Spiers and Boden

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.

Award winning folk duo Spiers and Boden have announced that their Spring tour next year (2014) will be their last together for the foreseeable future.

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!

One of Spiers & Boden’s many fine releases was their very first Album. ‘Through & Through’ is now to be re-issued after being unavailable since 2010.

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!

Spiers and Boden have come up with an inventive new tour that will involve fans across the UK. Backyard Songs is their new touring project which takes place over 30 dates in April and May 2013. Find out more…

Join us at Priddy Folk Festival this year as they celebrate their 21st Anniversary in style. Artists include: Spiers & Boden, Spiro, Jackie Oates Band, John McCusker, John Doyle & Mike McGoldrick, Heidi Talbot & Boo Hewerdine and lots more!

We have a pair of tickets to giveaway to see Spiers & Boden @ Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank Centre, London) this Thursday 10th May at 7:30pm.

Multi award winning Chris Wood has been confirmed for England’s newest folk festival to be held at Frome in Somerset next February.

The latest release from Spiers & Boden titled ‘The Works’ is a worthy & timely celebration of this great English Folk duo. Followers will know the songs and tunes from their signature Rochdale Coconut Dance to the anthemic Prickle-Eye Bush. With the inclusion of some of best musicians out there you can only expect a great album, they deliver in style!

Welcome back to the Friday Folk Music Club. This week we have videos from: Jason Steel, James Yorkston & Big Eyes Family Players, Sharon Shannon, Townes Van Zandt, Julie Fowlis, Nathaniel Rateliff, John Martyn , A Hawk And A Hacksaw and Nancy Elizabeth! Plus audio tracks from The Owl Service and downloads from Spiers and Boden, David Gibb, Cathal Clohessy and Eamonn Costello, Martin Carthy with Dave Swarbrick and The …