Band returns – just to play, not act (From Durham Times)

Band returns – just to play, not act

2:20pm Friday 22nd January 2010

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THE NASUWT Riverside Band returns to Sunderland’s Royalty Theatre on Saturday, February 6, to give a concert at 7.30pm.

This time, it will be the full band playing, not the nine who squeezed on to the stage in June 2008 for a production by the amateur drama company based at the theatre of Brassed Off.

They performed the numbers made famous in the hit film and acted as supporting characters in scenes featuring rehearsals and performances by the fictional Grimley Colliery Band.

NASUWT Riverside Band, formed in 1877 as Pelton Fell Methodist Band, rehearses at Durham County Cricket Ground in Chester-le-Street.

In 2005, they reached the national brass band finals at the Albert Hall.

“We could not have done Brassed Off without them, and it is wonderful to welcome back the full, 25-piece Riverside Band,” said Royalty chairman Pauline Craig.

Tickets, £8.50, will be on sale at the theatre, off Chester Road, Sunderland, during next week’s performances of the Alan Ayckbourn thriller Snake in the Grass, or call 0191-567-2669 or 0191-565-7945.

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