Spiers and Boden – review

Shepherd's Bush Empire, LondonTen years ago, in a pub on the outskirts of Oxford, a former genetics student who had switched his attention to the melodeon and concertina met a singer and fiddle player influenced by "Tom Waits, Benjamin Britten and Peter Bellamy". John Spiers and Jon Boden decided to work together, and are now folk scene celebrities; this "birthday party" was held not in a folk club but a concert hall where the crowd began screaming as they launched into the opening Captain Ward,...

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