Like Father

Joylessly earnest companion piece to BRASSED OFF & BILLY ELLIOT, working through three generations.

The pits have been closed for ten years and the tuba playing coal miner lead, has spent his retrenchment package. His son has won't go to band practice and dad abuses him for not keeping up. Meanwhile his own tape mended-glasses-father is being told his son's a scab for working on a not unimpressive orchestral piece for a one time neighbour,about to clear the land that the locals have been using for their pigeon coops for fifty years - canaries bred from the last ones to go down the pit.

The murky, contrasty colour alternates with desaturated flashbacks to gramps piano evenings ("What, me dad singing?") and domestic tyranny, in the days the head of the house would come home covered with coal dust.