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Royal Marines pair parade music with a cemetery tribute

Colour Sergeant Kerrie Silk performs The Last Post at Cambridge American Cemetery, alongside the week's full Beating Retreat broadcast.

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Beating Retreat on Horse Guards Parade 2026 | The Bands of HM Royal Marines

Two uploads, very different scales. The Bands of HM Royal Marines paired a massed-band evening on Horse Guards Parade with a remembrance performance centred on a single player.

The parade broadcast was the week's most-watched new upload, reaching roughly 332,000 views. Major Sam Hairsine introduces the ceremony's origins before drums and bugles assemble the parade through successive calls. The Wellermen join for "My Mother Told Me", while "Proteus: Protector of the Deep" brings intricate marching countermarches. It is music organised as movement, with the formation changes part of the performance.

The comments bring their own history. One viewer recalls crossing from HMS Fisgard to HMS Raleigh to watch the band practise in the seventies; another describes travelling from Canada after keeping Beating Retreat on a bucket list for years. Others pick out the transition from "Nearer My God to Thee" into "Sunset".

Thursday's "Remembrance Day | Last Post | Glenn Miller | The Bands of HM Royal Marines" offers a smaller-scale setting: Colour Sergeant Kerrie Silk performing at Cambridge American Cemetery. The band's description connects the tribute with music's reach, the cost of war and Glenn Miller's legacy.

Across the catalogue, the channel collected about 1.6 million views and added subscribers over the week. Daily viewing is modestly above its usual pace. The parade and Last Post uploads carry the strongest momentum, followed by a rather different musical assignment: the band's playful "Ghostbusters" soundtrack performance.

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What viewers say

Came all the way from Canada to see the massed bands of the Royal Marines Beating Retreat. It was worth every cent and a few more as well. Superb and very emotional evening as this had been on my bucket list for several years now!
@BobMcDowell-p2hSee it on YouTube
Fifty one years ago, throughout 1975, I used to cross the road from H.M.S Fisgard, to H.M.S Raleigh and go down to the parade ground to watch the Royal Marines Band practicing and also playing Sunset.
I am so pleased to see that the standards of dress and musicianship, have remained just as high as I recall, from all those years ago. Thank you to all concerned for this wonderful video.
@davericketts9101See it on YouTube
Beautiful. That transition from Nearer My God to Thee into Sunset in particular was flawless. A fabulous performance as always from one of the greatest military bands in the world. Per Mare, Per Terram!
@adammullarkey4996See it on YouTube

5 more comments

As a former Bandie I have done this gig.! Proud to have served. Per Mare, Per Terram.
@nuttysquirrel8574See it on YouTube
When I was a child there was a carnival every year in town and the Band of the Royal Marines appeared annually. I’ve never forgotten them and loved them ever since.
@KAF16-i8mSee it on YouTube
Thank you for having us involved once again. It was a real honour to perform alongside you all and be part of such a wonderful occasion ❤
@thewellermenSee it on YouTube
I was here, it was a most beautiful evening of music and singing. So proud of my husband a former Matelot from the sixties. ⚓️🇬🇧
@charmaineCampbell-l1hSee it on YouTube
My stepfather was a Bandmaster in the Royal Marines, i grew up with this music most of my teenage years. Still love it.
@wendymurray1195See it on YouTube