The Unthanks Explained

The Unthanks
Background:group_or_band
Origin:Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Genre:Folk
Years Active:2004–present
Label:Rabble Rouser, EMI, Rough Trade
Current Members:Rachel Unthank
Becky Unthank
Adrian McNally
Niopha Keegan
Chris Price
Past Members:(of Rachel Unthank and the Winterset)
Belinda O'Hooley
Jackie Oates
Stef Conner

The Unthanks (until 2009 called Rachel Unthank and the Winterset)[1] are an English folk group known for their eclectic approach in combining traditional English folk, particularly Northumbrian folk music, with other musical genres.[2] [3] [4] Their debut album, Cruel Sister, was Mojo magazine's Folk Album of the Year in 2005. Of their subsequent albums, nine have received four or five-starred reviews in the British national press. Their album Mount the Air, released in 2015, won in the best album category in the 2016 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.[5] [6] [7] In 2017 they released two albums featuring the songs and poems of Molly Drake, mother of singer-songwriter and musician Nick Drake.

Lines (Parts One, Two & Three), a trilogy of albums about the Hull triple trawler tragedy (1968), the First World War and the poems of Emily Brontë, the principal link between them being their focusing on female perspectives across time, was released in 2019.[8] Their album, Live and Unaccompanied, was released in 2020. Their album Sorrows Away was released in 2022 and received four-starred reviews in The Observer[9] and The Scotsman[10] and a five-starred review in the Financial Times.[11]

Career

Rachel Unthank and the Winterset

Cruel Sister

Originally an all-female band, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset made their debut performance at Holmfirth Folk Festival on 7 May 2004[12] and launched their debut album Cruel Sister at the same festival venue the following year, on 11 May 2005. Cruel Sister received support from a number of DJs on BBC Radio 2 and was subsequently awarded Folk Album of the Year by Mojo magazine.[13]

The Bairns

Their follow-up album, The Bairns, released on 20 August 2007,[14] was nominated for the Best Album award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008[15] and was runner-up for the 2008 Mercury Prize.[16] The album debuted in the UK Top 200 Albums Chart at number 178 in the week after the Mercury Prize award ceremony.[17] Reviewing The Bairns for BBC Music, Mel Ledgard described it as "an album with a cinematic quality, huge in dramatic atmosphere".[18] In a four-starred review, Robin Denselow of The Guardian nominated it as "one of the folk records of the year".[19]

The band were nominated for three further BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2008 (Best Band, Best Live Act, Horizon Award), and were successful in one category, receiving the Horizon Award at the ceremony in The Brewery, London.[20]

The Unthanks

Here's the Tender Coming

In 2009, the band became the Unthanks, and their manager Adrian McNally and his childhood friend Chris Price joined the group. Here's the Tender Coming, their third album (and the first under the Unthanks moniker), was released on 14 September 2009.[1] It was Folk Album of the Year for The Guardian and also for Mojo magazine.[2] Sid Smith, of BBC Music, described it as an "astonishing record", "beautiful", "haunting", and "beguiling".[21] In a four-starred review for The Guardian, Colin Irwin said: "This album may not be quite as bleak as The Bairns, and the sound is more sophisticated, but they still sound like nobody else... Tracks build slowly and mysteriously, but all are in service of the song. Their arrangement of the title track − a traditional song about the emotional devastation wrought by press gangs − brilliantly encapsulates the story's fraught desperation. Their version of Nobody Knew She Was There, one of Ewan MacColl's lesser-known songs about his mother, painstakingly paints a similarly dramatic backdrop with more atmospheric brass, and they put their own stamp on the Nic Jones classic, Annachie Gordon."[22]

