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The Longest Johns
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A capella folk band with GSOH. Have shanties, will travel. Bookings email - TheLongestJohnsTeam@unitedtalent.com
Pieces of Eight - STRICKEN is out NOW!
https://www.thelongestjohns.com/
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Come on down to shop dot the longest johns dot com where we have the shanties for you! Have friends or make them through the magic of communal song!
Blessed with company? You're a shanty band now, buddy!
Don't? Rousing songs will beckon them to your fo'c'sle (living room)!
shop.thelongestjohns.com
A picture with a faded, pastel-toned image of a sailboat at sea, overlaid with text saying: Off work late? Bored but nothing to watch on television? TRY SINGING 70 to 80 SHANTIES sing them with your friends imagine the sea neighbours love shanties and will thank u for 70 or 80 of them you will certainly not regret singing 70 too 80 shanties An image of the Pieces of Eight CD and (separately) vinyl products now available for preorder in the store. The CD case bears the stylised skull image in a tarnished golden colour, while the two CDs themselves are a black with the text of the song titles spiralling around the middle. The vinyl cover also bears the stylised Po8 skull image, while the discs themselves are shown as a bright golden colour. An image of the 3-part harmony songbook, showing the stylised skull image on the front cover (in tarnished gold) on a black background, and an inset image showing the inside of the book and back cover, as evidence that the book does, in fact, contain both song music and lyrics, as well as little bits of text about each of the songs written by members of the band!
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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As you might expect, there were one or two outtakes from filming Paddy Lay Back, so we compiled them into... THIS!
Then go check out the full thing:
youtu.be/vVhods7zeko

#TheLongestJohns #FolkMusic #Shanty
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Busy times!
We've..
- Completed Pieces of Eight
- Got a new merch drop ready
- Released a new video
- Got a livestream next week
and there's always more just beyond the horizon...
found.ee/thelongestjo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVho...

#TheLongestJohns #Folk #Shanty #Po8
A collage of all eight images for the pieces, assembled around the central completed coin. There's a lot to describe here, but the coin itself is a golden disc with a stylised skull in the middle, around which are arranged eight different images that depict the different titles and themes of the various pieces. There's a whale, a tavern, mountains, a cave, a lighthouse, tentacles.. and a couple of others that I'm not sure how to describe! The eight coin segments are shown on different backgrounds such as sand, a table with cards, a map, a pan, a cave, salt, blue scales, and purple tentacles. A thumbnail image for the video Paddy Lay Back including the title text. It shows Robbie in a black/white/grey checked shirt lying down on some herringbone brickwork with painted yellow lines behind him. He's got a rather shocked expression on his face, mouth and eyes both wide open in surprise. An image of the Pieces of Eight CD and (separately) vinyl products now available for preorder in the store. The CD case bears the stylised skull image in a tarnished golden colour, while the two CDs themselves are a black with the text of the song titles spiralling around the middle. The vinyl cover also bears the stylised Po8 skull image, while the discs themselves are shown as a bright golden colour. An image of the 3-part harmony songbook, showing the stylised skull image on the front cover (in tarnished gold) on a black background, and an inset image showing the inside of the book and back cover, as evidence that the book does, in fact, contain both song music and lyrics, as well as little bits of text about each of the songs written by members of the band!
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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We've got some new Pieces of Eight merch landing in the store VERY SOON, and you can get preorders in right now if you should desire! CD, vinyl, a songbook, PLUS a limited edition coin and pin set! Go check 'em out
shop.thelongestjohns.com

#TheLongestJohns #PiecesOfEight #Po8 #Merch #Folk #Shanty
An image of the Pieces of Eight CD and (separately) vinyl products now available for preorder in the store. The CD case bears the stylised skull image in a tarnished golden colour, while the two CDs themselves are a black with the text of the song titles spiralling around the middle. The vinyl cover also bears the stylised Po8 skull image, while the discs themselves are shown as a bright golden colour. An image of the 3-part harmony songbook, showing the stylised skull image on the front cover (in tarnished gold) on a black background, and an inset image showing the inside of the book and back cover, as evidence that the book does, in fact, contain both song music and lyrics, as well as little bits of text about each of the songs written by members of the band! A photograph of the golden Pieces of Eight coin available in the store. On one side it shows the stylised skull flanked by text saying The Longest Johns and Pieces of Eight, then on the other side is the same skull but surrounded by the eight different illustrations that partnered with each released piece. The Pieces of Eight pin set, which is eight individual segments of a circular coin, in shiny golden metal. In the centre of the segments is the stylised skull, and around them, one on each segment, are the illustrations that went with each individual piece.
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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50 years gone, but the legend lives on: today marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, beautifully memorialised by Gordon Lightfoot in a song that we had to pay our own tribute to.
youtu.be/BuW3FKYOCDs

#TheLongestJohns #EdmundFitzgerald #FolkMusic #Shanty
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Good news!
This FRIDAY you can get
-Pieces of Eight!
-A new video!
-A special Bandcamp Po8 listen party (head to Bandcamp and click where the arrows show in the third picture!)
found.ee/thelongestjo...

