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Reg Vardy look to extend winning battery life

If you want to find out how the Reg Vardy Band wants extend its old battery life on Torchbearer then now's your chance...

Russell Gray and Reg Vardy
 

The current North of England Area champion is aiming to recall former glories in its new guise this weekend at Durham.

Open rehearsal

The Reg Vardy Band will showcase its preparations on Peter Graham’s ‘The Torchbearer’ under MD Russell Gray in an open rehearsal on Thursday evening, before heading to the new Area contest venue hoping to start an new era of dominance there — as it did at Darlington for so many years as the battery sponsored Ever Ready Band.

Appropriate

A spokesperson told 4BR: “It seems rather appropriate that we head to Durham as reigning champion and with a nice, if rather tenuous link, to our famous Area winning past!”

The band will be holding the free open rehearsal from 7.45pm-9.45pm on Thursday 12h March at the old Salvation Army Hall, View Lane, Stanley, Co Durham DH9 0DX4BR

Time and date

The band will be holding the free open rehearsal from 7.45pm-9.45pm on Thursday 12h March at the old Salvation Army Hall, View Lane, Stanley, Co Durham DH9 0DX

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