Home Service

Home Service
arrives at the Courthouse with North-East native Bob Fox at the helm. Touring
their new album, A Live Transmission,
they blend tradition with pulsating folk rock and trenchant brass to create the
unmistakable sound of Home Service.

Characterised by Graeme
Taylor’s fiery lead guitar and a stirring brass section, the music of Home
Service explores contemporary themes, often through historical settings, and crosses
musical genres from folk and classical through to trenchant rock.

Bob Fox joined Home
Service in 2023 after John Tams retired and made his debut with the band at
Broadstairs Folk Festival in 2023. Long regarded as one of the great voices of
British folk song, Bob took the role of ‘Songman’ in the National Theatre’s
highly successful West End production of War
Horse and has embraced a brand new role in Home Service.

Producing three albums in
the mid-eighties, including the ground-breaking Alright Jack, Home Service headlined major festivals including
Cambridge, Cropredy and Dranouter. They toured extensively, but found arguably
their biggest audience when they provided music for Bill Bryden’s celebrated production
of The Mysteries trilogy, which ran
for many years at the National Theatre.

The band made a dramatic
return to prominence in 2011 with the best-selling Live 86 album and a string of major festival appearances, following
which they won Best Live Act at the 2012 Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Home Service returned to
touring in 2024, to great acclaim from their loyal fans, and a new live album, A Live Transmission, has recently been
released – the first Home Service recording to feature Bob Fox.