March 10, 2012 by alunparry

Media Coverage For Dirty Thirty Single

I will be on BBC Radio Leicester on Monday morning at 7.50am to discuss the release of my new single The Dirty Thirty.

The release will also be covered in the Leicester Mercury, the city’s local newspaper.

The single The Dirty Thirty is released the same day and tells one of the most enduring stories of the 84/85 Miners’ Strike.

You can listen to the BBC radio interview and the new song live online by tuning in just before 7.50am on Monday at the BBC Radio Leicester website.

The single is released digitally on iTunes and other major distribution networks.

Here are the lyrics below:

Let me tell a story
For I really can’t ignore
The happenings in Leicestershire
In 1984
Two thousand and five hundred
Walked across that picket line
But a tiny band of miners
Would not go into the mine

They were called The Dirty Thirty
So they wore that name with pride
As the only striking miners
They stood against the tide
And if you call them heroes
They would surely disagree
But the dirty thirty and their kin
Are all heroes to me

The railwaymen at Coalville
They backed the miners too
And when a coal train came along
They would not let it through
And the women they were mighty
Maybe mightier than the men
They suffered so much hardship
But they’d do it all again

They were called The Dirty Thirty
So they wore that name with pride
As the only striking miners
They stood against the tide
And if you call them heroes
They would surely disagree
But the dirty thirty and their kin
Are all heroes to me

So here’s to Malcom Pinnegar
Or “Benny” to his friends
Who led the Dirty Thirty
Till the strike came to an end
And here’s to all the other lads
So principled and true
And those who stood beside them
Like a worker’s meant to do

They were called The Dirty Thirty
So they wore that name with pride
As the only striking miners
They stood against the tide
And if you call them heroes
They would surely disagree
But the dirty thirty and their kin
Are all heroes to me