Articles - 2001

Articles from 2001

• The 2001 End of Year Rankings:
  The definitive final list of the 4BR World Rankings for 2001, plus the biggest achievers and underperformers of the year.
  date: 31.12.01
• The 10 worst uniforms:
  The ten worst uniforms of all time.
  date: 26.12.01
• The 4BarsRest Awards 2001: The results...
  All the votes are now in, and what a response! The 3318 entries for the seven categories has sent our e-mail into melt down...
  date: 17.12.01
• Friends Like These: Breathless
  "Breathless" by the artist Cornelia Parker.4BR give you a little bit of information to think about before you possibly make your mind up to whether the £50,000 was well spent or not.
  date: 13.12.01
• The 2001 Winners: View list of winners
  Who picked up the prizes throughout 2001
  date: 12.12.01
• End of Term Reports 2001: Reports
  The yearlong contest season has now come to end (Thank God! - we can hear you say) and players, conductors and supporters can take the opportunity to regal their fellow brass band lovers with tales of how well they have done through the year.
  date: 09.12.01
• The 4BarsRest Awards 2001: Awards
  Everyone from Smash Hits to the BBC are handing out a variety of gongs, sculptures and free lunches so we thought we'd better get in on the act
  date: 04.12.01
• Retrospective reviews of:
  
