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Mountbatten Festival of Music CD
Sadly, the pressing company that we have been using for all our recordings has unexpectedly ceased all of its UK operations and we are now in the process of finding a new supplier. As soon as we have contracts in place we will have the CD pressed and dispatched.
Bandies On Bikes	Special Offer
On Monday 18th May 2009 members of the Royal Marines Band Service start cycling across the south coast of the UK more...	3 Mountbatten Festival of Music CDs for the price of 2 more... 3 CDs for £15 in our special offer more...
New Recording in stock	New DVD in stock
Beating Retreat 2009 more...	The long awaited Mountbatten Festival of Music DVD more...
RM Band Service Ties	CRU Photos
We have just placed an order for the new RM Band Service and RM Buglers Branch ties. Now in stock more...	A new photograph gallery of the CRU Band in Cyprus more...
New CD - Falkland Sound	New feature: FREE Chat Forum added
A recording by the Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth (Royal Band) under the direction of Major Nick Grace. A commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War more...	A FREE interactive forum added, you will find the navigation to the forum on the bottom of each page's navigation. Please register and join in Click to view...
Diary Dates
Mountbatten Festival of Music London 4-6 March 2010

Application to be considered for musical support from the Royal Marines Band Service

Are you looking for a Royal Marines Band to provide music at your function? It may be a charity concert, marching band for a carnival, a wedding or a millitary tattoo in Nova Scotia. How do you do it, who do you contact? Have a look here and hopefully your questions will be answered

Welcome to the new look Royal Marines Band Service On line

All of the pages from the first design of the site are still here and in the same sections as below but some with their own index pages to make the navigation easier. You will also find navigation links at the top and bottom of each of the pages:

Blue Band Online - Band Pages, Volunteer Bands, Savage Reports, Where are they now? Marcher and Historical Articles, Follow the Bands and Reviews.

Diaries - Troop 2/05, BRNC Band on HMS Invincible, Op Tecil CLR and Argus, Troop 2001 & 2000, Longlook and Kosovo.

Reference and Information Section - Band biographies, Personality biographies, Historical Fact Sheets, Uniforms of the RM Bands, Band formations and instrumentation, Badges of rank and appointment, Cap Badges of the RM Band Service and General Royal Marines facts and information

Downloads - MP3, Desktop Wallpapers, Photo Galleries and the Bateman Gallery

Online and Mail order - Mountbatten Festival CDs, Other CDs & Cassettes, DVD and Video plus other gifts.

Stand alone pages - Band Service Reunion, Reunions (General), Contact Us, Links

Recent Updates

June 09 2009

MFM 2009 DVD and Breating Retreat 2009 CD added

April 30 2009

Website updated

Feb 2009

Reunion 2009 information and form

Jan 2009

Site wide update

19 December 2008

FAQs added

19 December 2008

Booking a band information added

04 December 2008

Troop 2007 weeks 9-12 reports added

14 October 2008

2007 Reunion Photos Gallery added here..

01 August 2008

NEW 2007 Volunteer Band Festival Gallery added

27 July 2008

NEW Au revoir section added

20 October 2007

New Audition Advice PDF added and Physical Test requirements detailed More...

29 March 2007

Forum redsigned to bring it more in line with the rest of the site