The Lord High Percussionist of the Youth Wind Band is an arrogant little egotist who seems to think that carrying and packing drums are beneath his dignity. He is in charge of two other bands and is under the impression that this somehow gives him importance in this one. He would rather play the trumpet, but we have more need of him on the drums ( Read more... )

Interesting day yesterday ( Read more... )

I've been very busy for the last couple of months. Wind Band tour to the UK, which I won't go into detail about here because there's too much to say. Came back just in time to go to MICSSA, the local military comms conference. Got back from that in time to go to the Drakensberg on holiday with voyager and Charlie. The holiday wasn't ( Read more... )

I seem to have gone rather a while without posting. There are two reasons for this: (1) I've been busy, and (2) I haven't had much to say. You may have noticed that neither of these two reasons are enough on their own, but they add up ( Read more... )

Very busy weekend, starting on Friday ( Read more... )

About a week or so ago, a friend of mine arranged some tickets for us to see Revenge of the Sith on Friday the 20th at 20h30 at Suncoast Casino (one of the ugliest buildings ever erected, but not bad inside). Around that time, Rooijan told me about a concert his brother's band, Lucid was in on Thursday the 19th, also at Suncoast. The plan was for ( Read more... )

I've had rather a busy weekend. Friday night was a concert at the City Hall where we shared a stage with the KZN Youth Choir and the Durban Men's Choir. The concert went fairly well, even though we were a little shaky in Candide Overture. The finale where we played while both choirs sang was awesome. The audience loved us and we made some ( Read more... )

Warning, another rant follows. This time, however, it's not about the university ( Read more... )