Following a sold-out tour across the UK earlier this year, Fisherman's Friends have today announced a brand-new major headline tour for 2024 including a show at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall in London. Tickets for all dates go are on sale Friday 2nd June here.
Fisherman’s Friend have nine albums to their name, two feature films, a stage musical, a book, a TV documentary, they’ve played for royalty and to tens of thousands of fans in sell-out tours year in year out… No, it’s not The Beatles, Take That or One Direction – it’s The Fisherman’s Friends!
A decade ago, The Fisherman’s Friends signed a 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.
And thanks to the small film with a big heart that shares their name, the story of the original Cornish ‘buoy band’ is known around the world – bound by shared experience, for more than 30 years they have gathered on the Platt on the harbour in their native Port Isaac to sing the songs of the sea, songs that in some cases have been handed down for hundreds of years, songs that connect them to generations of Cornish fishermen that have come before them.
The film’s sequel Fisherman’s Friends 2 was released last year. The story follows the group from the highs of starring on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, through the lows of struggling to make a follow-up album. Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical broke all box office records selling over 250,000 tickets in the UK and Canada.
The Fisherman’s Friends are lobster fisherman Jeremy Brown, writer and shopkeeper Jon Cleave, smallholder and engineer John ‘Lefty’ Lethbridge, builder John McDonnell , lobster fisherman Jason Nicholas, filmmaker Toby Lobb and potter Bill Hawkins.
Fisherman’s Friends brand new tour follows a series of festival appearances this summer including a sixth appearance at Glastonbury. For more information go to https://thefishermansfriends.com/tickets.
FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS ROCK THE BOAT UK TOUR:
Sat 20 Jan 2024 Basingstoke The Anvil
Sun 21 Jan 2024 Torquay Princess Theatre
Fri 09 Feb 2024 Warwick Arts Centre
Sat 10 Feb 2024 Bridlington Spa
Sun 11 Feb 2024 Cheltenham Town Hall
Thu 07 Mar 2024 Leicester De Montfort Hall
Fri 08 Mar 2024 Southend Cliffs Pavilion
Sat 09 Mar 2024 Northampton Derngate
Sun 10 Mar 2024 Canterbury Marlowe Theatre
Thu 04 Apr 2024 Oxford New Theatre
Fri 05 Apr 2024 Cardiff St David's Hall
Sat 06 Apr 2024 Plymouth Pavilions
Thu 09 May 2024 Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Fri 10 May 2024 Grimsby Auditorium
Sat 11 May 2024 Ipswich Regent
Sun 12 May 2024 Poole Lighthouse
Thu 05 Sep 2024 Birmingham Symphony Hall
Fri 06 Sep 2024 Gateshead Sage
Sat 07 Sep 2024 Manchester Bridgewater Hall
Sun 08 Sep 2024 Bristol Beacon
Sat 05 Oct 2024 Truro Hall for Cornwall
Mon 07 Oct 2024 Brighton Dome
Tue 08 Oct 2024 London Royal Albert Hall
Thu 07 Nov 2024 Cambridge Corn Exchange
Fri 08 Nov 2024 York Barbican
Sat 09 Nov 2024 Edinburgh Queens Hall