A black comedy, released in 1996, the film tackles the economic deprivation facing the town of 'Grimley' - a clear stand in ...

“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 ...

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

Theatre chiefs sparked fury this week after choosing a police brass band to play picketing miners in a new play. The production follows the plot of the 1996 box office coal flick Brassed Off starring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Homebaked The Musical is "your classic Brassed Off, Billy Elliot" feel-good story, says playwright Boff Whalley A decade ago, the closure of a bakery in Liverpool sparked a community fightback against ...

Today "the welfare" is empty, save a few former miners who declare that those looking for work in this part of South Yorkshire have long since given up the ghost on the place. "The work's in South ...

A brass band which was the inspiration for the hit film Brassed Off is in danger of closing because its funding has been pulled and it can no longer afford to keep on running. The amateur group found ...