The Plonkers, The Plonkers ORIGINAL Agricultural Orchestra formed in 1979 by golly the plonker in The New Forest, Hampshire

Welcome to The Plonkers^® official web site.
The New Forests very own Original Plonkers Agricultural Orchestra, The Plonkers^®Celebrating their 33rd Year in show biz.

The Plonkers Agricultural Orchestra are an ideal band for County Shows, Local Fetes, Carnivals and Pubs.
Combining the local 'yokel' Hampshur' wit of Gordon on banjo, with 'Scrumpy' Country songs and an inventive band of very accomplished mooosicians.

The ORIGINAL Plonkers Agricultural Orchestra started life in 1979 when Gordon entered the Lymington carnival with a cider-making machine 'float'. It was a two-wheeled cart pulled by Plonker the donkey with whistles, bells and various gizmos. The cart was followed by Gordon on banjo, Bob on squeeze box and a trombone and bass drum. They won first prize playing the chorus of Drink up thee zider (which is all they knew, but as they kept moving the crowd never realised this!) for the whole parade. They did this for a few years until the 'band' numbered 15. Then one year the band booked for the Lymington Steam fair couldn't make it and Gordon was asked to stand in - the first booking for The Plonker's Agricultural Orchestra.
They have been plaguing the New Forest and beyond ever since.
Last revised: January 01, 2012

28th, Jan, 2012
The Cider Festival.
The Dean Park Inn, Bournemouth
41 Wimbourne Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH2 6NB
Now under new management, Tracey and her team welcome you to their Real Ale and Cider Festival.
The Dean Park Inn is situated on the A347 roughly 1/2 a mile outside of Bournemouth town centre.
The festival runs from Friday 27th to Sun 29th January 2012
The Plonkers are playing live on the Saturday 28th Jan
More details at: www.deanparkinn.co.uk

What's new:
The Plonkers online shop is now live. You can now purchase 2 of The Plonkers CD's. Proper Music and Second Eruption.
This is the first time 'Proper Music' has been available on CD via the internet!
We now have a new CD, 'Janet Beale On Accordion'
All CD's are priced at £9.99 and P&P is just £1 per order, so why not order more, it's still only £1
The Third Eruption is still in production, more news when we get it

Postage and packing is just £1 per order
and for peace of mind, all CD's are posted recorded delivery

We normally post our CD's within 24 hours of receiving your order, but please allow up to 10 days for delivery.
Guaranteed to keep your mother-in-law and any other unwelcome relatives away
Remember these CD's always sound better with alcohol


		How to book The Plonkers.. If you would like to book The Plonkers, Please email: Bookings@theplonkers.com Newsplash The Plonkers are now fully trained up for barn dancing complete with Golly and Una's plonkerised calling We guarantee you'll 'ave so much fun, that your knees will be in line with your ears. All the most popular barn dance tunes, with a sprinkling of The Plonkers most famous golden hit's Gary is back! more details

See The Plonkers Agricultural Orchestra live For full details of up and coming bookings Click here for the full updated Gig list Many of The Plonkers gigs are only arranged with as little as a weeks notice so please check here for the regular updates.

In conjunction with YouTube, we have embedded some brand new videos from The Plonkers^®To see these videos, click on the song titles below.

'You are my sunshine' and 'Zider Drinker' mudley!

Janette's Irish/Scottish Medley

Barley Mow

Janette's Folk Song Medley

The Blackbird Song

Buttercup Joe

Putting On The Style

A Plonkers Mudley!

And a vintage 2005 recording
You Can't Kill Cooch


More new pages have been added: Video links from You Tube first 2 supplied by Carole Mathews from New Milton		More new pages have been added: A New Fan Site run by Anna Parnell-Brookes from Wiltshire can be found on our Links Page

This page was last revised on: January 01, 2012

The Plonker's™ band line up

The main band members of The Plonkers Agricultural Orchestra™ are:
Gordon on Banjo, 'making noises what some people call singing'
Gary, the sludge tanker driver, on bass thingy,
Janette Beale on the squeezebox and keyboard
Rustic Ray on drums
Dave Robinson on Sexophone and liquorish stick
occasionally Gillybaby, on the catgut and scrapey , or violin.!!.
Jolly Roger on his humongous Sexophone
Jimbo on wind thing, we think it's a tuba.
(He's been known to notch a few points on the Richter scale when on form.)
On some gigs we have in addition:
Julian is our additional moosician from Somerset.
Whenever he can, (when he’s not filming or treading cider apples);
he plays keyboard, bass guitar, or mandolin.
Andy on washboard, idiot stick, kazookaphone and occasionally backup drummer.

Other people come and go depending on chicken-milking, cow-plucking and pumpkin-herding commitments.

More information on the band can be found by clicking the various links below or on the buttons at the side.

Email: Info@theplonkers.com

Last revised: January 01, 2012, 'Ampshire time

What is 'Ampshire time you ask?
according to Golly, 'Ampshire time is:
You eat when your hungry,
you go to bed when your tired,
and you get the job done when its finished.

The next update will be...................'Ampshire time
The clock on the right is set to 'Ampshire time

'Ampshire time

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