Matt Lee tells us how he went from a boy fascinated by the bass drum in a brass band, then on to becoming a Leicestershire Jock and to being dropped by helicopter for jukebox duty on the front line in Afghanistan. His journey as a military musician took him from the streets of Belfast to a monsoon-drenched Hong Kong as Britain brought the flag down there. On his return to the ‘crochet factory’, Kneller Hall, he remembers the secret knock that got you into the inner sanctum of the NCOs’ mess.