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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 17h

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.

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 2d

That's in the works at the moment, yes

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 2d

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

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 3d

Welcome aboard!

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 3d

In a poignant send-off for Pieces of Eight, the final video, Fiddler's Green, went up last week. Have you seen it yet? How are you doing? Need a hug?
youtu.be/cJr5rA0x2s8?...
found.ee/thelongestjo...

#TheLongestJohns #PiecesOfEight #FolkMusic #Shanty #SeaSong #Bittersweet

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who came Into the Deep with us. You have been a wonderful audience, and it's been a tremendous pleasure to join voices with yourselves, @homefreeguys.bsky.social, and Sean Dagher! ❤️

#TheLongestJohns #HomeFree #IntoTheDeep #LiveMusic #FolkMusic #Shanty

A picture from the Home Free and Longest Johns show in Ohio, where both bands PLUS the majestic Sean Dagher are on stage in the middle of performing the song Santiana. The lighting for this particular song is a warm orange. Everyone is sort of haphazardly arranged around the stage because it's a very mobile performance, and but a single image doesn't really convey the mobility.

A thoroughly purple shot from the closing performance of Northwest Passage, where the full ensemble (again including Sean Dagher, still majestic) is arranged across the front of the stage in a line. Lots of hands clasped in front or behind, and a sombre reverence for the song. And then there's iRobbie (an iPad on top of a mannequin in t-shirt and board shorts), with his arms up as if announcing a touchdown, but also with his eyes shut in respect.

A closing shot from the show, where all members are lined up with arms round each other having just taken a synchronised bow to close out the show.
Apart from iRobbie who is still in the 'touchdown' pose.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 7d

Missed the premieres? Don't miss the @homefreeguys.bsky.social / @thelongestjohns.bsky.social livestreamed 'Into The Deep' concert on Sunday. Details: Home Free Tickets - HomeFreeMusic.com - Into the Deep Livestream - Sun, Oct 5 2025 | Seated share.google/vCeY2CT3UMlB...

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Stormfeather @stormfeather.bsky.social · 7d

Another awesome sailor song and vid by @homefreeguys.bsky.social, this time an original from @theadamchance.bsky.social and @houndfoxmusic.bsky.social . And this one features the @thelongestjohns.bsky.social Don't dare challenge the sea! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppLH...

Home Free - Challenge The Sea (feat. The Longest Johns)

YouTube video by Home Free

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 7d

It's a back-to-back Double Premiere musical treat for you today! Roll into Fiddler's Green at 6pm BST, then straight after join us with Home Free as we Challenge the Sea! See you there shortly!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJr5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppLH...

#TheLongestJohns #HomeFree #PiecesOfEight

Thumbnail for the Fiddlers Green music video, showing some gnarled, rotted wood from the wrecked hull of an old ship. In the middle is what appears to be a porthole.

Video thumbnail image for Home Free's new single, Challenge the Sea, featuring The Longest Johns. It shows members of TLJ looking somewhat haggard, bedraggled, and other such evocatively fun words as they sit in a rubber dinghy covered in seaweed, amid rocks. Robbie is pointing skyward and yelling. To the right, members of Home Free are stood in a group, looking at each other as if formulating some kind of plan. Adam Chance, in particular, is looking askance with a good, quizzical glare whilst holding a toothpick in the corner of his mouth. In the background of the picture is a coastline with sea, which may be the subject of said challenge.

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 7d

The Pieces of EIght are now complete! Stricken, the final part, is now live and available for you to enjoy (no ETA on Bandcamp upload yet though).
And keep your eyes ready for a new video later!
found.ee/thelongestjo...

#TheLongestJohns #PiecesOfEight #Shanty #FolkMusic #NewMusic

A very purple image. It shows the final Piece of Eight, and eighth of a golden coin, nestled in the purple suckers of a tentacle. The coin itself, perhaps somewhat prophetically, also shows a writhing mass of tentacles bursting forth from the sea.

