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Hodmadoddery came together (and usually fell apart shortly afterwards) for a residency at a notorious Bath cider house where we got paid in Cheddar Valley (for connoisseurs). This was late 1980s. By the ‘90s we were actually getting quite good, the positive effect of switching to wine on the European Street Festival circuit, where we get called ‘mitico’ and get invited back.

Nowadays we don’t run around Europe quite as much, but that has allowed us to get some practice in, and we get to play indoors as well as proper paid-for jobs, folk festivals even, and through dubious backstairs deals have clocked up 20-odd years at Glastonbury (2 different venues). By dint of following our own furrow we don’t any more sound like anyone else (except when we want to) and can make a set of folk circuit standards, trad. numbers, and the odd random who’d-ha’-thought-it cover sound like they belong together and can even be ours (or yours) for the duration.

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