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Shovel Dance Collective - Tally Ho! Hark Away!

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This one is a carefully curated selection of sounds designed to make you question whether your radio is working properly. Murex bookend proceedings with a massacre and a silverspoon, while Arca, Blawan and Ital Tek provide electronic disturbances of varying severity. Shovel Dance Collective, Frankie Archer and Angeline Morrison bring folk traditions into the room. Elsewhere, Gurriers, Gilla Band and Swansea Sound offer different approaches to being disagreeable, Arab Strap maintain their usual sunny disposition, and Clark opens a kosmische supermarket with an uncertain returns policy. There's intricate beauty from Hannah Frances, fractured atmospherics from Max Cooper and two appearances by Sneers.. Also featuring Lolina, Callahan & Witscher and a track called canadian inclusive radical misandry, which should help attract a broad demographic.
Music to narrow your friendships and make the neighbours reconsider their life choices.

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Shovel Dance Collective - Tally Ho! Hark Away!
Shovel Dance Collective
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Powered by Audioscrobbler™Shovel Dance Collective is a group of nine musicians based in London, UK. Brought together by a communal passion for the folk music of the British Isles, Ireland and beyond, the collective is simultaneously traditional and experimental, seeing folk music as a living communal activity.

Band members include Jacken Elswyth, Mataio Austin Dean, and Nick Granata. Three other members, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Alex McKenzie and Josh Barfoot, also record as Gentle Stranger.

Their first gig as Shovel Dance Collective was in December 2019.

In 2020, the band released their debut "Offcuts and Oddities".

The band released the album, "The Water is the Shovel of the Shore" in December 2022.

In 2026, the band released "Everything in Readiness".
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Upcoming gigs:

Wed 25 Nov 2026

Shovel Dance Collective: Comedy @ Huddersfield Town Hall, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

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Thu 4 Feb 2027

Shovel Dance Collective: Southbank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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Fri 12 Feb 2027

Shovel Dance Collective: Metronome Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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Sat 13 Feb 2027

Shovel Dance Collective: The Castle & Falcon, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Sun 14 Feb 2027

Shovel Dance Collective: New Century, Manchester, United Kingdom

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Mon 15 Feb 2027

Shovel Dance Collective: The Caves, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Tue 16 Feb 2027

Shovel Dance Collective: Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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Before that we played:
Clark - Kosmisch Super Market
Gurriers - Nothing Happens Twice
Nikki Nair - Default Mode
Frankie Archer - Death and The Maiden
TV Buddha - Oh Master, Let Me Walk With Thee
Smote - Snodgerss