📽️ WATCH | BRASSED OFF REUNION

[@pzwackelmann7681]

Many thanks for uploading this video. I was very pleased to see at least some of the contributors again. Brassed off is a great film and a wonderful homage to decent normal human beings. The Grimthorpe Band still plays beautifully. It's great that this tradition lives on.

[@billmitchell7904]

I went to a performance of the Grimethorpe Band in Goldthorpe today, another mining community hit hard by the pit closures. We have coal and brass in our veins ! They played festive music so beautifully it lifted all our hearts. ❤

[@billyshears6345]

Having grown up in County Durham, Brass Bands always touched something in me even before the 80's. Then the wicked witch, then Brassed Off.... I live in Somerset now but any Brass Band always makes me cry, and fills my heart as well. Thank you for keeping the band going and all of your wonderful music. It is as needed now as much as it ever was.

[@christinecatt8039]

I was born in Newcastle, but grew up in the tiny coalmining village of Seghill. I now live in America...but after all these years, and all these miles, brass bands, and especially this movie...will be forever close to this 'Geordie' heart..❤

[@kitthebrit8739]

Dang, do I miss Pete Postlethwaite! Such a fine actor and this was a particularly memorable part. Great film and brass band music at its finest.

[@MarkWick]

I wish I could get a copy of that movie. It is very hard to find in the U.S.

[@chong2389]

It's available on Amazon in the US. DVD and Bluray.

[@haitch04]

Wonderful, what a film. I remember living near Haworth and sitting listening to the band in the park. In my 80's now the music still makes me emotional. Even watching Bradford Park Avenue play football, standing there with my dad in all weathers with Hammond Sauce Works band playing before the game and at half time. Brass Band music was magical back then and remains so today.

[@cliffordentwistle2885]

A brilliant film and as an ex coal miner, it brings back a lot of the memories of that particular period. A very fitting story line set with very emotional music. With that cast, the brass band, how could it fail.

[@ashleysleight1016]

A great film that runs so deep❤

[@chong2389]

It on my top 10, no... my top 5, no... my top 3 'Desert Island' DVDs. What an honour for Stephen, Philip, Mark and Steve! and well deserved.

[@marianshattock2732]

Wonderful. Brought tears to my eyes. ❤

[@petergarthwaite6805]

Thank You Brilliant 😊

[@jhindle7883]

A brilliant film which revisits the miners struggles without any reference to Scargill. It did this by concentrating on the very human stories that emerge when the whole community depends on one industry and everything is being taken away from them with no hope for the future. Pete Postlethwaite's speech near the end had me in tears. The Tories pulled out all the stops to prevent this film from being re-shown leading up to the General Election - and no wonder because it was all so true and heartbreaking with it.

[@frankwalton1628]

The day Pete died the band went to the location where they filmed Danny Boy in the movie and played it again.

[@davidwebb5811]

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