Coordinates: 53°02′13″N 1°18′46″W / 53.0369°N 1.3128°W / 53.0369; -01.3128

Brinsley is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. The church of St James was built in 1837-38 from Mansfield stone, the chancel being added in 1877.. The village is split into two sections, Old Brinsley which is within Broxtowe and New Brinsley which is in Ashfield.

Brinsley elected Sadie Graham, a British National Party candidate in the 2007 Broxtowe council elections. However, she sat as an independent until she was dismissed for failing to attend meetings.

Brinsley used to be a major mining town. The only remainder of this heritage are the headstocks. They are not only of significance for the area but are also the only headstocks left of this kind. After the final closure of Brinsley Pit they had been moved to a museum but have recently been restored and brought back to near their original place. The Friends of Brinsley Headstocks have worked on turning the area into a nature reserve. There are several farms in the area that have gone organic. The countryside is often explored by leisure walkers with walks organised by D.H. Lawrence Heritage.

Brinsley Schwarz were a 1970s English pub rock band, named after their guitarist Brinsley Schwarz. With Nick Lowe on bass and vocals, keyboardist Bob Andrews and drummer Billy Rankin, the band evolved from the 1960s pop band Kippington Lodge.

Nick Lowe (bass, guitars, vocals) and Brinsley Schwarz (guitar, piano, vocals) originally met at Woodbridge School where they played in school bands with Barry Landerman (keyboards, vocals) and Phil Hall (guitar). In 1964, whilst still at school, they toured RAF bases in Germany as "Sounds 4+1". On leaving school, Schwarz formed "Three's A Crowd" with Pete Whale (drums) and Dave Cottam (bass). Landerman joined in 1967 and they renamed themselves "Kippington Lodge". Their first two singles, produced by Mark Wirtz, in a close-harmony pop style, both flopped. Cottam left, and Schwarz invited Lowe to join. Landerman then left to join Vanity Fare, Bob Andrews joined on keyboards, and finally, Whale was replaced by Billy Rankin on drums. Although the next three singles also failed, they had a residency as support band at The Marquee. The band's style was changing from pop into "a folk-rock band with psychedelic pretentions". In 1969 they renamed the band after their guitarist, and performed their new music under this name, whilst continuing to play pop as Kippington Lodge. One of the band's first agents was John Schofield, at the time the lover of Hattie Jacques (who would occasionally make bacon sandwiches for the band members when the visited Schofield's home). In the early part of their career the band shared a communal home in a large old house in Beaconsfield. The premises were used as a rehearsal space by The Band, who came to the UK as part of the Warner Brothers tour, where they borrowed the band's instruments.

Brinsley Allan Forde (born 16 October 1953, London) is best known as a founding 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 Blue, a disenfranchised youth who becomes a deejay on a South London reggae soundsystem.^{[citation needed]}

Forde presented VH1 Soul Vibrations, BBC's Ebony & Ebony on the road, and was one of the radio presenters to open the BBC's first digital station6 Music with his radio show, Lively Up Yourself and Dub Bashment. Forde can be heard presenting the radio documentaries Behind The Smile: the real life of Bob Marley & Island Rock to mark the 40th anniversary of Jamaican independence.

A two-time Grammy Award nominee, Forde scored a British number one chart hit with "Don't Turn Around" in 1988. Followed by another top 20 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 "On and On", "Next to You" & "Shine".^{[citation needed]}

David "Dread" Hinds (born 15 June 1956,Handsworth, Birmingham, England) is the English rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist for the Grammy Award winning reggae band, Steel Pulse.

Hinds attended Grove Lane Junior School and Handsworth Wood Boys secondary school; Hinds was influenced by the upcoming Rastafarian movement in the seventies from living in Handsworth which has a populated majority of Afro-Caribbean and Indian residents, they moved to an awareness of culture and roots

Graham Parker (born 15 November 1950, London, England) is a British rock singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the popular British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Parker sang in small-time English bands such as the Black Rockers and Deep Cut Three while working in dead-end jobs like a glove factory and a petrol station. In 1975, he recorded a few demo tracks in London with Dave Robinson, who would shortly found Stiff Records and who connected Parker with his first backing band of note, The Rumour. Parker had one track, "Back to Schooldays", released on the compilation album, A Bunch of Stiff Records for Stiff Records.

In the summer of 1975, Parker joined forces with ex-members of three British pub-rock bands to form Graham Parker and the Rumour. The new group consisted of Parker (lead vocals, guitar) with Brinsley Schwarz (lead guitar) and Bob Andrews (keyboards) (both ex Brinsley Schwarz), Martin Belmont (rhythm guitar, ex Ducks Deluxe) and Andrew Bodnar (bass) and Steve Goulding (drums). They began in the British pub rock scene, often augmented at times by a four-man horn section known as The Rumour Horns: John "Irish" Earle (saxophone), Chris Gower (trombone), Dick Hanson (trumpet), and Ray Beavis (saxophone).