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Peaky Blinders

The Gangs of Birmingham: From the Sloggers to the Peaky Blinders - Philip Gooderson

 



The TV series

Birmingham 1919
Theme tune is by Nick Cave


Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby
Sam Neill as C.I. Chester Campbell
Helen McCrory as Aunt Polly Gray
Paul Anderson as Arthur Shelby Jnr
Iddo Goldberg as Freddie Thorne (series 1 only)
Annabelle Wallis as Grace Burgess
Sophie Rundle as Ada Shelby
Joe Cole as John Shelby
Ned Dennehy as Charlie Strong
David Dawson as Roberts (series 1 only)
Andy Nyman as Winston Churchill (series 1 only)
Richard McCabe as Winston Churchill (series 2 only)
Charlie Creed-Miles as Billy Kimber (series 1 only)

Cracking storyline, love the period, the setting, the music. Violent but not more than one would expect from gang warfare.



PLAYLIST:

Episode 1

‘Zandstra’ by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
‘Martha’s Dream’ by Nick Cave
‘Red Right Hand’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
‘I think I smelled a Rat’ by The White Stripes
‘St James Infirmary Blues’ by The White Stripes
‘Queenie’s Suite ‘ by Nick Cave
‘Song for Jesse ‘ by Nick Cave

Episode 2

‘Red Right Hand’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
‘Tough Call’ by The Samphire Band
‘Blue Veins’ by The Raconteurs
‘The Hardest Button to Button’ by The White Stripes
‘Proposition #1′ by Nick Cave
‘Black Math ‘ by The White Stripes
‘Vedi la Ma Guite Lo Stendo A Tel ‘ by Giacomo Puccini
‘Lo Tenni La Promesca’ by Giacomo Puccini
‘Brother My Cup is Empty’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
‘Little Room’ by The White Stripes

Episode 3

‘Red Right Hand’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
‘When I hear my name’ by The White Stripes
‘Abattoir Blues’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
‘St James Infirmary Blues’ by The White Stripes

Episode 4

‘Red Right Hand’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
‘I fought Piranhas’ by The White Stripes
‘Clap Hands’ by Tom Waits
‘Broken Boy Soldier’ by The Raconteurs
‘Martha’s dream’ by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Episode 5

‘Red Right Hand’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
‘Ball & Biscuit’ by The White Stripes
‘Little Cream Soda’ by The White Stripes
‘God is in the House’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
‘Time’ by Tom Waits
‘Bring it on’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Episode 6

‘Red Right Hand’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
‘The Prowl’ by Dan Auerbach
‘Love is Blindness’ by Jack White German