1 00:03:11,208 --> 00:03:12,875 A few days, you say. 2 00:03:13,750 --> 00:03:15,917 Not what l'd caII a light traveIIer are you, pet? 3 00:03:16,125 --> 00:03:18,333 Sorry, it's mainIy work. 4 00:03:19,042 --> 00:03:22,042 l wouIdn't apologise for having work, flower. Not round here. 5 00:03:25,417 --> 00:03:26,833 What's this then? 6 00:03:27,375 --> 00:03:29,583 It's just a flugeI, a trumpet. 7 00:03:29,750 --> 00:03:31,583 l thought I might get some practice in. 8 00:03:31,750 --> 00:03:32,917 In here, you mean? 9 00:03:33,083 --> 00:03:36,833 -Well, wherever. -I wouldn't mind. Don't get me wrong. 10 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,792 There's nowt l'd like better than to hear you pIaying all night long. 11 00:03:40,958 --> 00:03:43,333 -Oh, no. lt wouldn't ... -You heard of Grimley Colliery Band? 12 00:03:44,125 --> 00:03:45,750 Yes, I have. 13 00:03:46,042 --> 00:03:49,333 They've their own practice haII. I should get myseIf down there, pet. 14 00:03:49,750 --> 00:03:52,208 They'd weIcome someone like you with open arms, knowing them. 15 00:04:05,667 --> 00:04:06,875 Another? 16 00:04:08,458 --> 00:04:12,125 lt's a sad oId day, isn't it Vi? When it's finaIIy come to this. 17 00:04:12,292 --> 00:04:16,375 -What's that then Ida? -Jim and Ernie packing in the band. 18 00:04:17,417 --> 00:04:19,333 They're doing it, then? For definite? 19 00:04:19,625 --> 00:04:24,167 Last practice tonight, Ernie said. Then resigning after. 20 00:04:24,792 --> 00:04:28,708 No point in carrying on, is there? Pit goes, band'll go t'same way. 21 00:04:30,125 --> 00:04:33,208 I feeI sorry for oId Danny, mind. He'lI gave bugger all to do. 22 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,333 -We'lI all have bugger all to do, Vi. -You get used to it. 23 00:05:10,250 --> 00:05:12,125 -All right, Iove? -Aye, all right. 24 00:05:18,750 --> 00:05:20,708 Don't forget what you're doing, you Iads. 25 00:05:20,875 --> 00:05:22,417 Don't be handing over any kitty money. 26 00:05:23,083 --> 00:05:25,417 -Just resignations. -Aye, all right, pet. 27 00:05:25,583 --> 00:05:27,667 -WeII, mind you do. -What do you mean "mind you do"? 28 00:05:27,833 --> 00:05:30,583 -It was our decision, wasn't it love? -Aye, well... 29 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:33,042 just mind you do. 30 00:05:37,125 --> 00:05:38,917 Now let's get this right, Ernie. 31 00:05:39,292 --> 00:05:42,625 When he collects for t'kitty, we say: sorry Danny, but us two... 32 00:05:42,792 --> 00:05:44,667 we've decided, in t'present cIimate... 33 00:05:44,833 --> 00:05:48,625 to tighten our belts, Iike, and onIy spend money on essentiaI items. 34 00:05:48,792 --> 00:05:50,917 Sorry. lt's been good and all that... 35 00:05:51,083 --> 00:05:55,375 but now, we don't regard band as one of t'aforementioned essentiaI items. 36 00:05:55,542 --> 00:05:58,833 And regretfuIIy, we feel obliged to tender our resignations forthwith. 37 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,583 -Right? -Right. 38 00:06:01,958 --> 00:06:04,000 And then we wake up in CasuaIty. 39 00:06:14,708 --> 00:06:16,583 If he goes barmy, it's not our fauIt. 40 00:06:17,583 --> 00:06:20,417 -l mean what's t'worst he can do? -Have a heart attack? 41 00:06:20,583 --> 00:06:23,708 What the hell, if Danny doesn't like it... 42 00:06:23,875 --> 00:06:25,417 -boIIocks to him. -All right, Iads? 43 00:06:25,583 --> 00:06:27,458 Oh, all right, Danny mate? 44 00:06:29,458 --> 00:06:33,000 Sixty years between us, you and me, down t'pit, frightened of nowt. 45 00:06:34,167 --> 00:06:36,708 When it comes to telling Danny-boy we're packing t'band in... 46 00:06:37,375 --> 00:06:39,250 We're shitting bloody bricks. 47 00:06:43,750 --> 00:06:45,417 and coming up later in the news... 48 00:06:45,583 --> 00:06:49,750 continuing our regular reports on the Government's pit closure programme. 49 00:06:49,917 --> 00:06:51,417 We visit Grimley CoIIiery... 50 00:06:51,583 --> 00:06:55,792 which despite being one of the oIdest and Iargest mines in Yorkshire... 51 00:06:55,958 --> 00:06:59,833 has nevertheless become the most recent candidate for closure. 52 00:07:00,667 --> 00:07:04,375 AIthough the GrimIey miners, and their wives, seem very determined... 53 00:07:04,542 --> 00:07:06,875 to fight on and keep their pit open... 54 00:07:07,042 --> 00:07:10,542 a redundancy offer to the workforce is believed to be imminent. 55 00:07:11,708 --> 00:07:15,125 The miners, united, will never be defeated. 56 00:07:15,292 --> 00:07:19,208 The miners, united, will never be defeated. 57 00:07:19,375 --> 00:07:25,083 Offers at neighbouring pits recently, have been too attractive to ignore. 58 00:07:25,333 --> 00:07:30,208 ln the last few weeks, 7 pay-off packages have been offered to 7 pits. 59 00:07:30,375 --> 00:07:33,292 All accepted, leading to 7 cIosures. 60 00:07:33,458 --> 00:07:35,792 TroubIe is, I'm no bIoody happier when I'm winning. 61 00:07:36,667 --> 00:07:38,000 DoubIe or quits? 62 00:07:38,292 --> 00:07:40,542 No, best not. lt's kitty night tonight. 63 00:07:42,042 --> 00:07:44,208 Cheer up Andy. lt might never happen. 64 00:07:44,375 --> 00:07:46,667 Representatives of union and management... 65 00:07:46,833 --> 00:07:51,042 meet tonight to discuss the Grimley redundancy offer. 66 00:07:51,208 --> 00:07:52,500 Bloody going to though, in't it? 67 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,833 -See you. -See you. 68 00:07:57,083 --> 00:07:58,875 Don't be a piIIock all your Iife. 69 00:07:59,042 --> 00:08:01,083 Take t'money while it's stiII on offer. 70 00:08:01,250 --> 00:08:05,542 A lot of foIk out there wouldn't Iike to hearthe way you're talking, love. 71 00:08:05,708 --> 00:08:08,333 Aye, and they're alI as daft as you are. 72 00:08:08,708 --> 00:08:11,333 AlI end up with nowt. Just Iike us. 73 00:08:12,208 --> 00:08:13,292 Philip. 74 00:08:16,667 --> 00:08:18,375 Late for practice. 75 00:08:18,917 --> 00:08:22,083 -We'll taIk about it later, eh? -Later? 76 00:08:22,792 --> 00:08:26,292 You'lI stiII be saying Iater when We're out on't bloody street. 77 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:30,542 There's always Mr Chuckles. 78 00:08:31,750 --> 00:08:34,125 -I can do more of that. -Phil? 79 00:08:34,375 --> 00:08:36,208 PhiI, PhiI. 80 00:08:36,708 --> 00:08:40,750 You have a wife and 4 bloody kids here, a house nobody'll bIoody buy... 81 00:08:40,917 --> 00:08:43,625 mortgaged up to the bloody hilt, loan-sharks on our backs... 82 00:08:43,792 --> 00:08:47,667 no bloody money, no bloody job, and what are you going to do? 83 00:08:47,833 --> 00:08:49,250 Fucking juggle? 84 00:08:50,542 --> 00:08:52,750 Bit cIumsy with the crockery, your Sandra. 85 00:08:57,167 --> 00:08:59,417 -All right, Iove? -All right. 86 00:10:29,708 --> 00:10:33,375 Crap. That's what that was. A Ioad of bloody crap. 87 00:10:34,417 --> 00:10:36,167 What did Eric Morecombe say? AlI the right notes... 88 00:10:36,333 --> 00:10:38,958 but not necessarily the right order. What happened to you, son? 89 00:10:39,125 --> 00:10:40,083 It just fell apart. 90 00:10:40,250 --> 00:10:43,542 Aye, you're not the only one. Andy Iad, all over the shop, you were. 91 00:10:44,250 --> 00:10:46,917 -What is up with you lot? -Got our minds on other things, Danny. 92 00:10:47,250 --> 00:10:49,917 -Like what? -Blimey, you been on holiday or what? 93 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:51,500 How do you mean? 94 00:10:51,667 --> 00:10:54,958 Well it may've escaped your notice, Iike, but pit's under threat. 95 00:10:55,292 --> 00:10:56,667 What's that got to do with us? 96 00:10:57,750 --> 00:11:00,583 Oh, aye, you're right, not a lot. 97 00:11:03,417 --> 00:11:07,458 Now listen to me, aII of you. These are worrying times, I know that. 98 00:11:07,792 --> 00:11:10,917 But look what it says here, eh? 1881. 99 00:11:11,083 --> 00:11:12,625 Over a hundred years this band's been going... 100 00:11:12,792 --> 00:11:15,292 two world wars, three disasters, seven strikes... 101 00:11:15,458 --> 00:11:18,917 one bloody big depression and t'band played on every flaming time. 102 00:11:19,083 --> 00:11:21,375 Danny, this is t'biggest disaster of t'lot. 103 00:11:21,958 --> 00:11:24,792 Can't have a coIIiery band without a bIoody coIliery, can you? 104 00:11:24,958 --> 00:11:28,750 Listen. We've got the NationaI Semi FinaIs coming up and we're capabIe... 105 00:11:28,917 --> 00:11:31,833 I mean it, well capabIe of going through to London. 106 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,083 The first time in our history. The Albert Hall. 107 00:11:35,417 --> 00:11:37,292 Now I know there's a spot of bother at the pit... 108 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,042 but that's something separate. This is music, and it's music that matters. 109 00:11:45,083 --> 00:11:46,750 Now, come on, kitty fort'weekend. 110 00:11:48,375 --> 00:11:50,750 Danny, me and Ernie, we've been thinking it over, Iike... 111 00:11:51,583 --> 00:11:53,333 I know subs aren't much, but... 112 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:56,375 -present cIimate and that... -What are you saying, Jim? 113 00:11:56,750 --> 00:11:59,125 Me and Jim have made a decision, Iike. 114 00:12:04,542 --> 00:12:06,500 HeIIo, love, can we help? 115 00:12:07,583 --> 00:12:11,042 ls this the Colliery Band rehearsal? 