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​Fisherman’s Friends
Cliffs Pavilion, Southend on Sea
5th March 2019
​The film about their incredible story has taken the box office by storm, already grossing $10 million in the UK alone. An outstanding achievement for a British independent film.
 
.‘Fisherman’s Friends’ is a small film with a big heart. The movie tells the remarkable story of The Fisherman’s Friends, the original ‘buoy band’ bound together by lifelong friendship and shared experience, who for 40 years have met on the harbour wall of their home fishing village on the north coast of Cornwall to sing the songs of the sea. It stars Daniel Mays, James Purefoy, Tuppence Middleton and Noel Clarke with cameo appearances from the group whose voices also appear on the soundtrack.
 
A decade ago they were persuaded to sign the million-pound record deal that saw their album Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends go Gold as they became the first ever traditional folk act to land a UK top ten album. Since then they have released four more best selling albums of shanties, sang at HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, played Glastonbury festival and been honoured with theGood Tradition Award at the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
 
What’s more, in an incredible twist of fate, Pete Hicks who appears in the on-screen Fisherman’s Friends has now joined the actual line up and will be out on tour with the boys this autumn.
 
“Singing live is what we’re all about, it’s why we started the group in the first place,” says MC and bass man Jon Cleave, instantly recognisable from his extravagant moustaches.
 
“The film has been a wonderful and is something we can all be very proud of, but we’re itching to get back on the road, renew some old friendships and make lots of new ones as well.”
 
Released alongside the Fisherman’s Friends film, the group’s latest album Keep Hauling album features 17 sea shanties – some old, some new and some slighty blue.
 
Cornwall’s best-known musical export, the Fisherman’s Friends have also been the subject of an ITV documentary, released the hit albums One and All (2013), Proper Job (2015) and Sole Mates (2018) and every year play to tens of thousands of fans at home and abroad.
 
The Fisherman’s Friends are: fisher brothers John and Jeremy Brown; writer/shopkeeper Jon Cleave; smallholder and engineer John ‘Lefty’ Lethbridge; builder John McDonnell (a Yorkshireman who visited Port Isaac more than 30 years ago and never left); Padstow fisherman Jason Nicholas; film maker Toby Lobb and the new boy, former ambulance driver Pete Hicks.
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LIVE DATES 2019
 
MAY
Tuesday 14th                        Minack Theatre                   Porthcurno
Wednesday 15th                 Minack Theatre                   Porthcurno
Sunday  26th                        RHS Rosemoor Gardens   Torrington
Saturday 25th                      Tunes in the Dunes            Perranporth Beach
 
JUNE
Saturday 8th                        Royal Cornwall Show         Whitecross
Saturday 15th                       Sea Shanty Festival            Falmouth
 
JULY
Friday 5th                              Penlee Park                          Penzance
 
AUGUST
Sunday 4th                            Cambridge Folk Festival    Cambridge
Sunday 18th                          Beautiful Days Festival      Escort Park Devon
Friday 23rd                            Towersey Folk Festival      Thame
Saturday 24th                       Carfest                                   Laverstoke Park Farm
 
SEPTEMBER
Saturday 21st                       St Davids Hall                       Cardiff
Tuesday 24th                        Sage Gateshead                  Gateshead
Sunday 22nd                        Looe Festival                        Looe
 
OCTOBER
Sunday 6th                           The Bridgewater Hall         Manchester
Monday 7th                          De La Werr Pavilion           Bexhill
Tuesday 8th                         Bournemouth Pavilion      Bournemouth
Friday 11th                            Barbican Centre                  London
Saturday 12th                       The Great Hall                     University of Exeter
NEW DATES ADDED FOR 2020
 
THU 06 FEB      BRISTOL ST GEORGES HALL
SAT 08 FEB       CHELTENHAM TOWN HALL
SUN 09 FEB       PLYMOUTH THEATRE ROYAL
THU 13 FEB      LANDUDNO VENUE CYMRU THEATRE
FRI 14 FEB        BIRMINGHAM TOWN HALL
SAT 15 FEB       BRIDLINGTON SPA
SUN 23 FEB       YORK BARBICAN
MON 24 FEB     LEICESTER DE MONTFORT HALL

TUE 25 FEB       FOLKESTONE LEAS CLIFF HALL
THU 05 MAR    SOUTHEND CLIFFS PAVILION
FRI 06 MAR      SALISBURY CITY HALL

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