#TheLongestJohns #PiecesOfEight #Po8 #HAUPBSFS #Folk #Shanty #NewMusic
A collage of all eight images for the pieces, assembled around the central completed coin. There's a lot to describe here, but the coin itself is a golden disc with a stylised skull in the middle, around which are arranged eight different images that depict the different titles and themes of the various pieces. There's a whale, a tavern, mountains, a cave, a lighthouse, tentacles.. and a couple of others that I'm not sure how to describe! The eight coin segments are shown on different backgrounds such as sand, a table with cards, a map, a pan, a cave, salt, blue scales, and purple tentacles. A behind-the-scenes shot of JD and Andy standing outdoors on some tarmac in a car park, with some hedges in the background and cloudy blue skies overhead. They are both wearing winter coats, JD giving a cheeky glance to the camera over his left shoulder while Andy has his arms folded and is looking with a bit of a smirk on his face. A screenshot of the TLJ Bandcamp page for Pieces of Eight showing the band's logo across the top, and the Po8 coin design with a stylised skull in the middle, and big red arrows and a circle indicating the space where you should click if you want to join the Pieces of Eight listening party on Friday 7th of November at 8pm GMT/UTC. There is a small bit of text on the bottom right of this image (and generally in the right side of the page) where you should click to express your interest in joining and be reminded when it goes live!
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Alright, it's all go this Friday:
1 - The complete Pieces of EIght collection goes live
2 - There's a new video coming
3 - We'll be having a Bandcamp listen-along party as well!
found.ee/thelongestjo...
thelongestjohns.bandcamp.com/merch/pieces...

#TheLongestJohns #PiecesOfEight #HAUPBSFS #Folk
An overhead picture showing Andy from The Longest Johns with a somewhat uncomfortable, bemused frown on his face (including squinting eyes) as he appears to be lying down on some tarmac and grass. There also appear to be a few scattered golden coins strewn through the shot.
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Well I think we can call that a (sorry, sorry I'm REALLY sorry).... critical success!
Okay no more TTRPG puns.
Huge thanks to @highrollersdnd.bsky.social for letting us be a part of the show! ❤️

#TheLongestJohns #HighRollers #TTRPG #Tabletop #Shanty #FolkMusic
A picture from the High Rollers Live show at St George's in Bristol, taken looking up at the stage from the front left. On the stage is a series of Halloween adornments including jack-o-lanterns and what look like pink worms or snakes. Then on the stage, from left (foreground) to right (background) is Robbie wearing a breastplate, and holding his right hand up high towards the ceiling, majestically displaying a drumstick as if 'twere a mighty sword, Andy also holding a drumstick but with less splendour and wearing a red robe, and then JD wearing some kind of billowy pirate garb and wielding a wooden mallet. A distant shot of TLJ performing on stage, taken from the back of the room. Robbie still wearing his breastplate is playing a mandolin, Andy in his robe is pickin' on a banjo, and JD is singing and playing the guitar whilst continuing to billow in his pirate getup. Behind them is a massive screen where The Longest Johns and the Voyage album artwork are being projected, and the audience can be seen in the bottom half of the shot and flanking up the sides in the raised galleries overlooking the room. GREEN! This is a shot from the High Rollers game where TLJ were also included as one of the characters. It is thoroughly bathed in green light, while all the players are sat at tables spanning the stage, all dressed in a variety of costumes appropriate to their characters.
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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PLEASE BE VIGILANT! Am now a broken man on a Halifax pier!!

Happy Halloween folks! Who's coming to St George's tonight for some High Rollers?! Say hi if you catch us!

#TheLongestJohns #Halloween #Shanties #FolkMusic
A picture showing a chocolate bar (could be Mars? Could be Snickers?) being pulled apart in the middle, revealing SHOCK a king's shilling and a letter of marque! There is text saying "PLEASE CHECK YOUR HALLOWEEN CANDY WITH CARE, I was shocked to find a shilling and letter of marque from the king!!!"
October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Shant tools.