Last

Their fourth album, Last, was released on 14 March 2011, reaching number 40 in the UK albums chart, and received a five-starred review in the Sunday Express and four-starred reviews in The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. In his review for the Sunday Express, Martin Townsend proclaimed it "a gorgeously unhurried, utterly mesmerising masterpiece".[23] Thomas H Green of The Daily Telegraph said it was "string-laden and luscious but also delicate, wistful and melancholy".[24] Robin Denselow, for The Guardian, described it as "a bold and highly original set".[19] Sid Smith, for BBC Music, said that "Proving once again that sad songs are very often the best, their fourth album is brimming with material that is as haunting as it is beautiful."[25]

Writing in NME, Anthony Thornton said that the album "proves the mix of Rachel and Becky's voices to be one of the true wonders of 21st-century music".[26] As well as traditional material, the album included a song written by band member McNally ("Last"), and versions of songs by Jon Redfern ("Give Away Your Heart"), Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan ("No One Knows I'm Gone"), King Crimson ("Starless") and Alex Glasgow ("Close the Coalhouse Door").

The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons

In a departure from their usual practice of showcasing material from their studio albums, the Unthanks performed two concerts at London's Union Chapel on 8 and 9 December 2010 consisting entirely of material written by Robert Wyatt and by Anohni of Anohni and the Johnsons.[27] The concerts were recorded, and The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons, a live album based on these recordings, was released on 28 November 2011 to coincide with a UK tour. In a four-starred review, The Observer called the album "A triumphant excursion".[28]

The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band

In July 2011, starting with concerts at Durham Cathedral and at London's Barbican Hall, they began a UK tour with the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, performing new brass arrangements of songs from all four Unthanks albums, as well as new material.[29] A live album, based on these concerts, was released in July 2012. In a four-starred review, Robin Denselow of The Guardian described the album as the Unthanks' boldest experiment yet.[30] In a five-starred review, Martin Townsend in the Daily Express said it was "easily the band's best and most mature album to date".[31] The album was designated Vol. 2 in the Unthanks' Diversions series and followed on from Vol. 1 (The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons).

Songs from the Shipyards

Songs from the Shipyards, Vol. 3 in the Unthanks' Diversions series, was released in November 2012. This is a studio-recorded album of songs from a soundtrack, compiled by the Unthanks, which was first performed live in February 2011 at Newcastle upon Tyne's Tyneside Cinema to accompany the showing of a documentary film by Richard Fenwick about the history of shipbuilding on the Tyne, Wear and Tees.[32] [33] [34] The album includes Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" and songs by Graeme Miles, Alex Glasgow, Archie Fisher, John Tams, Peter Bellamy and Jez Lowe, plus a centrepiece track, "The Romantic Tees", written by McNally. In a four-starred review The Observers Neil Spencer described it as "a stark creation, using little more than piano, violin and voices" but said that its minimalism "lends poignancy to songs and poetry narrating the glory and grime of a vanished era".[35]

Mount the Air

Their album Mount the Air, released in February 2015, received five-starred reviews in The Daily Telegraph and The Irish Times. The Telegraphs reviewer Helen Brown described the album as "a slow, swirling affair that mixes original material with traditional tales. Underpinned by McNally's cool, fluid piano it's simultaneously ancient and fresh."[36] Joe Breen, writing in The Irish Times, called it "their most ambitious work" and said that it "places them in the same league as the likes of The Gloaming and the Punch Brothers".[37] In a four-starred review for the Financial Times, David Honigmann said: "Once a bleak Northumbrian chamber folk outfit, the Unthanks have reinvented themselves on a symphonic scale, as witness the 10-minute title track, ushered in on harps and with an orchestration that recalls Gil Evans's work for Miles Davis."[38] Robin Denselow, in a four-starred review for The Guardian, said: "This is a return to the gentle melancholia of Last, and while there are fine vocals from the Unthank sisters, the dominant figure is Rachel's husband, Adrian McNally, who plays keyboards and percussion, and produced and wrote much of the music... It's a lush, often exquisite set".[39] Teddy Jamieson, writing in the Sunday Herald, said: "The Unthanks return with an album that takes the folk tradition the sisters grew up on and sails it into wilder waters... Folk's storytelling tradition is still very much at the heart of this album. But what thrills here is the sense of scale at play in the music, the unrushed, easeful way the musicians stretch into songs, let them linger without ever overstaying their welcome. That and the earthy humanity of the sisters' voices."[40] However, The Observers Neil Spencer bucked the trend, giving the album three stars, and criticising the "ambitious but lumbering orchestration... Two instrumentals eschew the group's strength; more voices please".[41]

