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Thurrock Marching Brass is delighted to confirm that the November 2016 winner for the Jack Petchey Achievement Award goes to Kiera Tyler. Kiera has been an exceptional member since joining Thurrock Marching Brass a short while ago and has excelled in all areas of the Colourguard. Kiera has shown outstanding character this year and has […]
November 15th, 2016 | Filed under Drum Corps Europe,FrontPage Feature | Read More »

From May 2016, the Thurrock Marching Brass design team started working on what they hope will be an incredibly fun filled field theatrical experience. The show will once again take an historically known subject matter and extends the story line, just as they successfully did with their 2016 program, Under New Management. For the 2017 […]
October 31st, 2016 | Filed under Drum Corps U.K.,FrontPage Feature | Read More »

After a successful first experience in the Drum Corps Europe (DCE) Indoor Music Games / Drum Corps International (DCI) Soundsport in 2016, Thurrock Marching Brass is excited to announce that it will be bringing this spectacle to Essex for 2017. This will see the event back in the heart of what was once a hot […]
October 29th, 2016 | Filed under Drum Corps Europe,FrontPage Feature | Read More »

On Friday 7 October, the management team behind the recently crowned British Cadet Champions, Thurrock Marching Brass put their extensive skills to good use and produced the inaugural concert that brought together some of the best bands and acts in Essex at the Thurrock Civic Hall. The aim was to bring awareness to Aicardi Syndrome, […]
October 10th, 2016 | Filed under Drum Corps U.K.,FrontPage Feature | Read More »
…and so to the last competition of our season – British Youth Band Association Finals. We met at lunchtime and between rain showers managed a couple of full run throughs. We then travelled to Telford in pouring rain, hoping that the weather might be a bit kinder to us when we performed. The rain cleared […]
October 9th, 2016 | Filed under British Youth Band Association | Read More »

The young members of Thurrock Marching Brass, more than 60% of whom had never competed at a National Championships before, set sail for Telford Football Club on Saturday 1 October. By ‘set sail’ we really mean that, as of all the days to break what has been a spectacular few months of blistering sunshine, the […]
October 3rd, 2016 | Filed under British Youth Band Association,FrontPage Feature | Read More »
Liberty had a great time at DCUK Finals this year. Our best run came in the morning’s Prelims competition where everyone left the field knowing we had just delivered the best performance of the season….and that’s a great feeling at Finals. Read the rest of the article here.
September 26th, 2016 | Filed under Drum Corps U.K. | Read More »

Thurrock Marching Brass was excited to welcome a group of friends who included Max Gill, who played Fat Sam in the West End smash hit Bugsy Malone, to their rehearsals. Max brought with him Kara-Jane Morallee and Sarah Ridley, both of whom have extensive theatrical and stage experience, and together they gave an absolutely brilliant […]
September 22nd, 2016 | Filed under British Youth Band Association,FrontPage Feature | Read More »

It is now less than 48 hours until the first Corps takes the field at the Select Security Stadium in Widnes to start the 37th British Drum Corps Championships hosted by Drum Corps United Kingdom. UK Fan Network has been working right through the summer to reach this point, and it is with enormous excitement […]
September 15th, 2016 | Filed under Drum Corps U.K.,FrontPage Feature | Read More »

On Sunday 28 August 2016 Thurrock Marching Brass was asked to join the Mersea Festival event which saw more than 350 disabled youngsters including those with learning difficulties, who had spent a whole week enjoying all the adventures of the Mersea Island camp site. On arrival it was clear that this was going to be […]
September 3rd, 2016 | Filed under British Youth Band Association,FrontPage Feature | Read More »