Home Service

Home Service was originally formed in 1981 from the creative nucleus of the Albion Band line-up that produced the classic Rise Up Like the Sun album, with singer and songwriter John Tams and guitarist Graeme Taylor feeling the need to explore more contemporary themes in the songs and musical interpretation.
During its relatively short life in the mid-eighties, Home Service produced three albums and headlined at major festivals including Cambridge, Cropredy and Dranouter. They toured extensively, but found arguably their biggest audience when they provided music for Bill Bryden’s ground-breaking production of The Mysteries trilogy, which ran for many years at the National Theatre.
Cut to 2011 and the band made a dramatic return to prominence with the best-selling Live 86 album – recorded at Cambridge Folk Festival – and a string of major festival appearances, followed swiftly by further success in 2012 when they won Best Live Act at the Radio 2 Folk Awards.
Bob Fox joined Home Service in 2023 after John Tams decided to step down. Long regarded as one of the great voices of British folk song, he worked alongside Tams and Taylor, taking the role of ‘Songman’ in the National Theatre's highly successful West End production of War Horse and has embraced a brand new role alongside Taylor’s fiery lead guitar and Home Service’s stirring brass and rock-solid rhythm sections.