Music / folk

Reassembled


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At the barrier

d. 5. June 2021

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Mike Ainscoe

d. 5. June 2021

""Promised you a miracle," sang Simple Minds back in 1982 and that's seemingly what we got. An injection of pink jacketed, brass and string fuelled hope and gaiety as we were plunged into the lowest part of the global pandemic. Cue bouts of much rejoicing and celebration - grown men may have even privately wept - as the eleven-piece folk brigands Bellowhead could no longer resist the temptation to do it all again. 'For one night only' ... Maybe for the time being, the Reassembled deal will keep us warm. Enjoy the joy of the return".


Songlines

2021 July

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Julian May

2021 July

"Folk big band royalty together again for one night: With a concert at the London Palladium in 2016 the 11 members bid their adoring admirers farewell, and went their separate ways. During the lockdown last year, when playing live to audiences physically present became impossible, the band reassembled online, for fun. Each in their own place - tricky with a brass section, fiddles, cello, oboe, guitars, squeezeboxes, percussion, even bagpipes - they recorded an old favourite, and released 'New York Girls at Home'. Encouraged by its warm reception they decided to come together in person, for one night only, to play a full concert, streamed around the globe. More than 10,000 people bought tickets ... This is a generous Best Of album; 16 tracks ramble virtuosically round the band's repertoire ... It's live and exciting".