Matachin (album)

Matachin is the second album by Bellowhead, released on 22 September 2008. Its title refers, to 'An old dance with swords, masks and bucklers; a sword dance' that may have influenced the Cotswold Morris dance.[1] It has been described as "...a magnificently murky and rum-sodden collection of 11 traditional and original songs from the 11 piece band who defy easy categorisation".[2]

Matachin
Studio album by Bellowhead
Released	22 September 2008
Genre	English folk
Length	51:57
Label	Navigator Records
Bellowhead chronology
Burlesque (2006) Matachin (2008) Hedonism (2010)

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Fakenham Fair"	Trad arr. Boden	4:59
2.	"Roll Her Down The Bay"	Trad arr. Flood	3:27
3.	"Vignette I"	Trad arr. Boden, Sweeney, MacShane	0:40
4.	"I Drew My Ship Across The Harbour"	Trad arr. Jon Boden	4:15
5.	"Kafoozalum/The Priest's Miss"	Trad arr. Boden	5:31
6.	"Cholera Camp"	Rudyard Kipling / Peter Bellamy	6:08
7.	"Vignette II"	Trad arr. Boden	0:45
8.	"Whiskey Is The Life Of Man"	Trad arr. Boden	3:22
9.	"Spectre Review"	Words: Zedlitz; Music: trad arr. Flood	5:23
10.	"Widow's Curse"	Trad arr. Flood	5:33
11.	"Bruton Town"	Trad arr. Thurgur	5:33
12.	"Trip to Bucharest / The Flight of the Folk Mutants Parts 1 & 2"	McShane/Boden	5:33
13.	"Vignette III"	Trad arr. Flood	0:48
Total length:			51:57

Personnel

• Jon Boden - lead vocals, fiddle, duet-concertina
• Benji Kirkpatrick - guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, banjo
• John Spiers - melodeon, Anglo-concertina
• Andy Mellon - trumpet
• Justin Thurgur - trombone
• Brendan Kelly - saxophone, bass clarinet
• Gideon Juckes - Helicon
• Pete Flood - percussion
• Rachael McShane - cello, fiddle
• Paul Sartin - fiddle, oboe
• Sam Sweeney - fiddle, pipes

References

1. Matachin sleeve notes
2. "Bellowhead". Bellowhead. Archived from the original on 2008-12-23. Retrieved 2012-03-01.