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The English roots dance band world’s answer to Bembeya Jazz or Buena Vista Social Club (well, maybe . . . !) were Tiger Moth, who knocked it on the head in the summer of 1989 on the “quit while you’re ahead” principle. They got together to do a limited number of dates in summer 2004, marking the 20th anniversary of their first album, but these turned out to be so much fun that the band returned in a limited sort of way. Their 2004 gigs at the Womad and Sidmouth Festivals - the latter sampled on BBC 4 TV’s Sidmouth documentary - drew large and surprisingly youthful crowds (average age barely over 20) so well attended that many were dancing outside the tents! They repeated the feat at the 2006 Womad, also appearing at the Big Chill the same summer.

Tiger Moth began just as an all-star recording unit, bringing together musicians who had played in many notable bands of the ‘new wave of English country dance music’ in the ’70s and early ’80s including the Old Swan Band, the New Victory Band, the English Country Blues Band, Cock & Bull, the Albion Band, Jumpleads and Oak. But their first single and debut album caused such a demand that they happily became a gigging entity and for the next five years roared around UK festival ceilidhs, revered or feared for their noisy, no-holds-barred, improvisational approach and influences from everywhere.