Band News 2004 CRYSTAL PALACE BAND MEMBERS TO APPEAR IN PARKINSON TRAILER Two members of Crystal Palace Band, Andrew and Clare Lipscombe (they’re siblings by the way and definitely NOT an item) were joined by Owen Rees to help out ITV in the filming of the trailer for the new Parkinson chat show. The band were approached by ITV to see if anyone was available to film in Croydon and pose as ‘geeky’ brass band players. Andrew and Clare duly volunteered and are now awaiting international stardom to knock on the door of their Winnebago… See how they got on in pictures…  1. Andrew poses with ITV coffee in the Winnebago. The ‘winnie’ (see, got the lingo now) was parked in the back streets of Croydon, near Surrey Street market. The trailer will also feature a singing budgie, a market trader, a postman and some teenagers all humming/singing/playing to the Parkinson trailer. Thankfully the real music will be dubbed on so the joyous strains of Andrew, Clare and Owen busking won’t be broadcast across the nation.  2. Clare has her make up done – all three were provided with costumes in case their band uniforms weren’t “geeky enough”.  3. The co-ordinated geeks at large! (Maybe we should point out that the glasses aren’t theirs either… although Andrew and Owen did get strangely attached to them).
4. And here they are in front of the billboard near Purley Way, miming as only they can. ITV provided the sousaphone, hired from a company in Shepherd’s Bush and although only three of its four valves were working Andrew still managed to get the Parky tune out of it.  5. In the winnie back home – you can take them off now, Clare… So watch out for three of them on telly soon! And if you want to catch Andrew and Owen in non-geeky performance visit www.function-band.com and find out where they’re playing next… |
