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CUBB Annual Dinner

Every April the band holds it's annual black-tie dinner. Past members of CUBB members are invited back and generally spend a weekend in Cambridge reliving the joys of punting as well as visiting various pubs around the city. The highlight of the weekend is the dinner and awards ceremony where awards for achievements over the past year are given out.

Annual Dinner 2006:

For the 2006 annual dinner, we walked all the way out to Churchill!

The meal we were given included:

• Caremilised Prawns with lime dressing / Spinach soup with goats cheese
• Silverside of beef with horseradish dumplings / Grilled vegetables with a rich tomato and white wine sauce
• Expresso chocolate tart
• Coffee and Port

Annual awards 2006:

Blankety Band award for Tour Quiz

Highlights from the Quiz:

- "If Goff Richards heard the bass trombone section playing he would say ooh la la and start chomping on some onions"

- Harvest - testing pasta structures

- John Shaw - the one and only

- Chris Asford - filming of the one and only

WINNER - Euphs, baris and flugal

Drinker of the year

Jenny - drinking everything put in front of her during the quiz and even describing the Turbo Rosey as "quite nice"

Becky H - also drinking everything put in front of her, and then making it through to a vodka-fuelled 5.23am

Steve Hardiman - many years of steady drinking, and for giving himself a two-week hangover on the first night of tour

Rob Richards - just to even up the male-female ratio

WINNER - Steve Hardiman

Blunder of the Year

(Immune) Ben R - forgetting his cornet for a concert and breaking a toe

Di - for leaving her cornet in the pavilion at Willingham when we went out to play and only realising when Aidan was about to start the set

The Girls - for allowing Neil to choose who had which showers on tour

The Boys - for agreeing to "next goal wins" and thus losing despite scoring 7 goals to 3

Di - for playing CUBB march as an encore at Wesley

WINNER - Di Brady

Big Jets Award for Comedy Achievement

Greg - for being French

Rob - for pointing out Greg's French heritage at every possible opportunity, and for general achievements in the field of comedy

Chris - for his email: "I'm sure I'll be there when ever it is but I'm gouing to drink some port and I have a cocktail umbrellaq in my ear, so count me in but I'm rdrunk at the moment so vciount me in. good night"

Willingham - for making us play in the changing rooms when it was raining

WINNER - Rob Richards

Turd of honour

Angus - for dressing down for our concerts so that the rest of us didn't feel underdressed

Jenny - for donating her kitchen for repeated abuse by the band

Steve's Mum - for collecting Ben Russel's cornet

Charlotte Pursey for lending Ben Russel her cornet

WINNER - Charlotte Pursey

The Hazel Rogers award for inappropriate behaviour

Difficult in a year with Angus's playing and Rob's general existence, but...

John G - for inappropriate use of a whisk on tour

John Shaw - for inventing the AIDS game and insisting on playing it until everybody left the room

Becky C - for using her artistic skills in pictionary to represent the word "hard", leading subsequently to Rob's 'I "would" "do" anything for "love" but I won't "do" that'

John Shaw and Jenny - for getting it on in Chris's room

WINNER - John Shaw

The Hat Trick Hero Award

Big JC - for scoring a hat-trick in tour football

Chris - for tearing his trousers for the third time

Steve Houghton - for clocking up at least his third leaving do

Neil - for making it a hat-trick of tours without the DVD from the first coming out

WINNER - JC

The Di Brady award for inappropriate coments

Di - for telling the back row "I sometimes sound like that when I haven't played for 10 years"

Di - for describing the Trombone section as "one step down from the basses"

Di - for sadism towards Becky C, making her go red for the amusement of the school kids

Di - for naming Rosey and Susie as one of the reasons to come on tour

WINNER - Di for her comments about the backrow

The Ainsley Harriet Award for Culinary Prowess

Tour Cheese on toast crew

Kitchen crew - for peeling potatoes at 2am

John G - for using a whisk to grate Cheese

Aidan - for providing the menu for tour

WINNER - Cheese on toast

Lifetime achievement award

He used to tap dance

Likes nothing better than playing Floral Dance as an encore, then playing it again

Has played sop and subsequently front row, where his lips of steel have been invaluable

Been alsorts of things on the band committee

Despite having his leaving do over a year ago, has only just got round to leaving

We should forgive him the lapse of hiding the beer under his bed on one tour

WINNER - Steve Houghton