Mount the Air was the winner in the best album category in the 2016 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.[5] [6] [7]

Memory Box and Archive Treasures 2005–2015

In December 2015 they released Memory Box, a package containing a new CD, a Christmas 7" single (the first Unthanks single to be issued in this format) and other items to commemorate the band's 10th anniversary. The CD, Archive Treasures 2005–2015, which was also released as a stand-alone item, includes exclusive live tracks, demos and outtakes and BBC session tracks.[42] [43]

The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake

In May 2017 they released two albums, The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake and The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake: Extras, featuring songs written by Molly Drake, mother of Nick Drake. The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake received a five-starred review in The Independent.[44]

Lines

Lines, a trilogy of albums about the 1968 Hull triple trawler tragedy, poetry of the First World War and the poems of Emily Brontë, was pre-released on the band's website in November 2018 and officially released on 22 February 2019. It received a four-starred review in The Guardian.[45]

Live and Unaccompanied

Live and Unaccompanied, released in March 2020, is an audio CD of 13 songs, sung by Rachel and Becky Unthank and Niopha Keegan without the accompaniment of other members of The Unthanks band. The album was recorded live at various venues in the UK and Ireland in April and May 2019. It is also packaged in a "Special film edition" which includes a film As We Go, by Ainslie Henderson (who is the partner of band member Becky Unthank), about The Unthanks' life on the road.[46]

The album is designated Vol. 5 in the Unthanks' Diversions series[46] and follows on from Vol. 1 (The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons), released in 2011, Vol. 2 (The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band), released in 2012, Vol. 3 (Songs from the Shipyards), released in 2012 and Vol. 4 (The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake), released in 2017.

Sorrows Away

Their album Sorrows Away was released on 14 October 2022 and received four-starred reviews in The Observer[9] and The Scotsman[47] and a five-starred review in the Financial Times.[48]

Other recordings

The Unthanks performed the title track "Oak, Ash and Thorn" on the 2011 Oak Ash Thorn, a compilation of songs by Rudyard Kipling set to music by Peter Bellamy.[49] The 2012 album Harbour of Songs, produced by McNally, featured the Unthanks in two songs, "The Ruler" with Nick Hornby and "Dream of a Tree in a Spanish Graveyard" with Ian MacMillan.[50] The latter track subsequently appeared on the Unthanks' album of archive recordings, Archive Treasures 2005–2015. In 2015, the Unthanks contributed vocals to the song "A Forest" from the album, a project by Paul Hartnoll.[51]

Becky Unthank and Rachel Unthank are featured on Sting's 2013 album The Last Ship and on Kathryn Tickell's 2016 album Water of Tyne.[52]

Rachel Unthank provided vocals and cello on Simon Haworth's 1998 album Coast to Coast[53] and on his 2003 album Taking Routes.[54] She also played cello on Julian Sutton's 2005 album Melodeon Crimes.[55] Rachel Unthank and Adrian McNally provided backing vocals on Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell's 2010 EP The North Farm Sessions and on their 2011 album Kite.[56]

Becky Unthank provided vocals and music boxes on Martin Green's 2014 album Crows' Bones and co-wrote two of the songs.[57] She also sings on Martin Green's 2016 album Flit.[58]

Television and radio

On 16 December 2012 (repeated on 4 March 2013), the Unthanks presented A Very English Winter: The Unthanks, a one-hour television programme on BBC Four.[59] This showed the customs that people celebrated on different days of the later autumn and winter, and ended with information about the famous Pancake Race at Olney.

