Merry Hell Concert History

Merry Hell is an English 8-piece folk-rock band from Wigan, England, formed in 2011 that combines male and female vocals with mandolin, electric guitars, bass, drums and keyboards. The band consists of the three Kettle brothers, John Kettle (guitar), Bob Kettle (mandolin, harmonica), and Andrew Kettle (vocals), joined by John’s wife, Virginia Kettle, who brings both acoustic guitar and the perfect vocal foil to Andrew’s gravelly delivery to complete the Kettle quaternary.

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Merry Hell Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2025)

Date Concert Venue Location
May 22, 2025 –
May 25, 2025
Upcoming
Bearded Theory Festival 2025 @ Catton Park
Iggy Pop / Manic Street Preachers / Ash / The Sisters of Mercy / Leftfield / Yard Act / The Selecter / CMAT / Asian Dub Foundation / Nova Twins / The Mary Wallopers / Dream State / Gurriers / Zion Train / Molotov Jukebox / Getdown Services / Castle Rat / Popes Of Chillitown / Audioweb / Man/Woman/Chainsaw / CLT DRP / 3 Daft Monkeys / Angeline Morrison / Trupa Trupa / GIRLBAND! / Merry Hell / Dakka Skanks / Slay Duggee / Jess Silk / Slaney Bay / Midnight Rodeo / Divorce (UK) / The Miki Berenyi Trio / The Brandy Thieves / Gaz Brookfield & The Company Of Thieves / The Deep Blue (UK) / THE*NONE Show all bands
Catton Park Walton-on-Trent, UK
May 21, 2025 –
May 25, 2025
Upcoming
Bearded Theory 2025
Iggy Pop / Manic Street Preachers / Paul Heaton / The Sisters of Mercy / Yard Act / Leftfield / The Mary Wallopers / English Teacher / CMAT / Nova Twins / The Lottery Winners / Ash / Ezra Furman / Fat Dog / Nadine Shah / Antony Szmierek / Mannequin Pussy / Katy J Pearson / Divorce / Terrorvision / Asian Dub Foundation / Beans on Toast / Deadletter / Dream State / Du Blonde / GIRLBAND! / Gurriers / Lime Garden / Millie Manders and The Shutup / Molotov Jukebox / Ned's Atomic Dustbin / Phil Hartnoll / Shonen Knife / Stewart Lee / The Alarm / The Lovely Eggs / The Meffs / The Selecter / The Vaselines / Throwing Muses / Zion Train / Angeline Morrison / Audioweb / Bentley Rhythm Ace / Castle Rat / Chris Hawkins / CLT DRP / Dakka Skanks / Eighty Eight Miles / Gaz Brookfield & The Company Of Thieves / Getdown Services / Headsticks / Jess Silk Trio / Man/Woman/Chainsaw / Merry Hell / Midnight Rodeo / Miki Berenyi / Muddy Summers & The DFWs / Popes Of Chillitown / Slaney Bay / Slay Duggee / Stick In The Wheel / The Bar-Steward Sons Of Val Doonican / The Brandy Thieves / The Deep Blue / The None / Trupa Trupa / UJahm / 3 Daft Monkeys / Anthrax UK / Bridget / Blyth Power / Cara Means Friend / Carsick / Chrome & Illinspired / Culture Shock / Dissident Noize Factory / Dumbfoundus / Dynamite & The Dinosaurs / Eat Your Own Head / Hattie Hatstar / Gallus / The Junkoactive Wasteman & The Tin Can Twins / Krin / Lacertilia / Last Tree Squad / Mercurius Rising / Monkeyfist / Mr Tea and the Minions / Nogood Boyo / P.A.I.N. / Papa Gumbo / Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies / Rupcha Farms / Split Dogs / The Mighty Flux / The Scribes / The Sporadics / The Vegetable Collective / Turner Brothers / Twat Union / She Drew The Gun / Bare Jams / Ruby J / Nick Parker / Nuala / Altern-8 / Billy Daniel Bunter / Carl Loben / Chris Liberator / DiY Soundsystem / The Drum Machine / Dub Pistols / Irvine Welsh / Jack Said What / K-Klass / Leeroy Thornhill / L.T.J. Bukem / Mr. C / Steve Mac / Utah Saints / Bess Atwell / Atilla the Stockbroker / Freestylers Show all bands
Catton Hall Walton-on-Trent, UK
Sep 06, 2024 –
Sep 08, 2024
Swanage Folk Festival 2024
Merry Hell / Keith Donnelly & Flossie Malavialle / Granny's Attic / Hot Rats / Gaelforce / Cara / Buffalo Gals / Luke Jackson / Track Dogs
Sandpit Field Swanage, Dorset, UK
Sep 08, 2023 –
Sep 10, 2023
Swanage Folk Festival 2023
Merry Hell / Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening / Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys / Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman / Den Miller / Magpie Lane / The Melrose Quartet / Honey & The Bear
Sandpit Field Swanage, Dorset, UK
Aug 10, 2023
Nile Rodgers + CHIC / Toyah / Damian Wilson & Adam Wakeman / Merry Hell / Fairport Convention

Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023

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Cropredy Cropredy, Oxfordshire, England.
Aug 10, 2023 –
Aug 12, 2023
Cropredy Festival 2023
Solstice / Fairport Convention / Merry Hell / Wilson & Wakeman / Toyah and Robert / Nile Rogers and Chic / 10CC / Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri / East Star All Stars / Richie Owens And The Farm Bureau / The Fisherman's Friends / Joshua Burnell / Peat & Diesel / Strawbs / Beans on Toast / Gilbert O’Sullivan / Morganway / Richard Digance / The Young’uns Show all bands
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Cropredy Festival 2023 Cropredy, UK
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Jun 30, 2023
The Lathums / The Lathums / Merry Hell / The Dream Machine (UK)

The Lathums,The Lathums at Castlefield Bowl

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Castlefield Bowl Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicates for Jun 30, 2023
Aug 27, 2021
Towersey Festival
"Towersey Festival" / Ferris and Sylvester / forest of fools / Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards / Merry Hell / Show of Hands / Steeleye Span / The Cinelli Brothers / The Langan Band / Trials Of Cato / Celtic Heartbeat / The Deadbeat Apostles
Claydon Estate Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Jul 09, 2021 –
Jul 11, 2021
Ely Folk Festival 2021
The Trials of Cato / Merry Hell / Blackbeard's Tea Party / Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage / Young'uns / Noble Jacks / Brooks Williams / Martyn Joseph / Show of Hands
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Ely Football Club Ely, UK
Feb 14, 2020 –
Feb 15, 2020
Love Folk Festival 2020
The Trials of Cato / The Goat Roper Rodeo Band / Lizzy Hardingham / Martyn Joseph / Merry Hell / Blair Dunlop / Granny's Attic
The Atkinson Southport, UK
Sep 30, 2017
Looe Music Festival
"Looe Music Festival" / Lulu / Correspondents / Sound of the Sirens / The Undertones / Haunt the Woods / Me And The Devil / Holy Moly And The Crackers / Merry Hell / Uncle Frank (UK) / Peoples String Foundation / Meaghan Blanchard
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Looe Music Festival Grounds Cornwall, United Kingdom
Aug 26, 2017
"Cottingham Folk Festival" / Kitty, Daisy & Lewis / Joanne Shaw Taylor / Big Boy Bloater / Merry Hell

Cottingham Folk Festival

Various Venues Cottingham, England, United Kingdom
Apr 04, 2015
The Men They Couldn't Hang / Merry Hell / The London Sewage Company O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire London, England, United Kingdom
Oct 04, 2014
Show of Hands / Merry Hell

