Due to a technical hold-up, there will be a delay in the supply of the DVDs and CDs from the DCE Championships 2005. Unfortunately, we will not be able to meet the end of December deadline. It is likely to be only a short delay.

Brian Hickman, Executive Director for the Glassmen Drum & Bugle Corps recently took a three day whirlwind tour of France, Belgium, Netherlands and England to finalize the details for the corps' upcoming summer tour of Europe.

The Phantom Regiment Drum & Bugle Corps is being sued for defaulting on a $450,000 bank loan. The suit lists Rescomm Holdings No. 2 LLC, as the plaintiff. According to the suit, the Rockford-based Phantom Regiment took out a $450,000 loan on March 7th, 2000, but has failed to maintain payments.

Alliance Performing Arts Foundation have announced the launch of Alliance Drum & Bugle Corps. The aim is to have a fully competitive unit in time for the 2007 marching season by developing new talent in the Colchester area.

Percussion instructor Mike Stevens will lead a percussion workshop in Rastede - Germany next month. Stevens is well known as former percussion caption head of Blue Knights Drum & Bugle Corps from Denver - Colorado.

Drum Corps Germany and Drum Corps Europe will join forces regarding judges clinics. DCE organised a judging clinic in 2005 with DCI judge Bob Thomas. The next edition of the judging clinic will be hosted by Drum Corps Germany, on February 4th and 5th, 2006.

Drum Corps Europe is looking for new staff members. Are you a drum corps fan, and do you have some spare time this summer? Become a DCE staff member, and join a great and enthusiastic team of drum corps lovers!

In 2006 Distant Thunder will compete in three different competitions. The corps will enter BYBA Division 1, DCE Open Class and venture into drum corps via a judged performance at a DCUK show.

For the first time ever, all the best English drum corps will be attending the European drum corps championships next year. Senators, Kidsgrove Scouts, Northern Star and Black Knights will be taking part in the competition. The Dutch and German top teams will also be present.

The corps line-up for the DCE European Championships 2006 is known. The maximum number of 26 corps will enter the event on Saturday, September 23rd. Many participants from 2005 will be returning, but there will also be some new faces.

Due to the success of their recent sell out 'Live & Swingin' shows, Brass Impact have announcec a very special partnership with the Holiday Inn Group. 2006 will see them take up residency at the Holiday Inn, Glasgow Airport presenting their L&S show, starting on 28th January.

Dutch Boy Drum & Bugle Corps from Kitchener - Ontario will be playing music from 'South Park the Movie' in 2006. The musical program will include 'Blame Canada'.

A new feature has been added to the DCE News Service: RSS support. Now all news provided by Drum Corps Europe is available for RSS readers and web browsers that have RSS integrated.

The 2005 DCUK Annual General Meeting was held in Stafford on Sunday 4th December was well attended by representatives of corps, guards and the judging community. Gavin Johnson was elected as the new chairman.

Drumcorpsnation.com is a new community website for drum corps that will launch next year. The new website will include news, scores, press releases, podcasts, plus a 'new open and more relaxed forum discussion section'.

A new service by Drum Corps Europe has started today: all members of drumcorpstalk.com can now create their own personal blog! A new domain name has been activated: drumcorpsblogs.com, as part of the drumcorpstalk.com community. The new blog service is completely free to use.

The sale of Drum Corps Planet has been finalised. During the past week there was a great deal of interest in purchasing the site. While the financial transaction has been completed, it will take the next 60 days to work through the details of full transition to the new ownership.

After a month hiatus, a new episode of the drum corps podcast Box Center has been released. In this week's edition, host Kevin Gamin interviews George Hopkins. The European marching activity is discussed as well.

Registration for the DCE Championships 2006 has ended. Yesterday was the last opportunity to register directly. Like last year, DCE has received more registrations than available spots.

The 2006 show of The Kidsgrove Scouts will portray the way modern Spanish Art has developed, alongside modern Spanish dance since the Spanish Civil War. The music will be taken from extremely well know Spanish-Latin pieces as well as some more unfamiliar works.

European corps still have until this coming Wednesday to register for the DCE European Championships 2006. Wednesday evening (Novemberm 30th) is the deadline for registration, which can easily be done via the online registration form.

Michael (Mike) New and Nick Emmett will be reinforcing the editorial team of the English version of the DCE website (www.drumcorps.org.uk). They will be responsible for editing English-language news bulletins. Mike was recently in charge of Drum Corps Planet, a large American drum corps website. Nick is Caption Head Percussion with Northern Star.

The Kidsgrove Scouts have announced that Barry Oosterwaal has joined the 2006 brass staff line-up. Barry Oosterwaal began his life in music in 1987 as a baritone player with the Jong Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps in Dordrecht - The Netherlands, moving Jubal in 1990.

