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Article: Brass band blows back to the top!
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- March 2, 1999
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SIX months ago they faced a battle for survival that could have
come straight from the script of hit film Brassed Off.
But now the irrepressible Whitburn Band has turned adversity into
triumph and bounced back with a double victory.
The band has just been crowned Scottish Champions, after having
to
settle for the runners-up spot for the last three years.
And later this month Whitburn's stylish sound will be heard by
hundreds of thousands of people when the band provides its first
radio drama score. The band was chosen to play music composed for a
BBC Radio Four drama set on an Edinburgh to London train.
It's a far cry from last September, when the cash-strapped band
almost had to pull out of ...