by thefarm | Feb 14, 2017 | News, Pete's Page
This article by Peter Hooton first appeared in The New European Magazine. @TheNewEuropean I went to the same school, had some of the same teachers and had a similar upbringing to Paul Nuttall so why do our views on life and politics differ so much. I grew up and live...
by thefarm | Mar 11, 2016 | News, Pete's Page
25 years ago today Spartacus went straight it at No 1 in the UK album charts. It had been a remarkable year for The Farm – frustrated at the lack of interest/vision from UK record companies we decided to set up our own record label – namely Produce Records –...
by thefarm | Dec 31, 2015 | News, Pete's Page
The Farm would like to thank you all for your support in 2015 and wish you a happy, peaceful and prosperous New Year. We played some memorable gigs this year including headlining Farmfeast in June and Fuzzfest in July. We also played an acoustic gig at the legendary...
by thefarm | Dec 7, 2015 | News, Pete's Page
On the 7th Dec 1990 we played the legendary Locomotive Club in Paris – a certain Seymour Stein turned up determined to sign the group to his Sire label – home of Talking Heads, The Ramones, Echo and the Bunnyment, The Smiths, The Cure – the list goes...
by thefarm | Nov 26, 2015 | News, Pete's Page
On this day 25 years ago our record label Produce Records released All Together Now. The song had been a long time in the making. I first wrote the lyrics to ‘No Mans Land’ shortly after Michael Foot had been disgracefully slurred at Remembrance Sunday in Nov 1981 for...
by thefarm | Aug 26, 2015 | News, Pete's Page
We started recording Groovy Train in the summer of 1990 shortly after our critically acclaimed cover of Stepping Stone. It wasn’t our first choice as the follow up single to The Monkees cover but in hindsight it should’ve been. We had actually gone into the...
