Fisherman’s Friends will keep hauling in the fans at Sheffield show

Britain’s oldest boy band Fisherman’s Friends, with a combined age of 401, will tour their sea shanties to Sheffield in 2021.
Fishermen's Friends. Photo by Chris Hewitt.Fishermen's Friends. Photo by Chris Hewitt.
Fishermen's Friends. Photo by Chris Hewitt.

They will sing at the City Hall on Sptember 12 and tickets are now on sale.

The group started singing in the harbour at Port Isaac, Cornwall, 40 years ago and their fortunes were transformed a decade ago when they signed a million pound record deal. Their subsequent album Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends go Gold made the Fisherman’s Friends the first ever traditional folk act to land a UK top ten album.

A small film with a big heart, entitled Fisherman’s Friends, spread the group’s success story around the world, taking ten million dollars at the box office and seeing the boys perform at the 2019 Cannes film festival as well as sell out another UK tour.

Next year filming begins on Fisherman’s Friends 2 as the boys return to the studio to record a new album, the follow-up to the hit soundtrack album Keep Hauling that is well on its way to gold sales.

Fisherman’s Friends comprise lobster fisherman 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.

Tickets cost £29.15 to see the group’s concert at Sheffield City Hall on September 12, 2021. Go to www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk

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