Apologies for the SNAFU beautiful patrons! Here is this week's episode with sub-optimized show notes (Emily always writes the shownotes, but she had her own version of Planes, Trains & Automobiles getting home from our NYC adventure). AND Somehow when I did this on Wednesday, it didn't take. Thanks to the eagle-eyed patron who let me know only the Sh*t We Forgot to Say was available for this movie! ~Tracie
The truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks. Not compared to how people matter.
Tracie goes back in time to her semester in London in 1997 by revisiting the British film Brassed Off. This “emphatically empathetic” film crystallized the importance of collective bargaining, worker solidarity and mutual aid for a not-quite 21-year-old Tracie. With today’s eyes, both the film and the politics of 1980s-1990s Great Britain it depicts are more complicated than they seemed 30 years ago. Nevertheless, there are some beautiful storytelling–and musical–beats in this real-life story of a coal mine and the brass band associated with it. North American audiences may never have realized this, if they only went by the marketing copy that inaccurately described the film as a “delightfully entertaining comedy treat.”
Remember, band’s on Tuesdays. Tonight’s origami class, so throw on your headphones and take a listen.
We are Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.
We both have super-serious personas in our "day jobs." No, really. Emily is a Finance writer who used to be a classroom teacher. Tracie writes and consults on social justice and mindfulness and works as a copywriter and project manager for non-profits. If you really need to see the bona fides, please visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com
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