a baby see right off the shallow well yes Saturday lunch time with her until half past 2 this afternoon 6 but it's past 12 Nice to be company again if we are then after a busy week last going on as always busy busy busy what's been going on with me up in here a lot this week as you can imagine at In The Afternoon Show this week which has been good fun lots going on took Duggie to a professional lesson for Been in how long it I should be walking a dog for his breed we might play a little bit of that a bit lighter University been doing some studies into how long this will go dog for so I took Doug to hopping to to learn from the best which was great as we had a good time tonight and we had all the afternoon show in the wakes we might do that but like to see how we get on so that was good fun when I was going to book a slow job that I got to saying you know Go Go Go ahead of these things it's funny you know I don't know if you get a flu jab but you are entitled to one for free or you pay for one I wouldn't but every time particularly here I tell somebody I've got the flu jab to the air I've got. To wake to people people go to going to free the more you do it that and mice very simple as you never going to believe this. It's I don't want flu that's my answer to that and it's really realistically I think it was about 12 quid or something and we started doing the last 2 or 3 is me doing it so we've we booked in for I think October so we're doing it painless I felt a bit rocky after the 1st day or so because it can make you feel a bit funny apparently but after that was fine but there you go so yes that's the reason I do it because I don't want Flo So apart from that that is the most exciting thing that's happened in our house this week Party's got a feeling it will mean that it means I mean mortal can we really go where we say in that party if you have the flu jab you will become immortal I think somebody might take me to task on that or. I'm not sure whether that was from the Pink or from Brit being brutally all. You know. 300 year old radio present. Strangers don't. Know me. It's well known for going on B.B.C. Radio 10 past 12 a day which will have passed to last coming up on the program this afternoon if you've been listening to the afternoon show you'll know we've done this all week but if you haven't you've missed out we had 5 rounds of the joined up quiz through the course of this week at the if you're funny joined up we're going to again for this Saturday a bit of a one off as always on a Saturday we'll do that around about 10 to one today so clues coming up in about 20 minutes time as to what the questions might be said look out for that one as well is that we're going to take a look at 75 years of already F.-F. And 75 years of being active here in the county so details on that to come a little bit later on as we celebrate. And also. Well in less than 2 weeks. Performing at the National. Finals. Between now and then a head of a big after football no international break for afternoon. Double bill of commentary from Football League. One of 1413 AM F.M. And 735 you can have to Cambridge United. In the team from half past 2 for all the build up action and reaction then. I am in da B. Cricket we've got a cricket special for you featuring an in-depth interview with Michael Kling I had a ball by ball commentary on Gloucestershire is T 20 quarter final at HOME TO DAY which starts 7 o'clock so there's a lot going on this afternoon here on B.B.C. Radio Gloucestershire make sure you join us for both the football and the cricket B.B.C. Read it after should pull fairly from half past 2 today now knows a silver band they are looking forward to a big few weeks ahead there's lots of rehearsals going on ahead of the national finals Nels a silver band in the national finals of what I hear you cry well the chairman is joining me in the studio to tell us all about it Dylan Hello Pete Nice to see you very often we price you out of rehearsals he didn't need wanted more what better to discuss brass bands on a Sunday lunchtime exactly specially as to people from the north this is if you know Northwest a little bit like this because at the start of the penultimate. But there you go just because this isn't your guys this is just a bit generic brass band music clinic is all feel at home the obvious choice is Terry Wogan the floral dance but I didn't go there because one classmate of mine classical them all anything from Brassed Off going to be possible conducted well I mainly rest in peace a rest of it would have been wonderful I love that film was a wonderful 1st of all Pete tell me how you came to be the chairman of nailed with silver right well I moved across to 3 years ago so I was working in a school of pool which then sadly closed down so I moved to Gloucestershire to a school in tech brick also with him on the school move to Gloucester for a short time then into Stroud and having played in the past months as a child and kind of person I took took taking a short break as I moved the necessary band great way to make some friends got back into playing again so I joined I was then very soon after prized I would say into the position of the chairman and here I stand OK what is what you have to do is the chairman. You have to put it with the secretary that's the 1st job so all sectors are wonderful Mrs McDougal. Who is the driving force behind the band so I'm the person that gets blamed if she makes decisions that aren't quite how she wants them to be and OK here I'm with you. Asked earlier on the brass and the silver Yes it's just the sort of the instrument and what it's made out of essential Yes I mean a proper response came from industry the most typical being that the caller reminds of the North. Town bands and the temperance movements it was a very community raising morale thing so you'll generally find still happens in the south I'm so people can contradict me but some of the north it was essentially they were seen as more expensive and the fact that the town could afford silver instruments make them feel a bit more passion about high status and they'll say in theory a better plan this don't trust this so we are the nails on the silver but are there so yeah you know lots of shops a little Yeah absolutely but you know this interesting because when I say my family's from from the north from Yorkshire I mean I'm not technically from the respond I'm getting into technically but my family is from South Yorkshire the heartland of brass perhaps a little you know and these things bind communities together they gave you something to do other than the mining and it