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 8d

Got something special for you tomorrow...
FIRST at 6pm BST it's the premiere of Fiddler's Green, a fitting farewell to the Pieces of Eight project.
Then just FIFTEEN MINUTES after, you can catch us with Home Free when they drop Challenge the Sea over on their channel!
youtu.be/cJr5rA0x2s8

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 10d

There are only FOUR MORE SHOWS before we emerge from INTO THE DEEP! It's been a magnificent time, and we don't want you to regret missing out! Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Ohio: now's your time!
www.thelongestjohns.com/live

#TheLongestJohns #HomeFree #LiveMusic #Folk #Shanty #Country

A striking tour poster for Into The Deep, a tour from The Longest Johns and Home Free.
It shows a stylised drawing of a distraught sailor's face, wearing an orange cap. His face is a cold blue hue, with hair and beard in darker blue, turning into waves and water as they progress down his face. Jutting out from the lower jaw in his open grimace of a mouth is a wooden ship's wheel. His face is scrawled with nautical tattoos (a compass, mountains, skull and crossbones, anchor, etc.) and across both his cheeks are the tour dates and venues.
This picture has also been edited to add a red ring to the last four shows in the list, and the words "FOUR LEFT!" as well as two bright red arrows coming from the sailor's eyes towards the ring.

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Amara Amanita @amaraamanita.bsky.social · 11d

Went to see @thelongestjohns.bsky.social with @homefreeguys.bsky.social yesterday, and who doesn't love the wellerman!? JD noticed I was recording and borrowed my phone for a bit. Hands down, the coolest video I have ever gotten from a show before.

#thelongestjohns #homefree #shanty #folkmusic

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 11d

One more piece, three more songs, and just four days to wait until Pieces of Eight is complete! A mighty collection of shanties and sea-songs closes out with Stricken this Friday, so please get your presaves in now!
found.ee/thelongestjo...

#TheLongestJohns #PiecesOfEight #Po8 #Folk #Shanty

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 14d

One week to go; one piece remaining! The outcome may be Stricken, but these past 8 months have taken us all on an incredible journey and we want to thank you for coming with us ❤️
found.ee/thelongestjo...

#TheLongestJohns #PiecesOfEight #FolkMusic #Shanty #HAUPBSFS

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 15d

We're around the halfway point of INTO THE DEEP, but that just means there's plenty more to come! There's Biloxi, Huntsville, Athens, Peoria, Cedar Rapids, Wisconsin Dells, and Van Wert all still to come! Get your tickets today: www.thelongestjohns.com/live

#TheLongestJohns #HomeFree #LiveMusic

A picture of Andy, wearing a terracotta-coloured shirt, wielding a mannequin arm like a club as he prepares to bring it down onto the top of what looks like a thin black metal stool for the purpose of percussion.

A picture of JD, in a dark grey/slate Home Free tshirt as he holds out a long, shiny, metal bin with one hand (propped against his hip) and swings a detached mannequin arm with his other, whilst singing into the mic. Also for the purpose of percussion.

A picture of iRobbie. This is a mannequin wearing an ostentatious feathery hat, a Home Free tshirt, and orange shorts with.. croissants on them? The right arm is pointing straight up, perhaps in celebration. Then where the head should be, Robbie's face is visible with his own hands holding a harmonica up to his mouth.

A photo of both The Longest Johns and Home Free lined up across the stage, from an audience perspective, as they're in the middle of performing a song.

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 16d

STRICKEN! The final Piece of Eight will soon be going live, so here's an early chance to presave it! found.ee/thelongestjo...
And the keen-eyed among you may have realised that with that final 'S' the initials of each title spells out the secret message... HAUPBSFS!

#TheLongestJohns #PiecesOfEight

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 17d

Well look at this! 2 new shirts in one week. Oh Longest Johns, you do spoil us. Hammer and the Anvil shirt designed by the great @vvitchofthevvoods available here: shop.thelongestjohns.com
Got a favourite TLJ song? Let us know and maybe there could be a splendid bit of clothing for that one too...

A t-shirt 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.

An image showing the previous design on four different colours of t-shirt: cream, yellow, orange, and white/grey

A closer-up image of the graphic on one shirt, the cream-coloured one.

