From the
coalfield.

The Colliers formed in the pit villages south of Doncaster, out where the old collieries left their mark on the landscape and the language. It's an area that's always sung — brass bands, working songs, folk clubs in the back rooms of pubs — and that's the water we grew up in.

We plug that heritage into American roots music: the swing and grit of Americana, the storytelling of folk, and a rhythm section that drives like a shift change. Acoustic guitars sit at the heart of it, but there's always an electric riff pushing underneath and a bassline that refuses to stand still. Foot-tapping, feel-good, honest music — that's the brief.

Our first EP, “Who Forgot the Parachute”, arrived in 2014 on Riverjuke and opened with “Ellers Lane” — a song named after a real lane out in Auckley, and still the one people shout for. We played it up and down the country, from hometown launches to nights like Sound Control in Manchester.

Then life happened, as it does. Now — over a decade on — the band is back in the studio cutting a brand-new EP. Same coalfield roots, same driving sound, sharper than ever.