Tour, new dates and new videos!

What a start to the year it’s been! Our 2025 tour is in full swing, and we’ve already hit some incredible milestones. Our first-ever vinyls have landed in the hands of our amazing fans, new Busketeers shirts are flying off the shelves, and we’ve seen a huge surge in new followers - welcome buskers!

From the Streets to Sold-Out Shows

We started our tour in Tavistock, where a little crowd gathered to watch us perform while we busked in the town. From there, we headed to the Stannery Brewery for a sold-out show! The energy was unreal, and it reminded us why we love what we do.

But we’re not stopping there - we’ve added a special show to our tour! We’ll be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at Kitty O’Hanlons in Plymouth on Sunday, 16th March, from 7pm. If you love a lively Irish night, this one’s not to be missed!

Back to Busking & One Plymouth Video

Plymouth has always been a special place for us, and we’ve been spotted busking on the streets once again - bringing the music to the people. Shoutout to One Plymouth for capturing the magic in a lovely video, which you can watch below!

One Plymouth - Capturing us busking in Plymouth where it all began in 2015!

Upcoming Gigs – Where to Find Us Next

🎸 Friday 14th – Preston Gate, Bude – 9pm

🍀 Sunday 16th – St. Patrick’s at Kitty O’Hanlons – 7pm

🎶 Friday 21st – Globe Inn, Looe – 9pm

🔥 Saturday 22nd – Supporting Land of the Giants – 7pm

🎤 Saturday 12th April – Bread and Roses, Plymouth – 9pm

For full tour dates and tickets, head to www.thebusketeers.com/tour.

Thank you all for the love and support - see you at a gig soon!

Busketeers 10-Year Tour Battle Plan: March Edition (Director’s Cut)

Greetings and salutations, beautiful people! This blog will take a slightly different approach from previous iterations as, quite honestly, there isn’t much to report! But not to worry—weddings and gigs are beginning to populate our upcoming weekends, inevitably bringing with them the storied misadventures of The Busketeers that will (hopefully) transfer seamlessly into an anecdotal format.

So, instead of telling you how the four of us spent the last few weeks taking in nourishment, expelling waste, and inhaling enough oxygen to prevent our cells from dying, we’ll give you the itinerary for the first leg of our Busketeers Ten-Year Tour (hereafter abbreviated to B10YT because it sounds trendy and interesting).

Week 1: March 1st

B10YT kicks off on March 1st at The Book Stop, Tavistock, where we’ll be promoting the vinyl edition of our self-titled 2023 project, The Busketeers. We’ll be performing the album in full just outside the bookstore at 2 PM, followed by vinyl signings and a chin-wag until 5 PM (Tavistock market will also be in full swing if you fancy making an afternoon of it).

The frivolity doesn’t stop there, however, as we’ll then head to The Stannary Brewing Company that same evening for a craft beer-fuelled musical adventure, where we will officially kick off the tour with our bristling artillery of bangers.

Week 2: March 8th/9th

This weekend will be the mother of all throwbacks for us. On Saturday, March 8th, we’ll be hitting the streets of Plymouth for an all-afternoon busking extravaganza to party like it’s 2017. It’s odd how exciting this is for us… none of us have busked in years! Be sure to come say hi as we tap back into the roots of our identity; we’ll be there from midday.

Then, on Sunday, March 9th, we’ll be hitting up the legendary, the one and only… Billy’s Angling Club in Looe. This is one of the first places we ever played, and we invite all loafers, fakirs, rogues, and tinkers to come bang some tankards on the tables and sing some songs with us! Start time: 7 PM.

Week 3: March 14th

On Saturday, March 14th, we’ll be at The Preston Gate Inn, Bude. We played here a couple of months ago, and it was an absolute corker—the staff were lovely, the food was delicious, and it just felt like a proper pub of the people. Highly recommended; we hope to see you there!

Week 4: March 21st/22nd

On Friday, March 21st, we’re packing the vans and heading back to Looe to cook up a musical gumbo hotpot with all the seasoning—this time at The Globe Inn. Cracking pub with a good space to throw some shapes—what’s not to love?

Then, on Saturday, March 22nd, we’re hugely excited to be supporting Southwest musical veterans and legends, Land of the Giants, at Plymouth Depo. For those who have never managed to catch them before—these guys put on an extremely energetic show and will undoubtedly catalyse a memorable and frivolous evening. We will, of course, do all in our power to match this energy.

