Bellowhead: 'We're a party band with serious intellectual pretensions'

Bellowhead are proud to have their own real ale, but talk of a folk revival doesn't impress the 11-piece bandIt is mid-afternoon by a London canal and the 11 members of Bellowhead are drinking. Somewhat surprisingly, only Pete Flood, the drummer and percussion player (whose instruments include a frying pan, a glockenspiel and an Ikea cutlery holder), has ordered a proper pint of English beer, while Jon Boden, lead vocalist, fiddle player and animating spirit, is sticking with a gin and tonic. Bu...

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