was a reason to go out with your friends and go for a drink because you're going to brass band practice well as well and also from there on the color of perspective you know mining was not a particularly pleasant job to have to do so that's a really lovely way to raise morale as part of the the collar work you know get it close with you where mates and so on so in the US create a more motivated work force that goes well and is still going up a lot of those calories are shot. In the main and some of gone by the wayside but the dance is still going but tell me about there's a silverback so necessarily I was founded in 1919 a combination of the Horsley and elsewhere so bands there's some history in terms of those kind of merging and so I celebrate No 100 years and of a street today or sorry this year or centenary. So we survived a World War countless prime ministers even more of late you go through what we're doing very well remember. So yes so we've we've appeared national finals once before in 1967 I think it was the. The 2nd time so obviously in our centenary year that's a really special kind of occasion for us and quite an achievement and anything to do if you got him in the 2828 years if we want to take them all in here have a go we do we like to go seems to me when unfortunately there's a lot rehearsing going on for the national finals now you know I get I go back to brush it off I think of Albert Hall That's the last thing is this it so I said Well sensei what happens is across the country spawns are in the response championships on this league tables so the it's almost like football is for the 4 section that section 2nd section 1st section and then the championship section so everyone all the bands are essentially trying to move up the table that's the idea generally So there are regional heats which are in March in talky where essentially everybody in your section so in our case the 4th section in the Southwest placed the same piece of the play test piece and that case it was called stumps me festival this is going to box in a tent you can't see anybody who listens to the same pop same piece being performed 20 times which some sort of very exciting thing to do and he then ranks all of the bombs from one to 20 the top. The bums are going 1st and 2nd place then qualifying and possibly 3rd in our case qualify for national fun guy I got it and can't see much right very political but one's very last a very kind of interesting relationship so the idea is he doesn't know who is judging yes or no where to make out what he is he must have it well knows that so the trombone was like coming in here yes yeah sometimes you question the quality of their ears after all it's very interesting and anything can happen in concerts they say and perhaps lose usually very skilled musicians very experienced bondsman with very long credentials who are well practiced and they decide effectively whether you are promoted or relegated absolutely hear of the prize money the SO who are involved so it can get quite touching as young that you know so what are you getting ready for now so I get ready for so we qualified in March for the national finals no more section of all sections so 2nd choice That's it yeah so all of the recent across the country all of the winners from those section for. Regional heats will come together in Cheltenham and compete for the kind of top prize and sections hoping the Singletons that all that section actually Section 4 championships in fact essential taking place in central Yes So we are you on home turf Absolutely so we were got that behind us at least OK only been through last year it's a very good question no the belief will be I'm not sure what last year was certainly southwest there's 3 of us coming into the into the finals OK played at center before you know what happened and I have an I.Q. That I believe it's a very dry coast to coast or to believe OK are you have is that does that change your no idea the mother will have thought about the cue stick and why and how the kind of Deltic elations the bun play need to change to reflect it really the county salute there was very very precision involved for a test piece you got to be 20 of the bombs you got some better than them yeah which is really does come down to things like internation and and precise articulate how hard you might blow on said instrument actually if you genuinely click clip or no or you over blow something it's not quite. The interpretation the person is like a musical director takes a temper that's not quite as the adjudicator agrees with that which you can't quite hear the horn line coming through there's lots of kind of textural ideas that says that what you like when you walk into a room if you're going to play in a room you never played that the 1st ever you wrote about it like I had how does this feel the sort of clapping goes on yeah what sort of a would you want to hear yes into this dead yeah this sound. So ever that was so we get it you take it when you find it very well part of the microphone has no solution what's this like for because your your guys your day jobs and your to know your teacher yes your music teacher hasn't had a music on how to be a 7 as well as to believe all right so you do that in this the 26th of such and they just join the other people as well when you have everybody have a day job that's right if you want to be busy doing other things obviously whether it's you know looking after children grandchildren or heading off to work or whatever to get the level of practicing to be at this level going to be tricky it has I mean it's we are proud of being we really get high standards but also we are very much a community around this well we're trying to answer the town the city we did last a day last year for example we try and do a lot of community events so we do have. A very big mix of players who do you know from the police force to teaching to nursing to going to postman and so on so there's a lot of people very busy lives in very busy schedules are trying where around so it does pose a bit of challenge particularly looking for kind of extra hassles of late so yeah I think it's a bit of a challenging time for people to fit in but thankfully they have from we've done alright from what we've seen them to you and your your band if you are managed to climb out of this sector into the next that START is our driver then that's all vision for kind of this year has been a last couple of years to push up to the 3rd section so I think if we did manage to the north centenary year we'd be very happy happy how the saga would flow I think of