A UK farmers’ choir founded by Jeremy Clarkson earned a golden buzzer from judge Amanda Holden on Britain’s Got Talent after their powerful performance of Elbow’s ‘One Day Like This’ left the audience and judges in tears at the London Palladium.
The Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir started as an advertising campaign for Jeremy Clarkson’s Cotswolds brewing company. The ads got banned from TV but blew up online. The farmers kept showing up, kept singing, and something much bigger than an ad campaign started growing between them.
Mental health in farming is a real and quiet crisis that most people don’t talk about. Dorset farmer Ellie Maguire said it straight: “There’s huge pressures on farmers to make any money from what they do and they all love what they do, so it starts getting really, really difficult to sustain doing it.”
Andy Owens from Herefordshire was honest too. “We farmers can be a miserable bunch,” he said, but the choir changed that. “We can either be more miserable or we can get on like a house on fire and have a great laugh. Thankfully it was the latter.”
James Florey called the whole BGT experience “surreal.” Standing on that stage in front of millions was, as he put it, “a million miles away from anything any of us are ever used to.”
When the first voice rang out across the Palladium, the room went quiet. Then the rest of the choir came in together and honestly, something shifted in that place.
The harmonies these farmers produced were not what anyone in that audience expected. People were on their feet.
Amanda Holden welled up from the first note. Afterwards she told them: “I felt so much power. I love how you’ve all got together and you work your asses off.” Then she hit the golden buzzer.
WATCH: Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir Stuns Audience and Judges with Jaw-Dropping Performance on BGT
