Bellowhead
15 November 2024
On Sunday, almost exactly nine years since we saw the great folk big band Bellowhead at the Riverside Theatre in Aylesbury on their farewell tour (reviewed here in November 2015), we were back at the Riverside to see the glorious return of Bellowhead. Initially reunited for a one-off live online performance in 2020 (reviewed here in December 2020) Bellowhead are now touring again and it was wonderful to see them live once more. The band seemed to be having a ball and you could feel the warmth from an enthusiastic sold-out audience that was revelling in an opportunity they had not expected to come around again. Bellowhead paid tribute to their former colleague Paul Sartin who died of a heart attack in 2022, at the age of 51. But this was a joyous celebration of which he would have been proud. I think I had a smile on my face through the whole performance: this is life-affirming joyous music, performed with gusto, mischief and glee. Possibly the best gig I have ever been to. This fan video from their recent appearance in Nottingham gives a flavour of the atmosphere on this reunion tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiD6-yBYqwM
posted by Robin Simpson @ 10:49 am
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