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That the 1984/85 miners strike ended. On Tuesday BBC Radio 2 broadcast a 1 hour show about the miners strike. The Show features music from the likes of Redskins, Billy Bragg, Paul Weller as well as some folk songs. If anyone would like to listen to this show then click on the link below -




Does anyone know if there has ever been a compilation of the songs released during the strike?

BRASSED OFF - THE MINERS' STRIKE AND BEYOND
Tuesday 28 February
20:30-21:30

The miners' strike of 1984-85 ended in failure for the miners almost exactly 12 months after it had begun. In this programme Kirsty Young marks the 21st anniversary of the end of the longest and one of the most bitter industrial disputes in British history.

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Genre Music is the Enemy

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If Ian Curtis had lived, and enjoyed the ale…

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Pukka Pie pest

Embrace the margin
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I also found some info on another album -



HERE WE GO LP (1985)
A celebration of the UK Coal Miners' Strike 1984-1985
1. The Larks "Maggy"
2. Fallout "Trojan Horse"
3. Assassins "Genocide"
4. Band of Holy Joy "Disgust"
5. Bourbonese Qualk "Blackout"
6. Many Happy Returns "Sing"
7. Nocturnal Emissions "Bring Power to Its Knees"
8. Language "Bite The Hand that Fails to Feed you"
9. Max Closure and the Graves "Picket the Safety Way"
10. The Hafler Trio "Strata Definition Test 10""
11. Lustmord "Terror Against Terror"
12. Annie Anxiety and the Asexuals "The Gates of Freedom"

AYERS: "This was a fund raising benefit album for striking miners and their families. One of the last great battles against Thatcherism. I had a big list of famous groups who said they'd donate a track to this album, and in the end didn't. But, ho ho ho, some of the tracks on this record are very famous artists whose names still cannot be revealed for contractual reasons.

"Maggy is a pub rock song about the woman herself. Fallout's Trojan Horse is in fact a spiritualist's recording of a band-from-beyond-the-grave made up of Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Keith Moon and Nico. They are performing a cover version of Tie a Yellow Ribbon. The Assassins are in fact the Assassins of Hope, which is a village in Derbyshire. The Band of Holy Joy perform a final track from their early electronic period. Many Happy Returns' vocalist is Larry Peterson, who I last saw many years ago being strangled by his guitarist in the Old White Horse on Brixton Road. Nocturnal Emissions present a special pneumoconiosis version of Bring Power To Its Knees - it's a big hit at the Miners' Welfare. Language is a Walford Buchanon track. Max Closure and the Graves is another secret supergroup with a singer called Dave. I think that might be my vocal talents on both the Qualk and the Lustmord tracks. Annie Anxiety calls herself Little Annie these days to avoid confusion with Anne Xiety, a stand-up act.

"The record ended up being distributed partly through orthodox record shops and partly through a chain of wholefood shops."

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Worth remembering 'Strike' by The Enemy Within (Adrian Sherwood and Keith Leblanc) using the voice of Arthur Scargill. Adolf Thatchler called the miners TEW, I think.