New CD
So, there's a new brass band compilation album coming out in March to mark 25 years since the end of the strike. The heavy hitters are there, Grimethorpe (the band who did Brassed Off), Desford and Carlton Main (Frickley) etc but also there, providing track 5 is Bearpark and Esh...
Now, from the snippet of the recording I've heard we weren't sounding back (was before I joined alas) but we're no where near the leagues of these guys. It's sort of like the band that gigs down the local pub a couple of times a month being put on the same CD as say Oasis. It's awesome, don't get me wrong, but massively surreal.
'The Music Lives on Now The Mines Have Gone' is an album featuring the UK's most historic Colliery Brass Bands from across the length and breadth of the UK. The album will be released on 1 March 2010 on Universal, some 25 years after the end of one of the country's bitterest and most divisive industrial disputes. The mines did close but the music stayed on thanks to the Colliery bands - today a potent symbol of a great heritage, the beating heart of many former mining communities.
Thats the description from the website for the album (http://www.themusicliveson.co.uk/index.php) and it's even got a mention in the telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/7047452/Colliery-bands-sign-new-album-deal-to-mark-end-of-miners-strike.html). Oh, and the picture on the page that lists the bands, thats us too.
I pre-orded it from Amazon as soon as I got home from work :)
Now, from the snippet of the recording I've heard we weren't sounding back (was before I joined alas) but we're no where near the leagues of these guys. It's sort of like the band that gigs down the local pub a couple of times a month being put on the same CD as say Oasis. It's awesome, don't get me wrong, but massively surreal.
'The Music Lives on Now The Mines Have Gone' is an album featuring the UK's most historic Colliery Brass Bands from across the length and breadth of the UK. The album will be released on 1 March 2010 on Universal, some 25 years after the end of one of the country's bitterest and most divisive industrial disputes. The mines did close but the music stayed on thanks to the Colliery bands - today a potent symbol of a great heritage, the beating heart of many former mining communities.
Thats the description from the website for the album (http://www.themusicliveson.co.uk/index.php) and it's even got a mention in the telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/7047452/Colliery-bands-sign-new-album-deal-to-mark-end-of-miners-strike.html). Oh, and the picture on the page that lists the bands, thats us too.
I pre-orded it from Amazon as soon as I got home from work :)