title: Matachin (album)
text: # 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. 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".
  
  ## 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
  