The Templemore Band was formed in 1948 as a Primary School Band at Templemore Avenue Public Elementary, Belfast. Under the direction of Alfie Bell, the band was soon competing at the very top of the contest scene. They were the first band to perform in the Inaugral European Brass Band Championships in 1978, held at the Royal Albert Hall, London. The band have represented the province with distinction at various venues in England and Scotland. At home, Templemore dominated the band arena for many years, winning the N.I.B.A. competition an unequalled 15 times, including an unprecedented Double Hat Trick of 1st Prizes in the N.I.B.A. and Brass Band League contests between 1975 and 1980.
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The Spirit of Christmas lives on this year with seasonal music and Carols resounding in the cobbled streets and around the sweetie shops. (mmmmmm). Come and savour Christmas Past.
1. Your parents know more about popular music than you do
2. All the songs on your ipod are at least 20 minutes long
3. You get in heated arguments about who was better: Beethoven, Bach, or Brahms
4. You have inavdvertanly learned Italian, French, and German
5. You can't dance
6. You sing along to classical music
7. Every concert you've been to has been in a hall decorated in the neo-romantic style
8. When you hear a piece you know who wrote it even if you've never heard it before
9. Loud rock music gives you a headache and makes you cry
10. You spend Friday and Saturday nights in the practice room
11. Your idea of a modern, cutting edge concert is when the symphony performs "The Rite of Spring"
12. All your favorite music artitst are dead
13.. You wish time travel were possible (so you could prevent Mozart's death so he could finish is last requiem)
14. Joshua Bell is your favorite "celebrity"
15. Everyone knows you as "that weird kid who thinks anyone who likes rap is evil"
16. You have a bad shoulder injury
17. You got that injury from playing your violin
18. You got arthritis when you were twelve
19. You hate that song "graduation" by Vitamin C because its plagiarized
20. You think Marc Anthony is a guy who fell in love with Cleopatra
21. Your skin is so fair it glows in the dark
22. You guard your hands with your life
23. You've had a "hickey" for 15 years
24. That's the only hickey you've ever had
25. You live below the poverty line, and yet you own a custom tuxedo and a $25,000 instrument
26. You've survived playing a concert while the conductor was wasted.
27. The neighbors have called the cops on you when you were practicing
28. You know it is very rude not to bow when the audience is clapping
29. You also know it is rude to wave or talk on stage
30. Your favourite Disney movie is Fantasia
31. You can honestly listen to "William Tell Overture" and not think of The Lone Ranger
32. You celebrate Mozart's birthday
33. When your instrument was in the shop you didn't eat, sleep, or talk for a week
34. When you got your instrument back, you cried and told it you'd never send it away again
35. You own a piano key necktie
36. You love performing because, deep down, you a sociopathic attention whore
37. Music is the only thing you ever think about
38. You get the joke "I'm a fermata; hold me"
39. You have spent the night in a practice room
40. The house is burning down. Forget the instruments, save the reeds!!!!!!
41. You listen to classical music when working out. Who says the beat isn't fast enough? It's called sub-dividing!!!!!
42. You know what a V 4/3 is
43. When the TSA people at the airport start to open your instrument case because "it looks like a weapon" you scream, "don't you dare! that things worth more than you make in a year!!!!!!"
44. There are pieces that bring you to tears.
45. You referr to half-time at a football game as intermission
46. Practice makes perfect is not a saying but a way of life
47. You own the Beethoven Action Figure, AND the piano sold sepatrately
48. Your neighbor yells out their window "don't you ever play anything but scales?!"
49. Your parents still wonder where they went wrong, and pray that one day you will become "normal".
50. You can talk about classical music all day to people who don't care
51. Pop music iritates you because it's always in the same key
52. You know about "the other" Tchaikovsky piano concerto
53. Your intrument has a name. And a personality.
54. You have a hickey but you haven't been on a date in months
55. While all your friends are at work, you're sleeping. When all your frineds are partying, you're playing at the party
56. Weddings arent big deal anymore
57. Its totally obvious when actors in movies are faking playing an instrument
58. You'd sleep with your intrument like that kid in Th
you know the juniors never cease to amaze me. they are really good . and they love it. well done kids. see ya next rehearsal.
19 weeks agoThey did really well. Great to see. Well done boys and girls
23 weeks agoWas good to See a few kids up on Monday night, Hopefully If we all work together we can encourage a few more and build up our junior band!
23 weeks agoSorry about all the confusion LOL but i think were sorted with the whole Bebo thing now,
24 weeks ago