116 00:12:11,875 --> 00:12:15,792 No, love, t'band's on Tuesdays. Tonight's origami class. 117 00:12:16,250 --> 00:12:18,375 Take no notice, fIower. Can I help? 118 00:12:18,750 --> 00:12:22,375 I'm staying at the pub. I play the fIugel. 119 00:12:22,792 --> 00:12:25,167 WeII, sort of dabble. 120 00:12:25,417 --> 00:12:26,833 Mrs Foggan said... 121 00:12:28,875 --> 00:12:33,125 WeIl, she said you might let me play with you. 122 00:12:33,667 --> 00:12:35,292 Down, boy, down. 123 00:12:35,750 --> 00:12:39,417 l know it may sound Iike we need all t'help we can get, but sorry love... 124 00:12:39,583 --> 00:12:41,875 l mean, usuaIIy, as a ruIe, we don't ... 125 00:12:42,167 --> 00:12:44,375 aIlow, you know, outsiders. 126 00:12:45,083 --> 00:12:47,292 Aye, I understand that, except l'm ... 127 00:12:47,458 --> 00:12:49,833 not strictly an outsider. I were born in GrimIey. 128 00:12:50,208 --> 00:12:52,208 Is that right, Iove? What's your name? 129 00:12:52,667 --> 00:12:53,667 Gloria. 130 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:56,625 -GIoria...? -Stits. 131 00:12:57,500 --> 00:12:58,625 GIorious tits. 132 00:13:00,583 --> 00:13:01,083 Ernie. 133 00:13:02,750 --> 00:13:05,333 MulIins. GIoria Mullins. 134 00:13:08,625 --> 00:13:10,167 Arthur's GIoria? 135 00:13:11,083 --> 00:13:13,708 -You're Danny, aren't you? -Aye. 136 00:13:14,875 --> 00:13:17,083 -I didn'tthink you'd still be... -AIive and kicking? 137 00:13:17,542 --> 00:13:20,500 -Oh aye Iove, just about. -No, l meant leading the band. 138 00:13:20,750 --> 00:13:21,583 Yes. 139 00:13:22,083 --> 00:13:24,458 Well come in, park your bum, park yourseIf somewhere. 140 00:13:27,417 --> 00:13:30,250 If you didn't know him, you'd have heard of him, Arthur Mullins... 141 00:13:30,542 --> 00:13:33,708 this young lady's grandad. Best bandsman l ever played with. 142 00:13:33,875 --> 00:13:35,250 Bravest miner I ever worked with. 143 00:13:36,833 --> 00:13:40,333 Closest friend I ever had, till his lungs packed in in '79. 144 00:13:41,375 --> 00:13:43,333 -Sorry, Iove. -lt's true. 145 00:13:44,458 --> 00:13:48,167 Good to see you back. Excuse me a moment, GIoria, I'm just collecting. 146 00:13:50,250 --> 00:13:53,958 Jim, what were you saying? Something about t'present cIimate? 147 00:13:54,667 --> 00:13:56,708 Oh aye, l was saying, Iike... 148 00:13:57,708 --> 00:13:59,292 despite present cIimate... 149 00:13:59,500 --> 00:14:02,250 you can always rely on our continued and whole-hearted... 150 00:14:02,417 --> 00:14:05,083 -support for the cause. -Oh, aye. Solidarity. 151 00:14:05,375 --> 00:14:06,833 Thick and thin, and alI that. 152 00:14:07,667 --> 00:14:08,917 Lend us a fiver. 153 00:14:12,625 --> 00:14:14,125 SoIidarity. 154 00:14:16,208 --> 00:14:17,875 Do you remember me? 155 00:14:19,792 --> 00:14:23,667 -Barry? Barry Andrews? -Andy Barrow. 156 00:14:24,583 --> 00:14:25,625 Andy Barrow. 157 00:14:27,542 --> 00:14:30,542 -God, you haven't changed a bit. -You have. 158 00:14:32,125 --> 00:14:35,792 -What are you up to now, then? -This and that, y'know, keeping busy. 159 00:14:39,875 --> 00:14:41,500 Hey, that's not...is it? 160 00:14:42,042 --> 00:14:45,042 He Ieft it me in his will. Couldn't let it go to rust, could I? 161 00:14:45,208 --> 00:14:48,208 Clever oId sod. Even when he were gone he made sure l'd take it up. 162 00:14:48,375 --> 00:14:51,250 WelI I know it won't be t'same, but it'd be loveIy just to hear it again. 163 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,750 -OK. -What do you know? 164 00:14:54,750 --> 00:14:57,208 Well, l've been practising... 165 00:14:57,375 --> 00:15:00,625 -Rodrigo's Concerto D'A ranjuez. -You what? 166 00:15:01,333 --> 00:15:04,125 -Orange juice to you. -Oh, aye. 167 00:15:04,833 --> 00:15:07,125 -l'm a bit wobbly stiII. -Don't you fret, pet. 168 00:15:07,750 --> 00:15:09,583 Wobbly'd be too good for this Iot. 169 00:15:11,083 --> 00:15:14,208 Paul, the music. Bernie, get her a stand. 170 00:15:16,125 --> 00:15:17,708 OK, everyone. 171 00:15:20,125 --> 00:15:21,250 AlI right? 172 00:15:22,250 --> 00:15:23,583 Are we aIl together? 173 00:15:25,208 --> 00:15:26,625 Andy, Iad, are you with us? 174 00:15:29,333 --> 00:15:32,875 Poor Iad. Still got your mind on that pit? 175 00:15:36,875 --> 00:15:40,375 All right lads. Rodrigo's Concerto... 176 00:15:40,542 --> 00:15:41,875 D'Orange Juice. 177 00:19:55,250 --> 00:19:56,958 And she calIs that wobbly. 178 00:20:04,833 --> 00:20:06,958 -Well done, lass. -Well done, love. 179 00:20:07,833 --> 00:20:09,083 BIoody great. 180 00:20:11,167 --> 00:20:14,208 -You doing anything at the weekend? -No. 181 00:20:14,958 --> 00:20:17,833 Right lads, listen up. SaddIeworth tomorrow. 182 00:20:18,333 --> 00:20:22,875 14 villages, love. Contest in each. AII at the same time. Cash prizes. 183 00:20:23,333 --> 00:20:25,708 So, any road, lads... 184 00:20:26,708 --> 00:20:29,250 big chance to swelI the coffers tomorrow, so... 185 00:20:29,667 --> 00:20:31,625 we're going for all fourteen. 186 00:20:32,208 --> 00:20:35,125 -Are you on, love? -lf l'm allowed. 187 00:20:35,292 --> 00:20:38,167 Don't be soft, Iass. You were born here. 188 00:21:13,667 --> 00:21:16,042 It's a profitable pit, this. 189 00:21:16,708 --> 00:21:18,917 There's hundreds of years of coal down there... 190 00:21:19,083 --> 00:21:23,583 but it doesn't matterto them bastards. We're making money for'em... 191 00:21:23,750 --> 00:21:26,667 hand over fist, we are. And stiII they want to shut us down. 192 00:21:27,208 --> 00:21:31,125 -WelI, teII them bollocks to them. -That's up to you Iot isn't it, Iad? 193 00:21:31,833 --> 00:21:34,125 WeII, thank Christ it isn't up to you. 194 00:21:35,375 --> 00:21:38,875 Jesus, we shouIdn't have even Iet the offer be put on't table. 195 00:21:39,042 --> 00:21:42,042 They're just bIoody puppets, that Iot. They do whateverthe bastards want. 196 00:21:42,208 --> 00:21:46,333 -Phil, Iad. -We didn't do what they wanted in '84. 197 00:21:46,792 --> 00:21:48,917 No, we dug us heels in, didn't we? 198 00:21:49,125 --> 00:21:51,583 Aye, and some of us got bloody Iocked up for it. 199 00:21:51,750 --> 00:21:53,167 Big bloody deaI. 200 00:21:54,458 --> 00:21:56,167 Hey, suspended I were. 201 00:21:56,333 --> 00:21:59,250 It took that lot a year and a half to get me reinstated. 202 00:21:59,833 --> 00:22:02,292 That's eighteen month on bloody strike pay. 203 00:22:02,708 --> 00:22:06,375 -With a wife, bloody kids, mortgage. -lt's ten years ago, paI. 204 00:22:06,792 --> 00:22:08,917 Aye, ten years. 205 00:22:09,167 --> 00:22:12,000 And l were that bloody broke, l'm stiII frigging paying for it. 206 00:22:12,208 --> 00:22:14,500 That's how big a fucking deaI it were. 207 00:22:15,625 --> 00:22:17,417 Hey, where were you then, eh, pal? 208 00:22:17,625 --> 00:22:18,875 In '84? 209 00:22:19,708 --> 00:22:21,000 I don't remember seeing you on t'line. 210 00:22:22,292 --> 00:22:25,542 Oh aye, we aII know which way you'lI be voting. 211 00:22:26,333 --> 00:22:28,375 -Come on then, you bastard. -Anytime. 212 00:22:33,042 --> 00:22:34,292 Leave it out. 213 00:22:36,417 --> 00:22:37,333 Listen! 214 00:22:38,083 --> 00:22:40,542 That's just what they're bIoody wanting, you know that, don't you? 215 00:22:42,875 --> 00:22:45,333 AII right, this is what you've got: ballot next week, right? 216 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:46,875 You've got two options. 217 00:22:47,042 --> 00:22:50,375 One: you can vote to take pit to Review Procedure. 218 00:22:50,833 --> 00:22:55,458 Obviously that's one we want, because we reckon you've got a decent chance. 219 00:22:55,792 --> 00:22:56,708 Or, two... 220 00:22:56,917 --> 00:22:59,125 -You can vote to take pay-off. -Get stuffed. 221 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,375 Listen, Iisten. They told us Iast night... 222 00:23:03,542 --> 00:23:06,000 that redundancy offer's gone up three thousand... 223 00:23:06,167 --> 00:23:09,167 from a twenty grand maximum to twenty three... 224 00:23:09,833 --> 00:23:11,375 with a five grand sweetener. 225 00:23:16,583 --> 00:23:19,500 This is only a temporary offer. 226 00:23:20,750 --> 00:23:25,125 lf you say no, they're pulling any future offer down to a fIat fifteen. 227 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:26,750 Bastards! 228 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:32,833 -Born bastards, stay bastards. -That's right. 229 00:23:33,042 --> 00:23:36,208 WeII it's no good shouting now Iads, do it next week in the ballot. 230 00:23:36,417 --> 00:23:39,083 Say no to bloody bIackmaiI... 231 00:23:39,250 --> 00:23:42,000 -and yes to keeping this pit aIive. -That's what we want. 232 00:23:58,208 --> 00:24:01,458 The miners united will never be defeated. 233 00:24:03,417 --> 00:24:06,917 Poor biddies. Don't they know they're pissing into t'wind like rest of us? 234 00:24:08,375 --> 00:24:10,333 -Can they do that, women? -What? 235 00:24:10,833 --> 00:24:13,917 -Piss in the wind. -No, Ernie, that's just the point. 