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A night with the pop stars at the Brit Awards
A local band were invited to perform at this years Brit Awards...as you can imagine this was an auspicious invitation. As you might expect this would be an honoured invitation to any fledgling pop/rock band trying to make it in the music industry, being able to perform in front of current music legends and music industry moguls. However, this was not an invitation to the latest 'hip' pop band, but to our very own Farnborough Concert Band of The Royal British Legion.
The band were asked to perform cover versions of pop songs in front of the guests of the Brit Awards at the O2 Arena in London at the after show party as part of the entertainment.
There was much to-ing and fro-ing over where the band should perform and at what time. During which time the Band's conductor David Smart, was busy writing the music for the band to play.
Eventually the big day arrived, only to find that as Jessie J had got to number 1 in the charts that week that the producers had commandeered the Legion Band stage for her. So off to plan b. The band left Farnborough at 7pm and headed to London. The band set up and started playing as the televised awards ceremony finished. The band had just started playing Cee - Lo Greens hit 'Forget You' when the bands conductor realised there was a commotion behind him, only to see Cee - Lo Green heading towards the band saying 'that's my tune'.....David handed the baton over to Cee - Lo Green who conducted the band playing his song. The paparazzi and guests were taking pictures like Cee - Lo Green was the new Sir Simon Rattle !!
The band played a further set of music which included hits by Madonna, Take That, Mika, Kylie, The Klaxons, Leona Lewis and many more. The night was a great success and the band returned to Farnborough about 2.30 the following morning, still pinching themselves that they could not believe the experience they had just had and the memory of Cee - Lo Green conducting them.
But it doesn't end there.......as a result of their performance the Producers of the Brit Awards have invited the Legion Band back to perform in 2012 !
