The Horne Section

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rdf:langString The Horne Section playing live in Buxton, May 2019

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rdf:langString The Horne Section is a British musical comedy band, appearing regularly on radio, television, and stage. Led by frontman and comedian Alex Horne, the band mix music with comedy and specialise in comedy/spoof songs as well as performing a wide variety of genres including jazz. The band is made up of professional musicians, including two childhood friends of Horne, and first performed together in May 2010, with the current line-up finalised during 2012. The Horne Section have performed at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as touring the UK, and celebrity guests at their shows have included Harry Hill, Simon Amstell, Jimmy Carr, Tim Minchin, Josie Long, Al Murray and John Oliver as well as musicians including Suggs and Neil Hannon. Their BBC Radio 4 series – Alex Horne presents The Horne Section – ran for three series from 2012 to 2014. The band have also released five albums of songs which are available via the group's Bandcamp page. The band featured in The Horne Section Christmas, a nine-minute Christmas-carol themed TV special, shown on Sky Arts in December 2015 as part of a festive season of comedy shows. In April 2018 they recorded a two-hour live show at the London Palladium entitled The Horne Section Television Programme, featuring celebrity guests including Sue Perkins and Nadine Coyle, and broadcast on UK TV channel Dave on 24 May 2018. A Channel 4 six-part programme The Horne Section TV Show was released 3 November, 2022, and is a mostly scripted comedy about the band, combining elements of musical comedy, talk show and sitcom. Horne and the band have often appeared on Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown as the dictionary corner guest, performing various songs and jokes, and have chaired the BBC Two comedy/music quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks in November 2012. The Horne Section were the 'house band' for Channel 4's The Last Leg of the Year on New Year's Eve 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, where they contributed backing music as well as playing a number of their own songs. They provided music for The Last Leg: Locked Down Under and Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer in 2020 and joined Peter Crouch again in 2021 for . The band created the theme music for Horne's Taskmaster TV show, as well as for The Guardian's cricket podcast The Spin. The Horne Section Podcast has run from 2018 until 2021. It was in the top 10 most streamed podcasts from the Deezer platform in 2018, and in April 2019 it was nominated in the ‘Best Comedy’ category of the British Podcast Awards. The podcast has featured a range of guests including comedians (Greg Davies, Roisin Conaty, Sara Pascoe, Nish Kumar, Adam Buxton), presenters (Richard Osman, Susie Dent, Angellica Bell), sportspeople (Chris Hoy, Lizzy Yarnold), performance poets (Rob Auton, Tim Key, Scroobius Pip), and musicians (Jessie Ware, David Arnold, Robbie Williams). Each episode consists of light-hearted banter with the guest interspersed with comedic songs written and performed by the group.