Goblin Band + Spitzer Space Telescope (Broadside Hacks Recordings Showcase)

A folk evening at The Old England Pub in Bristol, with Goblin Band and Spitzer Space Telescope, presented as part of the Broadside Hacks Recordings showcase.

Goblin Band is a folk act that revisits long-travelled traditional songs and presents them to a growing following. The group came together with the aim of recovering the radical, progressive energy at the core of traditional music, and draws on folk customs from Britain and abroad. Their seasonal concerts for the winter solstice and May Day have become regular sell-outs, and their performance at EartH was the largest of their shows so far. They have toured the UK for Broadside Hacks Recordings and performed at the Folk Alliance festival in New Orleans.

Reviewers in The Guardian, The Quietus and Songlines have praised the band's boisterous, flamboyant playing and its euphoric sound, and Songlines singled out its young queer musicians, who came to traditional song relatively recently.

Broadside Hacks is a collective, independent live promoter and record label founded by Campbell Baum, a member of Sorry. It has staged sold-out nights in London, shows with The Pogues and stages at SXSW, and has presented live celebrations of The Incredible String Band and Martin Carthy. Spitzer Space Telescope share the bill. The Old England Pub hosts concerts and shows in Bristol.