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a b c Colin Randall (February 2008). "Rachel Unthank: the big interview (2)". Salut! Live . Retrieved 20 March 2016.

Teddy Jamieson (8 February 2015). "The Unthanks: Mount The Air (Rabble Rouser)". Sunday Herald. Glasgow . Retrieved 11 February 2015. 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 [ edit ] Here's the Tender Coming [ edit ]

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Essential Signs Paul Hartnoll, Full Time Hobby and Peacefrog" (Press release). Name PR. 2 December 2014 . Retrieved 9 March 2015.

Since the release of the technicolour BBC Folk Album of the Year Mount The Air in 2015, The Unthanks have both scaled up to symphonic levels with Charles Hazelwood and the BBC Proms, and stripped down to the unaccompanied singing they grew up with for Diversions Vol 5. Guardian Books podcast : Royalty and the English folk song. The Guardian (podcast). 1 June 2012 . Retrieved 2 November 2015.a b "Best Album– The Unthanks". The Winners: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. BBC. 27 April 2016 . Retrieved 29 April 2016. 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 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]

On 3 August 2018 the group performed at The Proms in Prom 27: Folk Music around Britain and Ireland. Their set included "Magpie", "Gan to the Kye", "Mount the Air" and "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry". [62] [63] [64] Thomas H Green (11 March 2011). " 'Last' by The Unthanks' is luscious and delicate". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 28 April 2011. Important to start early! Of course, so much of the folk song tradition is about the lyrics. Do either of you have a favourite lyric or special, personal interpretation of a lyric from this record? Here we were faced with a song that’s focused on domestic violence. Putting it forward in the current climate, we needed to make sure that we were happy singing it. And I just wanted to go that little bit further. It presents things from her perspective, from his perspective, from the perspective of the audience, realising that she’s in danger, and yet she still loves him. And that’s very complicated. I wanted to put a verse in for Johnny, not to hear his side, but just to confirm her side more, that she was right. A trilogy of albums with a poetic theme – Part One: Lillian Bilocca; Part Two: World War One; Part Three: Emily BrontëIt ties in with the whole philosophy of the folk tradition, trying to learn from our past, from the stories of our ancestors. Trying to reflect and make our lives better today. Tell me about the lyrics in Old News. They slowly whittle down, so it just becomes Old News / Whole Truth at the very end.