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🎺⛏️ Grimethorpe Colliery Band – Brassed Off (1996) Brass band – original soundtrack 🎺 • The Grimethorpe Colliery Band was founded in 1917 as a leisure activity for miners. For decades, the musicians worked in the mine during the day and rehearsed at night. When the British government announced the closure in October 1992, 17 members of the band were on the mine's payroll. All were fired that same week. Five days later, they competed in the national championship at the Royal Albert Hall. The judges didn't know what had happened. They gave them 99 out of 100. The highest score in the competition. • Director Mark Herman heard the story and decided to film it. But instead of recreating everything with actors, he did something different: he called the band itself. The Grimethorpe musicians recorded the complete soundtrack for the film. They appear in the scenes. They lent their faces, instruments, and memories to a story that was theirs. The film was released in 1996 and became one of the most beloved in British cinema, ranking 11th in a national poll of favorite films, behind Titanic but ahead of all James Bond films. • Pete Postlethwaite, who plays conductor Danny in the film, gave the final speech without a script. The scene in which he refuses the trophy at the Royal Albert Hall and gives a speech about Thatcher and the closure of the mines was improvised. The band in the background was actually playing. They were the same people who, four years earlier, had been on that same stage with their resignation papers still in their pockets. • 👉 Follow the best of classical music daily in your feed. • • • #brassbanda #brassedoff #grimethorpe #classicalmusic