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Post by John on Jul 19, 2008 12:45:51 GMT -5
Plays in this scene from the movie Brassed Off.
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Post by John on Jul 19, 2008 12:49:15 GMT -5
Grimethorpe Colliery Band playing the William Tell Overture. From the movie Brassed Off.
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inbye
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Post by inbye on Jul 20, 2008 13:00:55 GMT -5
I did my face training at Grimethorpe, would have been 69 or 70. Coming up to one Christmas, we arrived in pit bottom at end of shift, to be met with the sight of the "band" setting up. They were going to give some sort of underground Carol concert, very surreal.
Does anyone know if this was a one off, or did it happen every year?
"Brassed off" great film.........& Tara Fitzgerald, wot a doll...
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Post by John on Jul 20, 2008 13:32:13 GMT -5
I just had this funny though run through my mind. On the cage down, one of the bands instruments touch anothers tushy, "oi get that trumpet out me butt" " It aint a trumpet, it's a euphoneum"! ;D
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Post by dazbt on Jul 20, 2008 14:22:42 GMT -5
Narr, most of the Grimey band were foreigners, it might have been something like; "Non non monsieur, how you say, it is not my truum-pet, it is my French horn"  |
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Post by erichall on Jul 25, 2012 8:48:50 GMT -5
cannot speak for Grimey, but it was an annual thing at Creswell Colliery, where the Creswell Colliery brass Band played every Christmas in the Pit Bottom.
Incidentally, on a similar vein, it is customary for the Tideswell male Voice Choir (and others) to sing in the Peak Cavern, the notorious 'Devil's Arse', in Castleton, once as a 'prom' concert, once for the opening of the Christmas lights in Castleton. Great fun.
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