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styx · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:13 pm Post subject: Nato Taptoe "69"

any memories of the Nato Taptoe of 1969? Pompey Band did the gig in Arnhem and Brussels.

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admin · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 9:04 am Post subject:

As i was 5 at the time I'm afraid I don't have any... Someone MUST have been there. Sammy? Where you there? Spill the beans. I did hear a dit about Albatros but can't remember where, when or who it was!
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Mr Bass Trombone · Corporal Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Posts: 401 Location: Spain

I was there, Tom Lambert DoM, I can't recall much happening to spin dits about. If I remember rightly like many Service Hotels we stayed in the accomodation left a little to be desired but as we alway's do we coped, plenty of beer, and frickendelan and chips eased the pain.
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styx · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject: Nato taptoe "69"

Yes I had the pleasure of being on that gig. We had a turkish band on the gig and they all looked like Jim Trewerne with their moustaches and on one occasion when we had a break they tried pulling Jims moustache off as they thought his was artificial like all of theirs were.
The chippy outside of the Barracks made a fortune out of us and the aberden saxophone band we staying at the barracks with us, we lived on bread,ham,cheese and live yogurt nato even gave us an extra allowance so that we coul have an egg every day, we never did, but best of all th elast meal in Arnhem was half a chicken each, all you could hear was the bones being sucked clean. Then we moved to Brussels and the Heysel Stadium and the Barracks we stayed in were worse the Arnhem. We had a great meal a roast dinner, great, trouble is it was horse. Non the less it was a good trip.

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admin · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:32 am Post subject:

Sounds like a belter of a 'Pusser's tours' trip! No warm salad or curly butties though... you can't have it all though can you!
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Mr Bass Trombone · Corporal Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Posts: 401 Location: Spain

Got a bolicking for marching around a pile of horse crap instead of going through it in the middle of the Royal Square in Brussell's' perhaps I should gone through it scrapped it of my boot's and sold in the coffee boat it would have been much like the the food anyway, maybe better.Mmmmmm Straw wrapped sarnie's, curry suace and of course CHIPS.
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2nd Clarinet · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:52 am Post subject:

HB, leave the poor dislex..., dislegs......,dis......., oh bugger it!

Write what you want to Mick, it cheers us all up!
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