Re-launch of Thurrock Marching Brass on BBC

Publish Date: 09 Nov 2012 - 5210 views

The BBC will air a programme about the re-launch of Thurrock Marching Brass. The band closed its door in 1989 after sixteen years but reformed in 2010, lead by Paul Morgan.

After spending some time filming the kids at rehearsals and also following them to the 2012 BYBA Nationals, the final editing of the programme relating to marching bands is complete and an air date has been released. The programme centres around the re-launching of one of the UK's most prestigious marching bands after an absence of 21 years. It follows the reasons why the band was reformed and where the idea initially came from, and has some interviews with key personnel within the organisation who give their own account of the current and future of what has been restarted for the youngsters of Thurrock. The band was followed to the 2012 BYBA Nationals.

Chairman Paul Morgan comments "Having been involved in the marching and performing arts world now for some 38 years and in many capacities, the people that I have met along that journey have helped to shape how I think and act, and to each and every one of them I would like to extend a huge thank you. It is through those relationships that the achievement of re-launching the band has come about and we set out initially in April 2008 in my living room the plans for bringing what was almost an institutional name within the marching bands world back to life from the ground up."

"Such were the challenges that it took us until 2010 to finally achieve the re-launch", Morgan continues. "We have in Darren Crisp an amazingly gifted Corps Director, who is working wonders with the young people that are currently on board. This opportunity will showcase all that is good and positive within the marching arts world in general, and because it will have national coverage, to a much wider audience than has been achieved for a very long time."

The air date for the film, which is approximately 8.5 minutes long is Monday 19th November 2012 at 7.30 pm on BBC1.