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Released: 1 Jan 2009

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Genre: Experimental / Folk / Roots Music
Location Northumberland, Un
Profile Views: 627754
Last Login: 11/01/2012
Member Since 08/03/2006
Website the-unthanks.com
Record Label RabbleRouser Music / EMI Records
Type of Label Indie
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"Haunting, original and magnificent" The Guardian Not many bands can count Radiohead, Portishead, Elvis Costello, Robert Wyatt, Ben Folds, Ryan Adams, Rosanne Cash, Ewan McGregor and Nick Hornby amongst their admirers, but The Unthanks occupy a unique place in music. Northumbria sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank are unsentimental young storytellers outside of time, forging links between folk worlds old, new and other. Staunch traditionalism and sonic adventure ought to be polar opposites, yet they are easy bedfellows in the gentle hands of The Unthanks; nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and present in The Best Albums of the Decade (worldwide, all genres) in The Guardian and Uncut. Described by Britain's leading music journalist Paul Morley as "absolutely exquisite".
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RACHEL UNTHANK - Voice, Cello and Feet BECKY UNTHANK - Voice, Autoharp Feet NIOPHA KEEGAN - Fiddle and Voice ADRIAN MCNALLY - Piano, Drums, Dulcitone, Marimba, Autoharp, Tuned Percussion, Voice CHRIS PRICE - Guitar, Bass, Ukelele, Dulcitone
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Mam and Dad Unthank! All the floor singers and folk we have seen sing in our lives, The Keelers, The Wilsons, The Waterson/Carthys, Joni Mitchell, Sandra & Nancy Kerr, the Stewarts, Voice Squad, CBS, The Elliots of Birtley, Nick Drake, Dylan, Young, Robert Wyatt, Steve Reich, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Sufjan Stevens, Lau, Joan As Policewoman, Jon Redfern, Alasdair Roberts, Ben Folds, Bonnie Prince Billy, Regina Spektor, Anthony & The Johnsons, Chris Wood, Billy Holliday, Miles Davis. As Louis Armstrong said, "all music is folk music, I ain't never heard a horse sing a song"! .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ......follow TheUnthanks at http://twitter.com....
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"once in a blue moon type of every now and again, you hear music that is so complete, so wonderful, unique and yet familiar that it stops you in your tracks. They have that blue moon magic about them, and they have it in spades" BBC Music

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Singing weekends announced to the mailing list at midday today. Last chance to join: http://t.co/cgtMZGVF

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watch Ghost Poet on Ch4. awesome

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Anyone who wonders what happened to our @stefconner : premiering new work as part of this show: http://t.co/leU4IuSD

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Morning all. Reminder that new singing weekends will be announced at midday on Thursday. Join the mailing list to come http://t.co/cgtMZGVF

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A Weekend With The Unthanks: more singing weekends announced on Thurs at midday. Mailing list members only. Join here: http://t.co/WfnoOLxj

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THE 40-DATE UK 'HERE'S THE TENDER COMING' TOUR On Oct 10th, The Unthanks tour their new album as a 10-piece, a kalaedescope of sound that will include voices, piano, dulcitone, marimba, double bass, guitar, drums, fiddle, string quartet, trumpet, trombone, autoharp, mandolin and ukelele. HERE'S THE TENDER COMING The new album by The Unthanks, released Sept 14th (RabbleRouser Music/EMI Records) "Absolutely exquisite. A real work of art. I will be playing it least forever" Paul Morley "an exquisite mixture of light and dark, instinct and artistry" **** Neil Spencer, Uncut

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March 08, 2006

Members:

RACHEL UNTHANK - Voice, Cello and Feet BECKY UNTHANK - Voice, Autoharp Feet NIOPHA KEEGAN - Fiddle and Voice ADRIAN MCNALLY - Piano, Drums, Dulcitone, Marimba, Autoharp, Tuned Percussion, Voice CHRIS PRICE - Guitar, Bass, Ukelele, Dulcitone

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Mam and Dad Unthank! All the floor singers and folk we have seen sing in our lives, The Keelers, The Wilsons, The Waterson/Carthys, Joni Mitchell, Sandra & Nancy Kerr, the Stewarts, Voice Squad, CBS, The Elliots of Birtley, Nick Drake, Dylan, Young, Robert Wyatt, Steve Reich, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Sufjan Stevens, Lau, Joan As Policewoman, Jon Redfern, Alasdair Roberts, Ben Folds, Bonnie Prince Billy, Regina Spektor, Anthony & The Johnsons, Chris Wood, Billy Holliday, Miles Davis. As Louis Armstrong said, "all music is folk music, I ain't never heard a horse sing a song"!

follow TheUnthanks at http://twitter.com

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Following on from their Mercury Prize nomination, Geordie folk inventors Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are back with a name tweak (The Unthanks), revised line-up and a brand new album Here’s The Tender Coming (EMI) that rests not one jot on the incomparable sound that has earned them admirers from the ranks of Radiohead, Portishead, Robert Wyatt, Ben Folds, Nic Jones, Ewan McGregor and Nick Hornby.