Watch Brighton-based folk group Bird In The Belly performing their new song ‘Employ John Day No More’ in Sherbourne Valley Allotments. The song is inspired by the diaries of food horticulturalist John Whittingham which span from 1745-91.
With, After the City, Bird In The Belly have created a concept album that provides a kind of musical prequel to Richard Jefferies visionary novel. Eloquent, lovingly detailed and touched with a welcome dash of experimentalism, they have made it accessible, gripping and mythical.
Taken from their latest album ‘Neighbours and Sisters’, watch the latest video from Brighton quartet Bird in the Belly. Bees is a composition about the many folkloric traditions that surround the keeping of bees.
Watch Brighton quartet Bird in the Belly performing All You Females live at the Ropetackle, taken from their latest album ‘Neighbours and Sisters’ which features in our Best Albums of the Year.
They can be cosmopolitan in one breath, ethereal in the next. Their songs can be sad and yearning or darkly humorous. Their arrangements can sound, almost at once, ancient and startlingly contemporary. The rapid evolution of Bird In The Belly into one of our finest folk acts is a joy to behold.
Watch the new video from Bird in the Belly. ‘Verses on Daniel Good’ is a chilling real-life story that dates back to 1842 and has all the markings of a dark English folk song. The single was released digitally on 16 March.
We’re excited to share this new video from Bird in the Belly, a new folk group formed of alt-folk artist Jinnwoo, traditional folk duo Hickory Signals, multi-instrumentalist and producer Tom Pryor, and visual artist and musician Epha Roe.
