Bellowhead

Bellowhead are an English folk band that was founded by John Spiers and Jon Boden. The eleven-member band plays traditional dance tunes, folk songs and shanties with arrangements that draw their inspiration from a wide array of musical styles and influences. The band has a drummer and four brass, and is particularly famous for their energetic live performances. Bellow Heads musicians play over twenty instruments, including six singers.

History

Spiers and soil came up with the idea to form a band when they were stranded on a tour in a traffic jam. The longer they were stuck in traffic, the more friends they wanted to invite to participate, which eventually ended in a ten-man band beginning. Before they found the time to rehearse, they were invited for the first Oxford Folk Festival in April 2004 and had immediate success with their first appearance.

As a result came out its own five - track EP, classified as English World Music titled EP Onymous which was a very positive review. The following year, after only four sample performances, the band won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Live Act 2005 for their live performances at festivals in Britain, which included Cambridge Festival and Womad Reading with. In 2006, Gideon Juckes joined the band and played mainly the tuba. They gave their first overall album, called Burlesque, out which content from the Napoleonic Wars, the American minstrel movement and sea shanties from Brazil represented. They appeared in the BBC music show Later with Jools Holland, along with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Keane and Thom Yorke, where they found recognition of Anthony Kiedis, the frontman of Hot Chili Peppers. In 2007, they won Best Group and Best Live Act in the 2007 Folk Awards, and the following year again Best Live Act.

Towards the end of 2007, they were Artists in Residence at the Southbank Centre, where they had their introductory appearance in the Christmas Revels event. That was the first of many events, including a nautical oriented New Year's Eve party to celebrate the new year 2009/10. In 2011, the band hosted a New Year's Eve party, this time with a circus theme.

In 2008 Bellowhead announced his second album, Matachin out and gave a performance at The Proms, which was broadcast live by BBC Four and BBC Radio 3 Sam Sweeny joined with fiddle and bagpipes after the departure of Giles Lewin of the band at.

Bellowhead reached as a single band four were awarded Best Live Act at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2010. This year, Ed Neuhauser Gideon Juckes replaced at Helion and Sousaphone. On the fourth of October of the same year, Bellowhead released his third album, Hedonism, out, which had been 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. It was decided the year with a performance at Jools Annual Hootenanny and to host an event at the Southbank Centre, which circus had on the subject.

In Germany the band is less well known. But YouTube offers many pieces of her. In January 2012, she presented 3sat ago in a cultural program.

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