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Report from Ian Scaife...
The music of James Bond remains as popular as ever
on the drum corps field. Staffordshire Knights set the mood with the
drum majors in Bond style evening dress.
The opening strains coming from the pit featured the main theme with
the brass soon blasting their way in. Shaken AND stirred! The very
talented percussion line is soon driving the corps through a great
rendition of ‘Live and Let Die’.
Not forgetting the brass line of course, who provide nice dynamics and
tone throughout the performance, which is constantly evolving through
their Bond repertoire including familiar and some not so familiar
themes.
And of course the guard, who provided much of the Bond style imagery
alongside effective traditional equipment work.
Nice swing feel to the opening section of ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’, with
great intensity from the corps as the piece developed. I felt this
worked particularly well as it fully explored a musical theme as
opposed to the medley feel of the opener.
‘For Your Eyes Only’ and ‘Nobody Does it Better’ were performed in a
classic drum corps style, then taking it up a notch with a full on
swing-style main Bond theme, giving the show the closer it demanded!
Full
report published by DCUK here...
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