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The Unthanks, Purcell Room, London
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[Financial Times] - “I hope I'll build ships, boys, until I am dead”, sang Rachel Unthank; but even as the shipbuilders sprouted shaggy perms and sideburns the writing was on the wall. The 1980s erupted in grainy videotape, Mrs Thatcher (at whose appearance the audience
Guardian: The Unthanks: Songs from the Shipyards – review
[The Guardian] "life a job", while Monkey Dung Man relates the perils of asbestos. Kipling's Big Steamers becomes lament rather than jingoism, Costello's Shipbuilding is skilfully underplayed and, on Fairfield Crane, Rachel Unthank delivers a scene-stealing solo
Fran Smith: Wakefield folk singer who wowed Radio 4 listeners is set to embark ...
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[Yorkshire Evening Post] - Her distinctive voice is gracefully assured, its quietly impassioned Northern tones calling to mind folk sirens such as Norma Waterson or Rachel Unthank. Musically, however, Fran will transport you somewhere else entirely. Her piano-based songs
Sam Lee: From burlesque dancing to a Mercury Music Prize nomination
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[Telegraph.co.uk] - The sensible answer is no, yet Norma Waterson came mightily close in 1996, Rachel Unthank & the Winterset weren't a million miles away with The Bairns in 2008, and frankly you wouldn't put anything past this year's rank outsider, Sam Lee. “The chances
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