Brassed Off Page #6

-lf pit goes, band goes with it.

-When pit goes.

If.

However balIot goes, they'lI

still cIose the bugger.

Not necessariIy.

It depends on the...

On that review thingy.

Surely?

Trouble with you lot is you've

got no pride.

And you know one thing more than owt

eIse here that symbolises pride?

It's this bIoody band,

that's what. Ask anybody.

l mean, if they cIose down the pit,

knock it down...

fiIl it up, Iike they've done with

all t'bloody rest, no trace.

Years to come, there'lI onIy be one

reminder...

Of hundred bIoody years hard graft:

this bloody band.

Oh, they can shut up the unions,

they can shut up the workers...

but I'll teII you one thing for

nothing, they'II never shut us up.

We'll play on. Loud as ever. Starting

with National Semis in HaIifax.

Win them and we can carry

our heads high and march...

on to the Albert bIoody Hall,

aIl right?

-Are we pIaying or are we packing in?

-Playing.

Sorry.

No, don't you worry, flower.

You've nowt to be ashamed of.

No bugger eIse, then?

Danny, l reckon l speak

for everybody.

We'll play on whiIe pit's open...

-Minute they close it, we pack it in.

-Aye, right.

-You can't ask for more than that.

-Hear hear.

No.

Obviously not.

-Hiya.

-Hiya.

Moving words.

-What?

-Back there. Danny.

Aye, daft old codger. lf it weren't

for band, he'd pop his clogs.

I wondered if you fancied some grub?

-Where?

-Don't know. l'll go posh if you want.

-Andy.

All right, Phil.

-Have you seen me dad?

-Aye he's stiII inside, I think.

-WeII?

-All right.

You all right, Dad?

Thank you for

your support, son.

Oh, Iisten, Phil lad.

I've been thinking, right...

Semi-Final's no place for

Better find yourself

a new bit of brass.

I'm not forking out for a new

trombone just for one performance.

One?

What about the Albert HaII?

Now normaIIy l'd say get summat

cheap, but...

but you're a bloody good trombonist

lad, you need a bloody good trombone.

Dad...

l like the band. I love the band,

we aII do.

But there's other things in Iife,

you know, that's more important.

Not in mine, there isn't .

What's that on your hankie?

Oh, nowt.

Chain come off me bike.

Didn't realise we were going this

posh, I'd have got doIIed up.

You know back there, when Danny said

you'd nowt to be ashamed of?

Is that right, then?

You work for bloody management

don't you?

-Andy, I'm just...

-F***.

l just compiIe surveys, Andy, just do

viability studies, boring, maybe...

-but hardly summat to be ashamed of.

-No?

-Kept very quiet about it.

-Cause I knew you'd get it aII wrong.

-Oh, aye?

-l'm on the same side as you, Andy.

l want Grimley to stay open too, and

once it gets to review...

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