The Fisherman's Friends, Cornwall's self-dubbed "buoy band", are due to make a musical stop off in Oxford in late September.
This group of folk singers, made famous by a small film, first met 40 years ago at the harbour on the Platt to sing sea shanties. It is now a decade since the record deal that led to "Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends" going gold, making them the first traditional folk group ever to achieve a Top 10 hit UK album.
They consist of real fishermen Jeremy Brown and Jason Nicholas, along with John McDonnell, Toby Lobb, John Cleave and John "Lefty' Lethbridge. Latest member Pete Hicks was previously an ambulance driver.
The Friends performed at both the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and Glastonbury, toured around the world, and won a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award. ITV made a documentary about them and several further successful albums, including 2018's "Sole Mates", followed.
This year, during lockdown, the lads entertained people on YouTube in a series entitled "Mares Tales & Mackerel Scales", but also delivered sell-out gigs at Cornwall’s Minack Theatre and performances at film screenings in Watergate Bay.
Tickets cost £26.50 and are available directly from the venue. Brochure printing is a useful way of branding a musical event and provides a memento of the occasion.
The Fisherman's Friends concert has a starting time of 7:00 pm on Saturday, September 25 at The New Theatre, Oxford.