Series 3 of the BBC Four TV series Detectorists was inspired by Davey Dodds' song "Magpie", as performed by the Unthanks on their album Mount the Air, and the song was played in the first episode of the series.[60]

On 3 August 2018 the group performed at The Proms in Prom 27: Folk Music around Britain and Ireland.[61] [62]

The Unthanks composed and performed the soundtrack for the 2019 BBC production of Worzel Gummidge,[63] and appeared on screen in the Christmas 2020 episode "Saucy Nancy".[64]

Personal lives

Rachel and Becky Unthank are sisters, born seven and a half years apart, who grew up in Ryton, Tyne and Wear. Rachel graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in History and Theatre Studies; Becky studied History of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University.[65] Their father, George Unthank, is an interior designer[66] and a well-known local Northumberland folk singer in a group called The Keelers, named after the boatmen (keelmen) who sailed the Tyne.[65] [67] [68] Their mother sings in folk choirs.[65]

Rachel was married to, but is now divorced from, group member McNally.[69] McNally grew up in a mining village near Barnsley, Yorkshire[70] and as well as being a member of the band is also its manager, musical arranger and producer.[71] They have two sons: George, born in 2011;[29] and Arthur, born in 2014.[72]

Members

Current

Former

Discography

Rachel Unthank and the Winterset

AlbumRelease date
Cruel Sister11 May 2005
The Bairns20 August 2007

The Unthanks

AlbumRelease dateNotes
Here's the Tender Coming14 September 2009
Last14 March 2011
The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons28 November 2011Vol. 1 in the Unthanks' Diversions series
The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band30 July 2012Vol. 2 in the Unthanks' Diversions series
Songs from the Shipyards5 November 2012Vol. 3 in the Unthanks' Diversions series
Mount the Air9 February 2015
Archive Treasures 2005–201511 December 2015
The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake and The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake: Extras[76] 26 May 2017Vol. 4 in the Unthanks' Diversions series
Lines 22 February 2019 A trilogy of albums with a poetic theme – Part One: Lillian Bilocca; Part Two: World War One; Part Three: Emily Brontë
Live And Unaccompanied 15 May 2020 Vol. 5 in the Unthanks' Diversions series. Also available in a "Special film edition" which includes a film by Ainslie Henderson, As We Go, about The Unthanks' life on the road
Sorrows Away14 October 2022
SinglesRelease dateNotes
"Lucky Gilchrist" (Single edit) (Adrian McNally)/ "Tar Barrel in Dale" (Live) (George Unthank)/ "Sexy Sadie" (Lennon and McCartney)30 November 2009[77] Although sometimes described as an EP, this was released as a double A-sided single with a bonus track. "Lucky Gilchrist" is a single edit of one of the tracks on the Unthanks' Here's the Tender Coming album. "Tar Barrel in Dale" is taken from a live performance on Radcliffe and Maconie, BBC Radio 2, on 23 December 2008. The "bonus track", "Sexy Sadie", first appeared on the Mojo covermount CD album of Beatles covers, MOJO Presents the White Album Recovered
"Last" (Radio edit) (Adrian McNally)13 June 2011From the album Last
"Mount the Air" (Single version) (Adrian McNally/Traditional/Becky Unthank)/[78] "Died for Love" (Traditional, arranged by Adrian McNally)8 December 2014[79] From the album Mount the Air
"Flutter" (Becky Unthank/Adrian McNally)16 February 2015From the album Mount the Air
"Died For Love" (Traditional, arranged by Adrian McNally)8 June 2015[80] From the album Mount the Air
"2000 Miles" (Chrissie Hynde) / "Tar Barrel in Dale" (George Unthank) (Christmas single 2015)[81] 11 December 2015From the album Archive Treasures 2005–2015
"The Bay of Fundy"12 April 2022From the album Sorrows Away
"The Old News" 22 July 2022From the album Sorrows Away

