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Bellowhead was an English folk band formed by John Spiers and Jon Boden. The 11-piece band plays traditional dance tunes, folklore songs and shanties with arrangements that draw inspiration from a wide range of musical styles and influences. The band has drummers and four brass instruments. She is particularly famous for her energetic live performances. Bellowheads musicians play more than twenty instruments, including six singers.
history
Spiers and Boden got the idea to start a band when they were stuck in a traffic jam on a tour. The longer they stood in a traffic jam, the more friends they wanted to invite to participate, which eventually resulted in a ten-person opening band. Before finding the time to rehearse, they were invited to the first Oxford Folk Festival in April 2004 and had immediate success with their first performance.
The result was their own five-track EP, classified as English World Music, entitled EP Onymous , which received very positive reviews . The following year, after just four rehearsals, the band won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Live Act 2005 for their live performances at festivals in Britain, including the Cambridge Festival and Womad Reading. In 2006 Gideon Juckes joined the band and mainly played the tuba. They released their first full album, called Burlesque , which featured content from the Napoleonic Wars, the American Minstrel Movement and Shanties from Brazil. They also appeared on the BBC music show Later with Jools Holland with Red Hot Chili Peppers , Keane and Thom Yorke , with recognition from Anthony Kiedis , the front man of the Hot Chili Peppers. They won Best Group and Best Live Act in the 2007 Folk Awards in 2007, and Best Live Act again the following year.
In late 2007 they became Artists in Residence at the Southbank Center, where they made their introductory appearance in the Christmas Revels event. That was the first of many events, including a nautical New Year's Eve party to celebrate the turn of the year 2009/10. In 2011 the band hosted a New Year's Eve party, this time with a circus theme.
In 2008 Bellowhead released his second album, Matachin , and gave a performance on The Proms , which was broadcast live on BBC Four and BBC Radio 3. Sam Sweeny joined the band with a violin and bagpipe after Giles Lewin left.
Bellowhead was the only band to win Best Live Act four times at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for 2010. That year, Ed Neuhauser replaced Gideon Juckes on Helion and Sousaphone. On October fourth of the same year, Bellowhead released his third album, Hedonism , which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios . It was produced by John Leckie. On this occasion, the band developed a new beer (ale), which was named after the album. Several band members were involved in the brewing process. The year ended by performing at Jools Annual Hootenanny and hosting a circus-themed event at the Southbank Center.
The band is less known in Germany. In January 2012 she presented 3sat in a cultural broadcast.
Bellowhead announced the breakup of the group on their website on March 6, 2015. At the end of a farewell tour , the band's last concert was announced for May 1, 2016 in Oxford's Town Hall , the venue of their first gig.
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- ↑ UK chart history
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
- ↑ Bellowhead, Official Website: THAT'S ALL FOLKS ...! ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 14, 2016
- ^ Oxford City Council, What's On at Oxford Town Hall , accessed April 14, 2016
Web links
- There are many music examples from this group on YouTube e.g. E.g .: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fXHSRx3M5o