The Wurzels to play homecoming show near Bristol
Posted on: 24 Jul 2017The West Country’s favourite band of bumpkins will play a show just 30 minutes outside Bristol at Bath Racecourse on Friday 4th August.
Never Mind The Bullocks, forget the top of the crops… the nation’s favourite gaggle of straw-chomping, cider-drinking music makers are back - The Wurzels are returning to the West Country!
Since beginning to harvest hits at the turn of the 1960s, The Wurzels have held their faithful in a thrall of the same half-century hay fever that has endured ever since, inducing red eyes and bawdy balladry at taverns up and down the land. With their work continuing to perpetuate an ageless agricultural utopia combining accounts of the farm yard with those of a slightly less naive nature, their hearty tales of tractors and cider still retain freshness to listeners – whether they own 20 acres or 43.
Peddling a live set that draws from this extensive backcountry catalogue and from a ripened repertoire of classic contemporary covers, all given an idiosyncratic rural spin, The Wurzels continue to delight at music festivals, barn dances and orchards the country over, with their appeal never greater than it is today.
Having been back on the road and out of farm’s way once more, the group are returning to the West Country for a homecoming of sorts, when they play the Bath Racecourse on the 4th August.
Tickets to the knees-up are variously price and begin at £12. Purchase yours here.
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An ardent Geordie minus the accent, Sam seemingly strove to get as far away from the Toon as possible, as soon as university beckoned. Three undergraduate years at UoB were more than ample time for Bristol (as it inevitably does) to get under his skin, and so here he remains: reporting, as Assistant Editor, on the cultural happenings which so infatuated him with the city. Catch him at sam@365bristol.com.