236 00:24:15,333 --> 00:24:18,083 But even on a nice day, y'know, when there's no wind about, they can't ... 237 00:24:18,292 --> 00:24:20,667 -y'know, get any direction on it. -Well aIl right, whatever it is... 238 00:24:20,875 --> 00:24:24,333 that Iasses do that's pointIess. -Bloody hell, so much to choose from. 239 00:24:25,917 --> 00:24:27,375 Fart in a force ten? 240 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,667 My God Phil, you don't half know some funny women. 241 00:24:31,083 --> 00:24:33,417 Steady, Iads, my missus does that. 242 00:24:35,667 --> 00:24:39,083 Oh you daft bastards. "Women against CIosure"? 243 00:24:42,667 --> 00:24:45,125 That is when she's not farting in a force ten. 244 00:24:51,167 --> 00:24:52,708 -Morning, love. -See you. 245 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:04,333 lf I don't have a day away on my own... 246 00:25:04,542 --> 00:25:08,083 l'm going to go frigging barmy, honest I am. l'll kill someone. 247 00:25:08,542 --> 00:25:11,125 -WeII, go somewhere tomorrow, eh? -PhiI... 248 00:25:11,333 --> 00:25:14,083 l'm off today, or I'm off for good. 249 00:25:14,333 --> 00:25:15,792 Give me some money. 250 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,375 -Oh hey love, l've only got a tenner. -Atenner'II do. 251 00:25:22,250 --> 00:25:25,000 But it's SaddIeworth, and me dad'll kiII me if l don't turn up. 252 00:25:26,458 --> 00:25:27,875 And l will if you do. 253 00:25:29,542 --> 00:25:30,875 Isn't life just shit? 254 00:25:34,083 --> 00:25:35,458 On your head, Dad? 255 00:25:39,417 --> 00:25:44,042 Course the offer's attractive. lt's tantamount to bribery. 256 00:25:44,250 --> 00:25:47,625 They want Grimley closed, for whatever reason, nobody knows... 257 00:25:47,833 --> 00:25:51,042 -they think by dangIing a carrot... -This just came for you. 258 00:25:51,417 --> 00:25:53,375 Oh, ta. 259 00:25:54,875 --> 00:25:55,667 Thanks. 260 00:25:56,292 --> 00:26:00,125 They want jobs, a future. They want an industry, and come the ballot... 261 00:26:00,292 --> 00:26:03,875 -that's what they'll be voting for. -Yes. That's right. 262 00:26:16,583 --> 00:26:19,667 ...the hearing decides the pit has a sound economic future... 263 00:26:19,833 --> 00:26:23,458 then we shaII abide by that decision and work towards it. 264 00:26:23,833 --> 00:26:28,042 Naturally, l mean, nobody wants Grimley to cIose. 265 00:26:31,958 --> 00:26:34,292 Oh I'm bIoody starving, aren't you? 266 00:26:35,458 --> 00:26:37,125 Let's see whatwe've got. 267 00:26:37,875 --> 00:26:39,542 Dad, who were that? 268 00:26:42,625 --> 00:26:44,375 Just a couple of feIIas. 269 00:26:45,375 --> 00:26:49,958 -Are you in troubIe, Dad? -Your dad in trouble? 270 00:26:50,208 --> 00:26:52,500 Looked like they were going to smack you. 271 00:26:53,792 --> 00:26:55,542 Aye, they were lad. 272 00:26:58,167 --> 00:27:01,750 They were from t'council. Leisure department. 273 00:27:02,250 --> 00:27:04,875 They said that if we don't have fun today... 274 00:27:05,042 --> 00:27:10,125 -we are in big, big troubIe. -Dad, I'm eight and a haIf now. 275 00:27:11,750 --> 00:27:12,833 Are you? 276 00:27:13,458 --> 00:27:16,458 Well you can heIp me find t'bastard tin opener then, can't you? 277 00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:19,083 GIoria Mullins? 278 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,333 What, Melons Mullins? Lived up Donny Road? Chubby lass? 279 00:27:24,125 --> 00:27:26,667 We used to sing that hymn: Gloria in XL. 280 00:27:26,833 --> 00:27:28,833 That's her, except she's far from chubby now, Iike. 281 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,417 Aye, l remember her. 282 00:27:32,667 --> 00:27:36,250 -You had her, behind t'bus station. -No l never. 283 00:27:36,958 --> 00:27:38,250 You toId us you did. 284 00:27:38,792 --> 00:27:41,583 No. It were top half only. 285 00:27:45,458 --> 00:27:47,333 -Does she remember? -Does she heII as like. 286 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:50,250 -Couldn't even remember my name. -Oh, get away. 287 00:27:50,417 --> 00:27:54,292 Bet that's why she's come back. To complete unfinished business. 288 00:28:00,458 --> 00:28:01,917 What are you smiling at? 289 00:28:02,667 --> 00:28:03,917 Another? 290 00:28:05,167 --> 00:28:06,667 All right, go on then. 291 00:28:10,250 --> 00:28:12,583 What the bleeding hell are you two doing? 292 00:28:13,917 --> 00:28:15,542 We fancied a game of golf, Iike. 293 00:28:15,708 --> 00:28:19,167 You daft gawpheads. You never resigned, did you? 294 00:28:19,333 --> 00:28:22,542 Sat there like a couple of oId biddies and paid t'money, didn't you? 295 00:28:23,125 --> 00:28:26,958 OId Danny taIked us round, like. He were very persuasive. 296 00:28:27,125 --> 00:28:29,750 -We had no option, lover, honestIy. -No bollocks, more like. 297 00:28:32,417 --> 00:28:35,125 I reckon it were sommat to do with bollocks that got us to stay. 298 00:28:35,958 --> 00:28:39,750 -No bloody gumption, them two. -Soup for brains, the pair of them. 299 00:28:39,917 --> 00:28:42,875 Excuse me, where's the Collier's Arms? 300 00:28:43,042 --> 00:28:44,917 Hanging off his shoulders, pet. 301 00:28:45,875 --> 00:28:49,250 -The oId one's are the best, eh? -lt's the young ones we worry about. 302 00:28:49,708 --> 00:28:52,375 -Off to Saddleworth, are you? -That's right. 303 00:28:53,708 --> 00:28:56,500 -FoIIow them two daft 'aporths. -Ta. 304 00:28:59,542 --> 00:29:01,208 -Hey, love? -Yeah? 305 00:29:01,375 --> 00:29:04,750 -Joined band last night, did you? -Yeah. How did you know that? 306 00:29:05,333 --> 00:29:07,417 Just something me husband never said. 307 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:14,375 Aye, I am. 308 00:29:15,042 --> 00:29:17,542 -What? -Thinking what you're thinking. 309 00:29:23,458 --> 00:29:25,042 -Eh, up. -What are you doing? 310 00:29:25,208 --> 00:29:27,167 -Don't sit on that. -Get off. 311 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:36,667 -Eh, up, Iads. -All right? 312 00:29:38,042 --> 00:29:39,375 -Hi Danny, -Paul. 313 00:29:42,417 --> 00:29:45,750 Oh, teII me you're bloody joking son, please. 314 00:29:45,917 --> 00:29:49,583 -Sorry. AII of us or none at aII. -Why for Christ's sake? 315 00:29:49,792 --> 00:29:53,000 lt were them men from t'P leasure Department, Grandad. 316 00:29:54,125 --> 00:29:56,167 -You what? -Anyway... 317 00:29:56,458 --> 00:29:59,292 nowt wrong with a bit of vocal support, eh? 318 00:30:03,667 --> 00:30:07,125 -l hope you feel as good as you look. -l'm nervous. 319 00:30:07,917 --> 00:30:11,167 Get away with you. Your grandad would be proud of you. Go on, in you get. 320 00:30:14,250 --> 00:30:17,792 -Eh, up GIoria. -Hey oggle-eyes, is that the lot? 321 00:30:17,958 --> 00:30:19,875 No, no, no there's ... 322 00:30:20,375 --> 00:30:23,292 There's one more, as per bIoody usual. 323 00:30:23,750 --> 00:30:24,833 Poor lass. 324 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,958 All she wants is a nice day out and she gets stuck between them 2 buggers. 325 00:30:30,917 --> 00:30:34,083 Shit. Oh, sorry Harry. 326 00:30:34,417 --> 00:30:37,583 -Come here, darling -Thanks a lot, Kylie. 327 00:30:39,333 --> 00:30:43,417 There you go, mate. What were aII that about? 328 00:30:43,625 --> 00:30:47,917 Here comes Fast bloody Eddie now. Come on Andy lad. Step on it. 329 00:30:49,042 --> 00:30:49,875 Sorry. 330 00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:56,625 -AII right StanIey, that's the lot. -What about these two here? 331 00:30:59,083 --> 00:30:59,917 Bloody heII. 332 00:31:00,083 --> 00:31:02,917 Don't look Iike that, Danny lad. lt's nearest colours we could find. 333 00:31:03,083 --> 00:31:05,083 -What are you doing? -We'vejust founded t'fan cIub. 334 00:31:05,250 --> 00:31:06,583 Well l don't think we... 335 00:31:06,917 --> 00:31:09,958 Look ladies, l mean, this is traditionalIy a... 336 00:31:10,417 --> 00:31:13,750 -male onIy excursion. You know that. -New Iass on board, is she? 337 00:31:14,875 --> 00:31:19,417 Aye. That's different. I mean, she's very taIented. 338 00:31:19,917 --> 00:31:21,958 Aye, l know, we saw her. 339 00:31:22,125 --> 00:31:25,208 l'll have you know, that girl bIows flugeI Iike a dream. 340 00:31:25,542 --> 00:31:28,750 Danny Ormondroyd! At your age! 341 00:31:33,375 --> 00:31:36,333 Come on love, it's not "What's my Iine?" . 342 00:31:37,833 --> 00:31:41,000 Well, l'm a surveyor. 343 00:31:41,792 --> 00:31:45,125 BIimey. What, you mean like a quantity surveyor? 344 00:31:45,333 --> 00:31:48,000 -Kind of. -Want to survey my quantity, Iove? 345 00:31:50,083 --> 00:31:52,292 WelI I do say "no job too smaII" . 346 00:31:54,125 --> 00:31:56,833 Get away love. Take you a bloody fortnight, this one. 347 00:32:01,375 --> 00:32:03,708 We had no option, Iover, honest. 348 00:32:05,292 --> 00:32:06,667 Shift up, duck. 349 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:09,708 Eh, up PhiI, groupies are on. 350 00:32:11,292 --> 00:32:13,042 Sex, drugs and rock and roll, eh girls? 