Announcing the dates for our next tour commencing on 1st March. England, Scotland, Collaborations and more [...]
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Morwellham Quay Folk Festival Cancelled
We’re very sorry to have to announce that the Morwellham Quay Folk Festival which we were due to be playing on 2nd August has been cancelled due to low ticket sale [...]
Autumn tour dates announced – site update
Visit our tour dates page to see the first dates announced in our Autumn tour for 2009 [...]
Spring Tour Singing the Chorus League Table Division 1 Trophy
The results are out and as suspected, ever since their scintillating display of singing prowess early on in the tour, the Cumberland Arms in Newcastle-upon-Tyne are the winners [...]
Ireby Festival date selling out fast
Only a few tickets left for the whole festival, so we’re told [...]
Site updated and new audio /video page
Some archive BBC video and mp3 track are now available on our media player [...]
More tickets released for Newcastle date
Fear not – the Cumberland Arms gig is not quite sold out yet! More tickets have been made available from wegottickets.com
New Newcastle date at the Cumberland Arms
We’re very happy to announce that we’ve replaced the cancelled Brighton gig on Sat 18th March with one in Newcastle (mainly because it means we don’t have a 500 mile drive between gigs!). It will be fantastic to be returning to the Cumberland for it’s lively intimate atmosphere. Be sure to get your tickets for [...]
Happy February!
Hello and a belated Happy New Year to everyone. It’s been a fairly hectic opening to 2009 for us so sorry for the lack of updates – we’ve completed the very successful run of Junctions gigs collaborating with the Tacet Ensemble and completed the first Bellowhead tour of the year in Wales. It’s a fairly furious [...]
The Leopard, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent – contact number!
We’d like to apologise for putting an incorrect telephone number on all the publicity material for our gig at the Leopard. The correct number is 01782 514896 – if you can’t get through on that one you could also try 01782 523277 during the month of February. Thanks to Eric Cox who runs the show for [...]
Brighton Date Cancelled
We’re really sorry to have to announce that our date advertised at the Komedia on 25th March 2009 has been cancelled by the venue. We’re hoping to find something else nearby as soon as we can – keep watching this space for all the latest news.
Bellowhead Tour coming up
Spiers and Boden will be on tour with Bellowhead between October 23rd and November 2nd to promote the new album, Matachin which has been getting some very good reviews in the national press. After that we will be concentrating on rehearsals for the Junctions project with the Tacet Ensemble. The newly commissioned compositions are nearing [...]
Autumn tour over
Thanks to everyone who came to all our gigs this September. Sorry to anyone who we didn’t get near enough to! We do get some feedback telling us that we don’t get to many local areas on our tours – and we’re trying to get it right. You can also help out – if you [...]
Vagabond on Red Vinyl
Oh yes! Now for a limited run of 500 you too can own a lovely shiny red vinyl disc of Spiers & Boden. It will be available from our online shop very soon as well as from gigs. The stock has just been received by our distributors at Proper and we’re very very excited. Jon [...]
New booking agent
We are pleased to announce that Terry O’Brien will be taking on all of our bookings. Current bookings taken under John Spiers should still contact him regarding those gigs. Terry’s contact details can now be found on the contacts page.
New collaboration starting up
Starting this month, the duo will begin several collaboration days with the Brighton based Tacet Ensemble to compose new music which will be performed at several concerts in December and January.
Tour Over
The launch tour has finished after 3 weeks on the road. Thank you to everyone who came for making it such a success, and the album was launched on the 26th May. There were lots of high points on the tour and just the one low one when all us (including Faustus) had our stuff [...]
Lost Captain Ward YouTube plea
Some of you may be aware that there was a video of us playing Captain Ward for the BBC Glastonbury coverage last year. Well we’ve lost it! If anyone has any kind of video of this then we’d be very grateful for a copy. e-mail us here.
Here’s the new site
Welcome to the new Spiers & Boden website – sit back and make yourself comfortable! Now you’re here you can have a good look round – join the mailing list, have a nose through the new links. If you find anything not working please contact the webmaster.
Spiers & Boden join Navigator
We’re pleased to announce that we have signed a new deal with Navigator records and our next album, Vagabond will be released on that label in May 2008. We’re very excited to be part of this new project which include the likes of Lau, John McCusker, Mawkin:Causley and Heidi Talbot along with Bellowhead, Faustus and [...]
And Relax
We’ve finished our marathon touring period (see below) and will be taking some time out to work on new material and of course have a Christmas break. Keep watching here for news of a new album when we have some. Our next touring period will be in May 2008 – details will be posted on [...]
Touring, Touring and more Touring!
It’s certainly a packed autumn for us. Having just finished a tour with Eliza Carthy’s Ratcatchers. We’ll be on the road with Bellowhead from the 21st to the 30th of September. Then the duo will be back on the road in October and November – see the tour dates page for full details
Spring into May!
We’ve got 2 extra-special shows coming up in the next month to celebrate the coming of the summer. Starting off on the 16th at Norden Farm Arts Centre, Maidenhead where we’ll be doing some May songs and tunes to get you ready for the coming summer. Then we’re at the prestigious .Winchester Guildhall as part [...]
Back on the road
The end of January sees us going back out on the road, firstly with Bellowhead (see the Feb tour dates here). Then in March we are on tour in England and you can find all the details here.
Folk awards nominations
John & Jon have been nominated for the best duo category of the BBC Radio 2 folk awards for the 4th year running (they won in 2004 and 2006!). Bellowhead have been nominated for best group, best live act and best album for Burlesque. Bellowhead have also been nominated for the Critics poll album of [...]
Charity Auction
You can bid for the entire S&B back catalogue signed (including the Bellowhead ones if we can find all the members). It is in support of the Aplastic Anaemia Trust who have been giving Anna Esslemont of Uiscedwr a great amount of support in her fight against this rare disease. You can also bid for [...]
October/November dates.
We’re back on the road again! Kicking off with the Loughborough Folk Festival on 13th Oct right through to the Red Lion Folk Club in Birmingham (BBC Radio 2 Folk Club of the Year 2006) on December 2nd – you can catch us somewhere near you … See the tour dates page.
Womad Gig – Listen again
The Spiers & Boden gig at the WOMAD festival is going to be available to listen to for the forseeable future from the BBC Radio 3 World Music website.
John & Jon win best folk duo 2006
At the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Spiers & Boden were presented with the award for best duo by Frank Skinner. “We’re absolutely delighted to win this award for the 2nd time in 3 years – thank you to everyone who came to our gigs last year.”
Prickle Eye Bush animation
12 year old web-genius, Ollie has created a video to go with the Prickle-Eye Bush. Click here to see it.