Spiers & Boden have announced their Spring Tour dates for 2025. Watch them performing ‘Bluey Brink’, a strange tale…as Boden told us, “Such a weird type of hero, sheep shearing and drinking acid. Brilliant!”
Today, Sharron Kraus has released ‘Birdloom’, a project she began working on with electronic musician David Muddyman (aka Muud, Jamuud) 20 years ago and which features Spiers & Boden.
Some of our favourites from Sidmouth Folk Festival 2022 Ham Concerts include Eddi Reader plus Ryan Young & David Foley, Show of Hands plus Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Spiers & Boden plus Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones, and Kate Rusby plus Jack Rutter.
We chat to John Spiers and Jon Boden (our Artists of the Month) about their new album Fallow Ground that finds them reunited and revelling in the sheer fun of music-making rooted in the English folk tradition.
At the heart of Spiers & Boden’s “Fallow Ground” is the utter joy of two friends making music together. It’s a joyful, exciting, and beautifully produced release and it’s so great to have them back.
Having parted ways back in 2014, Spiers & Boden, one of our finest folk duos, are back together again with a new album titled Fallow Ground, which you can pre-order today. They have also announced festival appearances and a 23 date UK tour.
There has never been a force of nature quite like the exhilarating juggernaut of bombastic, swaggering, buffed, multi-coloured big band folk that is Bellowhead and it is unlikely there ever will be again. Pandemonium presents highlights from Bellowhead’s incredible career.
This year’s Towersey Festival features a staggering line-up with 12 stages and over 100 artists including Martin Carthy & Eliza Carthy, Mama Rosin, Spiers & Boden, The Blockheads and many more!
Folk Radio UK catch up with Spiers & Boden on the latest leg of their ‘Backyard Songs Tour’ at the Hungry Horse Folk Club in Ellesmere Port.The tour is set to culminate at the home of English Folk music, Cecil Sharp House, on 25th May.
Bellowhead put on a great performance last month at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall with the stage transformed into a traditional galleon, resplendent with a backdrop of sails and rigging!
