[gig] Bellowhead, Junction, 15.02.09

[tamaranth]

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 ...

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Bellowhead are usually good value.
Are you around for the Great Ironing Experience this evening? I'm bringing dvds, if so, would you prefer Hong Kong or Indian, and what genre?

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Botheration ... I love Bellowhead and didn't realise they were on this weekend or I'd have tried to fit them in :-(

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

ISTR that they're starting a residency at the South Bank Centre.

[landsmand.livejournal.com]

They are super. We heard them first on Jools Holland's show a couple of years ago and have seen them a few times since. Wonderful, sinister stuff. No doubt you're already hip to all the associated bands formed from some of the collective - Faustus, for example, a three-piece with Benji Kirkpatrick and Paul Sartin from Bellowhead and Saul something on squeezebox.