I decided to see the Unthanks after a newspaper review of their latest album so I was fresh to their music. They are from Northumbria and folk-based with the emphasis on female vocals so that is in itself a recommendation for me.
The support was a duo - she with a haunting voice, he with lots of songs and a guitar. They were good particularly a slightly offbeat ballad about Benjamin? Brown.
The Unthanks had apparently expanded their band since their last tour and now featured three violinists, a cello, piano, bass and drums as well as the Unthank sisters fronting on vocals. Actually the backing band did more changing around of instruments than I have ever seen - after almost every track people swapped around or changed their instruments. They also contributed a lot of backing vocals particularly one of the violinists who featured a couple of times as a third vocalist.
The voices were sweet, the music was mostly Northumbrian in origin. A gentle musical evening in front of a surprisingly sparse audience.
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