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Bellowhead

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Bellowhead Live: The Fare (2016)	Revival (2014)	Broadside (2012)
Hedonism (2010)	Matachin (2008)	Burlesque (2006)

Members
11 Mixed

Origin
England, UK

Genre
Folk

Style
Folk

Mood
Happy

Born

2004

Active
2004 to Present...

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5 users Bellowhead - Roll the Woodpile Down
5 users Bellowhead - New York Girls
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4 users Bellowhead - Roll the Woodpile Down
4 users Bellowhead - New York Girls


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New York Girls	Roll the Woodpile Down	10,000 Miles Away
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"Bellowhead" are an English contemporary folk band. The eleven-piece band plays traditional dance tunes, folk songs and shanties, with arrangements drawing inspiration from a wide diversity of musical styles and influences. The band includes percussion and a four-piece brass section, and is particularly renowned for its energetic live performances. Bellowhead's musicians play more than 20 instruments between them; with six members providing vocals.

The idea for the band came to Spiers and Boden while the duo were in a traffic jam on tour. The longer they sat in traffic, the more friends they thought to invite to join. This led to the formation of a ten-piece band, with Benji Kirkpatrick, Rachael McShane, Paul Sartin, Pete Flood, Brendan Kelly, Justin Thurgur, Andy Mellon and Giles Lewin completing the initial line-up.
Before they had time to rehearse, the band were invited to play the first Oxford Folk Festival in April 2004, which went successfully.
In 2004, the band independently released a five-track EP, publicised as "English World Music", called E.P.Onymous, which generated positive reviews.
In 2006 Gideon Juckes joined the band, primarily playing the tuba, and they released their first full-length album, Burlesque, featuring material from the Napoleonic Wars, the American minstrel movement and sea-shanties from Brazil .
Towards the end of 2007 they became Artists in Residence at the Southbank Centre, making their inaugural appearance with a Christmas Revels event.


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