Since coming together in 2010, Police Dog Hogan have fused their country-roots-Americana sound to a wholly British sensibility. The band have spent early 2025 touring to promote their 6th studio album, Lightning Strike, recorded over a single weekend at Middle Farm Studios in Devon. Lightning Strike followed on the heels of 2022’s success with Overground , which spent 4 weeks on the UK Folk album chart. The band’s exploits often feature in banjo player Tim Dowling’s weekly Guardian column, but their comic misadventures as a touring outfit are no reflection on the music, an emotionally powerful, driving country-rock sound featuring guitar, fiddle, banjo, accordion, and trumpet. PDH have played dozens of festivals, many of them repeatedly, including Glastonbury, Latitude, Cropredy, Cornbury, Beautiful Days, Kendall Calling and the Sidmouth Folk Festival. The band’s 2018 song Devon Brigade was AMA-UK-nominated, and its album charted in the UK Americana charts. In late 2024, they released Pull Away for the RNLI’s 200th anniversary. Their 2020 Christmas single raised over £50k for Crisis and topped the iTunes country chart. Police Dog Hogan are: James Studholme (guitar vocals), Eddie Bishop (fiddle, mandolin), Tim Dowling (banjo, steel guitar), Emily Norris (trumpet), Shahen Galichian (accordion, piano), Don Bowen (bass), Alistair Hamer (drums) “They manage to fuse bluegrass, folk, country and more in a way that few others can match.” RnR Magazine