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Our off the line is from the Incredibles, this is followed by the theme from Mission Impossible, the ballad is "Who wants to live forever" by Queen (featured in the film Highlander) and this is finished by "Welcome to Cuba" from the James Bond film Die another Day. The show itself is a secret agent themed show entitled "Mission Incredible" and isn't just limited to the James Bond Genre. More info can be found at www.senators.org.uk. We're not playing at DCE finals, but we are in Holland playing at the Tattoo in Hilversum in September with Beatrix. Glad you enjoyed the show!! Tim (Brass Writer)

Members of the Senators Drum and Bugle Corps from Eastleigh, Hampshire, England will be taken on the celebrity trip of a lifetime this weekend as they go on tour supporting Pop superstar Gwen Stefani. Six members of the corps, accompanied by Director Joe Fitzpatrick and Percussion Head John McNamara, will be backing Gwen as she promotes her new single "Hollerback Girl" in the UK, the video of which features marching bands and cheerleaders. The tour will involve performing on TV to a prime time audience of millions. As an added interest to US Drum Corps, appearing with the Senators as a guest performer will be Cavaliers tenor player Ben Collins, who is over in England studying at Manchester University. The trip begins today (Thursday) in London as the corps members rehearse 10am-10pm with Gwen Stefani and her dancers to get their performance right - the Senators members will appear in full uniform with Brass and Percussion instruments. They will then live the Rock and Roll lifestyle stay in a Central London apartment before Friday sees them rehearsing and recording Top of the Pops which is broadcast later that evening. After another night in the apartment, an early start will see the corps recording a performance for CDUK for ITV and then Popworld for Channel 4. Once the TV appearances are over, the Senators members will get on the Gwen Stefani tour bus and travel to Sunderland where, after staying in a celebrity studded hotel, they will be performing on the main stage on Radio 1's "One Big Weekend" in front of 20,000 people. After another night in the hotel, the tired members will then be flown back to Southampton Airport on Monday. This amazing performance opportunity is just the latest in this year's celebrity appearances which included the brass appearing in Keane's video "This is the last time" and the drums being featured a few weeks ago with Will Smith on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night takeaway. "It's great to get the opportunity to perform in these high profile events," says Director Joe Fitzpatrick, "Not only for the members that get the experience of a lifetime, but it gets our activity on national, primetime TV, which raises our public profile and helps all marching bands and drum corps in the UK." The Senators Web Site www.senators.org.uk will be trying to keep everyone updated with progress over the next few days with pictures where possible, together with follow ups and full reports next week. The Senators Drum and Bugle Corps

I've been experimenting with Brass soundfonts by using orchestral brass instrument soundfonts off the web and basically trial and error to see what sounds good. I wondered if anyone else had tried this, or anyone had any better brass soundfonts to share - if anyone has actual drumcorps instrument fonts that would be cool. I have the drum corps percussion soundfont and that's good. What I've done so far sounds ok, but there's always room for improvement B) I'd been interested to hear responses from anyone who had tried to create a virtual brass line. Tim

I've seen it all now - Mark "Feet" Abbott, by day mild mannered reporter, by night.... I think I'll leave it there :P

When first checking this forum I noticed a strange refreshing thing about it when comparing it to the official DCUK DG. Was it the nice pretty pictures or the selection of smileys available? Was it the use of registration and passwords or the tribute to the famous Dako Red Devils... ^0^ Then I realised that it was none of the above...it was the fact that Jake hadn't replied to every posting on the board... Quick get in before he finds us!! Dr