2015 Review

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...

The Brass is back…

A great clip of 'Worn Out Sayings' from Mark Nixon at the Liverpool O2 Academy gig of Pastures Old and New this week. Loved the Brass with @TheFarm_ last night for #PasturesoldandNew > @KeithMullin @TheFarm_Peter @chasbaxter pic.twitter.com/acXCfAPRdi — Mark Nixon...

Stage times

Stage times for Leeds and Liverpool are: 8pm Support, 9pm Ted Chippington,  9:45pm The Farm. Please note times are approx and liable to change by the venue - plus Keith is a real drama queen... 

Locomotive Club Paris, December 1990

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 on - everyone...

Buryfields Festival – Friday 17th June 2016

The Farm are pleased to announce they will be headlining at Buryfields Festival on Friday 17th June, 2016. Tickets are available at  www.buryfields.co.uk/2016-tickets/ and more information, including photos from previous years can be found at their facebook...

All Together Now 25th Anniversary

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...

Pastures Old and New

  Over the years we have been continually asked the same question 'why don't you perform a 'Pastures Old and New' set with the brass section?' Well now The Farm are finally going to play the legendary songs which were favourites of John Peel and featured in...

With Love from Liverpool

A massive fundraising concert hosted by award-winning comedian John Bishop is to be held at the Liverpool Echo Arena on Saturday 19th September. With Love From Liverpool http://www.echoarena.com/whats-on/with-love-from-liverpool/

Groovy Train 25th Anniversary

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...

Routes Jukebox – Fri 28th August

LIMF Routes Jukebox - inc The Farm As part of the incredible ‘Music Migrations’ themed Commissions, the Routes Jukebox live show will retrace the key influencing records that came to Liverpool from the U.S. after World War II inspiring pioneering movements from...

Peter Hooton honoured by Edge Hill University

Peter Hooton has been made an honorary doctor of philosophy at Edge Hill University – nearly 30 years after The Farm were banned from the campus. the farm band See the full article here. The say time is a great healer, here's the letter we received back in 1988 after...

The Jazz Cafe in London

The Farm are performing at The Jazz Cafe, in Camden London, this Thursday 30th July.  Then the day after they are performing in Carlisle at The Old Fire Station.  Tommy Scott from Space will also be performing in Carlisle. Check out the Tour Dates section for more...

Keith Mullin to sell The Big Issue in the North

The Big Issue in The North has a host of politicians, celebrities and business people from across the UK selling the magazine alongside its regular vendors this week including KEITH MULLIN from The Farm. From the 2 -7 February, The Big Issue in the North is taking...

Peter Hooton on BBC Radio 2 Christmas Eve, 10pm

All Is Calm - The Story of the Christmas Truce World War One In All Is Calm, John Hurt tells the story of the most famous ceasefire in history, through diaries, letters and archive accounts from the soldiers themselves. It is perhaps the perfect Christmas fable - of...