something. To celebrate is not absolutely and it really is and in general in terms of this kind of music and so important we keep this. Going on in our part of the world we're doing all right that we are in Gloucestershire house a good bus fun scene and we've got the mighty flowers bound course in a little that was just the championship section for bands as well and the Stroud district 14 bands very good and of course they also saw the band exceptional band and so on so you know we have we have a very strong Brass Band Network there's a bit of problem in terms of our challenge out there in terms of encouraging young people to take up bras that's been a bit of a challenge for the last 510 years or so why. Modern destruction that kind of thing I think there's something I think there's an element of that it's so us as ours had a music children do want to engage with music and they do want to learn instruments I think the difficulty is now when I when I went through school I was very lucky that I went through after music service and when I was given instruments for free I was encouraged and it was as it was an instrument of kind of rarity the time was when they were trying to push lots of opportunities socially to be done and I think . The funding of government and education particularly not anywhere near where it was so essentially now that the pressure comes on parents to fund lessons when they've got different financial pressures as well and that we know about so I think it's just perhaps slightly lower down on people's lists and without the support of government it's a bit of a challenge but we putting this in front of young sis is a great way to advertise it can you come along watch them if you fancy so in terms of people want to get involved with you have a training ground on a Monday evening when by are training under showing MacDougall We always welcome new players to the main contesting band or their training band. Come on for the absolutely in terms of going to the contest itself so if it's on the 14th September in a sense a whole what I would say is I could be in for a long day if you can see a floor here centrally what I say is come along you'll have a lovely time but what I would say is be aware of what you're going to say you're going to come sit down the hall and listen to 17 brass bands played the same the C.C.C. So if that's your thing then that's lovely Great that's very nice indeed and you do have some people sit there with scores and you have the you know the grannies there with their parties from the very 1st performance but I think you know perhaps by performance 5 or 6 Yeah yeah you might be kind of ready to go for coffee you know where you are in the pecking order in terms of you on 1st 2nd 15th what we're likely to achieve I mean but you know there are 17 that would say yes so we can't we came 3rd in terms of our section in the kind of West Wing the south of England we are currently I believe position too so you can be on 2nd effect yeah on that on that on the day OK Oh yes let me think about it yeah big pond so what happens on the day in terms of the selection it becomes applied to education there's a draw in the morning of course and some along to so so when you're on the stage they will say or do the voice the next band is bound number 4 so they do because no idea but in your program you'll see that done before is. A band like on your vision you don't to be 1st or last to be the middle someway somehow that I think we. At last. Was that the reasons were at last and I think we did alright I think if you somewhere in the middle I mean does it does it become kind of part of the Blair of the day for they do the case I don't know it's I think it's a very challenging job to do I would like to do. The same you got to be able to pick you know it was out to be 15 minutes long so concentration is. All the very best of the thank you thank you for coming in we. Will salute pursue this well we'll keep tabs and keep in touch with the office if you want to say sorry I'll just Miss Constance all because Debbie will tell me off with a Christmas concert on the 7th of December now so I'm in Christchurch for what's to come on to the wonderful All right some of the same but they ARE YOU have never had a Christmas concert advertised so we're. Not really. Want to go along to play you've got the training band and stuff so absolutely you get in touch just so we got Facebook pages he says now so. If that's kind of a really good way to get involved that's monitored very often possibly on one day for the main band start the training bounced off and help us 56 o'clock but we can if you probably of information through the Facebook page all of our best picture actually my question. Makes today focus on this is very interesting. Because I kind of vaguely remember that we would this be early eighty's or something. Could. Cut. Cut cut cut cut. Loose and you forget about me. Fascinating it's about the life and times in the work that was really just what they do for. To get out of the section they're in again to the next getting ready for the national finals at the center very very soon. B.B.C. Radio Gloucestershire David here between now and half past 2 this afternoon nice to have you company what we're going to do is I'll give you some clues for the quiz in a few minutes time and then I was always Oh I say this every week but the questions are great they're very good about them checked independently vetted and verified by party was looking off the phones and we'll see how we get on I will give you the clues the general subject matter nothing more than that you will receive after Johnny Bash. I think. Turning to her and I Can See Clearly Now B.B.C. Radio music from Billy Ocean the Rolling Stones image your to come shall we get some clues for the joined up quiz by the way I will keep you updated on the crickets by the way as well not going very well that's all I'll tell you as far as England are concerned right shall we do the clips here come the clues for the joint quiz today 5 questions all linked together in some way shape or form either in the previous question or the previous answer will have half an hour to unravel those links and I will start from around $10.00 to $1.00 today suggesting I would disturb 10 minutes time the 5 questions are around the following subjects soaps music. Fun to see the best way would put music fantasy comedy and sitcoms. 2 distinct differences there comedy and sitcoms soap music fantasy comedy and sitcoms those are the 5 questions today that's that the general subject matter will see how we get on that want to just 10 minute