“There are a lot of people who are still brassed off, despite our ‘strong and stable government’.” So said a laconic Brassed Off director Mark Herman before the premier of Brassed Off Live, with the ...

The National Coal Mining Museum welcomed the cast of and crew of Leeds Playhouse’s Brassed Off where they learned about the ...

You are in: North Yorkshire > Entertainment > The Arts > Theatre > Review: Brassed Off Ivan Chaplin as Danny in Brassed Off. Joseph Rowntree Theatre, 22nd October ...

The faces in the deeply affecting British film “Brassed Off” are arresting. Close camera shots focus on bulbous, red noses, floppy ears, heavy brows and wet, runny eyes. They are homely faces, and one ...

In both plays and films, often what makes the very best stand apart from the rest is a great score. In the 1996 movie Brassed Off, heart-on-their-sleave performances from the late Pete Postlethwaite, ...

I’m trying to figure out why I loved Pride so much (the film, not the event). I don’t want to get too cultural studies about this – it’s mainly because it’s good. Yet I’m struck by the number of times ...

Brassed Off, the classic British film about a pit village and its band which refused to die, is 20-years-old this year and still has fans shedding emotional tears of pride - not least of all star ...

The Grimethorpe Colliery Band's fight for survival when the coal mine closed in the early 1990s inspired the 1996 film Brassed Off. The band did survive - and now, enjoying a resurgence, are among the ...

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No former mining area needs telling about the effect on its communities of pit closures over the past few decades. The impact has been deep and telling, with the decimation of an industry that used to ...

As the Grimethorpe Colliery Band start playing, Stephen Tompkinson ’s eyes well up with tears. It’s been two decades since he last heard them perform in their home village – during the filming of ...