The Fisherman’s Friends are mourning the loss of their lead singer Jago (David Hayman), Jim’s (James Purefoy) father and husband of Maggie (Maggie Steed). Jim is having a particularly hard time coming to terms with his loss and starts drinking heavily. Maggie, meanwhile, is determined to get their second album released as a tribute to Jago. Island Records is reluctant to record it but Leah (Jade Anouka), the managing director, manages to persuade her boss to give it a go. The Fisherman’s Friends first need to find a replacement for Jago, which they do in Welshman, Morgan Jenkins (Richard Harrington). Jim doesn’t take kindly to Morgan, however, which causes a falling out. Their repertoire includes both shanties and other nautical songs, some of which are fairly lewd. [7] Fisherman's Friends | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 23 March 2019.

A second album with Universal, One and All, was released on 26 August 2013. [13] The single "Mary Anne", taken from the album, was released on 25 June 2013. [14] A stage musical called Fisherman's Friends: The Musical based on the band's true story and the 2019 film made its world premiere at the Hall for Cornwall in Truro in October 2021, written by Amanda Whittington and directed by James Grieve. [18] Awards [ edit ]One of the band members tells Maggie, who is worried about losing Jim, that he’s a grown man and entitled to take a woman. In July 2015 the album Proper Job was released on the Sony Music label, in association with the St Austell Brewery, who brew a beer of the same name. This album also saw the first appearance of new member Toby Lobb. [15] Fisherman’s Friends 2: Fish Harder… sorry, Fisherman’s Friends 2: One and All, which feels like rather a mouthful and which doesn’t quite scan, but on watching this overlong film, I understood it’s a Cornish motto, and basically the same as The Three Musketeers’ “One for all and all for one”. The true story of the cornish chart topping buoyband. Based on the true story of the chart-topping Cornish singing sensations and their hit 2019 movie, 'Fisherman's Friends: The Musical' is a feel-good voyage about friendship, community and music which smashed box office records in Cornwall. When a group of Cornish fishermen came together to sing the traditional working songs they'd sung for generations, nobody, least of all the fishermen, expected the story to end on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. They are spotted by a fish-out-of-water music manager on a trip from London, who must learn that there is more to life than selling your sole for fifteen minutes of fame. So, climb aboard, find your sea legs and allow yourself to fall for this critically acclaimed musical - hook, line and sinker! From the rip roaring 'South Australia', 'Drunken Sailor' and 'No Hopers, Jokers and Rouges', made famous by the real life band to stunning new songs like 'Village By The Sea' and 'Tidal Pool'. The cast recording gives a unique take on the folk canon.

This is a Sunday TV movie at best. With the rain pouring down outside and the family isolating from the next plague. However, accompanying the singing is a plot which has surface-level detail at best. They’re about to put out a second album, which Universal Music’s Leah Jordan ( Jade Anouka) is trying to help promote, while boss Jez Chandra ( Ramon Tikaram) is indifferent about them, during which Jim’s depression-led drinking doesn’t help matters and might just derail the whole project.Every scene, whilst pretty, just collided into the next. The story develops at a rapid pace, ignoring the need for logic or feeling. It just wants to go from A to B and doesn't care how little sense it makes or what well trodden cliches it spews out. The film stars an ensemble cast headed by James Purefoy, Daniel Mays and Tuppence Middleton, with David Hayman, Dave Johns, Noel Clarke, Maggie Steed, Sam Swainsbury and Christian Brassington playing key supporting roles. The film is based around a largely fictional story of Danny, a music industry executive who signs them to a London record label and develops a relationship with one of the band member's daughters, played by Middleton, and covers the period up to their first album release. [4] All members of the band have cameos in the film and, according to Ashworth, "the singing is a blend of the voices of the group themselves and of the actors." [4] Trewhela, Lee (15 March 2019). "Fisherman's Friends film is a Cornish cliché but one you will love". Cornwall Live . Retrieved 13 September 2019. Richard Harrington, Ramon Tikaram and Joshua Maguire will join the cast, as well as singer-songwriter Imelda May, who is making her acting debut.