351 00:32:13,208 --> 00:32:15,750 Aye, except we can do without drugs and rock and roII. 352 00:35:26,708 --> 00:35:30,292 Laughing. They were bloody laughing at us. 353 00:35:31,875 --> 00:35:36,667 Look at them. If they were alive today, they'd turn in their graves. 354 00:35:36,875 --> 00:35:41,167 And if Arthur MulIins was Iooking down on us, weII God bIoody heIp us. 355 00:35:41,833 --> 00:35:43,750 l mean, is this what it's come to? 356 00:35:44,208 --> 00:35:46,375 Bits of trombone flying alI over t'shop? 357 00:35:46,542 --> 00:35:49,042 Stopping t'march to change bloody nappies? 358 00:35:49,542 --> 00:35:52,417 Too bIoody bewied to stay on t'buggering bandstand. 359 00:35:52,583 --> 00:35:55,458 We may as well aIl bIoody give up. 360 00:35:55,625 --> 00:35:57,125 I reckon we aIready have, Dan. 361 00:35:57,583 --> 00:35:59,042 That's kind of why itwent like it did. 362 00:35:59,583 --> 00:36:01,458 Reckon we thought we'd go out on a high note. 363 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,125 Happen our idea of a high note's a bit different from yours, like. 364 00:36:05,375 --> 00:36:08,292 Go out? What are you talking about Ernie, go out? 365 00:36:08,458 --> 00:36:09,958 Danny lad, you've got to face it. 366 00:36:10,333 --> 00:36:13,375 -lf pit goes, band goes with it. -When pit goes. 367 00:36:14,042 --> 00:36:14,833 If. 368 00:36:17,083 --> 00:36:19,000 However balIot goes, they'lI still cIose the bugger. 369 00:36:19,167 --> 00:36:20,958 Not necessariIy. It depends on the... 370 00:36:23,583 --> 00:36:25,833 On that review thingy. 371 00:36:26,875 --> 00:36:27,917 Surely? 372 00:36:28,917 --> 00:36:30,833 Trouble with you lot is you've got no pride. 373 00:36:31,458 --> 00:36:35,542 And you know one thing more than owt eIse here that symbolises pride? 374 00:36:35,708 --> 00:36:39,292 It's this bIoody band, that's what. Ask anybody. 375 00:36:39,917 --> 00:36:43,208 l mean, if they cIose down the pit, knock it down... 376 00:36:43,375 --> 00:36:46,292 fiIl it up, Iike they've done with all t'bloody rest, no trace. 377 00:36:46,458 --> 00:36:49,458 Years to come, there'lI onIy be one reminder... 378 00:36:49,667 --> 00:36:54,000 Of hundred bIoody years hard graft: this bloody band. 379 00:36:54,708 --> 00:36:57,542 Oh, they can shut up the unions, they can shut up the workers... 380 00:36:57,708 --> 00:37:00,250 but I'll teII you one thing for nothing, they'II never shut us up. 381 00:37:00,667 --> 00:37:05,458 We'll play on. Loud as ever. Starting with National Semis in HaIifax. 382 00:37:05,625 --> 00:37:08,667 Win them and we can carry our heads high and march... 383 00:37:08,833 --> 00:37:10,750 on to the Albert bIoody Hall, aIl right? 384 00:37:11,250 --> 00:37:14,292 -Are we pIaying or are we packing in? -Playing. 385 00:37:19,333 --> 00:37:20,417 Sorry. 386 00:37:21,375 --> 00:37:22,833 No, don't you worry, flower. 387 00:37:23,625 --> 00:37:25,333 You've nowt to be ashamed of. 388 00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:28,833 No bugger eIse, then? 389 00:37:33,208 --> 00:37:35,750 Danny, l reckon l speak for everybody. 390 00:37:36,750 --> 00:37:38,292 We'll play on whiIe pit's open... 391 00:37:38,792 --> 00:37:41,833 -Minute they close it, we pack it in. -Aye, right. 392 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,750 -You can't ask for more than that. -Hear hear. 393 00:37:46,750 --> 00:37:47,583 No. 394 00:37:49,458 --> 00:37:50,500 Obviously not. 395 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,917 -Hiya. -Hiya. 396 00:38:12,708 --> 00:38:14,083 Moving words. 397 00:38:15,250 --> 00:38:17,792 -What? -Back there. Danny. 398 00:38:17,958 --> 00:38:21,292 Aye, daft old codger. lf it weren't for band, he'd pop his clogs. 399 00:38:21,458 --> 00:38:25,250 I wondered if you fancied some grub? -Where? 400 00:38:25,417 --> 00:38:27,458 -Don't know. l'll go posh if you want. -Andy. 401 00:38:27,625 --> 00:38:28,958 All right, Phil. 402 00:38:29,125 --> 00:38:32,042 -Have you seen me dad? -Aye he's stiII inside, I think. 403 00:38:33,750 --> 00:38:35,625 -WeII? -All right. 404 00:38:50,042 --> 00:38:51,458 You all right, Dad? 405 00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:58,042 Thank you for your support, son. 406 00:39:03,958 --> 00:39:06,000 Oh, Iisten, Phil lad. 407 00:39:07,083 --> 00:39:08,625 I've been thinking, right... 408 00:39:10,250 --> 00:39:13,208 Semi-Final's no place for 409 00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:15,333 Better find yourself a new bit of brass. 410 00:39:16,708 --> 00:39:19,958 I'm not forking out for a new trombone just for one performance. 411 00:39:20,125 --> 00:39:22,417 One? What about the Albert HaII? 412 00:39:24,375 --> 00:39:26,875 Now normaIIy l'd say get summat cheap, but... 413 00:39:27,875 --> 00:39:30,875 but you're a bloody good trombonist lad, you need a bloody good trombone. 414 00:39:31,042 --> 00:39:31,875 Dad... 415 00:39:33,583 --> 00:39:37,625 l like the band. I love the band, we aII do. 416 00:39:38,875 --> 00:39:44,000 But there's other things in Iife, you know, that's more important. 417 00:39:47,292 --> 00:39:48,917 Not in mine, there isn't . 418 00:39:53,292 --> 00:39:54,833 What's that on your hankie? 419 00:39:58,792 --> 00:40:00,000 Oh, nowt. 420 00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:03,125 Chain come off me bike. 421 00:40:35,250 --> 00:40:38,375 Didn't realise we were going this posh, I'd have got doIIed up. 422 00:40:47,542 --> 00:40:50,417 You know back there, when Danny said you'd nowt to be ashamed of? 423 00:40:51,292 --> 00:40:52,625 Is that right, then? 424 00:40:57,292 --> 00:40:58,875 You work for bloody management don't you? 425 00:41:01,083 --> 00:41:02,625 -Andy, I'm just... -Fuck. 426 00:41:02,792 --> 00:41:06,917 l just compiIe surveys, Andy, just do viability studies, boring, maybe... 427 00:41:07,083 --> 00:41:09,000 -but hardly summat to be ashamed of. -No? 428 00:41:09,333 --> 00:41:13,250 -Kept very quiet about it. -Cause I knew you'd get it aII wrong. 429 00:41:13,417 --> 00:41:16,583 -Oh, aye? -l'm on the same side as you, Andy. 430 00:41:17,208 --> 00:41:20,250 l want Grimley to stay open too, and once it gets to review... 431 00:41:20,417 --> 00:41:23,042 -I can help it stay open with my report. -BoIlocks. 432 00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:26,875 My figures show GrimIey has a future, it's a profitable pit. 433 00:41:27,042 --> 00:41:30,417 They know that. It'lI never reach review. The lads'll go for redundancy. 434 00:41:30,667 --> 00:41:32,667 And that's another thing that you lot know... 435 00:41:32,833 --> 00:41:34,542 just how much to offer to get a resuIt. 436 00:41:34,708 --> 00:41:38,667 Every miner l've spoken to is voting to stay put. 437 00:41:38,833 --> 00:41:40,917 Do you think they'd telI you any different? 438 00:41:41,583 --> 00:41:43,750 Four to one it'lI go for pay-off. 439 00:41:43,917 --> 00:41:46,208 -You're voting to stay put? -Course l bloody am. 440 00:41:46,750 --> 00:41:48,125 Then you must have some hope. 441 00:41:48,917 --> 00:41:51,250 No hope. Just principles. 442 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,375 It's your first job for them, isn't it? 443 00:41:54,542 --> 00:41:58,667 Otherwise you'd know that your report means as much as we do. Bugger aIl. 444 00:41:59,333 --> 00:42:01,375 lt's just a bIoody PR exercise. 445 00:42:01,542 --> 00:42:04,292 So blind, naive peopIe, peopIe not unlike yourseIf... 446 00:42:04,458 --> 00:42:07,000 wiII think those good eggs at Head Office have been very fair... 447 00:42:07,167 --> 00:42:09,292 very reasonable. Done their best, done their sums... 448 00:42:09,458 --> 00:42:11,792 and, oh dear, they just don't add up. 449 00:42:12,042 --> 00:42:14,208 They'll have to cIose another pit. Shame. 450 00:42:15,542 --> 00:42:17,250 They won't even read the bugger. 451 00:42:17,833 --> 00:42:20,958 They've aIready made their decision, probably when you were at college. 452 00:42:21,625 --> 00:42:23,417 Oh, don't be ridicuIous. 453 00:42:25,375 --> 00:42:29,125 Anyway, if my job's so bloody irrelevant... 454 00:42:29,375 --> 00:42:31,250 how come you hate me so much? 455 00:42:32,917 --> 00:42:34,250 l don't have you, I... 456 00:42:38,417 --> 00:42:40,417 -Who's the haddock? -She is. 457 00:42:50,417 --> 00:42:52,417 l chose Grimley, you know. 458 00:42:52,958 --> 00:42:56,000 They offered me other pits, but l chose Grimley for two reasons. 459 00:42:56,500 --> 00:43:01,083 Because if I could help keep one pit aIive, I wanted it to be this one. 460 00:43:01,625 --> 00:43:02,458 Second... 461 00:43:06,250 --> 00:43:07,417 Hey, isn't that... 462 00:43:08,375 --> 00:43:10,583 where the old bus station was? 463 00:43:11,750 --> 00:43:14,292 -l didn't think you'd remember. -How could I forget? 464 00:43:15,125 --> 00:43:17,500 I'm sorry. FumbIings of a fourteen year old. 465 00:43:17,667 --> 00:43:20,125 What did we call it? Top half onIy. 466 00:43:21,042 --> 00:43:24,625 Can hardly have been worth it at that age. Just kids. 467 00:43:25,750 --> 00:43:29,500 -l'd get better value now. -Well that's inflation for you. 468 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,833 l did know your name, you know. 469 00:43:38,833 --> 00:43:40,708 When l called you Barry Andrews. 