bellowhead
winners of the 2005 Radio 2 folk Award for 'best live act'
***** 5 Stars, 'Bring It on' - Mojo
'big band folk music at it's most exciting, intoxicating and ever so slightly subversive best', the Surrey Advertiser.
Nominated for both 'best group' and 'best live act' in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards bellowhead is one of the most exciting bands to have emerged from the 2004 festival season. During their performance at Sidmouth Festival the audience managed to break the dance floor - a fair reflection of the band's attitude to folk music!
Their recorded debut E.P. Onymous has just been released and has already received airplay from Late Junction, Andy Kershaw and Mike Harding as well as Ian Anderson's online fROOTS radio show and is making major waves, you can get your copy at www.bellowhead.co.uk
Featuring some of the most talented players from the younger generation of the English Tradition and World Music scene and spearheaded by the award winning duo Spiers & Boden, bellowhead are simply not to be missed.
bellowhead are:
John Spiers - melodeon, concertina, bandoneon
Jon Boden - vocals, fiddle
Benji Kirkpatrick - guitar, bouzouki
Giles Lewin - fiddle, bagpipes
Paul Sartin - fiddle, oboe
Pete Flood - stomp box, percussion & tuned percussion
Rachael McShane - cello, fiddle
Justin Thurgur - trombone
Brendan Kelly - saxes
Andy Mellon - trumpet
"think less Brass Monkey and more an English version of La Bottine Souriante..... I can't remember being so excited about a new folk band for years ..... they should be playing at any venue, which can afford to put on a top-flight 10-piece band....",
Andy Turner, live review, fROOTS magazine.
Contact Nigel Morton at Moneypenny for booking arrangements for bellowhead and John Spiers & Jon Boden.
Tel: 01377 217815
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Resources
Click here to download a sample of bellowhead's music and their biography / press photos
For further information: email Tel: 01225 422524