Bellowhead in the toon

Sarge

Off to see these on Thursday as a favour to the missus, not really my cuppa tbh. But brownie points should be gained by pretending to enjoy myself and not be the grumpy git I am.
Anyone seen these folksters before?

ICBM

No, but that reminds me to get tickets for April when they're in Glasgow - this is their last ever tour…

I bet they'll be great and you'll really enjoy it.

not_the_dj

They're brilliant live. I've seen them at a couple of festivals and once at their own headlining gig. A brilliant racket, and very funny.

Sarge

I've no doubt they know how to entertain on stage, I've seen enough videos of them live and yep they seem good humoured and they are fans of whiskey so can't be all bad
I'm going straight from a ridiculously busy day at work, so looking to get tanked beforehand

english_bob

Saw them last year in Leicester. They are brilliant. Because there's so many of them on stage there's always something interesting happening, and they've got a very easy, informal sort of banter going on where they're all messing about with each other. Loads of energy and pretty much every tune is upbeat stuff with crude lyrics about sailors and the women who love them.

Benji Kirkpatrick who plays electric bouzouki in Bellowhead is worth a listen- just come off a tour playing Hendrix songs on bouzouki and mandolin: http://benjikirkpatrick.com/index.htm

Sarge

Well I hope they play better venues than Newcastle City Hall on this tour, all seater (thought they would have taken some seats out for people to jig about)
No drinks in the theatre, awful pa.
The band performed well, though the first half for me was a snore fest, but then they kicked into life totally entertaining a geriatric crowd
Couldn't hear the guitar at all, the main vox was very bassy and fluffy so could barely make out the lyrics.
God I sound like a moaning old git, they were great but the engineers need to go back to tech college!

Frankieabbot

Newcastle City Hall.........Lindisfarne.......Christmas concerts.....good times....great memories.