Watch the trailer for BBC Birmingham drama This Town
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00:00 You walk away from every day, nothing much to make you stay.
00:03 Then bloody hell, you hear a bell ring across the wishing well.
00:07 And this...
00:09 is the dawn of the age of love.
00:12 Dante?
00:23 Gina!
00:24 What are you doing here? You're a good kid.
00:26 Dante, you don't have a lot of experience about anything.
00:30 Dante, are you also a virgin?
00:32 I don't know.
00:32 How can you not know?
00:33 Well, I'd have to take into consideration previous lives.
00:36 Hard with this boy I've come from.
00:37 I know you're just a really weird kid, but you're not like somebody who could be somebody.
00:41 Want to be a poet?
00:42 A poet?
00:43 What a family we are, eh?
00:44 Arden's father is trying to call him into the organisation.
00:49 So have a fucking go at something.
00:50 This is some life we live in these rough places, isn't it?
00:53 Ah, you are a handsome boy. Even after a beating.
00:57 If you don't get away, you just become what everybody already thinks you are.
01:00 I've got to do something to stop myself thinking nothing is worth doing.
01:04 Dante, I've got lots of tunes in my head.
01:06 I could do the tunes and you could do the words.
01:09 What do you say?
01:10 Bang goes the gong. All along I've been wrong.
01:13 How could I have been so thick?
01:15 Words need music.
01:17 Trust me, my cousin can sing like a bird.
01:21 Your pretty face is good enough for the IRA. It's good enough for Top of the Pops.
01:24 This will become a cathedral of live music and merchandise.
01:29 My brother has decided he wants to be a rock star.
01:33 He thinks sex and drugs will make him a better songwriter.
01:35 I'm not asking you to spy on your own family, Sergeant.
01:42 I'm ordering you.
01:43 You have to sing what you do. You have to sing your life.
01:46 There's going to be another weed ban.
01:47 There's a bomb at Coventry train station.
01:49 I want you all to know that I no longer just want this band to work.
01:53 I fucking need it to work.
01:55 I have no idea how this is going to go.
01:56 Either we're going to fly or we're going to crash and burn.
01:59 So, give me your time and I'll give you mine.
02:02 And we can make everything shine.
02:04 Because you make me see and you make me feel.
02:07 And you make all these beautiful things real.
02:10 I hope we're not shit.
02:13 No, we won't be shit.
02:15 We'll take over the whole fucking world.
02:16 [Music]
02:21 [Silence]