Derby Folk Festival

Assembly Rooms Derby, England, United Kingdom
May 31, 2014
Wychwood Music Festival
"Wychwood Music Festival" / Levellers / Bad Manners / La Chiva Gantiva / Newton Faulkner / Reef / The Gaslight Troubadours / King Charles / Kyla La Grange / Merry Hell / Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer / Bexley / The Black Hats / Spoils
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Cheltenham Racecourse Cheltenham, United Kingdom
May 30, 2014 –
Jun 01, 2014
Wychwood Festival 2014
The Stranglers / Bipolar Sunshine / Newton Faulkner / The Boomtown Rats / Kyla La Grange / Levellers / Bad Manners / The Real Thing / Ten Fé / Merry Hell / Lloyd Yates / Andy Oliveri / Black Hats / Nina Baker / Graig Charles
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Cheltenham Racecourse Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
May 22, 2014 –
May 25, 2014
Bearded Theory 2014
carter the unstoppable sex machine / Culture Shock / Dub Pistols / Peter Hook & The Light / The Membranes (UK) / 3 Daft Monkeys / Dexters / Merry Hell / Oysterband / pop will eat itself / The Stranglers / The Wonderstuff / Autonomads / Black Star Dub Collective / Dreadzone / Duke Special / Fishbone / The Blockheads / The Swiines / UB40 / Doctor And The Medics / Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs / Shank's Pony / Thinker / Steve Ignorant & Paranoid Visions / Anti-Vigilante / Leatherat / Culture Shock / New Groove Formation / Babyhead / Dynamite Pussy Club / Funke and the Two Tone Baby / Sean McGowan / Billy Nasty / Chris Liberator / Glowbones / Tribazik / Mark One / Tim Toil / Drummachineelectric / The Drum Machine / Gaz Brookfield / Poisoned Electrick Head / Inner Terrestrials / Babar Luck's East End Trinity / And The Wasters / The Firepit Collective / Maelor / The Ghouls Show all bands
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Canton Hall Walton-on-Trent, UK
Aug 04, 2013
Wickham Festival
"Wickham Festival" / Peatbog Faeries / The Blockheads / Rolf Harris / Wilko Johnson / Merry Hell / Tim Edey / Brendan Power / Rory McLeod / Public Service Broadcasting
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Wickham Festival Grounds Wickham, United Kingdom
Aug 24, 2012 –
Aug 27, 2012
towersey village festival 2012
Larkin Poe / The South / Bellowhead / Jon Boden / Roddy Woomble / Peatbog Faeries / Old Man Luedecke / Nic Jones / Junk / Bev Lee Harling / O'Hooley & Tidow / The Albion Band / Brass Monkey / Merry Hell / Jez Lowe / Session A9 / John Kirkpatrick / Nancy Kerr & James Fagan / Roy Bailey / Edward II / Jamie Smiths Mabon / The Melrose Quartet / Alistair Anderson / David Gibb & Elly Lucas / Gadarene / The Old Swan Band / Pilgrims' Way / Whapweasel / Walsh & Pound / Gavin Davenport / Cupola / Cock And Bull Band / Esquisse / The Ian McMillan Orchestra / Old Country Union / Stream of Sound / Martin Simpson Trio / Chris Coe / Abigail Washburn with Kai Welch / Reuben's Train / Revellion / Ceilidhography / Stephen Taberner / Lebedek / The Witchmen / Blair Dunlop and Ashley Hutchings / Donal Lunny, Padraig Rynne and Sylvain Barou / The Chipolatas / Debs Newbold Show all bands
towersey village festival 2012 Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Aug 05, 2012
Wickham Festival 2012 Sunday
The Levellers / Oysterband / The Outcast Band / The Day of Rabblement / Rory McLeod / John Otway / Merry Hell / The Wurzels / Phil Odgers / Dervish
Wickham Festival Site Wickham, Hampshire, UK
Aug 02, 2012 –
Aug 05, 2012
Wickham Festival 2012
KT Tunstall / The Proclaimers / Levellers / Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel / Jools Holland / The Red Hot Chilli Pipers / Bellowhead / Karine Polwart / Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra / The Wurzels / Ruby Turner / Show of Hands / Dervish / Oysterband / Old Man Luedecke / Heidi Talbot / Boo Hewerdine / Mànran / Jackie Oates / Tinderbox / Blair Dunlop / Steve Tilston / Lady Maisery / Rory McLeod / Jim Causley / Session A9 / Merry Hell / Nancy Kerr & James Fagan / Kitty the Lion / Belshazzar's Feast / Calan / Home Service / Miranda Sykes / Edward II / Phil Odgers / The Askew Sisters / The Outcast Band / Babelfish / John Otway & The Big Band / K-passa / Les Barker / The Paper Trains / Long Notes / Jack McNeill and Charlie Heys / Fake Thackray / The Alistair Goodwin Band / Ducie / Michael Mcgoldrick, John Mccusker & John Doyle / Rachel Hair Trio / Black Peak / Chris Sherburn & Denny Bartley / Alistair Russell / Shamus O'blivion & the Megadeath / The Jason Wilson Band / Rua Macmillan Trio Show all bands
Wickham Community Centre West Wickham, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Aug 02, 2012

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The Lathums / The Lathums / Merry Hell / The Dream Machine (UK) on Jun 30, 2023 [436-small]

The Lathums / The Lathums / Merry Hell / The Dream Machine (UK)
Jun 30, 2023
 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023 on Aug 10, 2023 [603-small]

Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023
Aug 10 - 12, 2023
 Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023 on Aug 10, 2023 [602-small]

Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023
Aug 10 - 12, 2023
 Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023 on Aug 10, 2023 [601-small]

Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023
Aug 10 - 12, 2023
 Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023 on Aug 10, 2023 [600-small]

Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023
Aug 10 - 12, 2023
 Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023 on Aug 10, 2023 [599-small]

Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023
Aug 10 - 12, 2023
 Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023 on Aug 10, 2023 [598-small]

Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023
Aug 10 - 12, 2023
 Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023 on Aug 10, 2023 [597-small]

Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023
Aug 10 - 12, 2023
 Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Genres:

Rock
Folk
Folk Rock
Folk Punk
Celtic Rock
Traditional British Folk
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Latest Setlist (08/10/2023):

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  1. Summer Is a - Comin'
  2. There's a Ghost in Our House
  3. We Are Different We Are One
  4. Bury Me Naked
  5. Lean on Me Love
  6. Leave It in the Ground
  7. Sister Atlas
  8. Come On, England!
  9. Violet
  10. Loving the Skin You're In
  11. Only Love
  12. We Need Each Other Now
  13. Don't Say I Say Us
  14. The Baker's Daughter

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Concerts Per Year:

2025 2 concerts
2024 1 concert
2023 3 concerts
2021 2 concerts
2020 1 concert
2017 2 concerts
2015 1 concert
2014 4 concerts
2013 1 concert
2012 5 concerts
2011 1 concert

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