470 00:43:41,792 --> 00:43:43,417 l just didn'twant you to think... 471 00:43:44,292 --> 00:43:45,458 I don't know. 472 00:43:46,667 --> 00:43:48,958 That it was etched forever on me brain. 473 00:43:50,458 --> 00:43:51,958 'Cause it hasn't been, has it? 474 00:44:00,458 --> 00:44:03,000 Do you want to come up for a coffee? 475 00:44:03,625 --> 00:44:05,125 l don't drink coffee. 476 00:44:07,375 --> 00:44:08,833 I haven't got any. 477 00:44:32,875 --> 00:44:35,625 -Eh up, Phil. -Jesus Christ. 478 00:44:35,792 --> 00:44:38,083 Did you Iike it so much you want to go back? 479 00:44:38,667 --> 00:44:40,792 -What? -WakefieId Prison? 480 00:44:41,625 --> 00:44:44,958 -What are you on about? -Shall we call it a day, eh? 481 00:44:56,167 --> 00:44:57,417 Evening, love. 482 00:44:58,625 --> 00:44:59,792 Night. 483 00:45:31,250 --> 00:45:33,833 All right, Andy lad. What've you been up to? 484 00:45:34,792 --> 00:45:36,750 A bit of extra practice, like. 485 00:45:38,167 --> 00:45:40,500 -You're a genius you, aren't you? -What? 486 00:45:41,042 --> 00:45:43,708 Well, it takes a speciaI talent that, practicing... 487 00:45:44,333 --> 00:45:47,667 -without your instrument. -l must've left it in there, l'll... 488 00:45:47,875 --> 00:45:49,917 -l'll pick it up tomorrow. -Right. 489 00:45:51,542 --> 00:45:53,083 Gloria on good form, is she? 490 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,417 -Night, Andy lad. -Night, Danny. 491 00:48:29,708 --> 00:48:31,958 Mr MacKenzie, could l have a quick word? 492 00:48:32,125 --> 00:48:34,042 WeII, l'm actually rather busy, Gloria. 493 00:48:34,208 --> 00:48:37,667 Yes, so am l. l just wanted to make sure l wasn't busy for no reason. 494 00:48:37,833 --> 00:48:40,792 It's just some of the information l need... 495 00:48:40,958 --> 00:48:42,625 it's Iike getting bIood out of a stone. 496 00:48:42,792 --> 00:48:45,000 I feel Iike I'm flogging a dead horse sometimes and I... 497 00:48:45,167 --> 00:48:47,750 Shall we stop talking in riddIes, GIoria? 498 00:48:50,167 --> 00:48:54,125 I'm worried that my report may be sort of... 499 00:48:55,833 --> 00:48:56,750 immateriaI. 500 00:48:57,792 --> 00:48:59,125 Your report is vital... 501 00:49:00,250 --> 00:49:02,125 absoIutely paramount. 502 00:49:02,625 --> 00:49:04,583 lf this pit goes to review, and we hope it wiII... 503 00:49:05,375 --> 00:49:09,375 we have cruciaI decisions to make and we can't make them without detaiIed... 504 00:49:09,542 --> 00:49:13,333 accurate reports from highIy quaIified people such as yourself. 505 00:49:16,292 --> 00:49:18,167 lt's a tricky business, GIoria. 506 00:49:18,625 --> 00:49:20,542 AII we want to do is get it right. 507 00:49:21,833 --> 00:49:22,667 Okay? 508 00:49:31,333 --> 00:49:32,167 Yeah. 509 00:49:40,500 --> 00:49:43,833 Eh up, Andy. Look, there's your mate, Miss Glorious Tits. 510 00:49:44,333 --> 00:49:45,792 What's she doing here? 511 00:49:59,417 --> 00:50:02,458 Now then, what's a nice girI like you doing in a horribIe place like this? 512 00:50:02,833 --> 00:50:04,417 Oh, hiya. 513 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:07,042 Hi, Andy. 514 00:50:08,333 --> 00:50:09,167 Hiya. 515 00:50:09,542 --> 00:50:13,875 -l came up to meet Andy out of work. -He's not out of work yet, love. 516 00:50:14,625 --> 00:50:15,958 Come back next week. 517 00:50:16,125 --> 00:50:17,833 l just wondered if you wanted a quick practice, Andy? 518 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,292 No he can't Iove. He's going for a pint with us. 519 00:50:20,750 --> 00:50:22,917 -Oh, right, well... -See you. 520 00:50:25,042 --> 00:50:28,625 That's all right, isn't it Andy? Nice pint and a chat. 521 00:50:29,833 --> 00:50:32,458 We can taIk about price of fish... 522 00:50:32,875 --> 00:50:34,833 plight of t'T hird WorId... 523 00:50:35,125 --> 00:50:37,625 pros and cons of t'sweeper system... 524 00:50:37,792 --> 00:50:41,292 and why your bird's got management Iogo on her key-ring. 525 00:50:51,750 --> 00:50:54,292 Still, it doesn't make her the devil incarnate, does it? 526 00:50:54,458 --> 00:50:56,417 What does it make Andy here? That's what I want to know. 527 00:50:56,583 --> 00:50:59,333 Lay off him, eh, Jim. He said he didn't know. 528 00:50:59,917 --> 00:51:01,333 With legs like that round your back... 529 00:51:01,500 --> 00:51:03,875 you don't stop and ask for a reference, do you? 530 00:51:04,042 --> 00:51:06,417 -lt's a mistake anyone could've made. -Aye... 531 00:51:06,583 --> 00:51:08,000 and by heII, we aIl wish we'd made it. 532 00:51:08,167 --> 00:51:11,542 -This isn't funny. -Nowt wrong with shagging management. 533 00:51:12,292 --> 00:51:14,250 They've been shagging us long enough. 534 00:51:15,750 --> 00:51:18,458 Oh, don't tell me Andy. Itweren't shagging... 535 00:51:18,792 --> 00:51:20,625 it were true love. 536 00:51:23,042 --> 00:51:26,417 -Are you pIaying, Andy? -No. He's had enough fun for one week. 537 00:51:27,083 --> 00:51:28,583 I'm not a kid anymore, Jim, right? 538 00:51:29,667 --> 00:51:30,542 Oh, aye? 539 00:51:31,458 --> 00:51:33,333 -OId enough to be a scab, then. -Jim. 540 00:51:39,375 --> 00:51:41,042 lt's right, Andy, he doesn't mean it. 541 00:51:41,208 --> 00:51:43,000 You don't mess around with words Iike that. 542 00:51:43,167 --> 00:51:45,708 Aye, l'm sorry, Andy. Take it back. 543 00:51:46,542 --> 00:51:48,292 You'rejust a stupid fucker. 544 00:51:51,417 --> 00:51:53,000 That's more Iike it. 545 00:52:01,125 --> 00:52:02,875 l'll catch you later, lads. 546 00:52:04,417 --> 00:52:05,917 Where are you off, then? 547 00:52:11,417 --> 00:52:15,583 HeIIo, kids. My name's Mr ChuckIes. 548 00:52:15,750 --> 00:52:18,625 HeIIo, Mr Chuckles. 549 00:52:18,792 --> 00:52:20,333 -Now, do you like card tricks? -Yeah. 550 00:52:20,500 --> 00:52:22,208 Will you heIp me with this card trick? 551 00:52:22,375 --> 00:52:24,750 Come here, come here. Now, what you have to do... 552 00:52:24,917 --> 00:52:27,375 is pick a card from there. Don't let me see it. 553 00:52:27,542 --> 00:52:30,083 And show it to aII your friends so that they can alI see it. 554 00:52:30,417 --> 00:52:32,625 Now put it back anywhere you Iike. 555 00:52:33,167 --> 00:52:35,583 Tell me when you've done it. Done it? 556 00:52:35,750 --> 00:52:38,083 Now l'm going to shuffle them aII up. Did you see what the card was? 557 00:52:38,250 --> 00:52:43,083 Don't tell me. The card was the Jack of Hearts. 558 00:52:43,250 --> 00:52:44,500 No. 559 00:52:45,458 --> 00:52:47,667 -Queen of Clubs? -No. 560 00:52:47,833 --> 00:52:49,917 -What were it then? -Ace of Spades. 561 00:52:50,083 --> 00:52:51,250 Correct! 562 00:52:53,500 --> 00:52:55,083 AlI right now, Scott. 563 00:52:55,333 --> 00:52:58,875 I'm going to put your watch there and l'm going to foId this over... 564 00:52:59,250 --> 00:53:05,083 Once, twice, three times, four. Just Iike that. AII right. 565 00:53:05,917 --> 00:53:10,708 And, with this hammer, Scott, l want you to give that watch... 566 00:53:10,875 --> 00:53:14,417 -a great big smack. -No. 567 00:53:17,042 --> 00:53:20,500 When l say the magic words, Scott. 568 00:53:22,958 --> 00:53:26,708 -This isn't your main job, is it? -l'm a miner. 569 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:29,208 A miner? 570 00:53:31,958 --> 00:53:35,708 You remember them, Iove, dinosaurs, dodos... 571 00:53:36,667 --> 00:53:37,833 miners. 572 00:53:52,375 --> 00:53:55,292 -Sorry Sandra, you're a bit short. -How much? 573 00:53:55,500 --> 00:53:57,500 -One fitty. -What's up with you? 574 00:53:57,667 --> 00:53:59,125 What's it to be? 575 00:53:59,625 --> 00:54:02,167 -What about them aeroplane things? -What? 576 00:54:02,458 --> 00:54:05,792 -Them things with wings on? -No, l need them. 577 00:54:07,875 --> 00:54:10,208 Here you are, Iove, put that back. We'll use soap. 578 00:54:10,708 --> 00:54:14,583 Sorry, Vera. Me and sums, not what you'd call the best of friends. 579 00:54:14,750 --> 00:54:16,833 Me and money, total frigging strangers. 580 00:54:17,583 --> 00:54:19,250 Sorry Iove. StilI need another sixty. 581 00:54:21,833 --> 00:54:24,458 l tell you what, give it us next week, all right? 582 00:54:24,625 --> 00:54:25,458 Are you sure? 583 00:54:27,917 --> 00:54:29,250 Don't forget your receipt. 584 00:54:41,417 --> 00:54:42,875 -Come on. -See you, love. 585 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,542 Get back in here now with that. 586 00:54:53,708 --> 00:54:55,875 -Who do you think you bIeeding are? -Get off. 587 00:54:56,833 --> 00:54:58,208 -Hey. -Bastard. 588 00:55:00,708 --> 00:55:02,333 Come here, you bastards. 589 00:55:03,292 --> 00:55:05,083 What do you think you're fucking doing? 590 00:55:05,250 --> 00:55:06,833 What do you think you're fucking pIaying at? 591 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,083 l told you, pal. It's pay day. 592 00:55:13,500 --> 00:55:14,750 Yeah, aII right. 593 00:55:16,417 --> 00:55:17,333 Right. 594 00:55:19,125 --> 00:55:21,208 Just give us a bit of time, eh? 595 00:55:21,750 --> 00:55:25,083 It's been ten years mate. Pay day's pay day, pal. 596 00:55:25,667 --> 00:55:27,333 Especially when it's tweIve grand. 