We are The Unruly Crew

Hi, in May 2025 we sailed from the famous shipping ports in Leicestershire, singing shanties and sea songs whatever the weather, having great fun and hoping you’ll join us on the choruses and refrains.

Where you can find us

Friday 5 December 2025: The Unruly Crew have a 20 slot at the Greenman Rising Yule gig, 7.30pm at The Queen’s Hall, 75 Queens Rd, Nuneaton CV11 5LA

Fun and good music with Greenman Rising/ Liam Vincent and the Odd Foxes/ Daisybell


Tuesday 24 February 2026: The Unruly Crew have an hour gig: 12.15 to 1.15pm Attenborough Arts Centre Soundbites Lunchtime Concert, Lancaster Road, Leicester  LE1 7HA.

Lots to sing along with here.


Sunday 1 November 2026: TABAC – The Unruly Crew will be the ‘featured artists’

during the singaround that starts 7.30pm at The Rose & Crown in Thurnby 45 Main St, Leicester LE7 9PJ 

Our gig at the Leicester Folk Festival 27 September 2025

For those who can access Facebook here is Malcolm heading us off for A Drop of Nelson’s Blood:

and Sheila leading Shallow Brown a song about human trafficking and slavery which links well to the Quaker Meeting we were singing in as Quakers campaigned for 80 years against the slave trade. Elizabeth Heyrick was a local Quaker who campaigned forcefully for the abolition of slavery, at a time when people didn’t want to give up the slaves they had in their ‘possession’. She married John Heyrick who wrote the poem ‘On a Cave called Black Annis’s Bower about our legendary Black Annis … but back to the song:

These were recorded by Amy Mosley-Law