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Fisherman's Friends
The Fisherman's Friends are a folk music group from Port Isaac, Cornwall, who sing sea shanties. They have been performing locally since 1995, and signed a record deal with Universal Music in March 2010. Whilst essentially an a cappella group, their studio recordings and live performances now often include traditional simple instrumentation. History The Fisherman's Friends' performances combine traditional songs of the sea with more contemporary folk music and a large dash of humour. The current members are Jeremy Brown, John Lethbridge (Lefty), Jason Nicholas, Toby Lobb, John McDonnell (Johnny Mac), Jon Cleave (Cleavie) and Bill Hawkins. In the original line-up, all of the members of the group "grew up within half a mile of Port Isaac harbour" except for John McDonnell who is a Yorkshireman. Three were fishermen, and the others were linked to the sea through service as coast guards or lifeboatmen; hence the name, 'The Fisherman's Friends'. Peter Rowe was the oldest founding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fisherman's Friends (film)
''Fisherman's Friends'' is a 2019 British comedy-drama film directed by Chris Foggin from a screenplay by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth. The film was inspired by a true story about Fisherman's Friends, a group of Cornish fishermen from Port Isaac who were signed by Universal Records and achieved a top 10 hit with their debut album of traditional sea shanties. The film stars Daniel Mays, James Purefoy, David Hayman, Dave Johns, Sam Swainsbury, Tuppence Middleton, Noel Clarke, Christian Brassington, Maggie Steed and Jade Anouka. Plot A fast living, cynical London music executive, Danny, reluctantly heads to Cornwall on his colleague Henry's stag weekend, where he's pranked by his boss, Troy, into trying to sign a group of shanty-singing fishermen. Danny becomes the ultimate ‘fish out of water’, struggling to gain the respect and enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band that consists of Jim, Jago, Leadville and Rowan, who all value friendship and community over fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Isaac
Port Isaac () is a small fishing village on the Atlantic coast of north Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. The nearest towns are Wadebridge and Camelford, each away. A nearby hamlet, Port Gaverne, is sometimes considered to be part of Port Isaac. The meaning of the village's Cornish name, ''Porthysek'', is "corn port", indicating a trade in corn from the arable inland district. From 2004 to 2022, the village served as the backdrop to the ITV television series ''Doc Martin''. It also is home to the sea-shanty singing group Fisherman's Friends. History The origins of Port Isaac are likely Celtic and the development of the village can be roughly divided into three phases. Through the Middle Ages and up to the coming of the railways, Port Isaac was a thriving port serving the area inland. During the Tudor period the harbour was dredged, a good illustration of its importance. Once goods from locations further inland were better served by the North Cornwall Railway, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Kew
St Kew ()Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel . Cornish Language Partnership. is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is also the name of the civil parishes in England, civil parish (known in Cornish as ''Pluw Gew''), which includes the Churchtown, Cornwall, church town, St Kew, and nearby St Kew Highway (''Fordhveur''). The parish is named for a Welsh saint, Cywa or Kew, possibly the sister of Docco, also known as: Docuin, Docwinn, Docquinn, who founded a monastery at or near the village of St Kew. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuppence Middleton
Tuppence Amelia Middleton (born 21 February 1987) is a British actress. In 2010, she was nominated for the ''London Evening Standard'' Film Awards for Most Promising Newcomer. Middleton appeared in various films before making her breakthrough in Morten Tyldum's historical drama ''The Imitation Game'' (2014), and subsequently appeared in The Wachowskis' science fiction film '' Jupiter Ascending'' (2015), Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's historical drama '' The Current War'' (2017), David Fincher's film ''Mank'' (2020), and the historical drama films ''Downton Abbey'' (2019) and '' Downton Abbey: A New Era'' (2022). She made her first television appearance in '' Bones'' (2008) and subsequently appeared as a guest in ''New Tricks'' (2010), ''Friday Night Dinner'' (2011), and '' Lewis'' (2013). She also appeared as Jem in the ''Black Mirror'' episode " White Bear" (2013), as Miss Havisham in '' Dickensian'' (2015–2016), as Russian princess Hélène Kuragina in '' War & Peace'' (2016), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Mays
Daniel Mays (born 31 March 1978) is an English actor having had television roles in ''EastEnders'' (2000), ''Rehab'' (2005), '' Red Riding'' (2008), '' Ashes to Ashes'' (2010), '' Outcasts'' (2011), '' Mrs Biggs'', ''Line of Duty'', '' Des'' and '' White Lines'' (2020), and film roles in ''Pearl Harbor'' (2001), '' All or Nothing'' (2002), ''Vera Drake'' (2004), '' Shifty'', ''Made in Dagenham'', ''Byzantium'' (2012), and '' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' (2016). Mays has been nominated for best supporting actor at both the BIFAs (2008), and the BAFTAs (2017), as well as having extensive experience in theatre. In 2024, he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in ''Guys and Dolls'' at the Bridge Theatre. Early life Born in Epping, Essex, the third of four boys, Mays was brought up in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, by his electrician father and bank cashier mother. He attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, before g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Purefoy
James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor. He played Marcus Antonius in the HBO series ''Rome'', Nick Jenkins in '' A Dance to the Music of Time'', college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the series '' The Following'', Solomon Kane in the film of the same name, and Hap Collins in the Sundance series '' Hap and Leonard''. Purefoy also played Lord Phillipe de Clermont in the second season of the hit AMC/Netflix series "A Discovery of Witches". In 2018, he starred as Laurens Bancroft in the first season of '' Altered Carbon'', a Netflix original series. Following an uncredited role as V in the 2006 film ''V for Vendetta'' (replaced and dubbed over by Hugo Weaving), he was cast in a main role as Captain Gulliver "Gully" Troy / Captain Blighty in the 2020–2021 second and 2022 third season of the television series '' Pennyworth'', the prequel to both '' Gotham'' and ''V for Vendetta''. Early life Purefoy was born in Taunton, Somerset, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Foggin
