Spiers & Boden

Now in their fifth year of fruitful collaboration the unstoppable duo have graduated from being the dangerous new kids on the block to being a solid headlining mainstay on the folk scene as well as pushing outwards into the mainstream.

Musicianship and inventiveness is a given as is a great night out as John & Jon increasingly focus on delivering a big, thumping set with showmanship, humour and raw stomping energy.

This year as well as working hard as the founding members of bellowhead and as Ratcatchers by appointment to a certain Ms. Eliza Carthy, the boys have found the time to record and release not one, but two albums of new material. An ambitious project, the staggered double release of 'Tunes' which came out in May and 'Songs' released in October aims to reflect the two sides of the English musical tradition which John and Jon have done so much to revive since they first burst onto the scene.

John Spiers is arguably the country's finest exponent of the Melodeon, Concertina and Bandoneon -indeed anything Squeezy, as well as being a geneticist and a cheesy 70's DJ.

Jon Boden is one England's greatest singers and also a hugely talented and original fiddle player and guitarist. He has a troubled relationship with his GPRS mapping system 'Jane'.

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