Thanks for uploading this superb video of The RM Beat, 2024. Nice to see that the format has remained traditional w/o any fluff acts added like Celtic Dancers, clowns, etc that you see in so many Tattoos now. This is the real thing, and long may it remain so. Hopefully The UK MoD won't cut these bands anymore. There use to be 10 RM bands each of 50-60 players. So imagine this event with roughly twice the numbers you see here. Still, with 5 bands they can still pull it off provided no more cuts are made in the future.
Out of all the UK's military bands. I like the RM bands the best. You do bring up a good point. I know part of the expenditure of the bands can be justified by their use in promoting the UK brand, but there aren't that many RMs left. They're down to around 5000 enlisted. I was reading the other day that the British Army man power level had dropped, as was the smallest it's been since the Napoleonic wars. Hopefully, because promoting the UK brand has as much to do with the economy as the military. They'll find the money. Tourism infuses about 114 billion GBP into the economy, that's over twice the entire defense budget.
Could you not just let people enjoy this without pouring out your typically English prejudice against things that are part of your colonial heritage. As an Irish person, I have attended the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo every year for the past 20 years apart from the Covid years. I've seen Military precision marching and arms drills, excellent bands from all the services and from abroad. I've seen Celtic dancers, dancers from the former colonies and dancers from countries that were never colonised. I have yet to see clowns. If you put in an appearance this year, I will die happily having seen the Clown.
Amazing !! & all of them great Musicians' proud to be British watching them .....Even before the days of Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada, music has played a key role in the military. Keeping units marching in step, boosting morale and performing at ceremonial occasions are an inherent part of our history - and who we are today. Prepared for action.
Sarie Marais was an old South African folk song often used by the Boer Commandos brought here by soldiers coming back from the South African Boer War and adopted by The Royal Marine Commandos. A very fitting tribute to those soldier farmers who fought with such tenacity for the land they had made with blood and tears.
A colonial war against farmers. They had the misfortune that diamonds and gold were found in Transvaal and Oranje-vrijstaat. The British could not resist the temptation. The first time concentration camps were applied that were filled with women and children.
@edvandegraaf484 Concentration camps were first used by the Spanish in Cuba, followed by the USA in the Philippines and then the British in South Africa. None of these were set up with the aim of murdering the inhabitants, unlike the mid-century Germans. In SA, many died due to disrupted food supplies and disease. British camp workers/soldiers/administrators also died for the same reason, though not in the same numbers. The aim, at least in South Africa, was to deny support to the commandos, by separating them from families and dependants. Goering, I believe, blamed the system on the British, with the aim of aligning their efforts with the extermination camps in Germany and Eastern Europe.
@@adventussaxonum448 Locking up your enemy's women and children and then letting them starve is a war crime. Twenty five percent died. It only gets really nasty when you make a British march from a South African (Boer) song.
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Very impressed with the one bass drummer marching backwards he turned at the 14.17 mark and again at 15.20 , something I don't thing I would be able to do!
I am now ninety as a. Boy cadet I was privileged to bgo to the music room. In Eastney barracks to be taught the art of playing the bugle.our army cadet band judged by the Royal Marines became county champions. We were invited to join the Royal marine band Eastney onto the stage in Winchester Town Hall for the evening concert, after all of these years I still worship all things Royal Marines,especially The. Finest military band H. M. ROYAL MARINES PETER HATHERLY HANTS
This is the Royal Marines who, every second year, do their own Beating the Retreat shows. Next week's performance is the Household Division's version of the Beating of the Retreat - this is not a rehearsal for that show.
Good to see the Royal Naval Division Memorial visible through a break in the seating stands. This commemorates the Sailors and Marines who fought ashore in Belgium, Gallipoli and France during the First World War. During the conflict 582 Officers and 10,797 Ratings and Other Ranks of the RND died.1,364 Officers and 29,528 Ratings and Other Ranks were wounded. The Memorial was set in place in the 1920s, removed in 1939 to storage, rebuilt at Greenwich Royal Naval College in the 1950s and returned to Horse Guards Parade in 2003. The Memorial can be seen in frames at 3.26.
Really enjoyed it. Had a little laugh at 24:22 when I saw a piccolo player and a couple of cornet players twiddling their fingers on their instruments when they clearly weren't blowing into them. lol.
These are the Royal Marines' show, Thursday (yesterday) and today (Friday). There are the shows, not the rehearsals, they happen every 2 years. The profits they make from these shows go to the veterans. Next week is the Cavalry's Musical Celebration on Tuesday/Wednesday/ Thursday.
During the rehearsals they wear half-Lovat dress and peaked caps if I remember rightly, I saw it done on Horseguards back in 1984 as well as the actual ceremony a couple of days later.
