Hi Loyal Viewers,
As promised, I've started to publish some of the interviews I've had a chance to make so far. Unfortunately I won't have a chance to get around to all the bands - although I'm doing my best to speak with representatives of all the Victorian Bands. I'm driving up to Brisbane next Monday / Tuesday, so if anyone on the east coast feels like an interview, please send me an email to [email protected] and we'll try to set something up.
Also, please make sure you're keeping an eye on the Brassbanned Facebook Page - I'll be posting lots of updates there in the lead-up to and throughout the competition. I've even made a Facebook Event for the live broadcast - make sure you like the Page, Join the Event, and invite any and all of your friends and family who would enjoy watching the live broadcast.
I caught up with John Conway from Kew Band Melbourne last week - he agreed to a quick interview, and we talked about how the band is preparing, what their Own Choice work is, as well as the ambitious plans for a street march win!
Enjoy...
Transcript
Auto-generated from the live stream, expect the occasional robot mishearing.
Loyal viewers here we are at cube and melbourne with john conway john how you going uh well thank you tim that’s good i’ve just actually sat in on a rehearsal with cuban melbourne sounding very good um john how’s preparations going for nationals nationals is three weeks out now how’s the band going uh well we’re going as well as could be expected we’ve had a few problems with uh getting players to commit but um we’re we’ve got a band to go um but i’m sure it’ll come together in the next few weeks there’s lots of trouble especially around victoria around the a great scene finding enough
Plays to go around all the bands so good on cuban melbourne for getting up there having a play now john can you tell me what you’re playing for your own choice or are you keeping that under wraps or you’re not sure that’s not a secret okay what are you playing titan’s progress yeah and how’s that going um well i wish i could play the park tim but uh the tuber parts are very difficult it’s very fun lots of fun the rest of the band are playing well though but i’ve just got to do a bit of practice myself to get up to speed very good
Now word on the street is there’s a 500 cash prize for the most entertaining turn on the street much what does cuban melbourne have in store for us or will the surprise just be the band getting around the corner john what do you reckon i’m not sure what a corner is actually just quietly it’ll be a surprise i could i could tell you but i’d have to kill you tim that’s definitely um so we’re okay yeah okay for the own choice but the street match we take pretty seriously there you go street march very serious at cuban melbourne what else does q have in store
For this year so after nationals finishes do you have anything on the agenda in terms of big concerts or things that people out there should know about well as you can see our new rehearsal venue is absolutely we can put a concert on here for 200 and we intend to put two or three concerts on this year um in this venue um so that’ll be uh part of our uh strategy for this year um giving back to our community because they’ve provided us with a fantastic facility to rehearse and i’d i’d almost say that it’s uh it’ll be one of the best in australia absolutely
One of the best i’ve ever played in for sure um well anyway john thanks very much for joining us best of luck at nationals i’m sure everyone watching really wishes cue all the best and i hope you played very well on stage and i’ll look forward to catching up with a few few friends from interstate and uh having a few lemonades a few lemonades after the event yes excellent thanks very much john
