Please note all times are approximate:

7pm: Doors
8-8.30pm: Trembling Bells
9-10.30pm: The Unthanks

Not many bands can count Radiohead, Portishead, Elvis Costello, Robert Wyatt, Ben Folds, Ewan McGregor and Nick Hornby amongst their admirers, but The Unthanks occupy a unique place in music. Northumbria sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank are unsentimental young storytellers, forging links between folk worlds old, new and other. Staunch traditionalism and sonic adventure ought to be polar opposites, yet they are easy bedfellows in the gentle hands of The Unthanks.

They've been described as the British counterpart to the leftfield folk leanings of Sufjan Stevens, Bonnie Prince Billy and Fleet Foxes, nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and present in The Best Albums of the Decade (worldwide, all genres) in The Guardian and Uncut. Described by music journalist Paul Morley as "absolutely exquisite", their album Here's The Tender Coming employs a kaleidoscope of unlikely instruments and arrangements.

"Once in a blue moon type of every now and again, you hear music that is so complete, so wonderful, unique and yet familiar that it stops you in your tracks. They have that blue moon magic about them, and they have it in spades" (BBC Music)

www.the-unthanks.com
www.myspace.com/rachelunthank

Later With Jools Holland, BBC2 : Here's The Tender Coming