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(Date Posted:26/01/2006 11:09 PM)

Hello everyone,Thought I'd take the plunge into the forums and start a topic How did you discover Bellowhead?For me and my good lady it was us flicking about on the TV remote and stumbling across coverage of a folk festival (Cambridge?) on BBC4. Bellowhead came on and literally blew us away.At this point you've got to remember that whilst I have pretty eclectic tastes (Kate Bush to Prince to Led Zep and most things in between), the good lady is an Elvis and Abba person. Never have our musical tastes meshed until that one moment.Literally as soon as the short set had finished, we were on the tinternet and searching for Bellowhead. Within a couple of days we'd booked to see them at Keswick and the Ep had been purchased.Keswick was a blast, finally the good lady and I could enjoy a concert together.And now, here I am sending off a cheque to get a couple of all day passes for the Oxford Folk Festival so we can have another dose of the Bellows. Who'd have thunk it, we were secretly folkies and neither of us ever knew.So then, how did you discover Bellowhead?
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(Date Posted:27/01/2006 12:24 PM)

Errrrrrrrr..........

My mum saw them at Cambridge and past the word on to me. Being a S&B fan already it was only a small step to join the Bellowhead following.

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(Date Posted:27/01/2006 3:17 PM)

I was at their first ever gig at the 2004 Oxford Folk Festival and was blown away on the spot.

Since then I have been to see them as often as possible.

I just hope that I am not working too much at this years Oxford festival so that I can get to see them there again (so to anyone who is going no crisis to distract me during the Bellowhead set, please).

Sandra

 

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(Date Posted:27/01/2006 11:05 PM)

 

I'd heard J&J already in Eliza Carthy's band, so I decided to go and see 'Bellowhead' at the first OFF (so I was at thier debut too) I was another who was blown away by thier sound. Like Sandra I hope I'm not too busy at this years Oxford Festival to see them make thier triumphant return! 

Look forward to seeing your there Grindug....

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(Date Posted:28/01/2006 1:37 AM)

I too was prancing about Oxford Town Hall in April 2004 when Bellowhead made their debut. This I regarded as my audition for Morris Offspring but since they still haven't invited me to join I suppose I wasn't successful. In my defence, I have to say that Fee and Sandra were prancing about too and definitely weren't blown away as I have seen them all over the place ever since. And will again at Oxfest 2006.

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(Date Posted:29/01/2006 3:07 AM)

I can't quite remember when I first heard about Bellowhead, I think it might actually have been on this website (the old version of it anyway) where it was mentioned as Spiers and Boden's latest project.  I remember thinking "ooooh, that sounds cool!  Have to keep an eye/ear open for them".  Then about a year ago I heard them on Mike Harding's show.  The next day I went online and ordered E.P.Onymous, and loved it!  Still have to see them live, but I will make it one day!

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(Date Posted:29/01/2006 2:24 PM)

I was stood next to Sandra and hubby Chris at Oxford Folk Fest 2004, swaggering slightly having been drinking constantly with them for the previous 8 hours (we'd only just met too! nice way to get to know someone )

What I remember was a massive sense of anticipation. We knew of J&J and had seen them several times as a duo and in Eliza's band but those were small and light acoustic styles. Here we were promised a football team with brass, drums and amplification. We had no idea what Bellowhead would sound like, whether it would be an extension of J&J's own sound, something excitingly different or just a swampy mess (which was quite possible - the acoustics in the Oxford Town Hall are not good and the sound could easily have descended into a mire.) If I remember rightly they started with Rambling Sailor and the question was answered in the first few bars. We went nuts.

I remember thinking after that gig that it was an excellent show and a great concept but was it a one-off? Was it good because it was Oxford lads doing a project for the Oxford Folk Festival or did Bellowhead have legs? I had the chance to see them at Sidmouth later that summer, up in the dance tent on the hill. That was when they proved that they were a major band in their own right. Been following them ever since.

See you all at Oxford Folk 2006 then! I shall be there, at the front.

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Nick
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(Date Posted:29/01/2006 7:22 PM)

Unfortunately I didn't get to see them at Oxford 2004 , neither will I this year , but I first saw them at Sidmouth and they were brilliant!   I think the fact that the dancers broke the floor is evidence enough!!

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