I did try to interview Annie, but she was quite rude and argumentative, due to being deeply upset over a disastrous speed dating experience the night before. I have gleaned some insight about her from the other members and my own observations.
Annie is in her early 50's and has been with the band since her late teens. She is still looking for that special someone and has just recently applied to match.com. She has become increasingly jealous of the newcomer Felicity, who she feels is beautiful and has many admirers.
Some of the other band members have expressed to me that they have noticed her change in recent years, and that she is no longer easy to get on with. I think that in truth the band would be happy to be shot of her, because of her ever increasing argumentative nature that seems to me to have developed through her desperate loneliness and isolation.
I believe that she has become something of a liability recently, but the band members are too polite to ask her to leave. However, she is a fantastic oboe player and it is this and her dazzling features which maintain her massive following of admirers.
Excerpt taken from Godfrey Yammertein's 'A profile of a Great British Marching Band', published March 2011
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