The Longest Johns- Jonathan 'JD' Darley, Andy Yates, Robbie Sattin and Dave Robinson - got together in 2012 and started singing shanties, "The rock 'n' roll of 1752", in a kitchen. Their ten-year voyage has seen them release three albums on their own label, grace the stages of international folk festivals. tour the UK, European and North America. appear on TV and gain a massive following online.
To date they’ve racked up more than 400 million streams across all platforms, signed up half a million YouTube subscribers and logged more than 200,00 hours watched on Twitch. Their gaming partnerships include Ubisoft, Sea of Thieves, Ship of Fools and Wanderworld and they’ve recorded the soundtrack of No Man’s Wife, a new film made by the co-producers of the Fisherman’s Friends films.
The Longest Johns came to mainstream prominence in early 2021, starting the ‘Wellerman’ sea shanty craze on social media that saw a 150-year-old folk song from New Zealand become a worldwide viral sensation, sweeping the group to the #2 berth on the US Spotify Viral Chart and #5 Global.
31 July 2025
Meadow stage
