Nigel Hobbins and The Dreamlanders
Folk musician from Kent, England. The band plays out in various combinations: from a duo through to a seven piece, featuring brass, strings and percussion.
Nigel Hobbins and the Dreamlanders are East Kent musicians, based mostly in Whitstable, who play songs mainly written by Nigel with a handful of traditional numbers. His songs are steeped in local history, its people and landscape – from childhood memories at the seaside and warm sunny days, to witty observations of day-to-day life that champion the common man. Nigel also plays solo with his singi
25/08/2023
Playing at the Whitstable Labour Club tonight, everyone welcome!
11/02/2023
The full music video for the song Seagull (written and composed in 1905 by E. W. Rogers & Charles Collins), featured in the Levitating in Lockdown short film, is now up on my YouTube channel! Featuring the beautiful Whitstable beach on a perfectly windy day.
Nigel Hobbins - Seagull The song Seagull (written and composed in 1905 by E. W. Rogers & Charles Collins) is the eighth track on Nigel Hobbins' album Levitating in Lockdown. The son...
04/02/2023
If you enjoyed Levitating in Lockdown short documentary film and wished you could watch the River Fishing song section uninterrupted - now you can! The whole song has been edited and uploaded to my YouTube channel. Enjoy.
Nigel Hobbins - River Fishing River Fishing is the first track on Nigel Hobbins' album Levitating in Lockdown. This music video was filmed as a part of a short documentary film about the ...
Levitating in Lockdown is a short documentary film by Eva Reberc about my most recent album with the same title. Filmed at my workshop space in Challock, at the river Stour in Wye, and in Whitstable, Kent, UK.
The short film delves into the making of and creative process behind the Levitating in Lockdown album during 2021/22 and showcases inspiration and personal stories behind some of the tracks, featured on the album: the two original songs, River Fishing and Finger of Blame and Seagull (written and composed in 1905 by E. W. Rogers & Charles Collins).
The film is also available to be watched on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-HFi6C_ivaBHyA9AjdfaBQ
And if you wish to buy the album please visit https://nigel-hobbins.wixsite.com/music or get in touch with me.
If you enjoy the film please feel free to share it and I hope you enjoy it!
Nigel
(Watching with headphones recommended 🎧)
26/07/2022
Wil Walker and Martin Flowers join forces for 'Angels & Demons at Play with the Tradition – Summer Special 2022'! - another two-hour extravaganza of cross-genre sounds in this week’s podcast, broadcast live from the Isle of Harris and available now to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 26/7/22, such as:
1. CIRCLE - Terminal
2. Burd Ellen - Tha thìde agam eirigh
3. Dolphin Boy - The West Highland Line
4. Junior Mervin - Memories
5. Marcia Aitkin - I’m Still In Love
6. Nigel Hobbins and The Dreamlanders - River Fishing
7. The Owl Service - Newport Street
8. Divide and Dissolve - Denial
9. No Home - AB- In This Economy
10. Shovel Dance Collective - Georgie
11. Jacken Elswyth - Improvisation for banjo and brushes
12. Jake Blount - Didn’t It Rain
13. Nathan Bowles - The Road Reversed
14. Blue Ruth - Almost Gone (The Grave)
15. Rachel Aggs - Into The Sea
16. Grove - Feed My Desire
17. Niteworks - Guns of Ajacco
18. Orbital – Halscyon & On (Jon Hopkins Remix)
Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker
26/05/2022
Tomorrow!
21/03/2022
Chris Stone has written a lovely feature on me, published in the latest issue of The Whitstable Whistler, who also had me and Diane from The Dreamlanders perform at their 1-year anniversary party last weekend. Thank you for having us!
You can read the feature here (p. 9): https://issuu.com/whitstablewhistler/docs/ww_5_spring_web
10/02/2022
Hi everyone,
My song 'Canterbury Bell' from my latest album Levitating in Lockdown will be featured on BBC Upload later today. You can tune in on BBC Radio Kent - Upload at 9pm on 96.7 and 104.2 FM, on Digital and here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0805r6w
This is the second time a track from my latest album got featured on the show (thanks Doug and Leo!), I hope you enjoy it.
30/08/2021
Here's a couple tracks from Whitstable Labour Club beer festival session on Friday - thank heavens that weather held out! Great to be playing again! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0xBfz9ed8c
Nigel Hobbins & The Dreamlanders - Head Over Heels and Itty Bitty Dan Nigel Hobbins & The Dreamlanders performing Head Over Heels and Itty Bitty Dan at the Whitstable Labour club on 27th of August 2021.Follow Nigel and the band...
29/08/2021
28/08/2021
Nigel Hobbins and the Dreamlanders take the stage at Whitstable Labour Club tomorrow at 5pm!
As part of the celebrations of the amazing news that Canterbury and Whitstable constituency has for the first time ever an MP who isn't a Tory we will be playing at Whitstable Labour Club from 4pm this coming Saturday. (Jubilations kick off at 2pm btw)
At Whitstable Labour Club last Friday - many thanks to Nick Cordès for the great photo.
Nigel Hobbins Woodcarving & Art
Mr Hobbins has finally caught up with the 21st Century and started using FaceBook!!
For those of you not in the know, not only is he a gifted songwriter and musician he's a gifted artist and sculptor as well.
Check out his page...
Welcome to my page which features my latest woodcarvings and artwork that are for sale, also a catalogue of my past pieces for viewing.
Thanks to everyone who came to our New Inn gig last night - we had a great time, hope you did too!
Bauhaus Cafe UK
Nigel and a Dreamlander (me) performing Summer Shade at the Bauhaus Cafe UK, Ashord last night
Playing the Bauhaus Café, Ashford tonight - you can't miss it as it's over the racy lingerie shop...
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