The Pitmen Poets
2024-06-11
Theatre By The Lake
Lakeside Keswick
Cumbria UK
Soundboard Recording
Artwork Included
Quality A
Time:116 Minutes



Lineage Trade>HD>Dime


Fixed SBE's with Trader's Little Helper


Billy Mitchell
Bob Fox
Jez Lowe
Benny Graham



First Set
1.Black Diamonds
2.Dark As A Dungeon
3.Schooldays Over
4.Shiftin'To The Toon
5.The Pitmen Poets
6.Stanley Market
7.South Medomsley Strike
8.The Devil's Ground
9.Barry And The Anthracites


Second Set
1.If They Come For You In The Morning
2.When The Boat Comes In
3.The Collier Laddie’s Wife
4.Nell
5.The Judas Bus
6.These Coal Town Days
7.Sheel Raw Flood / Off to California
8.Miner's Lifeguard
9.Long Walk Home



Four champions of the North East's musical heritage celebrate the songs,
triumphs, tragedy, humour and hard times of its coal mining tradition.
Together on stage, Billy Mitchell, Bob Fox, Benny Graham and Jez Lowe perform with a rare power and presence.
Songs, stories and images from North East writers past and present are performed by this first class team
(From The Pitmen Poets website)

Thomas Armstrong (1848–1920), known as Tommy Armstrong, was an English poet,
singer-songwriter and entertainer dubbed "The Pitman Poet" and "The Bard of the Northern Coalfield".
Writing largely in the Geordie and Pitmatic dialects, he was renowned for his ability to chronicle the lives of the mining communities
in and around Stanley in north-east Durham and to commemorate mining disasters (From Wkipedia)
Tommy has a Facebook page, not sure what he would have made of that. Still, roll with the times.

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