Various artists

AlbumRelease dateNotes
Oak, Ash, Thorn21 February 2011The Unthanks perform one track: "Oak, Ash and Thorn" (Traditional, arranged by the Unthanks)
Harbour of SongsJune 2012The Unthanks perform two tracks: "The Ruler" with Nick Hornby and "Dream of a Tree in a Spanish Graveyard" with Ian MacMillan

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: BBC Introducing: New name and sound for The Unthanks. Steve Drayton. BBC Local/Tyne. 4 September 2009. 15 February 2016. 6 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150706193354/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tyne/low/people_and_places/music/newsid_8238000/8238673.stm. live.
  2. News: The Unthanks: Biography. The Guardian. 28 September 2011. 4 June 2010. 7 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140307125855/http://www.theguardian.com/music/the-unthanks. live.
  3. "They may call themselves folk musicians, but it is the strains of jazz, foreign scales and other unlikely influences that set The Unthanks apart from the rest of the Neo-folk movement."
    Web site: Singing Siblings. The Spectator. Ed Rex. 10 December 2011. 13 July 2016. 9 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170209133732/http://www.spectator.co.uk/2011/12/singing-siblings/. live.
  4. "The Unthanks seem to regard folk music the same way Miles Davis regarded jazz: as a launchpad for exploring the wider possibilities."
    Web site: The Unthanks – Last . . 18 March 2011 . 29 September 2023 . Graeme Thomson . 24 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210724045130/https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/the-unthanks-last-4065/ . live .
  5. Web site: Best Album – The Unthanks . . . 27 April 2016 . 29 April 2016 . 1 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160501180923/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/53VR80xzzrcm2xrtyH8thdn/the-winners . live .
  6. News: The Unthanks win album of the year at 2016 BBC folk awards . . 28 April 2016 . 29 April 2016 . Martin Chilton . 4 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160504182801/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/the-unthanks-win-album-of-the-year-at-2016-bbc-folk-awards/ . live .
  7. News: The Unthanks win best album at Folk Awards . . 27 April 2016 . 29 April 2016 . Mark Savage . 28 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160428220356/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36152450 . live .
  8. Web site: The Unthanks – Lines . 21 February 2018 . David Kidman . . 21 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190221054726/https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2019/01/the-unthanks-lines/ . live .
  9. News: . 15 October 2022 . The Unthanks: Sorrows Away review – from ponderous to airborne . . 17 October 2022 . 17 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221017003539/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/15/the-unthanks-sorrows-away-review-from-ponderous-to-airborne . live .
  10. News: Album reviews. Fiona Shepherd. 6 October 2022. The Scotsman. 16 October 2022. 16 October 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221016200718/https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/album-reviews-simple-minds-the-unthanks-gun-a-new-international-3870727. live.
  11. News: David Honigman . 7 October 2022 . The Unthanks: Sorrows Away album review — upbeat folk celebration . . 16 October 2022 . 16 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221016215749/https://www.ft.com/content/2f9f94e3-8243-4970-8f78-9a6635fba7cb . live .
  12. Web site: Rachel Unthank & the Winterset Gig Timeline . 22 July 2022 . Setlist.fm . 22 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220722192718/https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rachel-unthank-and-the-winterset/2004/picturedrome-holmfirth-england-5b89aff0.html . live .
  13. Web site: Mojo Recording Of The Year 2005 . rocklistmusic.co.uk . 29 April 2015 . Julian White . 5 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305012714/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojoend.html . live .
  14. Web site: Rachel Unthank / Rachel Unthank & the Winterset The Bairns. Chris Nickson. AllMusic. August 2007. 13 July 2023. 14 July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230714083855/https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-bairns-mw0000795379. live.
  15. Web site: Radio 2 Folk Awards: 2008 Nominations. 16 February 2016. BBC Radio 2. 29 October 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171029164330/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/folkawards2008/nominations.shtml. live.
  16. News: The Unthanks . . 6 June 2010 . 2 November 2015 . Kitty Empire . Kitty Empire . 6 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151006152002/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jun/06/the-unthanks-live-music-review-folk . live .
