Lancers History

This is where you can find the low down on each and every year of The Lancers existance, the results, the highs and the lows. "Once a Lancer, Always a Lancer"

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1999
Star Wars

Position:
BYBA Championship Class (Division 2) League Finish- 11th

Music:
Star Wars Theme
Cantina band (a la Sing Sing Sing)
Princess Leia`s Theme
Throne Room and Finale

Drum Major(s):
Sarah Pyatt

Without doubt Stafford Lancers had been turning heads on our steady rise up the BYBA Leagues and 1999 saw us moving up to Championship Class another challenge, plus step up in show. 1999 was the year the long awaited new Star Wars movie was to be released so we thought it would be great to play the music of John Williams classic which was going to be so much in the news during the year.

It was certainly another step up in demand but we needed something to push our members and be competitive at this level. What we did not count on however was losing some of our best players to another unit that in our opinion was acting unethically and directly endeavouring to take the members we had spent years teaching.

Stafford Lancers looked for the first time to the British Youth Band Association for help and support in stopping this, all to no avail and was the start of a sequence of events that would eventually lead to Stafford Lancers making history in Drum Corps United Kingdom (DCUK).

This was the beginning of a difficult unsettling year for our remaining members and many a Corps would not have got through the year, but life is not easy and Lancers are not the sort of Corps to give in. Our members rose to a different challenge stepping into the shoes of those that had left and pulling the show off.

However it was not enough for us to reach Finals for a forth-consecutive year finishing 11th and just one place short of qualification.

The light was now at the end of the tunnel, the Corps had been rebuilding behind the scenes and was about to make the transformation into a Drum Corps.

Marching Membership
BRASS: 16
PERCUSSION: 9
GUARD: 10
TOTAL: 36

1999 Contesting Season Noteable Results
BYBA League - 11th

Section Wins
Guard - 2

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