Forgemen have announced their 2006 production. The show is entitled 'Out of This World', and will include selections from 'The Planet Suite', and episodes 1 to 6 of 'Star Wars' by John Williams.

Drum Corps France intends to support its member corps with clinics and education. Several private clinics have been arranged for late 2005 and 2006, with the goal of improving the artistic and musical level of association members. In addition, DCF has organised a full slate of contests for the coming years.

On Saturday, November 7th, the Federation for Drum Corps and Marching Bands of France (DCF) held its annual General Assembly. Delegations of corps from Pas de Calais, Nord, Aisne, Ariège, Loiret, Indre et Loire, Moselle and Val d'Oise gathered for a long day of discussions on topics.

Registered users of drumcorpstalk.com are now able to add their own events to the calendar. This can be used to draw instant attention to your event from the many hundreds of people who visit the 'European online community' each day.

People who feel they have a skill (or skills) that they can offer to new or established drum corps or winterguards in the UK, are invited to contact DCUK. Following a suggestion made by the recent Task Force, DCUK will shortly be creating a new 'login only' section of the website.

Drawing its inspiration from the films such as 'The Last Samurai', 'House of the Flying Draggers' and 'The Seven Samurai', 6th Hove will take the audience on a journey of enlightment, adventure and passion. Their new show is called 'Bushido: The Way of the Warrior'.

The Kidsgrove Scouts have announced their winter 2006 programme 'In the Club'. The project consists of brass, guard and percussion, is open to all age members, and will run from November to March.

Stafford Lancers have announced that for 2006 season they will be entering DCUK Open Class for the first time in their history. The decision comes after many many years of gradual progression, every year since rebuilding in 2001 the corps achieved their aim of steadily improving and growing their membership.

The deceptively rhythmic processes of simple machines and the ominous presence of compound automation from the past, present and future will be revealed on the field this summer by the Green Machine. The program, presented with 72 brass, 32 color guard and 28 percussion, will be adapted from the music of Marco Beltrami and Wynton Marsailas.

Drum Corps Netherlands has announced its management team. Kees Bourquin will become chairman of the organisation. The other management positions will be occupied by Cees Bogert (secretary) and Ronald Seits (treasurer).

The Kidsgrove Scouts have announced that Richard Roach will join their 2006 staff. Rich, from New York - USA, has marched and taught a number of successful units.

The Magic Drum & Bugle Corps will celebrate their 15th anniversary with an imagery of mind, heart and soul. John Lennon's haunting anthem of hope, 'Imagine', serves as the framework for the four sections of the 2006 program of The Magic: 'Joy', 'Love', 'Peace' and 'Hope'. These sections may include the music of Los Angeles composer Eric Whitacre and the motion picture soundtrack of Moulin Rouge.

Several corps delegates took part in the DCUK Task Force this past weekend in Northampton. The group worked extremely hard (including a 12-hour session on Saturday) and covered a wide range of topics concerning the future of the drum corps activity in the UK.

This past Tuesday was DCI executive director Dan Acheson's 10th anniversary in that role. That night DCI colleagues gathered at a restaurant near the DCI office to toast Dan, and presented him with a World Championship ring commemorating the 1975 Madison Scouts victory. Dan was a baritone player in that corps.

The Madison Scouts' 2006 summer production will be titled 'Primal Forces'. The show promises to showcase the trademark power audiences have come to expect from this two-time Drum Corps International champion.

Northern Star Drum & Bugle Corps from Leeds has announced its 2006 production. The show is called 'Time'. Northern Star will musically and visually portray various elements of time - 'Time Motifs', 'Vertical Momentum', 'Persistence of Memory', and 'Rhythmic Time'.

Today, the registration period for the DCE European Championships has begun. Corps teams will be able to register during the whole of November. The participants list will be published mid-December.

This week, 30 members of Concord Drum & Bugle Corps from Sheffield and Poynton Commodores had a full-day workshop with members of world-famous performance group STOMP. The event, held at Concord's Sheffield headquarters featured 7 hours of very energetic percussion and performance activity.

Rick Valenzuela has joined the Phantom Regiment as director of development and special projects to its management team. Valenzuela, 37, has a long and distinguished career in the drum corps activity beginning as a member of the world-renowned Santa Clara Vanguard in 1983.

Last Saturday, more than 130 people from Germany and the United States participated in one of the largest open house workshops ever held in Germany. The open house was held by Starriders Drum & Bugle Corps from Bad Münder.

High Brass have been selected to perform at the 33rd International Alliance of Jazz Educators Conference in New York next year. Chosen on the strength of the band's recent studio album, 'Time For A Change', the band were selected from over 4000 other applicants and are the only British big band performing at this year's event.

The Austin Stars are a new all age or senior drum & bugle corps based in Austin - Texas. Membership is open to adults age 18 and up who have previous experience in marching band, color guard, drumline or drum & bugle corps.