Video: The Unthanks Here's The Tender Coming Live Later Jools Holland Oct 2009

There are 2 major music festivals on the Isle of Wight. The first, is referred to by locals or 'caulkheads' as they are sometimes known as simply 'The Festival.' The second as 'The Bestival.' There's a big observational hint in the names as to which one is superior. Exciting, eclectic, eccentric, Bestival (to give it its proper name - there is no 'The') is undoubtedly Breaking More Waves favourite festival in the UK. Rob Da Bank's crazy village fete / rave / gig on the [...]

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The Unthanks , formerly known as Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, are coming to Ireland this weekend in support of their third album Here's The Tender Coming . The folk outfit will kick off in The Black Box in Belfast on Thursday 25th and will play The Pavillion in Cork on Friday 26th, Roisín Dubh in Galway on Saturday 27th and Whelan's on Sunday 28th. We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway for the Cork and Dublin shows. Simply email your name and full contact details and [...]

It's a curious thing, this strangely eccentric music of U.K. neo-folk outfit The Unthanks . Led by Mercury Prize nominee Rachel Unthank and her sister Becky, this provocative quintet take the bleakest, most despairing traditional British folk laments and then dresses them up with modern, minimalist neo-classical embellishments. Telling tales of a lost lover's suicide, harrowing coal mine child labor, drunken wives and other equally morbid topics, the recently released Here's The Tender Coming (EMI, U.K. only) could be an unrelenting downer. But thanks to the spare but richly tailored production and imaginative arrangements - think Erik [...]

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