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Posted By: mark gregory
01-Dec-09 - 06:40 AM
Thread Name: Songs from the 84-85 miners strike
Subject: RE: Songs from the 84-85 miners strike
a book of poems collected at the time is

AGAINST ALL THE ODDS Poetry from Miners Strike of 1984 ed Maurice Jones

recordings start with

Here We Go! (1985)
Archive recordings of songs from the miners' strike, this miners' support tape contains material from the disputes. Here We Go! combines traditional protest songs with music by Banner written specifically for the events of the strike. The song Self-Inflicted Injury describes the police brutality suffered by the picketing miners, and their struggle to stop the scabs crossing picket lines.

then

Saltley Gate (1993)
This recording, in support of the NUM campaign against pit closures, is a condensed version of music from Banner's 1975 production. The song We are the Engineers is a celebration of the leading role that engineers and their union have played in Labour Movement history for over a hundred years. It is also a tribute to the unity and organisation that ultimately closed the gates at Saltley to signal victory for the miners in their 1972 strike.

and

Burning Issues (2009) The Miners' Strike – 25 Years On
12 March 2009 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the start of the Miners' Strike of 1984/5. To mark the occasion, Banner Theatre has produced a DVD of Burning Issues, the video ballad production it created for the strike's 20th anniversary in 2004, made with members of Britain's mining communities and which toured coalfield and former coalfield communities and elsewhere throughout England and Wales in 2004/5.

all from Banner Theatre at

http://www.bannertheatre.co.uk/music.htm