Video: Erland and the Carnival : live at Rough Trade East : 25 January 2010

On first listen, Erland And The Carnival exude the kind of quintessentially English folksiness that could have a sizable bunch of listeners reaching for the off switch. Certainly, the first few bars of album opener 'Love Is A Killing Thing' suggest pastoral idylls and village fairs, but it soon becomes far more Wicker Man than The Good Life , where you're more likely to hear a squalling guitar than a gently plucked mandolin, even though they're not above wheeling out a harmonium when the spirit takes them. The Erland of the title is [...]