Live@thelibrary - One Big Blow

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Live@thelibrary: One Big Blow

Oldham Library, Greaves Street, OL1 1AL, Oldham.

Tuesday 26 April 2022  7pm £5 

Following an aborted 2020 tour due to Coronavirus, the One Big Blow boys are finally coming to Oldham. 

This influential play was written 15 years before ‘Brassed Off!’ and tells of a colliery brass band going to the Mineworkers Championship in Blackpool. This colourful, emotive and witty production features 6 actors but no instruments, with all the songs and band pieces being performed acapella.

The band, all miners, discover that Wally, their star cornet player can no longer play because he has pneumoconiosis. After trying to persuade him to get out of his sick bed to no avail, they are forced to employ the services of the mad Welshman, Psycho.

Written in 1981 by playwright John Burrows, with original music by Rick Lloyd, a former member of the ‘Flying Pickets’ pop group, the play is a strong indictment of the lack of culpability shown by the then National Coal Board towards health problems suffered by miners, such as emphysema and pneumoconiosis. This colourful, emotive and witty production features 6 actors but no instruments, all the songs and band pieces being performed a capella.

Don't miss this triumphant return!

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