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CUBB Tour

Every year CUBB goes on tour. In the past we have visited most parts of the UK (except Scotland and Northern Ireland because they are a long way away). Recent venues have included Wales, Liverpool and Malvern.

Tour 2006: Mid and West Wales

For Tour 2006, we went to Llwyngwril on the Welsh coast.

What really happened on tour 2006...according to Di.

Tour 2006 will go down in history for its high levels of illness, but we weren't going to let that stop us. Oh no! After our first concert (in a primary school) most of the band were asked for autographs. Friday was spent enjoying Wales (according to the itinerary) and I really can't remember what we did. That evening some of us walked to the sea. It was tough, as my ripped t-shirt goes to show but we finally arrived and gazed out towards Ireland.
Then Tour Quiz 2006! Highlights this year included a Harvest-the-owl holding model; the one and only and, most incredibly, Greg and JC both deciding that if Goff Richards met the CUBB bass trombone section he would go "Ooh la la" and hit them over the head with a string of onions, in blankety band. As Greg would say, tour 2006 was chuffin brilliant.

Tour quotes...

As ever, we tried to record the tour by quoting some of the silly things people said on tour. This years highlights included:

"Trombones are a step down from tubas" - Di

"Oh dear, I best put my browsers back on" - JC

"Did anyone go out with the Bus driver?" - John S

"Use the whisk..." - John G

"So just because I went and slept with her I died?" - Jenny

"Goff Richards? Who's Goff Richards?" - Rosey

"If Goff Richards met the CUBB bass trombone section he would..." - Ben "Go ooh la la and hit them over the head with a string of onions." - Greg and (miraculously) JC

"Well JC was a famous criminal, but he was lynched outside the town." - Vera [Machynlleth local]

Itinerary...

This is a rough guide to what we got up to:

Thursday 16th March

Depart Cambridge for a concert in Guilsfield primary school

Free time in Welshpool (for a cream tea and a pint)

Go to hostel (Ty Gwyn in Llwyngwril) for tea

Friday 18th March

Enjoy Wales and short rehearsal

Afternoon concert in Machynlleth county primary school

Evening concert in Machynlleth county primary school

Saturday 19th March

Visit Barmouth (to watch rugby and have a cream tea)

Concert in Barmouth Harbour church for the RNLI

Back to hostel for Tour Quiz 2006!

Sunday 20th March

Afternoon concert in Guilsfield church

Tour football on Guilsfeld playing fields

Return to Cambridge for Curry at India House