Broadside

bigger, bolder, brassier and more brazen than ever, bellowhead blaze back with their mighty new album, broadside. while all things bellowhead tend to be an event, broadside is a positive spectacular, taking some of the wildest, most joyous and iconic songs in the richly colourful canon of the folk song tradition - and turning them upside down and inside out with the unique sense of drama and theatre, instrumental virtuosity, verve, humour and blind cheek that has seen them spearhead the new folk boom. their third album hedonism was the highest-selling independently released traditional folk album of all time, yet the new one broadside (a title that rather cunningly melds an early form of printed song sharing with an appropriate nautical reference to firepower) is surely set to eclipse it with its thrilling arrangements and non-stop party spirit.