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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
...why?
I'm partial to a good military band. Grenadier Guards or Royal Marines, even massed pipes and drums, if the drums are loud enough to nearly drown out the pipes. I was at the cashpoint today, and heard from the bottom of Parliament St the familiar bass and snare intro, Boom, Boom, Trrrrrrrr, trrrrrrrrrrrrrr, trrrrrrrrrrr... Oh good, I thought.
Then the bloody glockenspiels came in. It was the local cadets of something or other. Who on earth thought the glockenspiel was a good instrument for any remotely military band? It just makes me think of Sugar Plum Fairies and baton twirling. If they can't find a kid or two who can learn to play the trumpet, they should just stick to drums alone - much better!
Even worse, what were they playing? On Ilkley Moor Ba' Tat. A nice whinsical ditty about hypothermia and cannibalism. Really not a glockenspiel kinda tune.
I'm partial to a good military band. Grenadier Guards or Royal Marines, even massed pipes and drums, if the drums are loud enough to nearly drown out the pipes. I was at the cashpoint today, and heard from the bottom of Parliament St the familiar bass and snare intro, Boom, Boom, Trrrrrrrr, trrrrrrrrrrrrrr, trrrrrrrrrrr... Oh good, I thought.
Then the bloody glockenspiels came in. It was the local cadets of something or other. Who on earth thought the glockenspiel was a good instrument for any remotely military band? It just makes me think of Sugar Plum Fairies and baton twirling. If they can't find a kid or two who can learn to play the trumpet, they should just stick to drums alone - much better!
Even worse, what were they playing? On Ilkley Moor Ba' Tat. A nice whinsical ditty about hypothermia and cannibalism. Really not a glockenspiel kinda tune.
