Click on the clip below to see a quick trailer for the DVD which was recorded during the tour last September.

Bellowhead’s first full album, Burlesque, was released in September 2006.  Currently at no.1 in HMV’s folk charts!

A big thank-you to everyone who attended our 2 launch gigs in

Festival season is upon us again, we’ve already played Knockengorroch and Grassington festivals in May & June and the lions share of them will be coming up in July & August, check out the tour dates page for all the information.  We’ve had 4 new additions to the Bellowhead entourage since the last news!!  4 baby girls, Polly Boden, Mossie May Kirkpatrick, Josie Flood and Bryony Spiers were born in March, April, May and June respectively!  We hope to be able to bring you some pictures from the girls at their first festivals before too long.
   Speaking of pictures, we have some new photos in the gallery which were retrieved from Gideon’s mobile phone taken during the October 2005 tour ... They are certainly quite interesting and give some idea of what it is like to live with Bellowhead in a van for 19 days!
   Things are moving nicely with the album launch which is still planned for September, we are planning one or more launch dates in October 2006 to give the album a nice welcome.  Of course, you will be able to buy the record from the Spiers & Boden web shop as soon as it is released (and from all good high street record shops!!).
    And finally, after a year and a half working for the band, we have parted company with our management at Queen Mab’s music.   You can find all the contacts you need at the new contact page here.

Peace, Bellowhead

  A slightly belated Happy New Year to everyone from everyone in Bellowhead, most of us had a really good rest over the Christmas period and were ready for the first gig of the year at Celtic Connections in Glasgow.  The gig at the Garage was a real success and we’d like to thank the all-star trio, Lau who provided some amazing music as the support, you can find out more about Kris, Aidan and Martin at the Lau website.  Also, a big thank-you to everyone who came and supported us at this gig.
    As some of you might be aware, we’ve recently signed a record deal with German company Westpark, and we wasted no time following our return from Glasgow.  Ably assisted by top production team Ben Mandelson and Rob Keyloch, we recorded the first full Bellowhead album at Livingston Studios in North London.  Although the release date has not yet been officially announced, we are pretty confident that the record will be released late summer / early autumn.  Whatever the date, you will hear it first here.

    Coming up for the band:  We’ve got a bit of a break before going back on tour in April - all the tour dates have now been finalised, check the gigs page to see if we’ll be playing near you.  We’ve also got a lot of new festival dates booked in for the summer.

Peace, Bellowhead

Oxford and The Bush Hall in London - especially those of you who put in a tremendous effort with the fancy-dress at the London show.

Bellowhead also appeared on Radio 4’s Loose Ends with Ned Sherrin on 7th October.

   Brilliant news!  Bellowhead will be playing 2 tracks live on Later with Jools Holland on the show going out on 1st December together with The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Keane and The Be Good Tanyas.  Make sure you don’t miss it!

December 1st 2006 - BBC 2 11.45pm
Clips of the show can be found by going to www.youtube.com and searching for Bellowhead.

Bellowhead have been nominated for 3 categories of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards which will be announced in Feb 2007:

Best Album for Burlesque
Best Group
Best Live Act (won in 2005)

Congratulations also to Spiers & Boden nominated for best duo.   Pete Flood for his part in Van Eyken nominated for best group, best traditional track and best album.  And also to Damien O’Kane for his nomination with Shona Kipling for the Horizon Award.

Meanwhile in the BBC Radio 3 Planet Awards for World Music - Burlesque has also been nominated for best Album by the fRoots Critic’s poll.

We’re back on the road in Jan/Feb kicking off at the Komedia in Brighton on Jan 29th.  Check out the tour dates page for full details of all forthcoming gigs.  We look forward to seeing you soon!

As well as all the new tour dates for Jan/Feb through to September 07, we’ve also got a new photo gallery of the Burlesque album launch.  You can see just how well we scrub up when we make an effort :-)

Peace, Bellowhead

We’re very pleased to be able to announce that Bellowhead have won the Best Live Act and Best Group categories.  You can hear the highlights of the award ceremony on BBC Radio 2 on Wednesday 7th Feb at 7pm where Bellowhead will be playing 2 live tracks.  You can read more about the awards at the BBC Folk & Acoustic website.  Bellowhead would like to congratulate all the winners of the other awards.

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL - GRAND REOPENING WEEKEND

Thanks to everyone who came and joined in with the celebrations at the South Bank last weekend (9th-10th June).  The gigs were a riot and special thanks to all of you who came and participated in the Bellowsession on Saturday.

Bellowhead’s autumn tour is nearly upon us - the new t-shirts arrive today!  For full details including how to get your tickets see the tour dates page.  On this tour we will be ably supported by Chris TT and we will also have special guests The Jim Moray Trio playing our London show at Shepherds Bush Empire which is also being filmed for a live DVD.

And on that note, we have become aware that some of you are experiencing a few difficulties with tickets booked via Amazon.  This is the first time Amazon have sold concert tickets and It seems their system is suffering a few teething troubles. We've expressed concern to the ticket suppliers and are assured that the tickets will be dispatched in time for the gig.  If there are any dramas (postal strike etc.) they will contact people individually and make arrangements on the night (they will have a full list of names).
We hope this hasn't caused any inconvenience.
Come along and enjoy the party....

This news just in ... Bellowhead have been chosen to succeed St. Etienne as the next band in residence at London’s famous South Bank Centre.  More news will appear here when we have it.

At this year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Bellowhead made it a hat-trick of best live act awards having won the accolade in 2005 and 2007.  The award was presented by Romeo Stodart from The Magic Numbers.

Thank you to everyone at Smooth Operations who run the awards and also to all of you who make our live shows so much fun for all of us.

Check out our tour dates page for news of all the upcoming dates on the April tour and festivals as the gigs are confirmed.  More to be added soon.

Bellowhead are pleased to announce that we have just signed to a new, exciting record company for our next album.  Recording for the new album will start this April.

We regret that the date scheduled for 25th April at the Roadmenders in Northampton has been cancelled.  All other April dates are still going ahead as planned.