East London's Hackney Colliery Band continue to reinvent the brass band sound for the 21st century with Sharpener. Comprised of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, sousaphone, marching percussion and ...

THE weird and wonderful Hackney Colliery Band is on the road this spring, and they've lined up stops at a number of local venues. The band will play the Artrix in Bromsgrove on July 15. Before then, ...

FROM Clitheroe to Tanzania, via remote Northumberland villages to the foothills of Albania, there are brass bands playing all over the globe. There are none, though, quite like the Hackney Colliery ...

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One of the greatest live bands we have in this country" - BBC Radio 2 Tis the season to be jolly rowdy with one of the UK’s most explosive bands. HCB’s unmatched energy and exuberance has seen them ...

Steve Pretty is best known as bandleader of internationally-renowned brass pioneers Hackney Colliery Band (‘one of the greatest live bands that we have in this country’ – BBC Radio 2), but he is also ...

East London's Hackney Colliery Band continue to reinvent the brass band sound for the 21st century with Sharpener. Comprised of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, sousaphone, marching percussion and ...

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