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#TheLongestJohns #CowTools #Memes #FolkMusic #Shanty
A rough black-and-white sketch showing, in the background, a ship with three billowing sails moored up, partially occluded by the landscape. In the foreground is a three-headed LongestJohnsm'n, a triple-wide being with three heads astride its extended shoulders. Andy and Robbie's eyes are depicted with a thin horizontal line. Instead of their regular dungarees, they are instead shown with some kind of cow print on their skin, and arms ending in hooves. In their pouch is a slightly bizarre, indefinable object. Then in front of then is a table, upon which is arranged a series of yet more inscrutable shapes. To explain what they aren't would be to ruin something of the joke of the Far Side comic that this is imitative of, Cow Tools.
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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THIS FRIDAY, you can get:
Dungeons
and
Dragons
and
@highrollersdnd.bsky.social
and
The Longest Johns
ALL in one tidy package!
See you there?

#TheLongestJohns #HighRollers #DnD #Bristol #DungeonsAndDragons #Tabletop #TTRPG
An image for the High Rollers live show, Haunted Tides & Terrible Tales, featuring special guests The Longest Johns. It includes the date 31st of October 2025, at St George's in Bristol. In the middle are drawings of the fantasy characters who will be played.
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This is just to say ❤️THANK YOU❤️ for giving us 50 MILLION plays on Apple Music! That's an absurd number, and we're tremendously grateful to you all for the love and support. And speaking of streaming, a reminder to mark November 7th in your calendars

#TheLongestJohns #HAUPBSFS #Shanty #Folk #Apple
A simple graphic showing a picture of the Longest Johns against a cardboard-brown background, with text stating 50 million all-time plays on Apple Music.
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Sometimes it's just a matter of perspective...
Find out what we've been looking at on, ooh, say, Friday 7th of November over on Youtube?

#TheLongestJohns #FolkMusic #Shanty #HAUPBSFS
A picture of blue sky, stippled with particles of white cloud A picture of a rather battered grey concrete and gravel patch of ground.
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Congratulations everyone, you've made it to another Friday,. Your reward is... this, from the archives! Treat yourself to a good weekend. Yeehaw.🤠

#TheLongestJohns #FridayFeeling #WayfaringStranger #ImGoingHome
October 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Did you know we have a newsletter? There's always new news on the horizon and if you want a convenient summary every month to help keep up, simply head to bio.site/TheLongestJo... and drop us your details!

#TheLongestJohns #FolkMusic #Shanty
A screenshot of the form to sign up to the TLJ newsletter, mainly showing the word 'Subscribe' ringed in red with two big red arrows pointing to the 'Name' and 'Email' spaces
October 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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You still have a move action available if you want to join us at St George's in Bristol for High Rollers' Haunted Tides & Terrible Tales! It's approaching fast so I'm going to need a dex saving throw to see if it hits.
www.aegpresents.co.uk/event/high-r...

#TheLongestJohns #HighRollers #Yogscast
An image for the High Rollers live show, Haunted Tides & Terrible Tales, featuring special guests The Longest Johns. It includes the date 31st of October 2025, at St George's in Bristol. In the middle are drawings of the fantasy characters who will be played.
October 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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While we've got some Pieces of Eight merch news coming early next month, perhaps you'd like a reminder of what else we have in the store? Like these cool Moby Duck or Hamvil shirts, or the stunning Voyage playmat and tokens...
shop.thelongestjohns.com

#TheLongestJohns #Merch #MtG #Tabletop
A spectacular Moby Duck shirt depicting the most epic battle between underequipped mariners in small wooden boats, and a giant yellow floatie duck with vicious, barbed teeth, while raging seas swirl around them and lightning splits the sky. "The Longest Johns" is written across the top in a pretty metal font. The design is shown on four shirts of different colours - white, black, yellow, and blue. A design for a Hammer and the Anvil shirt. It shows a blacksmith working at an anvil in front of a roaring fire, next to a curled-up dog sleeping at his side. Above him hangs a lantern with a crow leaning over, watching his work. The whole thing is rendered in a crosshatched style. The design is shown on four shirts of different colours - cream, yellow, orange, and white. A picture of the Voyage album art mouse/playmat (dimensions 61x36cm). It shows the sky sailor standing at a lean over the edge of his ship, supporting himself from a rope, while looking out towards the flying island, his destination. In the background are stormy skies and another flying island. The whole scene is cast in sunset colours of pastel-toned orange and peach. Who wants fruit salad. A compilation of the Trading Card Booster Pack contents, showing a selection of Tokens and Basic Lands that can be used with your tabletop card game of choice, so long as your choice is Magic: The Gathering. It contains tokens for Plant, Beast, Soldier, The Monarch, and Treasure. It also contains cards for Mountain, Island, Swamp, Plains, and Forest, perfect for all your mana needs.
October 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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We're assembling the pieces into one exciting collection, but it's taking a little time to cook... album and merch news will be coming in early November!
Thank you for your patience ❤️

