This Town: TRAILER – BBC
You walk away from every day nothing much to make you stay then bloody hell you hear a bell ring across the wishing well and this is the dawn of the age of love tante genie what are you doing here you’re a good kid D you don’t have a lot
Of experience about anything D are you also a virgin I don’t know how can you not know well I’d have to take into consideration previous lives would this boy come from Oh no you’re just a really weird kid but you look like somebody who could be somebody you want to be a poet
A poet what family we are right B’s father is trying to call him into the organization have the go some this is some life we live in these rough places is are you are a handsome boy even after a beating if you don’t get away you just become what everybody
Already think are I’ve got to do something to stop myself thinking nothing is worth doing Dante I’ve got lots of Tunes in my head I could do the tunes and you could do the words what you say bang goes the gong all along I’ve been wrong how could I have been so
Thick words need music trust me my cousin can sing like a bird your pretty face is good enough for the IRA it’s good enough for top of the pops this will become a Cathedral of live music and merchandise my brother has decided he wants to be a
Rock star he thinks sex and drugs will make him a better Songwriter I’m not asking you to spy on your own family sge I’m ordering you you have to sing what you do you have to sing your life there’s going to be another another we band there’s a bomb cry train station I want you all to know
That I no longer just want this band to work I need it to work I have no idea how this is going to go either we’re going to fly or we’re going to crash and burn so give me your time and I’ll give you mine and we can make
Everything shine because you make me see and you make me feel and you make all these beautiful things real I hope we’re not no we won’t be we’ll take over the old World
Music to your ears! 🎶 🎬
New drama This Town, from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, tells the story of an extended family fighting to choose their own paths amidst an iconic music scene in 80s Coventry and Birmingham.
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35 comments
From Birmingham came the biggest selling reggae band of all time also one of the biggest heavy metal acts
UB40
Ozzy Osbourne
Twenty minutes down the road half of Led Zeppelin Robert plant and John Bonham.
Where and when can we watch in the US?
IM JUST GLAD ITS NOT ABOUT GANGS
filmed mainly around druids heath and maypole come on 🙂
Its good to see Coventry represented because thats where it started…2 tone
2 tone did not have a brummie accent it’s from Coventry
Some of scenes are filmed in Wolverhampton.. this story could have been based on some real life rude boys, who were active in that period.. it’s a must watch for me …
They filmed parts of this in Stoke-on-Trent
I was 12 in 1981 born 4 miles from Birmingham city centre, sorry after the first episode I’ve found it to depressing, obviously filming early morning or early evening for production and continuity purpose, couldn’t they afford extras never new brum was so under populated
Looks ok, nothing will surpass Peaky for me.
I'll watch it for the music.
I'm an 80's gal 🎉🥳🍾🎈👯huge 'Specials' and 'Madness' fan.
Right so they're redoing 'Peaky' with a black Tommy. That's fine but it's a bit cliched.
Watchin this now, bein from Wolverhampton but lived in Brum the last 5 years on an off…..applause to the creativity! Oh, and not Wolverhampton but Walsall…..(Same thing) 😂
The stench of millenial writing on this. Just yuck.
It's a good job BBC keep plugging Steven Knight's name or I wouldn't have given this a second glance.
He looks like a young Muhammad Ali
The main lad Dante is a dead ringer for Muhammad Ali
Not sure what these accents are supposed to be? Two episodes in and a mic has not been picked up yet. Also there are too many goofs. E.g. episode 2 11:45 in. The Rotunda building was an office block in 1981 not an apartment block as you can clearly see. Plus it was topped with a coca cola sign and a digital clock. Also maybe I'm missuing the point but this drama is supposed to depict the start of two tone. Two tone was already up and running for many years by 1981 and started in '79.
This show is atrocious! 😂
None of the cast are from Birmingham, closest is from Halesowen.
The Show! It is terrible… Steven Knight has been taken over by the BBC Woke mind virus and his last few efforts have every indication that he can now only create by committee, with tick box casting and character points! My Evidence is he could have done a series on Black Sabbath and the birth of heavy metal in 1969 in Birmingham that changed the face of music, but he said he wasn’t interested! Or the rise of New Romantics that was independent of London that spawned Duran Duran in 1979, the band that shut down a street in New York when they arrived there for the very first time! Only The Beatles, Sinatra and Elvis had done that! But because of Diversity quoters and the bands being White, those important stories will never be produced today under the banner of the BBC! Or the British Arts Council!
Also Ska is a Jamaican Music that was recreated in Coventry, not Birmingham! Only the band The Beat from Birmingham could be considered Ska! UB40 would have a better choice, but they played Reggae!
Yet again, DEI has ruined another program from its very inception!!!
The actor looks like muhammad ali
Sorry but it was crap
Steven Knight has excelled again! I binge watched the series yesterday on BBC IPlayer. My favourite episode is 6, as I play the Bouncer on the Soho club at the start 😉
Poor typical left wing nonsense. Also chemsley wood has never been birmingham!!!
that bit at the start is in Wolverhampton, not Birmingham 😀
1981 villa won the league not a mention from this villa hate blue nose
Why did I think this was about Thin Lizzy😢
if it was set in '79 or 80, it might be historically more correct but by 1981 the two tone label had moved on from 'ska' music. the specials werent making 'ska' music by then either. pretty poor brummie accents from many of the actors, a steven knight trademark. seemed like a kids tv drama but with violence. no doubt i will be flamed for making these comments. p.s. i was 17 in 1979, living in the midlands so i have first hand experience!
A must-see, nothing like PEAKY BLINDERS yet just as mesmerising. Six episodes you will not notice the time, engaging plot brilliantly acted by a lesser-known Cast and may draw you to the M6 back and forth from Birmingham to Coventry x!
BBC, HOW do you NOT include the YEAR in the title?!!?!!?
It's just NORMAL convention ffs! You're a 14.1M sub channel and a BIG organisation! Be professional! It's, "This Town" (2024) – yes, with the "'s too! It's the TITLE OF A SHOW!
KRO💙⚽️💙
Born and Lived in West Bromwich During those times stone throw from WBA football club and Handworth. My hubby mother lived in Lozells Road good old days. Not great times these. Good programme thou
I am everything this film is about and truthfully they have a lot wrong
Irish blues fan and born in the early 70s
It does bring back, happy memories though
Please releae3 this in the states
Dross from Knight the beeb luvvie! I saw the Coventry Automatics at the General Wolfe in Coventry & weeks later they were The Specials supporting The Clash in London.