Squeezy John
@johnspiers.co.uk
John Spiers. Squeezebox player with Gigspanner Big Band, Bellowhead, Spiers & Boden, Peter Knight & John Spiers, Jackie Oates & John Spiers …
Folk music, allotmenteer, socialist, half a century old.
Folk music, allotmenteer, socialist, half a century old.
Amazing news to wake up to … Turnstone by the Gigspanner Big Band has been voted as the Bright Young Folk readers’ choice album of 2025! Thank you so much for voting for us.
January 14, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Amazing news to wake up to … Turnstone by the Gigspanner Big Band has been voted as the Bright Young Folk readers’ choice album of 2025! Thank you so much for voting for us.
I see that famous tax dodger and prominent figure in several Tory governments, Nadhim Zahawi who claimed his horse stables’ heating bill on parliamentary expenses has defecated to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, immediately slagging off the party he was begging for a peerage only weeks ago.
January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I see that famous tax dodger and prominent figure in several Tory governments, Nadhim Zahawi who claimed his horse stables’ heating bill on parliamentary expenses has defecated to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, immediately slagging off the party he was begging for a peerage only weeks ago.
Facebook Marketplace ... this time I've found an ex-Royal Mail Fiat Doblo which has been inexpertly converted in to a "camper" by putting what looks like a teenage girl's bedroom with no facilities in the back with a sign saying "feeling lucky"! and an "I love peeing outside" sticker.
January 11, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Facebook Marketplace ... this time I've found an ex-Royal Mail Fiat Doblo which has been inexpertly converted in to a "camper" by putting what looks like a teenage girl's bedroom with no facilities in the back with a sign saying "feeling lucky"! and an "I love peeing outside" sticker.
Absolutely adorable … there are hundreds of them … but dear God the stench they make!!!
December 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Absolutely adorable … there are hundreds of them … but dear God the stench they make!!!
I take it back. I’ve found the end of the storm … and a farm shop!
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I take it back. I’ve found the end of the storm … and a farm shop!
Fuck it! I quit!
From a Travelodge in South Wales to a Travelodge in Devon in non stop traffic with zero visibility and standing water and only Greggs or Burger King available without getting drenched.
To play to 80 people.
From a Travelodge in South Wales to a Travelodge in Devon in non stop traffic with zero visibility and standing water and only Greggs or Burger King available without getting drenched.
To play to 80 people.
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Fuck it! I quit!
From a Travelodge in South Wales to a Travelodge in Devon in non stop traffic with zero visibility and standing water and only Greggs or Burger King available without getting drenched.
To play to 80 people.
From a Travelodge in South Wales to a Travelodge in Devon in non stop traffic with zero visibility and standing water and only Greggs or Burger King available without getting drenched.
To play to 80 people.
Tour is going really well!
December 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Tour is going really well!
We’re playing alongside some of the greats tonight!!!
December 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We’re playing alongside some of the greats tonight!!!
No idea ... is this "up" the Jelson estate?
December 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
No idea ... is this "up" the Jelson estate?
In a couple of days I’ll be hitting the road again with @jackieoates.bsky.social for our festive shows playing the music of our album “A Midwinters Night”. Some are already selling out, so make sure to get your tickets.
December 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
In a couple of days I’ll be hitting the road again with @jackieoates.bsky.social for our festive shows playing the music of our album “A Midwinters Night”. Some are already selling out, so make sure to get your tickets.
How it started vs How it's going.
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
How it started vs How it's going.
Sorry, this is from the other place.
Can you imagine the uproar from the right wing press if someone had died in the back of an ambulance because Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion had blocked the roads?
But when it’s greedy farmers who don’t want to pay the same tax as the rest of us … nada!
Can you imagine the uproar from the right wing press if someone had died in the back of an ambulance because Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion had blocked the roads?
But when it’s greedy farmers who don’t want to pay the same tax as the rest of us … nada!
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sorry, this is from the other place.
Can you imagine the uproar from the right wing press if someone had died in the back of an ambulance because Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion had blocked the roads?
But when it’s greedy farmers who don’t want to pay the same tax as the rest of us … nada!
Can you imagine the uproar from the right wing press if someone had died in the back of an ambulance because Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion had blocked the roads?
But when it’s greedy farmers who don’t want to pay the same tax as the rest of us … nada!
I was busy gigging with Peter Knight last night so I’d like to belatedly thank everyone for their kind words about Gigspanner Big Band’s Turnstone being shortlisted for the Folk Album of the Year award.
It’s an absolute honour to have been chosen alongside such innovative and excellent albums.
It’s an absolute honour to have been chosen alongside such innovative and excellent albums.
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I was busy gigging with Peter Knight last night so I’d like to belatedly thank everyone for their kind words about Gigspanner Big Band’s Turnstone being shortlisted for the Folk Album of the Year award.
It’s an absolute honour to have been chosen alongside such innovative and excellent albums.
It’s an absolute honour to have been chosen alongside such innovative and excellent albums.
The ones now moved to the greenhouse are slowly doing the same, but I picked so many through October and into November grown outside (2nd year overwintered plants) that I don’t know what to do with them (yellow traveler variety)
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The ones now moved to the greenhouse are slowly doing the same, but I picked so many through October and into November grown outside (2nd year overwintered plants) that I don’t know what to do with them (yellow traveler variety)
Google is getting increasingly weird!
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Google is getting increasingly weird!
Folk album of the year? Why thank you Folk London ... don't mind if we do!
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Folk album of the year? Why thank you Folk London ... don't mind if we do!
This church never ceases to make me laugh when I see it!
“Quick! The tower is falling over …. Don’t worry … I’ve got this … I’ll just put this huge diagonal buttress through this bit on the side … nobody will notice!”
“Quick! The tower is falling over …. Don’t worry … I’ve got this … I’ll just put this huge diagonal buttress through this bit on the side … nobody will notice!”
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This church never ceases to make me laugh when I see it!
“Quick! The tower is falling over …. Don’t worry … I’ve got this … I’ll just put this huge diagonal buttress through this bit on the side … nobody will notice!”
“Quick! The tower is falling over …. Don’t worry … I’ve got this … I’ll just put this huge diagonal buttress through this bit on the side … nobody will notice!”
Finally! A Premier Inn with a cat. Touring bingo is completed. #touring #musicianlife
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Finally! A Premier Inn with a cat. Touring bingo is completed. #touring #musicianlife
I’m old enough to remember when the Director General of the BBC categorically didn’t resign after one of its flagship politics shows literally photoshopped Jeremy Corbyn with a Soviet hat and painted red with the Kremlin in the background like some kind of Cold War-era communist mural.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I’m old enough to remember when the Director General of the BBC categorically didn’t resign after one of its flagship politics shows literally photoshopped Jeremy Corbyn with a Soviet hat and painted red with the Kremlin in the background like some kind of Cold War-era communist mural.
I don’t think they’ve noticed that I’ve been two-timing them … phew!
November 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I don’t think they’ve noticed that I’ve been two-timing them … phew!
You’d be nuts (and fruit and veg) to miss our November tour starting tomorrow at Huntingdon Hall in Worcester!!!
Full gig list and ticket links at www.johnspiers.co.uk/shows
Full gig list and ticket links at www.johnspiers.co.uk/shows
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You’d be nuts (and fruit and veg) to miss our November tour starting tomorrow at Huntingdon Hall in Worcester!!!
Full gig list and ticket links at www.johnspiers.co.uk/shows
Full gig list and ticket links at www.johnspiers.co.uk/shows