Spiers and Boden played their first festival at the Open Door folk club 'Extravaganza 2' on June 2nd 2002, when we were located at the Bull's Head, Failsworth - and thanked us by doing the following year for the same fee, despite their meteoric rise to fame in the meantime! My notes at the time said they had 'just been nominated for the Radio 2 Horizon award', which they went on to win in 2003.