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Thread #78663   Message #1418566
Posted By: Lizzie in beautiful Sidmouth
23-Feb-05 - 08:07 AM
Thread Name: Review: Middle Bar singers
Subject: RE: Review: Middle Bar singers
Oooooh! Morticia....Fisherman's Friends!! Now you got me dreaming...shares in them....YES PLEASE!! ;0)

'The Fisherman's Friends' are 11 Port Isaace Fisherman....all friends since childhood, who have this wonderful CD out of sea-shanties, called 'Suck 'em and Sea'....Cape Cod Girls The Last Leviathan, A Sailor Ain't a Sailor, Haul Away Joe, Shanty Man, South Australia...etc. etc. 25 songs!

I first heard them through Show of Hands, when they sang on their Tall Ships song and had their own solo spot. Marvellous. Just voices only, but superb. Now if I dangled THEM in front of the Middle Bar Babes you'd all be fighting each other to make that CD!

I've been trying to find them for you on google, but no luck. They recorded with Fivetrees, but don't seem to be with them anymore. Let me know if you'd like to hear them and I'll see what I can do.... ;0)

Lizzie