Blowzabella
Blowzabella is an English band who play bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy and an array of acoustic instruments to produce a driving, drone-based sound influenced by British and European traditional dance music. Many of their tunes have become standards in the modern folk repertoire. Bands who experiment with the boundaries of folk music often cite Blowzabella as a major influence.
Andy Cutting (diatonic button accordion)
Jo Freya (clarinet, saxophone vocals)
Paul James (bagpipes, saxophones)
Gregory Jolivet (hurdy-gurdy)
Dave Shepherd (fiddle)
Barn Stradling (bass guitar)
Jon Swayne (bagpipes, saxophones)
History
Blowzabella was formed in Whitechapel, east London in 1978 by Bill O'Toole (bagpipes, flutes) from Sydney and Jon Swayne (bagpipes, flutes) from Glastonbury, both students of musical instrument making at the London College of Furniture in London. The first line-up was Bill O'Toole, Jon Swayne, Chris Gunstone (bouzouki, tapan), Dave Armitage (melodeon, bombarde, percussion) and Sam Palmer (hurdy-gurdy). Juan Wijngaard (hurdy-gurdy, Flemish bagpipes) and Peter Lees (hammered dulcimer) played a few concerts with the band in the early days. In late 1979 Bill O'Toole returned to Australia and was replaced by Dave Roberts (melodeon, percussion).
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ALBUMS
- Dance released: 2010
- Octomento released: 2007
- Bobbityshooty released: 1998
- The Blowzabella Wall of Sound released: 1996
- A Richer Dust released: 1996
- Compilation released: 1995
- Vanilla released: 1990
Dance
Released 2010- Jan Mijne Man / Go Mauve
- Molton / Sur la Rance
- The Bay Tree / Molinara
- Penda's Fen / The White Rose / Epic Branle
- The Rose of Raby
- Man in the Brown Hat / Spring Dance
- Derrière les carreaux / Mominette
- In Continental Mood / The Old Queen / Flatworld
- Horizonto
- Il n'est plus temps / Famous Wolf
- The New Hornpipes
- The A Minor Mazurka / Motorway Mazurka
- Blowzabella / Shave The Monkey / Boys Of The Mill
Bobbityshooty
Released 1998- Shave the Monkey / Boys of the Mill
- The Presbyterian Hornpipe / The Red Lyon
- La ronde des milloraines
- Branle De Borgogne / Horses Branle
- Bobbityshooty
- Carl Wark
- Eglantine / Man in the Brown Hat
- The Topman and the Afterguard
- The Savage Hornpipe / The Gloucestershire Miner
- Scaramouche / Kathryn Arwen's March
- Blowzabella / Jon's Jig
Compilation
Released 1995- Blowzabell / Marriage Marches
- L'enfant de dieu / Faerie Dance
- Jenny Pluck Pears / Half Hannikin
- Polka Piquée
- Bourées Three and Four
- Shave the Monkey / Boys of the Mill
- Eglantine / Man in the Brown Hat
- Eight Step Waltz / Lisa
- Glass Island
- Newbury Jig / Moll in the Wood
- The New Jigs
- Death in a Fen / Bruton Town
- Spaghetti Panic
- Jan Mijne Man / Go Mauve
- Horizonto
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by: Blaze BayleyI did not see
I did not hear
I did not feel while you were gone
My blood was cold, I was a stone
You were my own, while you were gone
Because you are my beating heart
You are the reason why I breathe
these are the things I realized
While you were gone
Something is wrong
inside my brain
and then my eyes start to complain
Time slows right down, my days drag on
Don't want to live, when you are gone
Because you are my beating heart
You are the reason why I breathe
these are the things I realized
While you were gone
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I did not see
I did not hear
I did not feel while you were gone
My blood was cold, I was a stone
I was on my own, while you were gone
Because you are my beating heart
You are the reason why I breathe
these are the things I realized