Fisherman's Friends. The Film.

Subject: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 03:18 AM

Went to see it last night and enjoyed it very much. Could have done with more music and less British RomCom but having said that, it is a "feel good" film of the first order. Well acted, well produced, stunning Cornish scenery and sea shanties. What more could you want? :-)

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 03:52 AM

I'm going tonight. The lads occasionally came along to our session at St Kew Inn, a fabulous pub a stone's throw from Port Isaac, which always made for a very jolly and raucous evening. They're thoroughly down to earth and every bit as good as they sound!

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 04:03 AM

One of the actors from the film now sings with them and I'm sure I spotted Cleavie on the opposing quiz team in the film.

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 05:19 AM

Jon is, er, as agreeably earthy as he looks!

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: GUEST,nickp
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 05:19 AM

You did see him Dave. I guess that others were there too. Defo a 'feel good' film with a hefty nod to 'reality'. Very enjoyable as long as you weren't after 100% accura. NIckcy

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: GUEST,nickp (cookieless)
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 05:20 AM

accuracy. Nick

Must check before I post!

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: GUEST,Guest Tim
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 06:16 AM

Went with the Blue Anchor back bar singers, great fun if slightly dodgy accents...we did join in the choruses!.

Roll on Falmouth

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 10:00 AM

Fishermen singing chanties? Whatever next? Opera singers singing reggae?




I'll get me coat!

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: GUEST,Orson Trap
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 01:14 PM

Folk singers (not sailors) singing shanty's/chanties, who would have thought!

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: meself
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 01:30 PM

They do pointedly call themselves Fisherman's FRIENDS - not actual fishermen ... ! You know, by way of analogy: I yell driving advice out my car window, but I don't claim to be a cop - merely a friend of the police, who should be out stopping reckless drivers instead of chasing thieves and villains! Don't get me started!!

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Johnny J
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 01:53 PM

I believe Theresa May is a great fan of Fisherman's Friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Oz1g1Qr8U

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 01:58 PM

But they are, mainly, Fishermen and some also serve with the RNLI.

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 02:19 PM

what's the film like for car chases, martial arts, and explosions...???

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Mar 19 - 04:58 PM

Some nautical dashes, marital arts and explosive tempers. Will that do?

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Mar 19 - 04:11 AM

Looks like it will be shown at Towersey Festival.

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Mar 19 - 04:17 AM

And the interfishnet too.

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Mar 19 - 08:23 AM

It's a lovely, warm-hearted film, full of, er, poetic licence. The actors don't resemble the real chaps at all, the hard-bitten Cornishness is way overdone, etc, but it's a great yarn with the obligatory rocky romance (what a lovely woman too!) and happy ending. It was all filmed in genuine Port Isaac, as lovely an area as you could wish to have, and all the coastal scenes were filmed near the village, none of yer Poldark licence. As we're locals, it was great to see all the gorgeous scenery that we're so familiar with. But be warned that Port Isaac is impossibly heaving in summer. What with Doc Martin, a weak pound and now this, this year will be even worse! Pick a nice day in late spring or September, go for a walk on the cliffs above the village and you're in heaven!

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Bugsy
Date: 21 Mar 19 - 02:48 AM

We're hoping to get it screened at the inaugural Australian Sea Shanty Festival in Albany WA over Easter.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Mar 19 - 04:26 AM

Glad you enjoyed it, Steve.

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Mar 19 - 03:45 AM

Was their any product placement?

product

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Mar 19 - 07:33 AM

I'd imagine the main product placement is fish and beer..

and maybe crabs, and other pub grub in shells...

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Mar 19 - 07:35 AM

btw.. It might make a good double bill with "Morris: A Life with Bells On"...???

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Mar 19 - 11:38 AM

That was a fantastic film, PFR. Derek Jakobi's character was a masterpiece :-)

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Mar 19 - 06:10 PM

I spotted a pint of Tribute being drunk from a dedicated Tribute pint glass, many, many pints of which I've quaffed in sessions that provided free beer, as well as an HSD pump on the bar...

Not a big fan of grapefruity Tribute meself, unless it's free, and we Sharps aficionados refer to HSD as Horrible Sudden Death...

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Snuffy
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 11:06 AM

But no product placement for the singular lozenges made in Fleetwood??

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 04:22 AM

Any film about traditional music and song is welcome and I enjoyed it. Full marks for authenticity in locations, but I’m not sure why they skirted around the real tragedies that the Group have experienced and invented other fictional stuff instead. The script is rather weak, in its reliance on cliche dialogue in places, plus the predictable Romcom formula for the two leads (inauspicious meeting, attraction, separation, reconciliation), and it would have been good to have had folk music as the incidental music and not acoustic pop songs. However, I guess that’s just me being picky, so don’t be put off going to see it. As for product placement, they’ve certainly done a proper job for St. Austell ales.

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 06:18 PM

A bit of a documentary radio programme about them.
Mostly with Jeremy Brown & Jon Cleave :

Outlook - BBC World Service
The voyage of The Fisherman's Friends

Released On: 10 Feb 2021 ,,,, Available for over a year
(about 35 minutes)
Presenter: Emily Webb

The group got together 25 years ago and started singing sea shanties, which are a type of maritime song.
After a chance encounter with a BBC radio DJ, Johnnie Walker, they ended up landing a £1 million record contract.
Much to the group’s surprise, their album rose up the charts and they went on to play the Royal Albert Hall and Glastonbury Festival. Things were going well until 2013, when an accident backstage at one of their gigs killed singer Trevor Grills and the band’s tour manager Paul McMullen.
The band didn’t perform for a year and in fact had no intention of singing again. However, they returned to the stage and have had a feature film made about them, Fisherman’s Friends.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p096k48h

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 06:36 PM

Sadly, I haven't been in circulation in north Cornwall for the last seven years because of my rotten hearing loss. I can just tell you what a lovely, great bunch of blokes they are, genuinely grounded and genuinely talented.

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 06:36 AM

A film about Cornish sea shanty group, Fisherman's Friends, is being turned into a musical. The musical has been adapted from the 2019 film Fisherman's Friends. The show, which will be packed with shanties, will open at the Hall for Cornwall in Truro in the autumn. It will feature shanties made famous by the band including Keep Haulin', Nelson's Blood, No Hopers Jokers & Rogues and Sweet Maid Of Madeira.

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 10:21 AM

The Hall For Cornwall has just been comprehensively refurbished. I understand that the Fisherman's Friends musical is going to represent its grand reopening! It would be nice if the hall could be full of people for it...

Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
From: Lurcherman
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 03:30 PM

I feel a bus trip up from The Blue Anchor, Helston coming up..