[gig] Bellowhead, Junction, 15.02.09

woolymonkey introduced me to Bellowhead, and I also know them from Rogue's Gallery: saw them live on Sunday with woolymonkey, musique_monkey and spidermonkey (whose first gig it was).

Support act Beccy Owen has a good voice but the songs didn't do much for me. Bellowhead, on the other hand, played for 90 mins or so, very high energy: there are a lot of them, multi-instrumentalists ("the kazoo was invented by the Romans to combat the Scots with their bagpipes") with plenty of brass which gave some of the songs a jazzy swing feel. John Boden has considerable stage presence, and Bellowhead as a whole were definitely having fun.

I still wish the Junction had a bit more rake: I didn't see much of the left side of the stage ...