During the 1984-5 Miners' Strike, Keith Pattison documented the events at Easington Colliery from the start of the battle to the end, in some cases having to smuggle film out of the area while the action was happening all around him.
He became the miners' official photographer and his in-depth pictures have now been put on film with ten accompanying songs from Brenda Heslop and her band Ribbon Road, inspired by the photos and recent visits to the old pit.
When the event, No Redemption Songs, was showcased at the Edinburgh Fringe last year it sold out, and now it's coming to Salford's Working Class Movement Library this Thursday, a week after the IPCC refused to hold an inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave. It should be a poignant reminder of the brutality of the State...
No Redemption Songs
Thursday 18th June 7pm
Working Class Movement Library
The Crescent M5 4WX
£10 on the door
For further details phone 0161 736 3601
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