597 00:55:27,500 --> 00:55:29,917 -Twelve? -Aye, it's that interest, isn't it? 598 00:55:30,083 --> 00:55:31,875 -It's a bugger. -Well, what about... 599 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,208 -Can you wait till twenty first? -Twenty first? 600 00:55:36,375 --> 00:55:38,625 Oh, aye. Coco the scab, eh? 601 00:55:40,667 --> 00:55:43,083 -We'll be back with truck. -Truck? What for? 602 00:55:43,458 --> 00:55:44,375 Contents. 603 00:55:44,958 --> 00:55:46,500 Until you pay up, like. 604 00:55:52,500 --> 00:55:57,167 lf you touch my kids again, l'll fucking kill you. 605 00:56:08,625 --> 00:56:10,875 What the frigging hell's this? 606 00:56:12,083 --> 00:56:15,292 lt's a frigging dent, that's what it is. 607 00:56:18,208 --> 00:56:20,083 Andy Barrow lent it me. 608 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:23,833 He'lI go frigging barmy. 609 00:56:47,542 --> 00:56:51,375 -Hiya, Danny love. You welI? -Oh, aye, can't complain, Betty. 610 00:56:51,542 --> 00:56:55,625 -What time do they announce result? -About five-ish or summat, l think. 611 00:56:55,792 --> 00:56:58,917 -l didn't know you were that bothered. -Whole town's bothered, Iove. 612 00:57:00,583 --> 00:57:02,167 Can't do without pit. 613 00:57:03,708 --> 00:57:06,500 l thought you were taIking about Semi-Finals. 614 00:57:06,667 --> 00:57:09,042 Honest, Danny, a day Iike today... 615 00:57:09,208 --> 00:57:12,167 You think anyone's interested in some daft football match? 616 00:57:17,167 --> 00:57:17,917 AlI right, love? 617 00:57:18,083 --> 00:57:20,750 That's it. You bugger off and blow your bloody trumpet. 618 00:57:20,917 --> 00:57:22,792 BIimey, a conversation. 619 00:57:23,958 --> 00:57:26,208 Harry, in a month's time when you're at home all day and there's ... 620 00:57:26,375 --> 00:57:30,083 nowt but doIe coming in, at Ieast l can know that I did summat. 621 00:57:30,500 --> 00:57:33,750 It weren't much, but it were best l could do and at least it were summat. 622 00:57:33,917 --> 00:57:35,292 What are you on about? 623 00:57:37,667 --> 00:57:41,958 Ten years ago before the strike, you were so fuIl of fight. 624 00:57:42,417 --> 00:57:44,458 Packed fuII of passion, you were. 625 00:57:45,833 --> 00:57:48,125 Now you just do nowt. 626 00:57:49,292 --> 00:57:52,375 AII you do is blow your bIoody trumpet. 627 00:57:52,833 --> 00:57:54,292 Aye, but at least... 628 00:57:56,250 --> 00:57:57,583 At least what? 629 00:57:59,583 --> 00:58:01,125 People listen to us. 630 00:58:06,208 --> 00:58:07,833 Go on, sod off. 631 00:58:14,583 --> 00:58:17,000 And it's a bloody euphonium. 632 00:58:21,750 --> 00:58:26,125 You know, l can't tell a Iie. I were never one for brass bands before. 633 00:58:26,875 --> 00:58:31,125 But when you hear that sound, when you're near that sound... 634 00:58:31,875 --> 00:58:35,583 -doesn't haIf grab you, doesn't it? -Aye, it does that. 635 00:58:36,458 --> 00:58:41,292 But you know, folk like Danny, it's taken over their Iives. 636 00:58:41,875 --> 00:58:43,917 I'd never Iet that happen. 637 00:58:51,375 --> 00:58:53,625 -Gorgeous. -Oh, yeah. 638 00:58:56,208 --> 00:58:57,417 AII right, Bernard. 639 00:59:00,250 --> 00:59:01,625 -Jim, Ernie. -Danny. 640 00:59:08,458 --> 00:59:10,042 -Hi, Danny. -Hello, Danny. 641 00:59:11,583 --> 00:59:15,375 BIoody helI. Hi, Harry. Make an effort, Andy. 642 00:59:19,458 --> 00:59:22,250 BIoody helI, son. What's happened to you? 643 00:59:22,417 --> 00:59:23,708 Sorry, Dad. 644 00:59:24,583 --> 00:59:27,583 -Bit of a domestic, Iike. -But you know this is a special... 645 00:59:29,833 --> 00:59:32,000 Sandra did that? To you? 646 00:59:32,917 --> 00:59:33,750 No. 647 00:59:38,542 --> 00:59:40,708 Go on, get on t'bus. Get it cIeaned up. 648 00:59:42,833 --> 00:59:45,417 Bang goes the Deportment Prize, any road. 649 01:00:01,625 --> 01:00:05,708 We're going to win this one. Look. Your Phil's got a new trombone. 650 01:00:10,333 --> 01:00:11,500 We off, then? 651 01:00:12,417 --> 01:00:15,500 AII right, StanIey. Halifax here we come. 652 01:01:09,750 --> 01:01:13,042 Shift, wiII you? Stop fighting aII the time. 653 01:01:14,833 --> 01:01:19,333 Votes for redundancy. Seven hundred and ninety-eight. 654 01:05:00,208 --> 01:05:04,708 The winners, with 194 points, "The Grimley Colliery Band" . 655 01:05:46,667 --> 01:05:47,500 Harry. 656 01:05:49,042 --> 01:05:50,208 Rita, Iove. 657 01:05:52,167 --> 01:05:54,208 Fourto one against, it went. 658 01:05:56,208 --> 01:05:58,000 Four to one, Harry. 659 01:06:07,792 --> 01:06:08,625 Still... 660 01:06:10,625 --> 01:06:12,667 see a bit more of each other now. 661 01:06:21,792 --> 01:06:22,708 Dad? 662 01:06:31,750 --> 01:06:33,375 Oh, Jesus Christ. 663 01:06:34,917 --> 01:06:37,375 Will someone get an ambuIance, quick! 664 01:06:38,333 --> 01:06:40,375 Hurry, he can't breathe. 665 01:06:40,542 --> 01:06:43,000 -Just back off, wiII you? -Don't crowd him. 666 01:06:45,625 --> 01:06:48,958 -Come on, breathe for me. -Someone call for that ambuIance? 667 01:06:49,167 --> 01:06:51,292 Come on, I've got you. Phil's here. 668 01:06:52,208 --> 01:06:54,333 Come on, hurry up, wiII you? 669 01:07:00,708 --> 01:07:01,875 How is he, Phil? 670 01:07:02,500 --> 01:07:05,167 I don't know. He hasn't woke up yet. 671 01:07:06,375 --> 01:07:09,625 They just said there'd be more news tomorrow. 672 01:07:09,833 --> 01:07:12,375 Right. We're just having a colIection for him. 673 01:07:16,917 --> 01:07:18,292 You stilI here, love? 674 01:07:19,292 --> 01:07:21,083 I reckon it's got to be ta-ra now, don't you? 675 01:07:33,833 --> 01:07:37,250 l'm on your side. l always was. 676 01:07:47,833 --> 01:07:49,000 Andy? 677 01:07:56,833 --> 01:07:58,000 Andy. 678 01:08:03,875 --> 01:08:04,958 Phil, Iad. 679 01:08:09,333 --> 01:08:13,167 Not flowers, all right, Jim. Not grapes. 680 01:08:14,167 --> 01:08:16,208 Get him summat he wants, eh? 681 01:08:19,500 --> 01:08:22,333 You sure about this, Andy mate? What about t'finals? 682 01:08:26,083 --> 01:08:27,625 What finaIs? 683 01:08:42,667 --> 01:08:45,500 Andy, l don't want to faII out, mate. 684 01:08:46,292 --> 01:08:48,167 You're me main source of income. 685 01:08:48,750 --> 01:08:52,542 Don't worry, Simmo. l've lost more this week than a bloody trumpet. 686 01:09:04,667 --> 01:09:05,750 Sandra? 687 01:09:06,958 --> 01:09:09,375 They came. Took bloody lot. 688 01:09:09,792 --> 01:09:13,083 -I warned you, Phil. -Oh, Sand, no. I... 689 01:09:13,708 --> 01:09:14,750 Look don't ... 690 01:09:16,500 --> 01:09:17,625 Not now. 691 01:09:18,458 --> 01:09:22,125 Seems as good a time as any. What with there being nowhere to sit. 692 01:09:23,167 --> 01:09:25,042 Dad's coIIapsed. 693 01:09:25,958 --> 01:09:27,333 Aye, I heard. 694 01:09:30,208 --> 01:09:31,583 l'm sorry, PhiI. 695 01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:15,583 Oh, you fuckers. 696 01:10:28,042 --> 01:10:30,250 -Sandra? <-Phil? Harry. 697 01:10:31,375 --> 01:10:33,708 Are you set for one finaI performance? 698 01:10:50,417 --> 01:10:51,917 What on earth? 699 01:11:45,250 --> 01:11:48,542 Nurse, go down there at once and get rid of them. 700 01:11:48,708 --> 01:11:50,333 Leave them be. 701 01:11:52,417 --> 01:11:56,458 -Mr Ormondroyd, how are you feeling? -Death's door. 702 01:11:57,583 --> 01:12:01,625 -The bastards still take the piss. -Yes, l am sorry about this racket. 703 01:12:01,792 --> 01:12:04,542 -We'll stop it, don't worry. -Stop this racket? 704 01:12:04,708 --> 01:12:06,917 You'll wake up in the next ward. 705 01:12:41,167 --> 01:12:43,458 ls it going Iike shit off a shoveI? 706 01:12:44,833 --> 01:12:48,167 lf by that you mean fast, yes it is, rather. 707 01:12:51,167 --> 01:12:53,708 lt always does when they pIay this one. 708 01:14:07,167 --> 01:14:09,417 Message from Mr Ormondroyd. 709 01:14:10,250 --> 01:14:12,333 -He's awake? -Yeah. 710 01:14:12,708 --> 01:14:15,042 He says tenor horn's too soft. 711 01:14:23,458 --> 01:14:27,417 Phil Iad, I reckon it'd be best coming from you. 712 01:14:28,125 --> 01:14:32,333 About us packing in. Not going to t'finals. 713 01:14:38,375 --> 01:14:41,792 You shouIdn't have, you know, Iads. ReaIIy. ShouId've brought me... 714 01:14:41,958 --> 01:14:44,042 flowers or summat. 715 01:14:44,208 --> 01:14:47,958 Grapes. I could murder a bunch of grapes. 716 01:14:53,292 --> 01:14:57,875 -BIoody hell. -Right thank you. The concert's over. 717 01:14:58,042 --> 01:15:00,333 lt's past eIeven and Mr Ormondroyd... 718 01:15:00,500 --> 01:15:02,958 must have some sleep. Thank you. -See you, Danny. 719 01:15:03,125 --> 01:15:06,708 And I'd prefer any future visits to be made in visiting hours... 720 01:15:07,042 --> 01:15:10,583 -preferably without trumpets. -lt's a euphonium. 721 01:15:11,167 --> 01:15:13,542 Hey lads, sounded good, mind... 722 01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:18,583 Out there. Keep playing Iike that and we'lI murder them at bloody finals. 723 01:15:23,500 --> 01:15:24,792 TelI him. 724 01:15:36,208 --> 01:15:38,292 You in a bit of trouble, son? 725 01:15:39,250 --> 01:15:43,167 -It's nowt, Dad. -You seem a bit upset, Iike. 726 01:15:43,917 --> 01:15:45,417 Of course I'm upset. 