The Welsh dragon roared for a fourth time during the 2015 British National Finals as Cory delivered a ‘monster’ performance of Spiriti to take the top Section National crown.

As presenter, Simone Rebello, declared Cory the 2015 National Champion in front of an appreciative and expectant Royal Albert Hall audience, those with any knowledge of Welsh legend might just have seen this as a day that could have been etched in those famous old Welsh tales, the Mabinogion.

With three Welsh bands having already sealed National Championship glory in Cheltenham just two weeks previously, Cory’s was a victory that seemed to be written in the Celtic stars, sealing a famous quadruple triumph for Wales that will live long in the memories of both the musicians who played their part and supporters of Welsh banding generally.

As an utterly absorbing contest unfolded in London, Cory’s breathtaking performance of Thomas Doss’s majestic Spiriti proved to be one of the most memorable National-winning performances of the last two decades, a fact that was not lost on adjudicators Howard Snell, Stephen Roberts and Rob Wif n, with Steve Roberts’s summing-up the winning rendition as ‘a monster performance that delivered in brontosauran bucket loads.’