The Story Behind Covers Volume One

Greetings, Buskers! 👋

Every band has a list. A running, ever-growing, passionately-debated list of covers they love playing live. Songs that make a crowd go properly mental. Songs that feel like they were written for four-part harmonies and a cajon. Songs you just can't help but belt out every single time.

Covers Volume One is our list. Recorded live. Released into the world on the spookiest night of the year.

🎃 Halloween at The Loft

We couldn't have asked for a better night to launch it. The Loft in Plymouth, sold out, fancy dress encouraged — and honestly? The crowd were as much a part of that record as we were. You can hear it in every track. The energy, the singalongs, the moments where the room just took over completely.

That's what a live covers album should sound like. Not polished within an inch of its life — real. Present. Human.

🎵 Picking the Songs

This was, diplomatically speaking, a vigorous process. Every member of this band has strong opinions about music (unsurprising, given we've been playing together for eleven years) and getting four people to agree on a final tracklist is roughly as straightforward as herding cats in a hurricane.

But that tension is what makes the record work. These aren't just songs we thought would go down well. These are songs we genuinely love — tracks that mean something to us, that we've worn in over years of gigs and festivals until they feel like our own.

📀 Limited CDs and Streaming

For those of you who grabbed one of the 50 limited CDs at the Halloween launch — thank you, and we hope you treasure that slightly chaotic piece of Busketeers history. For everyone else, the album is streaming now on all major platforms.

Give it a listen. Let us know which track is your favourite in the comments. And if you were in that room on Halloween night — we hope you remember it as fondly as we do.

Much love,

Ken, Luke, Olly and Matt 🎸