727 01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:49,833 -Me old man's poorly. -Aye, well... 728 01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:52,375 we'll both get over that, won't we? 729 01:15:56,625 --> 01:15:58,333 Nice bit of brass. 730 01:15:59,042 --> 01:16:00,875 Cheap, yeah? 731 01:16:04,167 --> 01:16:05,792 Ta, son, anyway. 732 01:16:10,792 --> 01:16:13,333 It matters, you know, that trombone. 733 01:16:14,083 --> 01:16:15,875 -To me, any road. -Aye. 734 01:16:28,083 --> 01:16:31,042 I'd best be off, eh? Let you get some shut-eye. 735 01:16:31,208 --> 01:16:32,292 Aye. 736 01:16:33,042 --> 01:16:37,333 Say hello to Sandra and kids for me. -Yeah, they said, getwell. 737 01:16:38,125 --> 01:16:42,500 l were alongside Arthur Mullins every day of his working life... 738 01:16:42,667 --> 01:16:45,083 -When they cut him open... -Dad, don't . 739 01:16:45,250 --> 01:16:47,750 They say when they opened up his Iungs, there were... 740 01:16:47,917 --> 01:16:52,208 nowt in there but coal dust. SIack. SIack everywhere. 741 01:16:53,542 --> 01:16:56,083 -Took them a week to get t'slab clean. -Dad... 742 01:16:58,583 --> 01:17:00,250 You'll be all right. 743 01:17:00,667 --> 01:17:03,375 Are you going to tell me lies all bloody night? 744 01:17:08,500 --> 01:17:09,625 No. 745 01:17:10,917 --> 01:17:13,333 You're right, son. You're right. 746 01:17:13,708 --> 01:17:17,792 Go on, be off with you. I'll be out of here in time for t'finaI. 747 01:17:24,125 --> 01:17:25,792 One way or the other. 748 01:18:00,667 --> 01:18:02,750 ...different after recent events. 749 01:18:03,167 --> 01:18:07,000 Just thought l'd bring you the viabiIity study. 750 01:18:10,958 --> 01:18:12,833 Ah, right. Yes. 751 01:18:13,375 --> 01:18:15,250 Put it there. Thank you. 752 01:18:16,667 --> 01:18:20,458 So, Frank, you're going down to Stainly Tuesday and coming back... 753 01:18:21,958 --> 01:18:26,750 -Will you be reading it? -It wouId've been very valuabIe... 754 01:18:26,917 --> 01:18:30,458 if the GrimIey miners had decided to go to a review, but... 755 01:18:31,292 --> 01:18:32,750 as you know, sadly... 756 01:18:32,917 --> 01:18:35,833 You made them an offer they couIdn't refuse. 757 01:18:36,458 --> 01:18:38,125 None of this is simpIe. 758 01:18:39,167 --> 01:18:43,208 I'lI tell you some facts as I see them and you tell me if l'm wrong. 759 01:18:43,375 --> 01:18:45,667 -Miss MuIIins. -One: I write reports... 760 01:18:45,833 --> 01:18:47,833 that no-one will ever read. They have to be seen to be written... 761 01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,625 but they're not written to be seen. Two.. 762 01:18:50,875 --> 01:18:54,625 Grimley is, was a profitabIe pit, says so in here. 763 01:18:55,250 --> 01:18:58,667 Three: the decision to close it wasn't made today... 764 01:18:58,833 --> 01:19:00,958 -it was made weeks ago. -Wrong. 765 01:19:02,708 --> 01:19:04,125 2 years ago. 766 01:19:11,500 --> 01:19:15,042 Coal, is history, Miss MulIins. 767 01:19:37,875 --> 01:19:39,958 l'll catch you later, lads. 768 01:19:56,625 --> 01:19:59,708 Look for years, bloody years, nowt good's ever happened to me. 769 01:20:00,208 --> 01:20:04,125 Only reason l'd get up was to see if me Iuck'd changed, but it never has. 770 01:20:04,750 --> 01:20:07,750 lt was just beginning to get worse, with pit cIosing, losing me job... 771 01:20:07,917 --> 01:20:11,042 and then what happens? Gloria Mullins... 772 01:20:12,125 --> 01:20:15,042 love of me bloody Iife, walks into practice hall. 773 01:20:15,208 --> 01:20:17,250 BIoody heII, l thought, maybe Iife's not so bad. 774 01:20:17,667 --> 01:20:20,792 But is it buggery. She's onIy fucking management. 775 01:20:20,958 --> 01:20:23,042 And now that's what you've been doing. 776 01:20:24,583 --> 01:20:26,833 Yeah, well let's just call that sIeeping with the enemy. 777 01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:30,042 l'm not the enemy. l'm like you. 778 01:20:32,333 --> 01:20:33,792 UnempIoyed. 779 01:20:36,125 --> 01:20:38,125 l told them to stuff it. 780 01:20:41,083 --> 01:20:46,292 -You off back down south, then? -WeII, hardly welcome here. 781 01:20:46,667 --> 01:20:50,250 Reckon they aII know now, you were only trying to heIp. 782 01:20:51,125 --> 01:20:54,625 Thing is if heIp comes to summat then you're a hero. lf it comes to nowt... 783 01:20:55,417 --> 01:20:57,125 you're just another meddIer. 784 01:20:58,125 --> 01:20:59,917 And is that what you reckon? 785 01:21:02,208 --> 01:21:05,042 l reckon your heart's in the right place, but... 786 01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:07,542 you never did owt to prove it. 787 01:21:12,250 --> 01:21:14,250 l'll say ta-ra, then. 788 01:21:37,292 --> 01:21:39,750 Summat good'lI happen soon, Andy. 789 01:21:40,708 --> 01:21:42,167 Hope it's at Albert Hall. 790 01:21:42,833 --> 01:21:45,042 Doubt it somehow. We're not going. 791 01:21:46,250 --> 01:21:48,417 -What? -They worked it out. 792 01:21:48,583 --> 01:21:50,667 lt'd cost three grand or summat. 793 01:21:52,250 --> 01:21:55,542 No, the band's dead. lt died with everything else. 794 01:22:22,500 --> 01:22:23,708 Harry. 795 01:22:25,875 --> 01:22:27,500 -AII right, Ernie. -Aye. 796 01:22:34,292 --> 01:22:35,458 Jim. 797 01:22:36,708 --> 01:22:37,875 AII right. 798 01:22:41,083 --> 01:22:43,917 -AlI right, PhiI? -AlI right, Andy Iad? 799 01:22:44,917 --> 01:22:48,167 -Owt in? -There's a machinist wanted. 800 01:22:49,083 --> 01:22:51,958 -You any good at button stitching? -l'll take anything. 801 01:22:52,583 --> 01:22:54,833 WeII, thank Christ l found you. Look. 802 01:22:59,542 --> 01:23:00,833 How's your dad? 803 01:23:04,500 --> 01:23:06,458 How'd he take it about us packing in? 804 01:23:09,583 --> 01:23:11,917 Phil, come on. You've got to tell him you know. 805 01:23:12,625 --> 01:23:15,417 -l mean, before t'final. -l'm going to. I'm going to. 806 01:23:16,625 --> 01:23:18,917 -There's a while yet, isn't there? -Saturday. 807 01:23:27,708 --> 01:23:29,833 I'm afraid l've got some bad news. 808 01:23:30,250 --> 01:23:34,625 Sandra and the kids? l heard about that. Don't fret, they'II be back. 809 01:23:37,625 --> 01:23:41,208 -Dad... -Just one day. They won't let me out. 810 01:23:41,375 --> 01:23:43,625 For one sodding day. 811 01:23:48,500 --> 01:23:52,000 -Dad, look... -Might as well give these to Harry. 812 01:23:53,750 --> 01:23:55,250 Wish him good luck. 813 01:23:56,583 --> 01:23:58,458 l was up alI night doing them. 814 01:23:59,333 --> 01:24:00,375 Aye. 815 01:24:02,500 --> 01:24:03,667 Right. 816 01:24:25,208 --> 01:24:27,125 Harvest FestivaI. 817 01:24:28,333 --> 01:24:31,583 To tell you the truth, l don't know too much about Harvest Festival. 818 01:24:32,500 --> 01:24:35,500 But l do know a story about God. 819 01:24:37,625 --> 01:24:40,042 So God was creating Man, aIl right? 820 01:24:40,333 --> 01:24:42,250 And his Iittle assistant came up to him... 821 01:24:42,417 --> 01:24:45,542 and he said: "hey, we've got all these bodies Ieft... 822 01:24:45,708 --> 01:24:48,583 but we're right out of brains, we're right out of hearts... 823 01:24:48,750 --> 01:24:51,167 and we're right out of vocal chords". 824 01:24:51,333 --> 01:24:54,500 And God said "Fuck it. Sew 'em up anyway. 825 01:24:54,667 --> 01:24:57,542 Smack smiles on their faces and make them taIk out their arses" . 826 01:24:57,708 --> 01:25:02,375 -And lo, God created the Tory party. -Come on. 827 01:25:02,542 --> 01:25:05,042 -May God forgive you. -God? 828 01:25:05,542 --> 01:25:09,000 Oh, aye. Now there's a fella... 829 01:25:10,750 --> 01:25:12,583 I mean, what's he doing, eh? 830 01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:16,083 He can take John Lennon... 831 01:25:16,917 --> 01:25:19,750 He can take those three young lads down at Ainsley Pit. 832 01:25:20,458 --> 01:25:22,875 He's even thinking of taking my old man. 833 01:25:23,042 --> 01:25:26,083 And Margaret bloody Thatcher Iives? 834 01:25:27,125 --> 01:25:29,792 l mean, what's he sodding pIaying at? 835 01:25:38,042 --> 01:25:42,375 You've been great. My name's Coco the Scab. 836 01:25:43,250 --> 01:25:44,500 Goodnight. 837 01:25:55,417 --> 01:25:58,083 Grandad? What's grandad got to do with it? 838 01:25:58,250 --> 01:26:01,417 Dad said when people are as poorly as grandad is... 839 01:26:01,583 --> 01:26:04,000 you've got to do speciaI things for them. 840 01:26:04,167 --> 01:26:07,458 Shane Iove, your dad didn't buy trombone for your grandad. 841 01:26:07,625 --> 01:26:09,542 He bought it for himself. 842 01:26:09,708 --> 01:26:13,917 He said grandad's gonna die. But at Ieast Dad getting a trombone... 843 01:26:14,083 --> 01:26:16,833 is gonna make him die happy. That's what he said. 844 01:26:20,833 --> 01:26:24,250 -Mam? -What, love? 845 01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,250 How the hell do you die happy? 846 01:26:28,917 --> 01:26:31,667 Oh, we'lI find a way. 847 01:26:33,375 --> 01:26:35,833 l don't Iike seeing Dad sad, Mam. 848 01:26:38,208 --> 01:26:41,667 But I'd sooner see him sad than not see him at all. 849 01:26:49,208 --> 01:26:51,583 -HeIp. -What's that, for fuck's sake? 850 01:26:51,750 --> 01:26:54,375 -HeIp. -What is it? 851 01:26:56,708 --> 01:26:58,667 Jesus Christ. 