Coblers
Monday
Whitby’s Sea Song and
Shanty Group
February 2010
Photograph Legends
1. Original group members 1997
‘Redcar Mike ‘ Stather,
Mick Haywood and Alan Perks.
2.Group members on Grand
Turk 2001.
3.Tuning up for the Endeavour
Homecoming 2002
4 Coblers at the Mersey
International Sea shanty
Festival, Liverpool 2002.
5 Group members relaxing
during filming of ‘What the
IndustrialRevolution did for
Us’ 2003.
6.Hauling Away for Countryfile
Easter 2004.
7 Tall Ships visit to Whitby 2005
8.In the Captain Cook Memorial
Museum, May 2005.
9.‘Swinging the Lead’ in the
Black Horse 2006.
Coblers Monday have undergone several sea changes during the past 12 years,but the vastly experienced
groups wide ranging repertoire of Sea-
underlying sense of fun shining through their powerhouse singing.
With group members varied erratic work schedule not every member is always available. So regular group
members Mick Green, ‘Redcar Mike’ Stather, Mick Haywood and Phil Jones are often augmented with
honorary members Angi and Liam Haywood,Ken Stocks and Mike O’Leary Johns.
Group members, have appeared on ‘ ITV’s Clayton’s Coast’, ‘BBC Countryfile’, CBBC,s Bio and starred as
“scurvy victims” on the BBC2 series “What the Industrial Revolution did for us”.
Coblers Monday are not only a Sea Song and Shanty group, each member is a solo singer in their own
right. The collected groups wide ranging repertoire of Sea-
Drinking strains are all performed with the groups underlying sense of fun shining through their
powerhouse singing.
This makes them ideally suitable for Maritime Events,Folk Clubs, Festivals, Concerts, etc.