1999 was the first year that the design team consisted of Brass – Tez Smith, Percussion – Phil Brown, Visual – Rob Swindells and Guard - Joanne Boulton. This team would stay together for a number of years to come and would go on to produce some fantastic, wonderful entertaining shows.

The show was entitled “Colours of Jazz” and featured the music, Artistry in Rhythm, Baroque Samba, Caravan. The show featured different coloured discs on the field throughout and an unbelievable brass sound. A uniform change for finals night was introduced – a design that we would eventually take us into the new millennium.

Credit must also go to all the members of the 99’ corps, they had belief in the show and themselves throughout the year, it is hard to believe that at the first camp in February there was only 15 people in the corps in all sections.