Brassed Up - Blues Band (The)

picking up the brass - eddy nugent - hilarious

Advantages: hilarious - awsome
Disadvantages: hard to put down

My boyfriend whos a serving soldier bought a copy of this book after reading about it in soldier magazine. Having had a brief flick through it, i requested it when he was done. Being a slow reader he bought me my own copy @ £7.99 from waterstones. Not all of them carry it and he did have to pre-order it. the language level is not for the feint hearted, but there are some seriously funny parts that have had me laughing out loud. I am not finished with it yet, but so far it has kept me amused and up reading for some time after i shoud have been fast asleep. Its listed as a fiction book of a 16 year old lad starting out his career in the mid 80's with the army, though i feel its quite possible that much of it i borne from the actual experience of the authors than of pure fiction . Starting out from the very start at entering ...

stezatois1 20.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Picking Up the Brass - Eddie Nugent

Brass bands in grim Grimley

Advantages: A touching, very British story
Disadvantages: Nothing particularly outstanding about it

depressing; there is nothing like the drama of a pit about to close to make a film dismal and disheartening. However, the odd bit of comedy, for example, Phil dressing up as Mr Chuckles the clown, lightens the atmosphere enough to make it bearable. Being primarily a story about a brass band, the film is naturally interspersed with brass band music played by the real Grimley Colliery Band. I'm not a big fan of brass band music, but this added to the Britishness of the film and made me feel proud to be British! This isn't an outstanding film by any stretch of the imagination. However, I enjoyed it and I think that most of my generation and older will like it and probably those younger will too. Recommended. I watched the film only version, but the DVD is available from Amazon at the enormous cost of £20.99 in the new and used section. Ouch ...

sunmeilan 28.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Brassed Off (DVD)

Strike up the Band

Advantages: a great film with great acting
Disadvantages: none

a liking, and I have had a liking for this for quite some time. Brass band music can be so stirring if it is played correctly, and everyone would agree that the mining communities of the north have had a rough deal over the years, to put it mildly. There is one film that I find thoroughly enjoyable and also very moving. It focuses on a dying coalmining community and its home-grown brass band. ?Brassed Off? stars Pete Postlethwaite, Ewan MacGregor, Tara Fitzgerald, Sue Johnstone, Jim Carter and Stephen Tompkinson, as well as a fine supporting cast. Grimley is a small South Yorkshire mining town. Its main employer is the colliery, and that itself is under serious threat of closure. Grimley's other main claim to fame is that it has got a thriving colliery brass band, with its enthusiastic conductor, Danny Ormondroyd. Danny himself is an ex ...

Nolly 03.11.2002 · Read full review
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