Ferocious Dog
at Cheese & Grain, Frome
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After a dynamic spring tour celebrating the release of their politically charged album Kleptocracy, followed by a second leg this autumn, Ferocious Dog is set to bring a new experience to fans with a special acoustic tour in spring 2025. This tour will showcase a stripped-back, intimate sound that unveils a different side of the Kleptocracy album, dives into the band’s extensive back catalogue, and pays tribute to the traditional folk songs that have inspired them from the beginning.
While Kleptocracy introduced a bolder sound with heavier rock influences and an expanded Celtic flavor, this upcoming tour will offer a unique intensity rooted in the raw energy of acoustic instrumentation—enhanced only slightly by microphones. With this approach, Ferocious Dog aims to give audiences an up-close and personal performance, presenting their music in a way that feels both nostalgic and refreshingly new.
The acoustic setlist promises fan-favorite tracks from across Ferocious Dog’s career, reimagined with a folk-centric twist, along with renditions of traditional folk songs that echo the themes of resistance and rebellion central to Kleptocracy. These songs speak to timeless stories of struggle and resilience, themes that resonate as strongly today as ever. The band looks forward to breathing new life into these narratives on stage, honoring the roots of folk music while keeping its spirit of defiance alive.
As a follow-up to the powerful full-band energy of the Kleptocracy tour, th
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More than a band, they are a family. “To listen to the Ferocious Dog as it snarls and growls at the world is to show responsibility” said a Louder Than War review of their brilliant, recently released and Fake News and Propaganda album, but this is an outfit that shows compassion too. They’ve been hailed as “a representation of our gut feeling, savage and merciless” and at the same time, called “folk in the grand tradition of it being the peoples sound.” Ferocious Dog, however are all those things. And that, in a world where the lines of truth are blurred by the rich, powerful and corrupt, is priceless. A band that does drives for foodbanks – not for headlines, but because it was the right thing to do - a band that welcomes Big Issue, Hunt Sabs and conservationists Sea Shepherd to their shows. No, here the feeling is important. Ferocious Dog is the group where fans were tattooed in the shop belonging to the lead singer, Ken Bonsall, where the violinist and band leader, Dan Booth prints the posters, and Ryan Brooks plays the lead guitar. They can wow a punk festival one minute, a folk festival the next – and fit right in anywhere.…
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Cheese & Grain
Market Yard
Justice Lane
Frome
BA11 1BE
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- cheeseandgrain.com
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on Thu 27 March 2025
