However, the Bandstand has been assured that this is definitely the last one of the Tuppery & Sneedsdale Flingthorpe Open photos to see the light of day. At last, it seems, brass banding can finally move on.
It shows third cornet laiker Mitchell Simms with his wife Janet and their favourite pigeon Dirk at the humble farm they share on the hills above Tuppery village.
Mitchell told the Bandstand, "To be honest we've flogged it as much as we can. I saw that photo off of that lad who joined on horn a few weeks before the contest. We won the contest, then I see his picture on a popular social networking site that we'd best not name otherwise we'll all be in trouble even though we all know which one I mean, that one with him and his kids draped round the famous old trophy. I thought fuck me pal, I've done 25 years at this band as a fairly inadequate cornet player, then you walk in and hijack the glory off of bandsmen like me".
It should be a cracking end to the self-congratulatory shenanigans.
