Brass (TV series) Thorn Street in Summerseat, Bury. Greater Manchester. The series is available on DVD in the United Kingdom. Brass (TV series) Brass was a British television comedy-drama, made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. "Brass" is northern English slang for "money" as well as for "effrontery". The series was set primarily in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, "Brass" satirized working-class period dramas of the 1970s, most significantly "When the Boat Comes In". Unusually for ITV comedies of the time, "Brass" eschewed a laugh track and utilized a dry sense of humour based in part
The Lancashire Hotpots The Lancashire Hotpots The Lancashire Hotpots are a comedy folk band from St Helens, (historically part of Lancashire), England, formed in 2006. The group record songs about Lancashire, technology and British culture ("e.g." "Chippy Tea", "He's Turned Emo", "eBay Eck"). The group's songs make use of Lancashire dialect. Their first single, "He's Turned Emo", gained over 230,000 plays on MySpace (as of 17 March 2008) and was featured on BBC Radio One by Colin Murray. Their debut album, "Never Mind The Hotpots", was a minor hit, reaching number one comedy album on iTunes in the UK, and number two in