In celebration of performing together for over 30 years on stages across the world, Fisherman’s Friends head out on tour. Having sold out every venue on their last tour, including the Royal Albert Hall, the band look forward to performing old songs and new.
Fisherman’s Friends have a huge social media following and two hit feature films to their name, not to mention top ten album releases, a musical inspired by their story, a BBC Folk Award, a best-selling book, TV documentary and prestigious performances at The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, Hyde Park Proms in the Park, the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury... and even on Strictly Come Dancing. In January, they released their fifth album All Aboard and this summer, their song ‘Brave Volunteers’ (a collaboration with Seth Lakeman) was playlisted at Radio 2.
All the above and more has been achieved while holding down their day jobs. The Fisherman's Friends are lobster fisherman Jeremy Brown, author/shopkeeper Jon Cleave, smallholder/engineer John ‘Lefty’ Lethbridge, builder John McDonnell, fisherman Jason Nicholas, film maker Toby Lobb, electrician Simon Biddick and two very talented musicians Marcus Bonfanti and Simon Johnson. Through rough seas and calm, the band have remained exactly what they always were when they first got together to learn a few sea shanties in somebody’s living room – fishermen and their friends.