  • Brass in Concert
  • Treorchy Entertainment
  • Wilkinson Northern Open
  date: 21.11.01
• Brass in Concert Championships 2002:
  Spennymoor Awaits the Entertainers - Full review and dodgy predictions
  date: 15.11.01
• Interview and personal profile: Andrew King
  British Open Solo Champion 2000 and 2001
  date: 14.11.01
• Interview: 4BR Meets the King - Peter Roberts
  This is a bit of an apocryphal story, but one none the less that's worth the airing.
  date: 12.11.01
• 4BR Top 10 - The Top 10 Trombonists
  date: 08.11.01
• Pontins Champions 2001:
  The Cornish Cavaliers - The JAG Mount Charles BandEver Ready's soprano player Les Palmer casts a very personal tribute to the lads and lasses of the newly crowned Pontins National Champions.
  date: 30.10.01
• Pontins championships 2001:
  Retrospective review of sections 1, 2, 3 & 4 and full results
  date: 30.10.01
• Pontins championships 2001:
  Retrospective review of the championship section and full results.
  date: 29.10.01
• Pontins 2001: Test Piece Review
  Diadem of Gold – G. Bailey arranged Frank Wright.
  date: 25.10.01
• Pontins 2001: Runners and riders for all sections, full analysis and dodgy predictions
  • Championship section
  • First section
  • Second section
  • Third Section
  • Fourth section
  date: 25.10.01
• Thornton's Original: Interview with David Thornton, the newly crowned Euphonium Player of the Year 2001
  date: 23.10.01
• Nationals finals: Results and 4BR comments for all sections:•  Championship section
  •  Section 1
  •  Section 2
  •  Section 3
  •  Section 4
• Nationals 2001: Our Retrospective Review
  date: 22.10.01
• Nationals 2001: Reactions...
  from the adjudicators, players and Nicholas Childs
  date: 22.10.01
• Nationals 2001: Gala Concert Review
  Featuring The Black Dyke Band, The International Staff Band and The Symphonic Brass of London. Royal Albert Hall: Saturday 20th October 7.45pm
  date: 22.10.01
• Nationals 2001: The Adjudicators:
  David Read, Roy Newsome and Jan Van der Roost
  date: 17.10.01
• Nationals 2001: Albion:
  4BarsRest take a closer look at the forthcoming National Finals test piece.
  date: 13.08.01
• Nationals 2001: The competitors and their records
  date: 15.10.01
• Nationals 2001: The Luck of the Draw
  date: 14.10.01
• Nationals 2001: The Conductors Records
  date: 10.10.01
• Nationals 2001: The Cory Double
  The National Championships 2000
  date: 10.10.01
• Nationals 2001: Facts and figures
  101 "Anorak" facts, figures and useless information you ever wanted to know about the Nationals.
  date: 10.10.01
• Nationals 2001: Top ten
  The 10 Greatest Winning Performances at the Nationals.
  date: 10.10.01
• British Open Feature: The Rovers Return
  Find out what our roving reporter found out in the bar at the recent British Open Championships in Birmingham.
  date: 29.09.01
• National Finals: Return to Preston.
  Retrospective look at sections 1, 2, 3 & 4
  date: 25.09.01
• National Finals: Contest details, runners and riders, our dodgy predictions and test piece reviews....
  • 1st section
  • 2nd section
  • 3rd section
  • 4th section
• The Famous Five and the Longest Day:
  The Best of British Brass, Sunday 16 September, 2001
  date: 19.09.01
• First Amongst Equals:
  Retrospective look at the British Open Contest 2001 - where was it won and lost?
  date: 17.09.01
• Player Profile:
  Doyle's Delight - John Doyle, the winner of the Stanley Wainwright Memorial Trophy as Best Soloist at this year's British Open Championships
  date: 17.09.01
• British Open Feature: Les Preludes
  4BR take a closer look at Les Preludes and the men behind the Test Piece.
• British Open Feature: The Competitors
  Here's the bit you've all been waiting for. 4BarsRest gives you the run down on all 21 bands competing at the year's 149th British Open and how we think they may do.
  date: 10.09.01
• British Open Feature: The Lottery Draw
  Be as it may, and however many "Hail Mary" prayers you have given we all know that you need a good draw to win a major contest.
  date: 10.09.01
• British Open Feature: Players Guide – The Possible Stars of the Day?
  Here's our list of players who we think will be well worth listening out for
  date: 10.09.01
• British Open Feature: The Track Record – The Conductors
  Certain conductors seem to fancy certain contests, but all conductors want to be able to say that they have won the British Open Championships.
  date: 10.09.01
• British Open Feature: The Old Masters Versus The Young Guns
  Featuring the three most experienced men going about their business at the Open and three young men who have just started
  date: 06.09.01
• British Open Feature: The Year of the Dragon
  A closer look at last years Millennium Open Championships
  date: 06.09.01
• British Open Feature: Form Guide
  A closer look at the 'form' over the last 5 years for the competing bands at the forthcoming British Open Championships
  date: 04.09.01
• British Open Feature: Facts and Figures
  101 "Anorak" facts, figures and useless information you ever wanted to know about the British Open Brass Band Championships
  date: 04.09.01
• Fantasy For Brass Band:
  4BarsRest take a closer look at the forthcoming National Finals test piece for the First Section
  date: 30.08.01
• Interview with David Childs
  date: 27.08.01
• The Golden Oldies III:
  4BarsRest takes a look at what could arguably be the most important of all brass band recordings - Grimethorpe Special
  date: 14.08.01
• Loyalty and Respect:
  David James asks if loyalty and respect have been lost to banding
  date: 13.08.01
• The Golden Oldies II:
  4BarsRest take a look at some great 'Long Players' from yesteryear.
  Date: 04.08.01
• Top ten BBb Bass Players of all time:
  4BR come up with ten of the best growlers...
  date: 04.08.01
• Lions Brass 2001:
  4BR pick a British and Irish team (with Sheilas) to take on the Aussies (below) in a three match test showdown.
  Date: 04.08.01
• Australian Brass 2001:
  The National Brass Band of Australia give us their line up for this year's tour of Western Australia
  date: 02.08.01
• The 50s and 60s revisited:
  David Read takes us through the two decades that greatly influenced the banding movement of today.
  date: 31.07.01
• The Golden Oldies I:
  4BarsRest take a look at some great 'Long Players' from yesteryear.
  date: 24.07.01
• James Shepherd... a legend:
  Chris Helme takes time out to take a closer look at one of the banding movement's greatest ever players.
