Brinsley Forde Honours for services to the arts. Brinsley Forde Brinsley Forde MBE (born 16 October 1953, Islington, North London) is best known as the founder member of the reggae band Aswad and as a child actor in the children's television series "Here Come the Double Deckers" (1970–71). Forde appeared as Herman in two episodes of the sitcom "Please Sir!". He appeared as Wesley in the feature film of the same name in 1971. He appeared in the James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever" and the television programme "The Georgian House". In 1980 he starred in "Babylon" (directed by Franco Rosso), as
Brinsley Forde chart hit, "Give A Little Love". The band continued to feature in the top 20 on the British charts with the album "Distant Thunder", and the tracks "On and On", "Next to You" and "Shine". In September 2009, Forde appeared with Dizzee Rascal performing "We can't tek no more of that" from Dizzee's album "Tongue n' Cheek" on the BBC2 show "Later... with Jools Holland". Forde followed this up with a repeat performance as part of the BBC Electric Proms in October 2009. Forde was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 New Year