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...

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...

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...

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...