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Be sure to check our socials for details on timings, and keep an eye on your inboxes for Part 2 of the tour itinerary. We hope you’re all having a wonderful 2025 so far and keeping well.

Take care!

Ken, Luke, Matt, and Olly

Our 10th Year Anniversary!

Happy New Year from the Busketeers

The year 2025 is upon us, ladies and gentlemen. Christmas lights are back in boxes under the stairs, your tree is likely stored in the attic or being mulched, and now we brace as a nation to endure January and February—like the two in-laws who overstay their welcome at Christmas—until March finally arrives and drives them back to Knutsford.

Many people like to make ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ at this time, such as doing the ketogenic diet, partaking in ‘Dry January,’ or training for that marathon you keep telling yourself you’ll do. This is understandable, as January is simply too much fun already, and, thus, measures must be put in place for the sake of cardiovascular health. An interesting bit of trivia about New Year’s Resolutions is that, on average, most are broken by January 10th. So if you’re reading this after that date, well done—you’ve exceeded the average! Alternatively, if you’ve already broken yours, don’t worry—so have most of the nation.

Perhaps your New Year’s Resolution is to see more live music. In that case, we’ve got some dates for you this month. Also, as briefly mentioned in our previous blog post, 2025 is quite significant for The Busketeers, and we’re excited to share some of our plans for the year ahead.

Upcoming Gigs

January can be dry for many things, but here at The Busketeers, we like to keep our gig whistles wet (that’s one of the stranger sentences I’ve written recently, but I’m going with it). On January 17th, we’ll be at the Thistle Park Tavern in Plymouth, which I believe is a new one for us, so it’s always fun to break new ground. Following that, on the 24th, we’ll be at the one and only B Bar, a personal favourite of ours and one that’s always a joy to return to. If you haven’t been, it makes for a lovely evening out: they serve great Thai food, there’s live music, and afterward, you’re right on the Barbican for a nightcap. Finally, we’ll be playing at the Colebrook Inn in Plympton on the 25th. They serve smash burgers and have Director’s Bitter on draft, so I mean… absolute winner.

January is obviously a quieter month for everyone, but if anyone is feeling up for venturing out into the cold this month, it would be a pleasure to see you at any of these venues.

The 10th Anniversary of The Busketeers

As mentioned, 2025 marks ten years since Luke, Matt, and Olly first met busking on the streets of Plymouth and ultimately formed the band we now know as The Busketeers. There were deliberations about the band name—at one point, it was going to be ‘The Price of Engle Park,’ though I think we can all agree that The Busketeers is more memorable. The true history of the band’s formation is actually somewhat in dispute: Matt and Luke are adamant that they were busking outside Sports Direct when Olly asked if he could join. Olly, however, insists that the scenario was inverted, and it was Matt and Luke who approached him for a slice of space on that Plymouth High Street pie. Unfortunately, the passage of time often obscures memories, and we may never truly know which of these accounts holds true merit. Consequently, if anyone asks, it’s probably best to say The Busketeers were hatched from eggs laid by Ken in a glacial crevasse in Alaska.

Anyway, we could sit here and argue about who came out of whose eggs, but I digress. To commemorate the occasion, we’re excited to announce… ahem… The Busketeers 10th Anniversary Tour. We’ll keep you updated on a monthly basis, of course, but this will essentially be a series of gigs across March and April at various venues—some of which hold significant relevance to the journey of the band, and others are brand new, which we’re excited to get involved with!

This all kicks off with a bang on March 1st. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be doing an official launch for the vinyl edition of our first full-length LP. This will be held at the Book Stop in Tavistock and will feature us busking the entire album just outside the storefront in conjunction with Tavistock Market. Afterward, we’ll head down the road to the Stannary Brewery that same evening, where we’ll crank up the volume and kick off the first of many official Anniversary gigs of the tour. It promises to be an undoubtedly awesome day, and we sincerely hope any and all of you can make it—we’ll make it an absolute belter!

Please stay tuned for more dates and details of the tour in the coming weeks. This project is close to our hearts, and it would be an absolute pleasure to have as many of you involved as possible. Quite honestly, it’s thanks to all of you that we’re fortunate enough to organise and put on events like these in the first place.

Happy New Year and take care,

Ken, Luke, Olly and Matt