  date: 24.07.01
• The All England Masters adjudication system comes under scrutiny:
  John Casey, the man behind the 4BarsRest ranking system, proposes an alternative system that eliminates the 'rogue adjudicator' factor that has had a massive effect on the competition's winners on two previous occasions.
  date: 17.07.01
• Variation on a Theme by Bach:
  4BarsRest takes time out to interview Markus S. Bach
  date: 10.07.01
• Band Feature:
  The Camborne Band – West of England Champions 2001
  date: 10.07.01
• Personality profile: David Thornton
  date: 08.07.01
• The Harrogate Band:
  4BarsRest take a closer look at the Harrogate Band that celebrated its 30th anniversary this year
  date:02.07.01
• The Ten Most Controversial Brass Band Contest Results since 1990:
  We had to think long and hard about this one before we decided to put it on the site.
  date:01.07.01
• The Top 10 Euphonium Players of All Time:
  You've been a patient lot waiting for this list, but now the time has come to reveal all.
  date:13.06.01
• One Foot in the Grave:
  4BarsRest takes a look at 'Life in the 4th Section' with Carlton Brass
  date:09.06.01
• Part II: Grimethorpe in Australia and New Zealand:
  A humourous look at their trip down under
  date:07.06.01
• 4BarsRest's retrospective look on the All England Masters, 2001:
  There just had to be a sting in the tail didn't there? On a pretty amazing day of contesting, the Masters gave us the equivalent of the Liverpool/Alaves UEFA cup final
  date:29.05.01
• Masters 2001 - anorak heaven:
  We've spent a lot of time and energy putting these various tables together so that you can spend an unhealthy amount of time pouring over the endless permutations three men in a box can get up to.
  date:29.05.01
• YBS and David King:
  4BarsRest take a closer look at the Yorkshire Buiding Society Band and David King as they look to secure their second hat trick in a month.
  date:22.05.01
• The National Championships of Great Britain 1992:
  Alan Morrison looks back on Grimethorpe's memorable win quoted as being "a sure triumph of the human spirit, a sense of liberty and resurrection drawn out of sorrow and pain"
  date:16.05.01
• The King of Europe:
  David King talks exclusively to 4BarsRest about winning the European title for the 5th time with YBS.
  date:11.05.01
• The European Championships 2001 Results and Review:
  Review of Yorkshire Building Society's amazing "Triple Crown" win, reviews on all the performances, comments from the conductors and our own views on the Montreux weekend.
  date:10.05.01
• The Grand Shield and Senior Cup results and Reviews:
  The results from both events, the Adjudicator's off stage remarks for the Grand Shield and our retrospective reviews of the performances at both contests.
  date:06.05.01
• Howard Snell:
  One of the most influential men ever to have been involved in the brass band world talks to 4BarsRest.
  date:03.05.01
• European Championships 2001:
  A closer look at Carl Rutti's magnificent test piece, Robert Childs and the BAYV Cory band.
  date:03.05.01
• European Championships 2001:
  Wednesday May 2nd to Saturday May 5th.
  The Stravinsky Auditorium, Montreux, Switzerland
  Contest overview, band by band analysis and our predictions.
  date:23.04.01
• The Senior Cup 2001 - Runners and Riders: Saturday 5th May, Pavillion Theatre, Winter Gardens, Blackpool
  We've done it for the Grand Shield so we had to do it for the newly reconstituted Senior Cup.
  date:22.04.01
• European Championships:
  4BarsRest sets out its position with regard to the Own Choice test pieces and the contest.
  date:22.04.01
• The Grand Shield 2001 - Runners and Riders: Saturday 5th May, Empress Ballroom, Winter Gardens, Blackpool
  We give the rundown on the competing bands at the 81st Grand Shield... and our prediction of the result!
  date:17.04.01
• Norway's 3-2-1 Contest:
  The Grenland Contest in Norway features all their top bands in a 3 part competition to find the winners. We have all the details and run downs on the Elite bands taking part.
  date:17.04.01
• Pennine Brass: A New Band with a Winning Touch
  date:11.04.01
• The need to spoil the classics: "To re-arrange or not to re-arrange that is the question." With apologies to William Shakespeare
  - by David James
  date:06.04.01
• Interview with Richard Evans
  date:06.04.01
• Personality profile: Jim Davies
  date:06.04.01
• Our predeictions: find out how well 4BarsRest did in predicting the qualifiers for the National Championships following last months Regional championships
  date:03.04.01
• Band Profile: Mossley Band - North West Area Section 1 Champions
  date:03.04.01
• Grimethorpe in Australia and New Zealand: A humourous look at their trip down under
  date:03.04.01
• A reflective look back at the 1959 Nationals -
  by David James
  date:03.04.01
• Fantasy National Bands: It had to come didn't it? A full round of Regional Championships has given us the excuse to dive in head first and start an argument that should have bandsmen and women airing their opinions for a few months at least.
  date:03.04.01
• Welsh Regional Championships: 4BarsRest take a closer look at the competing bands in the championship section.
  date:27.03.01
• West of England Regional Championships: 4BarsRest take a closer look at the competing bands in the championship section.
  date:26.03.01
• The Areas – Our guide to who we think will be in the prizes in each of the areas
  date:25.02.01
• Fodens out to claim Four in a Row.
  date:08.03.01
• "The Lowdown" - all you needed to know about the top contenders at the North of England Area. Can Ever Ready secure another win?
  date:03.03.01
• "The Lowdown 2" - A closer look at the Scottish Regional Championships this weekend in Falkirk
  date:07.03.01
• "There's only one band in London" ... and a look at this year's regional championships
  date:25.02.01
• Interview with Nicholas Childs – the man with the hardest job in banding
  date:25.02.01
• When David was first crowned King – a look back at the Open of 1997
  date:25.02.01
• The "Majors" – a quick mugs guide to the Open, National, Masters and European
  date:25.02.01
• Players with a big future... a look at key soloists performing at this year's Yorkshire regional championships
  date:25.02.01

Features:

• The Worlds Greatest Fantasy Brass Band
  date:25.02.01
• The Top Ten Cornet Players of all time
  date:25.02.01
• Profile: Ian Porthouse
  date:25.02.01
• Conductors to Watch
  date:25.02.01