  17. Official Album Chart for the week ending 20 September 2008. ChartsPlus. 369. 5–8. UK Albums Chart.
  18. News: Folk song is all about connection and communication – gifts that are second nature... . Mel Ledgard . BBC Music, BBC website . 30 July 2008 . 28 April 2011 . 11 February 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110211205956/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/p39x . live .
  19. News: Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, The Bairns . . 24 August 2007 . 13 March 2015 . Robin Denselow . Robin Denselow . 4 November 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141104131356/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/aug/24/folk.shopping . live .
  20. Web site: Radio 2 Folk Awards: 2008 Winners and nominees. 29 September 2023. BBC Radio 2. 5 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230405083528/https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/folkawards2008/winners.shtml. live.
  21. News: Here's the Tender Coming raises the group's standard higher still. Sid Smith. BBC Music, BBC website. 2 October 2009. 28 April 2011. Sid Smith (author). 11 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110211205822/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/fb9p. live.
  22. News: The Unthanks: Here's the Tender Coming. Colin Irwin. The Observer. 6 September 2009. 2 November 2015. Colin Irwin (journalist). 11 October 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151011221240/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/sep/06/unthanks-here-s-the-tender-coming. live.
  23. News: Album review – The Unthanks: Last (Rabblerouser/EMI) . . 13 March 2011 . 24 August 2014 . Martin Townsend . London . Martin Townsend (journalist) . 15 September 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140915120212/http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/234500/Album-review-The-Unthanks-Last-Rabblerouser-EMI . live .
  24. News: 'Last' by The Unthanks' is luscious and delicate . Thomas H Green . . 11 March 2011 . 28 April 2011 . 12 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150112155444/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/8377086/The-Unthanks-Last-CD-review.html . live .
  25. News: Brimming with material that is as haunting as it is beautiful. Sid Smith. BBC Music, BBC website. 3 March 2011. 28 April 2011. Sid Smith (author). 13 April 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110413061246/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/fphf. live.
  26. News: Album Review: The Unthanks – Last (Rabble Rouser) . Anthony Thornton . . 16 March 2011 . 21 November 2015 . Anthony Thornton (writer) . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083050/http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-unthanks/11913 . live .
  27. News: The Unthanks play Robert Wyatt and Antony and the Johnsons, Union Chapel, Islington . Andy Gill . . 23 October 2011 . 21 November 2015 . 22 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151122144410/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/the-unthanks-play-robert-wyatt-and-antony-and-the-johnsons-union-chapel-islington-2158540.html . live .
  28. News: The Unthanks: The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & the Johnsons – review. Neil Spencer. The Observer. 20 November 2011. 30 November 2011. Neil Spencer. 12 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150112173149/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/nov/20/unthanks-robert-wyatt-antony-johnsons?INTCMP=SRCH. live.
  29. News: The Unthanks get tender with brass. Adrian McNally. The Guardian. 8 September 2011. 28 September 2011. 2 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131002180649/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/08/the-unthanks-brass-band?INTCMP=SRCH. live.
  30. News: The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band: Diversions Vol 2 – review. Robin Denselow. The Guardian. 26 July 2012. 31 July 2012. Robin Denselow. 2 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131002180443/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jul/26/unthanks-brighouse-rastrick-brass-diversions-review. live.
  31. News: CD Review: The Unthanks, Diversions Vol 2. Martin Townsend. Daily Express. London. 26 July 2012. 15 August 2012. Martin Townsend (journalist). 14 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120814215323/http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/335904/CD-Review-The-Unthanks-Diversions-Vol-2/. live.
  32. News: The Unthanks: 'We're miserable buggers and not afraid of it'. Tim Adams. The Observer. 27 February 2011. 28 April 2011. 12 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150112173230/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/feb/27/unthanks-folk-northumberland-interview. live.
  33. News: Unthanks soundtrack brings life to shipyards film . Tamsin Lewis . . Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 25 June 2013 . 2 November 2015.
  34. News: The Unthanks celebrate Tyneside shipbuilding heritage . Jeff Brown . . 23 February 2011 . 1 November 2015 . 30 June 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150630101031/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tyne/hi/front_page/newsid_9405000/9405412.stm . live .
  35. News: The Unthanks: Songs from the Shipyards – review . . 28 October 2012 . 10 November 2012 . Neil Spencer . Neil Spencer . 12 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150112173155/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/oct/28/the-unthanks-songs-from-shipyards-review . live .
  36. News: Mount the Air, The Unthanks, review: 'a slow, swirling affair' . . 7 February 2015 . 11 February 2015 . Helen Brown . 11 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150211144557/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/11391983/Mount-the-Air-The-Unthanks-review-.html . live .
  37. News: The Unthanks: Mount The Air Album Review . . 26 February 2015 . 4 April 2015 . Joe Breen . 9 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150409124428/http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/the-unthanks-mount-the-air-album-review-1.2118599 . live .
  38. News: The Unthanks: Mount The Air — review . . 6 February 2015 . 11 February 2015 . David Honigmann.
  39. News: The Unthanks: Mount the Air review – exquisitely melancholic folk . . 5 February 2015 . 11 February 2015 . Robin Denselow . Robin Denselow . 11 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150211144137/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/05/the-unthanks-mount-the-air-review . live .
  40. News: The Unthanks: Mount The Air (Rabble Rouser) . Teddy Jamieson . . 8 February 2015 . 11 February 2015 . Glasgow . 15 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150215172023/http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/the-unthanks-mount-the-air-rabble-rouser.117771152 . live .
  41. News: The Unthanks: Mount the Air review – more voices please . . 8 February 2015 . 4 April 2015 . Neil Spencer . Neil Spencer . 9 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150409053313/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/08/the-unthanks-mount-the-air-review-magpie-hawthorn-rachel-becky . live .
  42. The Unthanks' 'Archive Treasures' to be released 11 December . Prescription PR . 1 December 2015 . 7 December 2015 . 18 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151218045037/http://www.prescriptionmusicpruk.com/press-releases/2015/12/1/the-unthanks-archive-treasures-to-be-released-11-december . live .
  43. Web site: Memory Box – Limited Edition 10th Anniversary Box of Unthanks Treasure . . Music News . 30 October 2015 . 1 November 2015 . Alex Gallacher . 31 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151031152908/http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2015/10/memory-box-limited-edition-10th-anniversary-box-of-unthanks-treasure/ . live .
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  45. News: The Unthanks: Lines review – national treasures sing Emily Brontë and Maxine Peake . Neil Spencer . Neil Spencer . 17 February 2019 . . 6 July 2019 . 6 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190706071600/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/06/usa-womens-world-cup-netherlands-title-xi . live .
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  48. News: David Honigman . 7 October 2022 . The Unthanks: Sorrows Away album review — upbeat folk celebration . . 16 October 2022 . 16 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221016215749/https://www.ft.com/content/2f9f94e3-8243-4970-8f78-9a6635fba7cb . live .
  49. Web site: A Tree Song / Oak, Ash and Thorn. Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Reinhard Zierke. 1 May 2017. 3 January 2018. 4 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180104132516/https://mainlynorfolk.info/peter.bellamy/songs/atreesong.html. live.
  50. Web site: Harbour of Songs . Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . 21 February 2013 . 9 March 2015 . Reinhard Zierke . 28 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150328225825/http://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/harbourofsongs.html . live .
  51. Essential Signs Paul Hartnoll, Full Time Hobby and Peacefrog . Name PR . 2 December 2014 . 9 March 2015 . 23 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150323062745/http://namepr.co.uk/site/2014/12/02/essential-signs-paul-hartnoll-full-time-hobby-and-peacefrog/ . live .
  52. Web site: Water of Tyne . Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . 5 November 2016 . 17 May 2017 . Reinhard Zierke . 16 July 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160716050234/https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/kathryntickell.html#wateroftyne . live .
  53. Web site: Coast to Coast . Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . 12 September 2014 . 6 April 2015 . Reinhard Zierke . 29 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150329015209/http://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/simonhaworth.html#coasttocoast . live .