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you to everyone who's already gone INTO THE DEEP! And huge thanks to Phil Clarkin for some excellent photos of the show. Three down, more to follow, so get your tickets quick for this musical extravaganza!
www.thelongestjohns.com/live

#TheLongestJohns #HomeFree #IntoTheDeep #LiveMusic #Tour

A wide shot of the Into The Deep show, where members of both bands are shown lined up along the stage in what appears to be a sombre pose (possibly singing Bones in the Ocean, but I can't tell from the image!). There is a strong purple theme to the lighting for this image.

A picture of both bands arranged across the stage, playing an assortment oof guitars, a banjo, drums, and bass.

A closer picture, from a low angle, of just Andy and JD performing, with a whole lot of lens flare from the green and orange/peach lighting going on behind them.

A black and white end-of-show photo of the full Into The Deep lineup, featuring members of both bands kneeling across the front of the stage with the audience behind them.

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 21d

And we're off INTO THE DEEP!
The tour has started, and we can't wait for you to see our spectacular collaboration with Home Free! Still got some tickets if you can make it!
www.thelongestjohns.com/live

#LiveMusic #TheLongestJohns #HomeFree #FolkMusic #Shanty #Country #Gigs

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 22d

Oh we've finally gone and done it! Moby duck metal shirt!! Available in black, white, yellow and tropical blue from our shop. We got really excited about this so definitly going to do more. Which songs of ours do you think deserve a shirt? Great artwork @cosmicbizzard
shop.thelongestjohns.com

A spectacular 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 same image as above, but in context on a t-shirt, to help you imagine what it might look like actually on a tshirt.

The same 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.

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 23d

While you're waiting for that tour to start, why not pass some time with Just the Songs! It's our latest musical highlight reel from our most recent stream, now on youtube!
youtu.be/hpytU55aE1I

#TheLongestJohns #FolkMusic #Shanty #Highlights

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 24d

Alright, INTO THE DEEP starts in TWO DAYS so we're clearing out the meme folder. We want to see you, your friends, your neighbours, and anyone else who enjoys some GOOD MUSIC!
www.thelongestjohns.com/live

#TheLongestJohns #HomeFree #LiveMusic #USTour #IntoTheDeep #Folk #Shanty #Country

The "distracted girlfriend" meme image, showing a woman whose attention has been drawn to a man walking towards the camera, while presumably her partner attempts to steer her away and pull her back in the direction they were walking. The face of the person nearest the camera is, instead, the blue-skinned mariner from the Into the Deep tour poster, staring handsomely off into the distance.

A dramatic scene where, on the left a distraught woman is shouting and pointing in an accusatory fashion. On the other side, the target of her ire, sitting at a table in front of a plate of salad, is not a slightly confused-looking cat, but instead our mariner friend from the Into the Deep tour poster.

A picture of a man in a parka, on a cold day, who is once again asking you to come to the Into the Deep show. But instead of Bernie Sanders, this man is our blue-skinned mariner from the Into the Deep poster. It's the same joke three different ways.

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The Longest Johns @thelongestjohns.bsky.social · 25d

THREE DAYS LEFT!
Tulsa, are you ready to take the plunge and come INTO THE DEEP with us? It's going to be a spectacular event for anyone who loves great music!
www.thelongestjohns.com/live

#TheLongestJohns #HomeFree #LiveMusic #Tulsa #Oklahoma #Shanty #FolkMusic #Country

A four panel meme image. In the first panel, a woman is holding a red cup at what appears to be a party, looking slightly towards the camera, and saying "So you see, that's where the shanties began."
Panel 2 shows the blue-faced sailor from the Into the Deep tour poster, staring a thousand yards dead ahead, eyes wide and mouth agape with ship's wheel jutting out from his lower jaw, hair and beard a mass of dark blue storm-driven waves.
Panel 3 the woman is now wearing the Into the Deep hat, and saying "That smile."
Panel 4 she's still wearing the hat, and now a similar storm-driven beard of deep blue waves, and saying "That damned smile." as she bashfully looks off to the side.

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