To celebrate 30 years of performances, Fisherman’s Friends have announced a brand-new tour for 2025!
They have ten albums to their name, two feature films, a stage musical, a book, a TV documentary and are loved the world over.
FISHERMAN'S FRIENDS TOUR
2025 UK DATES & TICKETS
Official Website: https://thefishermansfriends.com
In celebration of performing together for over 30 years on stages across the world, Fisherman’s Friends are going 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 across the UK’s most prestigious venues.
Over the last year the Fisherman’s Friends have reached over 100,000 followers on Facebook. They have two feature films to their name, grossing more than £15 million at the UK box office, both of which are now featured on terrestrial and digital television.
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 from The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations to Hyde Park Proms in the Park, the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury and 80,000 rugby fans at Twickenham…and even a performance on Strictly Come Dancing.
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.
FISHERMAN'S FRIENDS - How It All Began...
The group of old friends first came together in a sitting room in Port Isaac late in 1990. The men who turned up that night, mostly in their early thirties or thereabouts, were all involved in singing in various local choirs and at folk events, pilot gig racing regattas and the like.
The common thread was that they were all from the same tiny Cornish fishing village of Port Isaac, and all enjoyed singing songs from the ‘Cornish songbook’, songs like Little Lize, Going Up Camborne Hill, Lamorna and of course their national anthem, Trelawney, and they wanted to be able to sing the songs right through, not just conking out after the first verse and a chorus!
Five years later, whilst minding their own business singing on the Platt at Port Isaac, they were rudely interrupted and discovered, and as they say, the rest is history.
WHO ARE THE FISHERMAN'S FRIENDS BAND MEMBERS?
The Fisherman's Friends are lobster fisherman Jeremy Brown, author and 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, filmmaker 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 somebodies living room – fishermen and their friends.
Watch a performance from the FISHERMAN'S FRIENDS
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