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Gromit leaves home — score performed live
A scene from The Wrong Trousers performed live by the band at the RNCM.
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Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
Feathers McGraw. Techno trousers. Thirty musicians live.
A short brass concert followed by The Wrong Trousers, with Julian Nott’s much-loved score performed live.
“The score was immaculate. Every note was hit, every beat was smashed, and the audience applauded as the band played Feathers off to prison.”The Northern Echo
About the film
A birthday present, a sinister lodger.
The Wrong Trousers (1993) is Nick Park's Academy Award-winning second Wallace & Gromit short. For his birthday, Wallace receives a pair of remote-controlled “techno trousers”, built to walk Gromit for his daily exercise — but when money runs short, he takes in a lodger to help with the rent: a silent, unsettling penguin.
The new lodger is Feathers McGraw, a jewel thief in disguise, who seizes control of the techno trousers while Wallace sleeps and marches him through a night-time break-in at the local museum to steal a prized diamond, framing Gromit in the process. The film's climax — a model railway chase built through every room of the house — is one of stop-motion animation's most celebrated set-pieces.
It won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and the BAFTA for Best Short Film, and remains, alongside A Grand Day Out, one of the two films the KNDS Fairey Band brings to the stage with a live score.
Since premiering this production at Stockport Plaza in July 2022, the band has taken The Wrong Trousers to venues across the country, including Durham Brass Festival, Perth Festival of the Arts, the RNCM, Bradford's St George's Hall, Snape Maltings, Woolwich Works, Lichfield Cathedral and Ormskirk Parish Church.
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© and TM Aardman Animations Ltd The live score
Arranged by Fairey players.
The score was arranged for brass band by Fairey players James Parkinson and Rebecca Lundberg.
Julian Nott’s score uses recurring musical ideas — leitmotifs — to guide the story. The Techno Trousers have their own jaunty, mechanical theme, while Feathers McGraw is shadowed by a spare, menacing four-note theme in a minor key, its apparent simplicity hinting at the danger underneath.
In the Gromit Leaves Home scene featured below, the familiar Wallace & Gromit theme returns at a slower, more tender pace, transforming the series’ jaunty signature into one of the film’s most affecting moments. The brass-band arrangement keeps each of these themes clear as the mood moves from comedy to heartbreak, suspense and the final train chase.
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Toccata in D Minor at the RNCM
A live Fairey performance from the 2023 RNCM concert in The Wrong Trousers series.
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Thank you to everyone who came along to support our performance of Wallace & Gromit: The…
Thank you to everyone who came along to support our performance of Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers at the incredible Lichfield Cathedral this evening! What a spectacular setting for our final gig of the summer before our attention turns to the British Open in September. A special mention to our outstanding…
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Next Saturday
Next Saturday! We're thrilled to be performing at the Lichfield Festival, in the stunning surroundings of Lichfield Cathedral! The first half sees us provide the live soundtrack to Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, followed by a varied second half of brass band favourites — including Peter Graham's Gaelforce,…
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Wallace & Gromit double-bill at Stockport Plaza…
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Wallace & Gromit double-bill at Stockport Plaza this afternoon! Special moment being back here – this is the very stage where we launched The Wrong Trousers LIVE four years ago A brilliant audience this afternoon, for both shows!
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Big weekend ahead for the band — two very different shows, two days running
Big weekend ahead for the band — two very different shows, two days running! SATURDAY 6TH | Media City, Salford We're back as our alter-ego, Acid Brass, bringing our 80s & 90's house tunes to the the fantastic We Invented the Weekend Festival - best of all it's FREE! On stage at 16:00. SUNDAY 7TH | Buxton Pavilion…
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Spend the day with us playing 2 Wallace & Gromit concerts in Bradford
Spend the day with us playing 2 Wallace & Gromit concerts in Bradford! The band had a great day performing ‘The Wrong Trousers’ and ‘A Grand Day Out’. Here’s a video of the day, including behind the scenes, in case you missed out Keep your eyes peeled for our upcoming shows!! @thewallaceandgromit…
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Yorkshire, here we come
Yorkshire, here we come! We’re bringing Wallace & Gromit to Bradford for the very first time at St George's Hall with our fantastic live double bill! Saturday 14th March – it’s going to be a proper Grand Day Out, with two fun-packed concerts to choose from! Concert 1 – 14:00 – The Wrong Trousers The Academy…
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