852 01:27:18,833 --> 01:27:20,000 Philip? 853 01:27:26,917 --> 01:27:28,000 l mean... 854 01:27:28,833 --> 01:27:31,292 What the bloody heII were you playing at, lad? 855 01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:34,083 You Iost your marbles? 856 01:27:35,208 --> 01:27:37,417 Maybe. I've lost everything eIse. 857 01:27:38,125 --> 01:27:40,125 Wife, kids, house... 858 01:27:40,708 --> 01:27:42,958 Job, self-respect... 859 01:27:43,917 --> 01:27:45,083 Hope. 860 01:27:46,708 --> 01:27:49,000 But then, that's nowt is it, Dad? 861 01:27:50,667 --> 01:27:53,417 Because it's music that matters. 862 01:27:57,208 --> 01:27:59,333 The band's packed in, anyway. 863 01:28:07,250 --> 01:28:09,083 Oh, bloody heII, PhiI. 864 01:28:13,292 --> 01:28:14,958 Is this man bothering you? 865 01:28:17,875 --> 01:28:20,083 Course he is, he's me dad. 866 01:28:42,458 --> 01:28:44,000 -Phil? -Phil Iad? 867 01:28:45,458 --> 01:28:47,917 -Are you aII right? -What are you up to? 868 01:28:48,667 --> 01:28:51,500 Feeding the fucking ducks, what's it look like? 869 01:28:52,667 --> 01:28:54,250 We heard about, er... 870 01:28:57,042 --> 01:28:59,500 We were on our way to hospital to see you. 871 01:28:59,708 --> 01:29:00,958 Hey, and your dad. 872 01:29:01,167 --> 01:29:04,167 He'd be dead chuffed with a visit from you lot. 873 01:29:04,500 --> 01:29:08,875 I tell you, if he were up and about, we'd all be in intensive bloody care. 874 01:29:09,625 --> 01:29:11,000 Oh, right. You told him. 875 01:29:12,667 --> 01:29:14,625 Maybe we'll visit him next week then. 876 01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:17,708 You coming for a pint, mate? 877 01:29:18,750 --> 01:29:21,042 Drink with scabs, do you? 878 01:29:22,958 --> 01:29:26,708 l voted for t'money, you know that? 879 01:29:34,417 --> 01:29:38,250 Come on PhiI. Stop being a drama queen. Come and have a wet with us. 880 01:29:38,458 --> 01:29:42,292 Anyway, there's enough bloody rubbish in this canaI already. 881 01:29:51,750 --> 01:29:53,792 Hejust shook his head. 882 01:29:56,125 --> 01:29:58,500 Can't telI you. lt were like... 883 01:30:00,667 --> 01:30:03,083 lights just went out. 884 01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:08,750 I mean, there he is coughing up coal... 885 01:30:10,000 --> 01:30:12,667 and aII we can do is break his bloody heart. 886 01:30:15,083 --> 01:30:17,208 Poor sod's got nowt left to Iive for. 887 01:30:30,250 --> 01:30:32,542 -Can I get you a drink? -No, it's aII right. 888 01:30:33,458 --> 01:30:36,792 l just wanted to show you summat. 889 01:30:40,333 --> 01:30:43,833 New bank account. Grimley Brass Band. 890 01:30:44,083 --> 01:30:46,042 There's three grand in there. 891 01:30:46,208 --> 01:30:48,250 lf nowt else, it'll get you to Albert HaII. 892 01:30:49,167 --> 01:30:50,625 This your money? 893 01:30:51,833 --> 01:30:55,083 I don't want it. lt's dirty money. 894 01:30:55,750 --> 01:30:58,000 l'd prefer it to be brass. 895 01:30:58,542 --> 01:31:00,167 Must be awfuI, love... 896 01:31:00,333 --> 01:31:02,750 having that much guiIt you've got to buy your way out of it. 897 01:31:06,417 --> 01:31:09,500 Jim, l'm just doing what l was aIways doing. 898 01:31:10,958 --> 01:31:16,458 Meddling. Difference is this time we've not lost before we start. 899 01:31:23,750 --> 01:31:25,833 And you'd want to pIay with us, yeah? 900 01:31:27,792 --> 01:31:29,583 l'm not doing this for me. 901 01:31:30,542 --> 01:31:32,083 l'm doing it for you. 902 01:31:33,833 --> 01:31:35,208 And Danny. 903 01:31:49,667 --> 01:31:51,542 I hope you budgeted for booze. 904 01:31:55,792 --> 01:31:57,667 Danny'd want us to win, wouIdn't he? 905 01:31:57,875 --> 01:32:00,208 We're not going to win without a flaming flugel, are we? 906 01:32:07,042 --> 01:32:10,333 Simmo, you haven't fIogged it, have you? 907 01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:13,292 Right, your horn plays my twenty. 908 01:32:14,500 --> 01:32:15,500 What? 909 01:32:17,083 --> 01:32:18,792 AII right, bastard, thirty. 910 01:32:19,917 --> 01:32:21,000 Okay. 911 01:32:22,542 --> 01:32:25,000 -Yes. He's missed. -Come on. 912 01:32:25,208 --> 01:32:27,875 -Come on, Andy. -Come on Andy son. Go on, go on, son. 913 01:32:28,042 --> 01:32:29,917 Take your time. 914 01:32:36,042 --> 01:32:37,583 Bollock brain. 915 01:32:45,667 --> 01:32:47,625 You jammy git. 916 01:32:48,375 --> 01:32:49,792 WeII done, Andy. 917 01:32:52,250 --> 01:32:54,833 l said no, Mr Ormondroyd, he's asleep. 918 01:32:55,042 --> 01:32:57,333 Most people are at two in the morning. 919 01:32:58,500 --> 01:33:02,083 Leave a message. He'll get it the moment he wakes up, all right? 920 01:34:53,125 --> 01:34:55,625 Least it'll give them more energy won't it? 921 01:35:22,542 --> 01:35:25,750 Brighouse and Rustrick Band, you have two minutes. 922 01:35:27,083 --> 01:35:29,292 Brighouse and Rustrick, two minutes. 923 01:35:40,417 --> 01:35:43,458 Grimley ColIiery, you have two minutes. 924 01:35:44,958 --> 01:35:47,750 Grimley Colliery, two minutes. 925 01:35:47,917 --> 01:35:51,875 By heII, I bet she's glad they've closed the bugger. 926 01:35:52,042 --> 01:35:54,583 Okay, Iads. Let's do it. 927 01:35:54,958 --> 01:35:58,792 For a thousand redundant miners and one poorly one. 928 01:35:59,333 --> 01:36:01,250 -Let's do it -Right. 929 01:36:03,708 --> 01:36:07,125 Nurse, quickIy. It's Mr Ormondroyd. He's gone. 930 01:40:05,458 --> 01:40:09,167 First prize and Champions of Great Britain... 931 01:40:10,250 --> 01:40:12,917 Grimley Colliery Band. 932 01:40:39,750 --> 01:40:44,000 This band behind me wiII tell you that trophy means more to me than... 933 01:40:44,167 --> 01:40:45,792 owt eIse in the whole world. 934 01:40:47,625 --> 01:40:51,333 But they'd be wrong. Truth is, l thought it mattered... 935 01:40:51,792 --> 01:40:54,042 I thought that music mattered... 936 01:40:55,208 --> 01:40:59,167 But does it bolIocks. Not compared to how people matter. 937 01:40:59,750 --> 01:41:03,125 Us winning this trophy won't mean bugger aII to most people. 938 01:41:03,292 --> 01:41:06,333 But us refusing it, like what we're going to do now... 939 01:41:06,750 --> 01:41:08,458 well then it becomes news, doesn't it? 940 01:41:11,042 --> 01:41:12,500 You see what I mean. 941 01:41:12,875 --> 01:41:15,417 That way l'll not just be taIking to myself, will l? 942 01:41:15,750 --> 01:41:18,500 Because over the last ten years, this bloody government... 943 01:41:18,667 --> 01:41:21,667 has systematically destroyed an entire industry. 944 01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:24,958 Our industry. And not just our industry. 945 01:41:25,125 --> 01:41:28,125 Our communities, our homes, our lives. 946 01:41:28,500 --> 01:41:32,083 AII in the name of progress and for a few lousy bob. 947 01:41:32,667 --> 01:41:35,875 l'll teIl you something else you might not know. A fortnight ago... 948 01:41:36,292 --> 01:41:38,125 this band's pit were closed. 949 01:41:38,292 --> 01:41:41,875 Another thousand men Iost their jobs. And that's not all they lost. 950 01:41:42,208 --> 01:41:44,958 Most of them Iost the wiII to win a whiIe ago. 951 01:41:45,250 --> 01:41:47,542 A few of them even lost the wiII to fight. 952 01:41:47,708 --> 01:41:48,792 But... 953 01:41:50,250 --> 01:41:54,792 When it comes to Iosing the will to live, to breathe... 954 01:41:56,208 --> 01:41:57,500 point is... 955 01:41:58,625 --> 01:42:01,458 if this lot were seals or whaIes, you'd be up in bloody arms. 956 01:42:01,625 --> 01:42:05,625 But they're not. They'rejust ordinary, common or garden... 957 01:42:05,792 --> 01:42:09,458 honest, decent human beings. And not one of them... 958 01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:12,375 with an ounce of bloody hope Ieft. 959 01:42:15,917 --> 01:42:18,417 They can knock out a bloody good tune. 960 01:42:19,333 --> 01:42:21,542 But what the fuck does that matter? 961 01:42:32,958 --> 01:42:35,958 Now I'm going to take my boys out onto the town. 962 01:42:37,292 --> 01:42:38,542 Thank you. 963 01:43:22,083 --> 01:43:24,750 -Are you coming back, Sand? -I dunno. 964 01:43:25,917 --> 01:43:27,708 l've got a chair now. 965 01:43:28,625 --> 01:43:31,125 l've no frigging house, but l've got a chair. 966 01:43:31,667 --> 01:43:34,125 Well, sort of a chair. 967 01:43:34,417 --> 01:43:36,458 lt aIl sounds very tempting. 968 01:43:40,542 --> 01:43:41,667 AlI right? 969 01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:44,542 ls that a thankyou? 970 01:43:45,250 --> 01:43:46,875 More than that. 971 01:43:47,042 --> 01:43:49,208 l've never known him gush Iike that before. 972 01:43:49,375 --> 01:43:53,542 Aye, weII I suppose that's what Yorkshiremen are famous for. 973 01:43:54,125 --> 01:43:56,250 Not showing their feeIings. 974 01:43:57,417 --> 01:43:58,458 Aye. 975 01:44:06,750 --> 01:44:09,000 l'm not going to show mine, either. 976 01:44:17,042 --> 01:44:19,000 All right then, lads and Iassies. 977 01:44:19,417 --> 01:44:22,083 Land of Hope and bloody Glory, eh?