Chris Foggin (born 15 September 1985 in Sunderland) is an English film director and screenwriter. Biography and career Foggin was born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. He studied media and film at Northumbria University in Newcastle. While he was working in a sandwich shop, an acquaintance put him up for a job as an assistant floor runner on an ITV drama called ''Place of Execution''. In 2010 he was promoted to assistant director in film and television. He has worked behind the scenes on several movies such as ''My Week with Marilyn'', ''Jane Eyre'', '' The Double'' and '' The Iron Lady''. Foggin started directing in 2011 with three short films, the most known of which is ''Friend Request Pending'' starring Judi Dench and Tom Hiddleston. The film was in the official selection of the 55th BFI London Film Festival and received various recognitions. Foggin's first low-budget feature, '' Kids in Love'', with Will Poulter, Alma Jodorowsky and Cara Delevingne, was shot for Ealing Studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Moorcroft
Nick Moorcroft (born 22 December 1978) is a British screenwriter, film producer, director and theatrical producer. Early life Moorcroft was born in 1978 in Chelmsford, Essex. In an interview with Dalya Alberge, a journalist from The Observer, he revealed he was expelled from school when he was fourteen. He was offered a place at one of the countries leading drama schools Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art when he was 18 after his mother encouraged him to audition. Unable to afford the tuition fees he won an Essex County Council Scholarship and went on to study at the prestigious acting academy in South Kensington, London, which he left after one term in December 1997 before producing and acting in a fringe theatre production in November 1998 called The Gary Oldman Fanclub at The Man in The Moon on Kings Road. The play was directed by Barry Keefe and written by Jonathan Stratford. Nick then appeared in several small TV roles such as The Bill before embarking on a career as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Rights
Film rights are rights under copyright law to produce a film as a derivative work of a given item of intellectual property. In US law, these rights belong to the holder of the copyright, who may sell (or " option") them to someone in the film industry—usually a producer or director, or sometimes a specialist broker of such properties—who will then try to gather industry professionals and secure the financial backing necessary to convert the property into a film. Such rights differ from the right to commercially exhibit a finished motion picture, which rights are usually referred to as "exhibition rights" or "public-performance rights". Origins In the United States, the need to secure film rights of previously published or produced source materials still under copyright stems from case law. In 1907, the Kalem Company produced a one-reel silent film version of General Lew Wallace's novel ''Ben-Hur'' without first securing film rights. Wallace's estate and his American publisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Arts
Sky Arts (originally launched as Artsworld) is a British free-to-air television channel offering 24 hours a day of programmes dedicated to highbrow arts, including theatrical performances, films, documentaries and music (such as opera performances and classical and jazz sessions). The channel is available in the United Kingdom through Freeview, Freesat, BT TV, Sky, Virgin Media, and TalkTalk TV and in the Republic of Ireland via Sky Ireland, Virgin Media Ireland, Vodafone Ireland and Eir, included in most basic subscription packs, but started life as a premium service requiring an additional payment on top of the monthly Sky subscription. The channel launched on Freeview and Freesat as a free-to-air service in September 2020. History Artsworld (2000–07) In its early days, it was owned and managed by a public partnership (Artsworld Channels) including Sir Jeremy Isaacs. However, the channel suffered severe financial difficulty. In July 2002, it even staged its own fare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young's Seafood
Young's Seafood Ltd. is a British producer and distributor of frozen, fresh, and chilled seafood, supplying approximately 40% of all the fish eaten in the United Kingdom every year. It is headquartered in Grimsby, England. The company as it is today was formed through the merger of Young's and Bluecrest in 1999. It is privately owned by venture capital concern Lion Capital LLP who purchased the parent company Foodvest (part of CapVest) in July 2008. It is a major player in the European seafood industry and also owner of sister company, Findus AB, based in Malmö, Sweden. History Prior to the merger with Bluecrest, Young's itself had been the result of a number of takeovers and management buyouts. Early history The 1805 foundation of Young's is based on that being the year when one Elizabeth Martha began selling fish on the Greenwich quays. In 1811, Martha married William Timothy Young, a member of a fishing family based on the River Thames since the mid-18th century, thus combin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Malone
Gareth Edmund Malone (born 9 November 1975) is an English choirmaster and broadcaster, self-described as an " animateur, presenter and populariser of choral singing". He is best known for his television appearances in programmes such as '' The Choir'', which focus on singing and introducing choral music to new participants. Malone was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours, for services to music. Biography Gareth Malone was born into a family of Irish descent as the only child of James and Sian Malone, who had met at their local Gilbert and Sullivan society. His father, James Malone, grew up in Parkhead in Scotland in an Irish family,Gibb, Bill (13 April 2014Scots singsongs were the making of Gareth MaloneThe Sunday Post, Retrieved 1 June 2014 and was a bank manager. His English mother of Irish descent, Sian, worked in the civil service.Black, Claire (1 June 2014Gareth Malone on The Choir, and his new albumThe Scotsman, Retriev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
