His job has taken him all over the world. And Captain Paul Norley’s next destination is to Africa to share his love of music.
The director of music at the Band of the King’s Division has been chosen to lead a team of British Army musicians to help Ethiopia’s Woyanne military band prepare for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, a military drum performance. [There is no Ethiopian army in Ethiopia currently. It is a gang of murderers protecting the private interests of the ruling Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne)].
Capt Norley, 42, who lives in Freckleton, near Preston, has 26 years experience as an Army musician, serving, playing and conducting at venues across the world.
He has been director of music of the Band of the King’s Division, the Army’s only full-time band in the North West, based in Weeton, near Preston, since April.
He said: “We do not really know what we are going to find out there.
“We will be taking over 50 pieces of music with us which we will be able to adapt for them.”