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Show of Hands – Wake the Union

Had they begun in the mid-1970s, a time when the public seemed rather taken with weathered-yet-fiery acoustic music, Show of Hands would surely have been as massive as Steeleye Span. Instead, the duo of Steve Knightley and Phil Beer came…

Bellowhead – Broadside

It's all there in that name. Those three syllables suggest a hollering madman, and a ferocity that will – for the newcomer – seem far removed from folk music. But Bellowhead are one of the genre's 21st century success stories. An 11-piece…