When: 7pm on Monday 1 December 2025
Where: The Strines Nightingale, 105 Strines Rd, Strines, Marple, Stockport SK6 7GE

We’re excited to hosting Beans on Toast’s album launch show at The Strines Nightingale!

Following the announcement of Kill Them With Kindness, the new album from Beans on Toast, due for release December 1st via BOTMusic, the Essex-born folk troubadour has now released the first single to be taken from the album.

Titled The Glastonbury Oak, the breezy, feel-good song tells the true story about a tree Beans on Toast acquired at Glastonbury in 2024, and how it ended up being planted at a pub on the outskirts of the Peak District.

“It’s a story song,” he explains. “I’ve got a lot of songs that celebrate trees, a lot of songs that celebrate music festivals and a lot of songs that celebrate music venues; this song celebrates all three.

“In a sense, it’s a song about ritual, and about giving our lives meaning by placing importance on things that might sometimes be overlooked,” he continues. “This summer, I took a stunt double of the tree to Glastonbury and invited friends, along with random folk I met there, to take the tree on adventures around the festival and film it. The music video is a collection of those clips, alongside footage filmed when I returned to The Strines Nightingale to play another show. This is the fantastic pub where The Glastonbury Oak still stands proud.”

Perfectly, on the very day that the ‘Kill Them With Kindness’ album is due for release on December 1st, Beans on Toast will launch the album at The Strines Nightingale and will check in on The Glastonbury Oak’s growth!

“We’ll be celebrating trees, music, ritual, tradition, and my birthday, Let it grow,” he says.

Recorded at Greenmount Studios in Leeds with The Beans on Toast Band, ‘Kill Them With Kindness’ features a collection of insanely talented musical friends hand-picked from the UK music and festival scene.

“We’ve done a few tours together, but this was our first venture into a studio. Each one of them is amazing, and together… well, I’m proper chuffed with how it sounds,” Beans on Toast explains. “This album is a bit of a juxtaposition, as is the title. There are songs that deal with the current state of the world. Wars, maniac leaders, the rise of AI and the fall of the establishment. Then there are songs about trees, late nights in music venues, art, love and my new cat. As usual, it’s a time stamp of my thoughts and feelings from the past year on planet Earth.”

Beans on Toast hits the road with his full band in March 2026 – including a show at Band on the Wall on Saturday 14 March.

The new record is up there with his finest work to date, bouncing between songs about the shitshow of planet earth and the fall of the establishment, to family life, planting trees, and the absurdities of modern living.

Expect songs, stories, chaos and community in equal measure.

This show takes place at the Strines Nightingale – a lovely country pub, formerly called the Sportsman, which re-opened in autumn 2022. Strines is on the Piccadilly-Sheffield train line, and on the 358 bus route from Stockport to Hayfield. This show will run until 10.30pm at the latest.

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