THE Fisherman’s Friends are back with a new UK tour with a full catch of new material and some old favourites as well.

The group’s tour comes to City Hall on Friday, January 27, 7.30pm.

The Fisherman’s Friends are brothers John and Jeremy Brown, writer, shopkeeper, bass man and moustachioed MC Jon Cleave, potter Billy Hawkins, smallholder and engineer John ‘Lefty’ Lethbridge, builder John McDonnell (a Yorkshireman who visited Port Isaac more than 30 years ago and never left), fisherman Jason Nicholas and film maker Toby Lobb.

They said: “We are really looking forward to getting into the fish van again and playing for old friends and making some new ones around the country.

"We are not very rock n roll, more born to be mild than wild, but we love performing anywhere we can and carrying a little bit of Cornwall with us.”

Bound together by lifelong friendship and shared experience for more than 20 years the Fisherman’s Friends have met on the Platt in their native Port Isaac on Cornwall’s rugged north coast to raise money for charity by singing the traditional songs of the sea handed down to them by their forefathers.

In 2010 they signed a major record deal and their album Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends went Gold as they became the first traditional folk act to land a UK top ten album. Since then they’ve been the subject of an ITV documentary, released the hit albums One and All and Proper Job and played to tens of thousands of fans at home and abroad.

For tickets call the box office on 01722 434434 or go to cityhallsalisbury.co.uk.