rubber tube around the valves so it's next to his mouth. So now when he's marching, he's also getting quietly pissed in the rests.

His band didn't win. I doubt they marched particularly well after the first few villages. :P

And to answer my own question: Yes, Marching Bands do count... but only if they have a good percussionist.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Tue 9 Jun 2009, 22:27, 1 reply)

Whit Friday ftw
I miss it now I live back down south again.
( kikilookeylikey, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 10:57, closed)