#TheLongestJohns #PiecesOfEight #Shanty #FolkMusic #InfinityGauntlet #PhotoshopSkillz
A lovingly-rendered photomanipulation of the infamous Infinity Gauntlet from such films as Marvel, EXCEPT (and here's the subtle part), it's super wide with like 8 fingers, and on the knuckle of each is, instead of a stone (because who has eight stones, that's silly, and please ignore the Time Stone still on the thumb because your artist was rushing and missed that one), a Piece of Eight, from gigashanty collection Pieces of Eight by The Longest Johns. And in the middle of the back of the hand, instead of the Mind Stone, is the skull from the middle of the Pieces of Eight logo, when fully assembled. Maybe the Time Stone can still be there because we're saying that news is coming in November, and maybe you want to manipulate time to get there faster?
October 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Got a few songs for you to enjoy from our latest livestream! Go give 'em a listen if you like, and have yourselves a lovely weekend!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Rz...

#TheLongestJohns #HighlightReel #FolkMusic #Shanty #Livestream
October 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Listen up all you podcats: did you know our livestreams (like yesterday's) are available in podcast form? You can just pop it right into your ears and take it anywhere! What a marvel!
bio.site/TLJPodcast

#TheLongestJohns #Livestream #Podcast #FolkMusic #Shanty
A picture for the TLJ podcast, showing JD pouring Andy a cup of tea while Robbie takes a sip from his, as they pose in front of the majestically orange stormy skies from the Voyage album cover artwork.
October 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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It's almost streamtime! We'll be going live in less time than it takes a zombie to run the 100m! Unless it's one of those running zombies in which case make it a few of those! See you there...
youtube.com/live/aHpvCXQ...

#TheLongestJohns #LiveStream #FolkMusic #Shanty
A thumbnail image for the upcoming TLJ livestream, titled 28 Streams Later. It is extremely red, with a pair of spooky eyes in the background (but bespectacled, like JD's). Andy, JD, and Robbie are shown smaller and below, in silhouette, holding a banjo, a guitar, and a mandolin respectively, as if ready to use them as weapons to fend off the zombie horde.
October 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The Pieces are now complete, BUT... some of you have rightly been asking for a neater, more 'assembled' collection. Well there may be some good news coming up on the horizon

#TheLongestJohns #PiecesOfEight #Shanty #FolkMusic #Album #Merchandise
A frankly remarkable piece of Photoshoppery where an image of an idyllic sunrise has been edited to show a glowing Pieces of Eight coin glowing up over the horizon instead, complete with slightly shimmery reflection in the water. In words I can tell you that it looks exactly as if the coin were cast in bright, glowing sunlight and the reflection is uncannily accurate. This would be a lie. Sorry.
October 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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What a load of shirt!
Have you been through to the store to check out the rather special new pair of song-themed shirts we've got going on? If you've got another favourite we should do, let us know!
shop.thelongestjohns.com

#TheLongestJohns #Merch #Tshirts
A design for a Hammer and the Anvil shirt. It shows a blacksmith working at an anvil in front of a roaring fire, next to a curled-up dog sleeping at his side. Above him hangs a lantern with a crow leaning over, watching his work. The whole thing is rendered in a crosshatched style. A spectacular Moby Duck shirt depicting the most epic battle between underequipped mariners in small wooden boats, and a giant yellow floatie duck with vicious, barbed teeth, while raging seas swirl around them and lightning splits the sky. "The Longest Johns" is written across the top in a pretty metal font. An image showing the Hammer & Anvil design on four different colours of t-shirt: cream, yellow, orange, and white/grey The Moby Duck design shown on four different colours of tshirt: white, black, yellow, and blue? I've been getting a lot of grief for my demarcation of colours. I think it looks blue. Someone will say it's green.
October 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The Pieces are complete! Eight EPs of 24 songs now available for you to stream wherever you like! We're working on a tidy collection so you can have them all in one place, but for now thank you for joining us on this journey, and enjoying the music with us!
found.ee/thelongestjo...

#PiecesOfEight
A collage of all eight images for the pieces, assembled around the central completed coin. There's a lot to describe here, but the coin itself is a golden disc with a stylised skull in the middle, around which are arranged eight different images that depict the different titles and themes of the various pieces. There's a whale, a tavern, mountains, a cave, a lighthouse, tentacles.. and a couple of others that I'm not sure how to describe! The eight coin segments are shown on different backgrounds such as sand, a table with cards, a map, a pan, a cave, salt, blue scales, and purple tentacles.
October 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Not one but TWO new videos last week! Have you caught Challenge the Sea? Huge thanks to @homefreeguys.bsky.social for having us on as guests! Go give it a listen, if you please:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppLH...

#TheLongestJohns #HomeFree #ChallengeTheSea #Shanty #SeaSong #NewMusic
October 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM