THE Grimethorpe Colliery Band is preparing for an afternoon concert in Basingstoke. The concert will take place at The Anvil on Sunday, September 29, with the band performing at 3pm.

The real stars of the hit movie Brassed Off, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band are in constant demand throughout the world for concert appearances. Having been crowned as the National Brass Band Champions ...

Grimethorpe Colliery Band – made famous in the film and the name of the former pit village where much of the filming took place 30 years ago – will headline the Brassed On!

Formed in 1917, during the First World War, Grimethorpe Colliery Band is a British institution. National and British Open Champions on numerous occasions, the b ...

They sound as loud and confident as the day their mine shut, but 15 years on, the changes are plain - only two members of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band have ever been down a shaft to dig out coal.