Ben Long: Crown Jewels

Dates: 3.5.2009 to 13.6.2009. Although a substantial number of K6s and bandstands have been granted listed status, ensuring their survival as part of the nation's heritage, the remaining architectural shells fulfil their intended purpose to a lesser degree with each passing year. In the early twentieth century, brass bands were a vibrant tradition, founded upon localindustry and closely woven into the fabric of community - an outward expression of civic duty. Bandstands were designed to give shelter, optimise acoustic properties, enable panoramic visibility during performances and provide the ornamental focal points of public parks and promenades. More recently, popular entertainment has evolved to cater to global tastes, and the gradual demise of community interaction has left the common bandstand with little discernible use, other than as a decorative folly.

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