Name: Broadside
Brand: Bellowhead

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Limited edition

Release date

2012-10-15

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Bellowhead

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Folk

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Bellowhead is an eleven-piece folk-big-band that was formed in 2004 by the duo Spiers & Boden. They quickly gained recognition and went on to headline various prestigious festivals such as Cambridge Folk Festival, The Big Chill, Summer Sundae, and Roskilde Festival. Their captivating live performances earned them the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Live Act in 2005.

Starting with a self-released demo called "E.P.onymous" in October 2004, Bellowhead's popularity soared as it made its way onto the folk charts. This success led to their first full studio album, "Burlesque," released in October 2006, followed by "Matachin" in September 2008.

The band continued to make waves with a live DVD release in 2009 and their critically acclaimed third album, "Hedonism," produced by John Leckie, which hit the shelves in October 2010. They further delighted fans with albums like Broadside (2012) and Revival (2014). Although they initially disbanded after a tour in 2015, they reconnected during the lockdown of 2020 and performed an online concert that December. A recording of this concert was released in 2021. In November 2022, Bellowhead embarked on a live tour but sadly without Paul Sartin who had passed away earlier that year.

bigger, bolder, brassier and more brazen than ever, bellowhead blaze back with their mighty new album, broadside. while all things bellowhead tend to be an event, broadside is a positive spectacular, taking some of the wildest, most joyous and iconic songs in the richly colourful canon of the folk song tradition - and turning them upside down and inside out with the unique sense of drama and theatre, instrumental virtuosity, verve, humour and blind cheek that has seen them spearhead the new folk boom. their third album hedonism was the highest-selling independently released traditional folk album of all time, yet the new one broadside (a title that rather cunningly melds an early form of printed song sharing with an appropriate nautical reference to firepower) is surely set to eclipse it with its thrilling arrangements and non-stop party spirit.

Broadside

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