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Just back from seeing Kate Rusby's Christmas show...
Posted by MarkHagen on 7 December 2009 - 12:32am.
...at the smaller bit of the O2 - can there be a lovelier sound at this time of year than a brass band?
Sadly they didn't do this one, the stand out for me from Sweet Bells, Kate's seasonal CD
So my question is, if I wanted a CD of brass band music, where do I start?
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there's brassband
lps on spotify.
It's slightly cheesy but Acid Brass is excellent brass band readign of dance music is excellent.
I've got a few Grimethorpe colliery band cds and out villages bands cdrs !
Say no to Brass Bands
Can there be a lovelier sound than a Brass band? Yes. I've never liked them. I remember one came to our school and it should have been a good skive but I thought it was just awful. I don't think that's what makes me dislike them though. Perhaps it's just the sound, perhaps it's that you hear them this time of year and so it reminds me of Christmas which again in my book is a bad thing. I can't begin to think how bad it must be being in the same room as a brass band and Kate Rusby - I think I'd rather watch Coldplay... or better still rip my ears off.
you really need to get over your
"Christmas thing" its not going anyway fast the sooner you make accommodation with it easier life will be.
Not quite true
Actually, I've managed to get most of my friends and family to accept my aversion and so I can now manage December pretty much unencumbered by it. This December has been the least stressful of at least the last 10 years. Without the pressure of feeling I have to conform to avoid upset I can think straight enough to plan what I'm going to do with the long break from work. I've never had any problem with other people enjoying themselves so I don't actually need it to go away completely.
On this occasion though, I was wondering weather I don't like brass bands because of the association with Christmas. I don't think it is because of the number of Christmas records that I like but who knows? I wonder if there has ever been any research about whether people like different types of music because of their upbringing or things that happened to them at some stage.
I'm not a traditionalist but I do like this
Brass bands instill in me...
warm feelings of nostalgia, melancholy and happiness. Lovely.
Not just for Christmas
That Kate Rusby album is just wonderful, and like all the very best puppies, it's not just for Christmas. Saw her in Brighton last week and she was superb. I find most of her 'normal' albums a little similar - by the sixth track I'm yearning for a bit of Balaam and the Angel - but Sweet Bells is a corker.