John Spiers
About the artist
John Spiers (born 1975) is an English melodeon, concertina and bandoneón player. He was born in Birmingham. His father is a Morris dancer. He attended John Mason School in Abingdon, and then went on to study genetics at King's College, Cambridge. As a child he learned the organ and piano and when he was a university student he began to play the piano accordion and melodeon. After spending some time busking he started a new career selling melodeons.
Top songs
- Sweet Jenny Jones
- George Green's College Hornpipe / Ewan Mac's Export / Autumn Hornpipe
- The Prickly Bush
- Jiggery Pokerwork / Haul Away / Seven Stars
- Courting Too Slow
- Dawn Chorus
- The Outlandish Knight
- My Love - Jimmy Allen
- The Sportsman's Hornpipe
- The Rochdale Coconut Dance
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- Copshawholme Fair
- Jack Robinson / Argiers / Old Tom Of Oxford
- Sloe Gin Set (Frozen Gin / Vinegar Reel / the Sloe)
- Brown Adam
- Princess Royal / Cuckoo's Nest
- Cuckoo's Nest
- On Christmas Day
- Three Around Three
- Sloe Gin Set (Frozen Gin/Vinegar Reel/The Sloe)
- Rambling Sailor
- Monkey-Cokey
- Ginger Up Lustily / Old Woman Tossed Up In A Blanket
- Stoney Steps Hornpipe
- Dee-Light
- Blow the Winds
- The Shropshire Miner
- Sportsman's Hornpipe (Slight Return)
- Cheshire Waltz
- The Quaker / Brighton Camp
- Go And Leave Me
- Union
- Dearest Dickie
- Trunkles
- Red Kites
- Oswestry Wake / Morgan Rattler
- Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
- Golden Glove
- The Old Lancashire Hornpipe, The 3rd Beekeeper
- Earl Richard
- The Old Lancashire Hornpipe / the 3rd Beekeeper
- Bold Sir Rylas
- Innocent When You Dream
- Sloe Gin Set (Frozen Gin / Vinegar Reel / the Sloe) [feat. John Spiers & Jon Boden]
- Boston Harbour
- Go & Leave Me
- Down the Moor
- Flapjack & Firesticks, The Minor Rigged Ship
- Prickle Eye Bush
- The Gooseberry Bush / Laudanum Bunches
- The Three-Two Set: The Shropshire Rounds / Rusty Gully / The Three-Footed Chestnut
- Banks of Green Willow
- Fireside Polka, Rampant
- Jiggery Pokerwork/Haul Away/Seven Stars
- Old Maui
- Sloe Gin Set: Frozen Gin/Vinegar Reel/Sloe
- Horn Fair
- Child Morris
- Jack Robinson/Argiers/Old Tom Of Oxford
- Princess Royal/Cuckoo's Nest
- Flapjack & Firesticks / the Minor Rigged Ship
- Cruel Knife
- Fireside Polka / Rampant
- Ginger Up Lustily/Old Woman Tossed Up In A Blanket
- Derry Gaol
- Lemmy Brazil's Hornpipe No. 2 - Wonder Hornpipe
- Doleful Dance of Death
- Lucy Wan
- Bill Brown
- Sportsman's Hornpipe
- Haul away the bowline
- Portsmouth - Bonny Kate
- The 24th of February
- Bully in the alley
- Fireside Polka/Rampant
- Drink Old England Dry
- Oswestry Wake/Morgan Rattler
- The Old Lancashire Hornpipe/3rd Beekeeper
- The Alabama
- Clear away the track
- Ten thousand miles away
- Paddy Doyle's boots
- John Kanaka
- The Three-Two Set: Shropshire Rounds/Rusty Gully/Three-Footed Chestnut
- Flapjacks & Firesticks/Minor Rigged Ship
- Lemmy Brazil's hornpipe No. 2/Wonder hornpipe
- Go to sea no more
- The Gooseberry Bush/Laudanum Bunches
- Captain Ward
- Roll the wood pile down
- The candlelight fisherman
- The Qauker/Brighton Camp
- Ruben Ranzo
- Banbury Bill / Shepherd's Hey
- Fuck The Tories
- The Birth Of Robin Hood
- Off to California - The Harvest Home - The Boys of Blue Hill
- Nancy of Yarmouth
- Tom Padget
- Goodbye, fare ye well
- Sloe Gin Set: Frozen Gin/Vinegar Reel/The Sloe
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