pronghorn * ARTIST SPOTLIGHT *
introducing the undisputed kings of cowpunk… Pronghorn!
We're here with another artist spotlight for you all... We are so excited to tell you about one of the brilliant acts who will be headlining our second event, Hillbilly Hootenanny 2025, taking place on 25th - 27th July... only 21 days to go! Yeeeeehahh! https://pronghorn.co.uk/home
In 1992, when grunge was what every self-respecting alternative music fan was into, a group of friends who decided to go against the grain formed a band that the likes of Dorset and the world had never seen. 20 odd years ago, they started off busking outside Debenhams in Bournemouth and then played their first gig at the Brunswick hotel in Charminster. It was after that gig that they received their first-ever review. The following morning, they discovered the landlord’s dog had left a rather large message by the drum kit.
The band was put together from the ashes of skiffle outfit ‘Hoedown at Hank's’, a Cult tribute band ‘Blue Rain’, and local upstarts ‘the Crunchy Tractors’, and quickly went onto busking outside more salubrious locations, Amsterdam Central Station, Copenhagen Homeless Hostels, and Cherbourg Docks, to name but a few. As the bands’ sound evolved with a mash of punk, country and rockabilly, which brought together the band’s very own genre “Cowpunk”, proper gigs soon followed, and then the festivals came calling…
The line-up has seen many changes over the years, but the founder members, Toni Viagra and Lamma, are still there, along with newbies(!) Ffi, Krusty, Gypo, Aussie Mike and Andy Law- who’ve only done the last fifteen years or so.
Watch Pronghorn at Glastonbury 2025: www.facebook.com/share/PronghornListen to Pronghorn on Spotify, here: www.spotify.com/artist/PronghornWatch Pronghorn perform Psycho Ceilidh at Endorset Festival, on YouTube: www.youtu.be/PsychoCelidh
With just 3 weeks until we open our gates again for our second event of the Summer... the countdown is on!
We hope you have snapped up your Hillbilly tickets already - but if not, please don't delay, as our last event reached capacity! If you want to be there, head over to our box office to grab yours today! 𝘗𝘢𝘺-𝘪𝘯-3 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦)