28th-30th December 2007 saw 30 top marching bands from across Indonesia come together for the thirteenth annual Grand Prix Marching Band Competition in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The drum corps and marching band activity in Indonesia has come a long way from humble beginnings over the past 15 years, and continues to grow exponentially promising an exciting and productive future for youth marching music in Indonesia. Bands are typically sponsored by large companies or educational establishments and have between 80 and 130 members performing to high level.

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With the New Year now well and truly here preparations for the first DCE UK Power Regional have now begun in earnest. Besides 8 British corps, 3 corps from The Netherlands and one corps from France have confirmed their participation in the show.

For the Blue Lions from Wattrelos - France, the Power Regional will be their first DCE performance after their change from a percussion corps to a drum & bugle corps. The Dutch corps Jubal from Dordrecht, including their cadet corps, and Juliana from Middelburg have also registered for the Power Regional.

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2008 will see a significant increase in the number of national organisations running DCE Certified shows. With DCN and DCUK now on board as Certified Partners, it means that all of their shows, including their national finals, will be Certified. Other national organisations are also considering making some or all of their shows DCE Certified.

With this major step forward in uniformity it will become possible for the first time to seed this years DCE prelims placings on the basis of the scores corps have achieved at Certified shows throughout the season (including national Finals events). The highest score achieved during the season will be used to determine the order play in the mornings Open Class event. This also applies to A-Class scores, and any A-Class corps will be scheduled to appear at the Prelims before the Open Class corps. New corps without a certified score will perform first.

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InCorps keeps on growing and growing! We are pleased to announce that Robin Bogert is joining our InCorps Team as show designer and visual-marching clinician and instructor.

Robin has been involved with drum and bugle corps for many years. He played in Jong Jubal and Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps on the soprano and joined the soprano line of the Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps in 2003. In 2005 Robin was appointed Visual Caption Head of Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps. In 2006 he won his first DCE European drum corps title as a Caption Head and won the High Visual caption award in 2007.

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