The MBBF (Meaningless Brass Band Forum) have offered an olive branch to Mason Maudsley and Maudsley Mason after the Marston Dam Entertainment Contest absolutely awful and disgusting event fiasco.
The currently well-in-the-doghouse brass band pair have been offered a chance to dig themselves out of the hole that brass band forums and local councils have created for them by towing the line and taking it on the chin.
MBBF spokesman Norman Chancer told the Bandstand, "I think we all know that what those two did at the Marston Moor Entertainment Contest was wrong. I'm not saying for definite it was wrong, because that could open up a legal argument, all I'm saying is we all think it was wrong. Looking at various brass band forums, I think that we have all decided that, whether we were there to see it or not, we mostly think it was wrong".
"To be honest the Council turned the screw. These two fucked up and we could of left it at that but the Council pushed us to go for the jugular. So we are offering Mason Maudsley and Maudsley Mason a free course on modern day brass band programming. They can spend a week with up and coming young composers explaining to them how the days of the old-school brass band programme are gone and now is the future of modern-day composers who have just come out of university and have had Sibelius installed on their televisions."
The Bandstand understands that if Mason and Maudsley fail to accept the MBBF offer then they will face a 12 month ban from something or other. This will include the cancellation of any subscription they may hold to the quarterly newsletter of the MBBF entitled, "The Traditional Brass Bander".
