John Hemmingham

Quick Facts

Full Name	John Hemmingham
Occupation	Trumpet Player
Date Of Birth	Feb 26, 1963(1963-02-26)
Age	61
Birthplace	Sheffield
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aquarius

John Hemmingham Biography

John Hemmingham is one of the most popular and richest Trumpet Player who was born on February 26, 1963 in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom. John Hemmingham (born 26 February 1963) is a football association fan and football administrator of Sheffield, England. He is known best for his role as the leader and trumpet musician for the Pukka Pies England Band. Hemmingham first began playing football music in 1993 alongside Sheffield Wednesday fans. In 1996 Hemmingham was asked to take part in England national football games. He has since been a part of various sporting events like those at the Olympics as well as boxing games.

Hemmingham began his career in the administration of football as the director for an unofficial supporters’ group named The Owls Trust, which He helped to establish in 2001. The Owls Trust was disliked by a large number of Sheffield Wednesday fans and by Sheffield Wednesday chairman Dave Allen because it was believed as a tool which could be used to facilitate a takeover Ken Bates, then chairman of Sheffield Wednesday’s opponents Leeds United, as The Owls Trust had control of a substantial number of shares, and Hemmingham had publicly expressed his that he was in favor of Bates.

After an attempted boardroom coup by The Owls Trust to remove Allen from the chairmanship in an extraordinary general meeting in October 2004, in 2005, The Owls Trust were evicted from their offices at Hillsborough Stadium, Hemmingham was banned from executive areas of the stadium and The Kop Band was asked to reduce its numbers by Allen. Hemmingham’s ban was then later extended to a full stadium ban from Hillsborough. As a result of this, after securing an area for matchday parking, Hemmingham resigned to take a full-time position at Bates’ Leeds United as head of customer services and membership. This led to Hemmingham receiving death threats from Sheffield Wednesday fans.

In January 2008, Hemmingham left Leeds United and in August, he was appointed as the chief executive of non-league side, Mansfield Town where he oversaw the expansion of the capacity of their Field Mill stadium. However, in January 2009, he left his position after three months. Also in January, his relations with Sheffield Wednesday improved after Allen was no longer chairman and the new directors at the club, Lee Strafford and Nick Parker elected to remove Hemmingham’s ban from Hillsborough. In 2011, Hemmingham rejoined Sheffield Wednesday as the Commercial Manager of Sheffield Wednesday Ladies.

After receiving a recording contract from Virgin Group chairman, Richard Branson, Hemmingham and the group came out with The Great Escape theme tune as a single for the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000. The England Supporters band soon receiving commercial sponsorship. As of 2002, the group was sponsored by the British newspaper The Sun who paid for the group to travel to Japan to participate in Japan’s participation at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. In 2006, they was sponsored by Leicester-based business Pukka Pies, becoming known as the Pukka Pies England Band.

John Hemmingham Net Worth

John Hemmingham is one of the richest Trumpet Player from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Hemmingham 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hemmingham began playing music during football games in 1993, when He played a bugle at an Sheffield Wednesday match away at Everton’s Goodison Park and played the fanfare for Aida. The event was noticed by local newspapers , and after an inquiry at Hemmingham via Sheffield Wednesday manager, Trevor Francis, Sheffield Wednesday then hired Hemmingham as well as a the group members of Sheffield Wednesday supporters to form an official club band that was later named”the “Kop Band”. The band was a hit, but, Hemmingham and the Kop Band were barred of Steel City derby rivals Sheffield United’s stadium Bramall Lane a number of times. They were removed from Bramall Lane due to the fact that Sheffield United were concerned that the music they played could cause “unsafe crowd movement” and “unacceptable structural movement” by Sheffield United’s safety manager.

The year was 1996. Hemmingham and the Kop Band, were invited by the president of The Football Association, David Davies to join a supporter team to support The England national team to prepare to UEFA Euro 96. Hemmingham agreed and was a part of the Kop Band became known as the England Supporters Band. Since the time, Hemmingham claims he has not been absent from any England match. Alongside being considered as the head of the group, Hemmingham is also the managing director of the band.

Hemmingham also works in football administration. He started in 2001 as the chief executive of The Owls Trust until a dispute with the Sheffield Wednesday chairman caused him to resign in 2004. Hemmingham then went on to work at other football clubs, including Leeds United and Mansfield Town before taking a position at Sheffield Wednesday after his relations improved with them. He also married in 2007.

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John Ranked on the list of most popular Trumpet Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. John Hemmingham celebrates birthday on February 26 of every year.