Back Beach Boyz

The Back Beach Boyz are heading for Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales this weekend. Sure to be a cracking weekend of song, pies and local ales.

Unbelievable. Perfect.💯💯💯

Two gigs at the Exeter Shanty Festival this weekend. We’re in the Transit Shed at 5:00 on Saturday and Port Royal from 7:30pm. This is a cracking little festival and we hope to see you there on the Exeter Quay this Saturday.

We’re heading to Widecombe Fair once again on Tuesday 9th September. Main Stage at noon followed by a session in the The Old Inn, Widecombe in the Moor 4:00pm. Hope to see you there! Happy days😎

The @RNLI ‘Party in the Garden’ is on Sunday 7th September in Cliffden Gardens from 10;45 - 16:00. We’re playing a couple of gigs which we’ll post nearer the time. Hope you can support our lifeboat team.

We’re playing a couple of sets at 6:00 on Monday 25th August at the London Inn, Shaldon, Devon hope you can join us. The weather is looking like a fabulous summer evening. 🌞

We’re playing this Friday at 6:00pm at the Ship Inn Music Festival on the back beach…..and the weather is set fair. We hope to see you there!

This Saturday afternoon we’re playing a couple of sets at Rosemoor to support the Royal Horticultural Society Garden Centre near Torrington from 1:30 & 2:30. Please look in and say “hi” if you are there.

The story is remembered in one of our songs 'The Teignmouth Coalboat' on our first CD ‘Good Libations’

OTD in 1918 the SS Bretagne sank after colliding with the Renee Marthe, 6 miles north of Berry Head, in Lyme Bay. She was carrying 2000 tonnes of coal from Barry Docks to Rouen on The Western Front

The ‘Band Board’ in the performers marquee at Vegesack, Germany.

A busy weekend awaits after a cracking trip to Vegesack, Germany. 🔹Friday 8th Aug - The Boathouse, Dawlish Warren from 2:00pm 🔹Saturday 9th Aug - A Wedding - Badgers Holt, Dartmoor. - Private do Weather looking great too! 😎🌞

#OnThisDay 1970 Black Tot Day marked the final daily rum issue in @RoyalNavy At 6 Bells of the Forenoon (11am) Up Spirits was piped for final time. Grog was a #rum water mix introduced in 17th century, originally 1/2 pint it was 1/8 pint by 1970.

Don’t forget the Pomeranian 🎶

Boyz on Tour! We’re off to the three day ‘International Festival Maritime’ in Vegesack (Bremen) Germany dreckley. Happy days😎

We’re playing at Bridport Folk Festival yet again this Sunday. This is a fabulous folk festival with 48 music acts plus 14 dance groups of Morris, Rapper and Appalachian 🎶 We’re on at: 🔹11:15 Trevatt Stage 🔹15:30 Dagger Stage

We’ve two gigs this weekend and the first is very local, in fact just past the house Commander Robert Young built ‘The Minadab’ between Teignmouth and Holcombe. Happy days😎

"The total weight of firepower Victory unleashed at Trafalgar exceeded the entire artillery strength available to Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815." -O. Goossens, The Birth of a Legend: The Construction of HMS Victory heart-of-oak.org/2025/04/20/the…

We played at a fabulous 70th Wedding (Platinum) Anniversary at Teignmouth Golf Club on Saturday afternoon. A beautiful setting inside and out with an incredible background of the estuary, Shaldon and The Ness. Our set included local, Devon, contemporary and traditional songs.

#OnThisDay 1588 the Spanish Armada was spotted off #Plymouth The English Fleet under Lord Howard, Sir Francis Drake & Sir John Hawkins, sailed from Plymouth and engaged the Armada the next day starting an epic chase/battle that led to a decisive victory for the English Navy.