For those who may be feeling a little patriotic this weekend. Or just enjoy listening to some great music.

Apologies - should be in Siesta time.

Thanks so much for posting this, even though my dial-up won't open the player!

I have moved it for you.

Rosemary

Good stuff Stevie.
The old colliery bands still send a shiver down my spine remembering how it used to be.
Almost every colliery or lodge had its own band at one time.
They'd line up and play their stuff marching around their own village on a Friday evening ahead of their own huge lodge banner and countless local followers.
Then the following day they'd march in turn through the city centre proudly playing their music and parading their local banners which were a work of art within themselves.
I can recall seeing in the region of a hundred and fifty of them march through in turn at one time.
Virtually the whole of the county would be in attendance and the local villages were almost totally abandoned like ghost towns for the day

Always struck me as odd that a man who came to represent British Nationalism in a musical sense always felt that he never really belonged in the Britain he was born into.