Cyberband 2000 Photo Gallery
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The Magnificent and Mighty Cyberband 2000!

Apologies to anyone whose name I've missed out/misspelled/got completely wrong!

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Cyberband 2000 met at 1.30pm on the afternoon of 16th June 2000, for our first and only rehearsal. Unfortunately, the rehearsal room in the hotel wasn't quite big enough, so we ended up in the car park! Still, the sun was shining, and the hotel was opposite a school, and the children there gave us our first applause of the day!

Lots of charismatic shots of Nigel's conductor's wiggle.....
Car park rehearsal and more rehearsal that's quite enough rehearsal! It goes like THIS!!
"The Back Row" featuring:
Soprano cornet: Les Palmer
Repiano cornet:Gill Hayes
2nd cornet: Paul Williams
3rd cornet: Rod Gibson & Heidi Worth		 Principal cornet: Richard Selvidge
Tutti cornet: Tony O'Mara, Melanie Flynn and Jim Murray
Flugel: Judith Hayes
Solo horn: Clint Miller		 1st horn: Claire Warden
2nd horn: Carol Wills
Euph:Jonathan Crane, Maurice Bowers and Graeme Cameron (all the way from Rockhampton!)
Baritone: Alan MacRae, Vicky Mitchell and David Marsh		 The only shot of the basses (can you see them?)!
Hilary Mateer, Mrs Bowers (aarrgghh!! can't remember the first name!) Ted Howard and Dave McKay (bass player extraordinaire!)
Also Young Master Bowers on euph (our youngest member, seen seated behind 1st & 2nd horn)

The festivities quickly got underway, with compulsory traffic jams and NO BEER UNTIL 8 O'CLOCK!!!! We only managed to get 5 contests in, but they were mostly pretty scenic - Delph, Denshaw, Dobcross, Ashton football ground and Broad Oak.
Cybermarching hanging about 1 Hanging about 2 Outside Delph Club
The only photo of us marching! Featuring Kev Lomas on bass trom and Greg Little on 2nd trom(out of shot - Karl Bindemann on 1st trom!) Hanging about at Delph Still hanging about at Delph Finally we finished hanging about at Delph, and decided to go and hang about somewhere else...
General views at Delph and Dobcross
yellow dusters rear view of yellow dusters GGs Crowd at the bear pit
Not us, but nice jackets ...and the rear view... The police holding back the crowds... or at least, leading the marches The bear pit at Dobcross - this picture doesn't show the mighty Cyberband, but we were there! And we showed 'em!
Carol Mel and Tony grinning inanely wot a load of rubbish...  Carol, Nigel and Heidi Greg, Vicky
Carol, Mel and Tony doing their best "cheese" for the camera Waiting to perform at Broad Oak, Alan expounds on the theory of banding Knowing when he's on to a good thing, Nigel behaves himself for a change, closely watched by Carol and Heidi. Greg looks astonished, and Vicky does her "League of Gentlemen" impression

Things were looking decidedly rosy by the time we reached Broad Oak!
Bilton Cyberbanders uh? Broad Oak Granddad Rod
Bilton Silver (Rugby) Band contributed 5 playing members - and what a gorgeous bunch they are!
Claire, Paul, Jud, Greg and Vicky		 Captions on a postcard please Maybe we should have played "March to the Scaffold" at Broad Oak - our last performance of the day Retiring gracefully to Denton Cricket Club, here is Rod Gibson (everyone's favourite Granddad) tucking into a plateful of healthfood

But all good things come to an end.....
Nose picking with attitude Nigel, Sharon and Carol OK, doll, see ya later, honey... Thanks to David Sheedy for organising Cyberband 2000,
to Nigel Horne for composing and conducting our brilliant march "Y2K", and to John Davis for the road march "Levam-i-Sole"(what does that mean?)
Now we were letting our hair down somewhat. Paul and Vicky demonstrate how NOT to eat chips On the home stretch... Carol tells Nigel and Sharon "Boy, you Poms sure know how to do a good Whit Friday Beer Fest" Poor chap has a big silver growth on his ear. He's having it surgically removed soon.