Talk:Spiers and Boden

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[edit] NPOV?

Sorry to put a downer on this. I really do love their sound, but do we need hyperbole such as saying that Spiers "instinctively" played Morris. Get real! And where does the nickname "Squeezy" Spiers came from? and "Scratchy" Boden? Is this a private joke? Ogg 08:48, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps "instinctively" (not my term) is a bit precious, but not exactly hyperbolic, or "unreal". He was brought up in the Morris tradition so that was what he played. Delete it if it really bothers you. As for the nicknames, you'd have to ask them! Try visiting their website meanwhile? Flapdragon 11:38, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Visited the website but failed to find any reference to Squeezy or Scratchy. If the nicknamed isn't used widely, then it should not be mentioned. Ogg 11:49, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

It's mentioned at http://www.squeezy.fsnet.co.uk/spiers_boden/links.html (you may also notice something about the URL itself) as well as in their stage act. As for where the name comes from, well, he plays the accordion you see. No offence intended, but couldn't you have found out this much for yourself? A quick Google search would have sorted it out long since. Flapdragon 12:31, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Still not convinced. The page quoted above makes no reference to Squeezy or Scratchy, other than in the URL. Also the new album is strange. The price label calls it "Songs" and so does the amazon website, yet the actual cover of the CD, and the spine calls it "Tunes" i.e. exactly the same name as the previous album. Is this a mistake, or some kind of post-modernist irony? Ogg 16:19, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Don't know about Scratchy, but Squeezy is regularly referred to as "Squeezy". And yes, the spine of Songs does say Tunes and it is a printer's error, according to Squeezy. "Visited the website but failed to find any reference to Squeezy or Scratchy. If the nicknamed isn't used widely, then it should not be mentioned." lol @ the internet generation - if it ain't on the website it doesn't exist :) They're a folk duo who tramp around lots of small gigs all over the country, there's more to them than what's on the website.

[edit] Tone & References

The article is full of POV and OR. Facts need to be independently verifiable and from reliable sources. This is not the place to draw conclusions, and offer interpretation and opinion, but to present the facts as found. - Tiswas^(t/c) 19:40, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

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