  54. Web site: Taking routes . Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . 12 September 2014 . 6 April 2015 . Reinhard Zierke . 29 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150329015209/http://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/simonhaworth.html#takingroutes . live .
  55. Web site: Melodeon Crimes . Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . 2 March 2013 . 10 March 2015 . Reinhard Zierke . 29 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150329043236/http://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/juliansutton.html . live .
  56. Web site: Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell . Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . 30 January 2015 . 6 April 2015 . Reinhard Zierke . 29 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150329073302/http://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/kearneyfarrell.html . live .
  57. Web site: Martin Green, Becky Unthank, Inge Thomson, Niklas Roswall: Crows' Bones . Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . 2014 . 9 March 2015 . Reinhard Zierke . 23 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150223001952/http://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/theunthanks.html . live .
  58. Web site: Flit . Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . 13 April 2017 . 17 May 2017 . Reinhard Zierke . 31 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160331130809/https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/lau.html#flit . live .
  59. Web site: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks . . . 4 March 2013 . 13 February 2015 . 16 June 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160616164412/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pdsvd . live .
  60. Web site: Mackenzie Crook explains why this series of Detectorists will be the last . . 8 November 2017 . 9 November 2017 . 8 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171108203428/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-11-08/detectorists-series-3-mackenzie-crook/ . live .
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  64. Web site: Robert Turnbull . December 2020 . Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special 2020: Saucy Nancy . 27 February 2021 . The Digitsl Fix: Television . 21 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210421090625/https://www.thedigitalfix.com/television/episode-review/worzel-gummidge-christmas-special-2020-saucy-nancy/ . live .
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  67. News: Rachel Unthank: swapping clogs for high heels. Peter Culshaw. The Sunday Telegraph. London. 17 April 2008. 28 April 2011. Mira (world music ensemble). 26 August 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140826154100/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3672680/Rachel-Unthank-swapping-clogs-for-high-heels.html. live.
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  73. [Clog dance (British)|Clog dancing]
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  75. The Unthanks Biography . . 2008 . 12 June 2011 . 16 March 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110316141041/http://www.contactmusic.com/info/the_unthanks . live .
  76. Web site: Diversions Vol. 4: The Songs And Poems of Molly Drake . The Unthanks . 19 April 2017 . 20 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170420143631/http://www.the-unthanks.com/diversions-vol-4-pre-order/the-unthanks-diversions-vol-4.pdf . live .
  77. Web site: The Unthanks – Lucky Gilchrist / Tar Barrel in Dale . Bright Young Folk . The Unthanks discography . 2009 . 14 December 2015 . 4 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190604220037/http://brightyoungfolk.com/records/lucky-gilchrist-tar-barrel-in-dale-the-unthan . live .
  78. News: The Unthanks – Mount the Air: watch their new video . . 11 November 2014 . 11 January 2015 . 11 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150111194327/http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/nov/11/the-unthanks-mount-the-air-watch-new-video . live .
  79. News: The Unthanks – New Album & Video: Mount The Air . . 11 November 2014 . 11 January 2015 . Alex Gallacher . Folk Radio UK . 21 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141221110338/http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2014/11/the-unthanks-new-video-from-new-album-mount-the-air/ . live .
  80. Web site: The Unthanks – New Single and Glastonbury Main Stage . . Music news . 21 April 2015 . 1 May 2015 . Alex Gallacher . Folk Radio UK . 28 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150428000634/http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2015/04/the-unthanks-new-single-and-glastonbury-main-stage/ . live .
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