18 of 25 people found this review helpful. All members of the band have cameos in the film and Ashworth explained “the singing is a blend of the voices of the group themselves and of the actors.”In May 2019 a sequel titled Fisherman’s Friends 2: Bound For South Australia was announced which will take them from performing at Glastonbury to struggling to put their second album together. The adventures of a reluctant teenage spy on his missions to save the world. "It was surreal. Fisherman’s Friends: behind feelgood film of Cornwall’s folk stars lies a tragedy This article is more than 1 year old. He left a wife and three sons. Paddington (Ben Whishaw), now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's (Imelda Staunton's) 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen. This article is about the band. The tragedy left the entire village of Port Isaac in mourningNever miss a big story in Cornwall again with our daily newsletter It was a tragedy which left an entire village in mourning.On a bitterly cold day in February 2013 two members of the chart-topping Cornish folk group Fisherman’s Friends were killed when a heavyweight door collapsed on them while they were preparing for a concert.Singer Trevor Grills and band promoter Paul McMullen were standing in the loading bay of the G-Live theatre in Guildford when tragedy struck.A loose collection of friends including four fishermen, a shopkeeper, a potter, an engineer and two builders, the nine-strong band started off performing in local pubs around Port Isaac in the mid-1990s.All but one of them grew up within half a mile of Port Isaac harbour, and the band later became ten For more than a decade they continued recording self-produced albums and entertaining the locals in and around Port Isaac with a cappella renditions of sea shanties.Their big break came in 2009, when Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker was given a couple of the band’s self-produced CDs while on holiday in the area.He handed the CDs to his manager, Ian Brown, who was suitably impressed and came to hear them sing in a local hotel.Just days later, the group members were told they had landed a £1m recording contract with Universal Music.The Fisherman’s Friends were about to reach a level of success beyond their wildest dreams.Their debut album, recorded in the modest surroundings of St Kew Parish Church, reached the UK's top 10 and sold 150,000 copies.An appearance on the main stage at Glastonbury was followed by a documentary Still enjoying great success, on February 9, 2013, the group wase due to play a sold-out gig in Guildford.

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The date at the G Live theatre was supposed to be the final show of a mini tour.It was around 11am on that bitterly cold Saturday morning when the group arrived at G Live in a minibus. Whether you’re training … He was 54.The concert was immediately cancelled and the nine remaining friends were driven back to Cornwall that evening, stunned into silence by what had happened.Naturally, the Fisherman’s Friends took a brief hiatus after the tragedy.The group had recorded their second album, One And All, just weeks before the accident, but its release was put on hold for six months.In the months after the incident, the remaining nine band members turned down an offer to tour the United States.“None of us felt like singing or playing gigs and we turned down quite a lot,” Jason Nicholas said in 2014.Nearly a year to the day after the tragic incident, the group mustered the courage to return to the stage for the first time.They received a standing ovation from a full house at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on what was an emotional evening.But, away from the stage, there were still questions that needed answers. With James Purefoy, Meadow Nobrega, David Hayman, Maggie Steed.