Organisers of the Fullsby Open have announced that Claude Beowald's "Torpedo" has been chosen as the set work.
They have also announced the first ever "post-draw" in banding.
Contest Secretary Lionel Girder said, "For many years contests have toyed with pre-draws. We are having a post-draw".
The idea is that bands will roll up whenever they fancy and lay down a performance. The adjudicators (and they are good ones including Wing Commander Clive Spiffing from the RAF Band or summat) will then place the performances in order from the draw.
However, bands will then meet up a month later to draw numbers out of a bag and finally see what result they end up with.
Girder said, "Imagine the best band on the day play number one and nail it! It's all still in the melting pot. Then we meet a month later and the shittiest band on the day might, post-respectively, draw number one out of the bag and win it!"
It should be a cracking contest.
