The Unthanks Here's The Tender Coming Live Later Jools Holland Oct 2009

[JonnieBrightside]

I often strike gold on Jools. Luckily for me, I just found a diamond.

[RedHotPudings]

check out my dads tender coming! WILLARDS LEAP thats how its ment to be done!

[jackspartychannel]

Every square inch of my skin tingled as soon as they started singing. I don't think that's ever happened before...

[OriginalBlenk]

A real Geordie song

[bearingupnicely]

"they will ship you foreign," sing these glorious voices, on behalf of all the women (and now, men) who wonder what they'll do as loved ones go off to war. If only all the peoples on earth could blend as sweetly as these voices...

[peterkabrna]

bloody awful

[BrianoJee]

@peterkabrna And you prefer Foreigner.......hahahahahaha

[peterkabrna]

@BrianoJee

Thanks for replying,but you need help.

The perfect cure is to key in,Never say die Black Sabbath,Hammersmith 1978,and you should be feeling a lot better.

[puurplefreak9]

god,what a beautiful voices♫♥

makes you feel so relaxed....

[thisisyaren]

just bought all their albums,,, this is one of the best bands ive ever come across in my life... and i know alot about music. this is just so fresh and inspirational... the sorta stuff that makes u feel like dying in the country in the middle ages....

[Drunsfleet]

Divine

[WendleBaps]

Will be seeing these guys at Bestival this year :D

[bobsy49]

I bought the album afetr seeing this video. It is excelllent.

[corsica290]

@ShaggyAlonso13 - Oops! Typo below - I wrote Georgie (my daughter) instead of Geordie!!

[corsica290]

@ShaggyAlonso13 - Beautiful yes. Original no. This is folk music - these lovely ladies didn''t compose the song. The are perpetuating the wonderful Georgie folk tradition. Thank, God.

[ShaggyAlonso13]

@corsica290 I know they don't write (most of) the songs. However their slant on these aged pieces is undeniably original. There is nobody out there like The Unthanks, and 'The Bairns' (in their previous incarnation) is unique.

[corsica290]

@ShaggyAlonso13 Point taken. I think their arrangements of folk material are original and have a distinctive style. I only heard them for the first time the other day on the car radio when driving from Canberra to Sydney. I was quite impressed and they came across as very nice down to earth people as well in the interviews.

[KITCHENOFDISTINCTION]

Really don't think British music is being elipsed at all. Every genre has great UK stuff if time is taken to explore. Folk-wise...Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn, Eliza Carthy, Rusby, Mumfords etc. etc. producing brilliant stuff.

[manygate10]

@KITCHENOFDISTINCTION Well said! Most of my posts on youtube are to do with this plea to music lovers, ie look beyond the mainstream. With the internet it is not difficult. Drowned in Sound is a very good site.

[KITCHENOFDISTINCTION]

@manygate10 Cheers manygate...will explore.

[ShaggyAlonso13]

@KITCHENOFDISTINCTION the British folk scene is in a great place - Lau, Bellowhead, Unthanks, Flynn, Rusby et al are making great music. Mumford & Sons and Marling are half-baked fakers. But aside from folk British guitar music is in a terrible state.

[raggedclown]

Too slow. Seek out the version by 'The Hush', sung by the incomparable Bob Fox.

[maddalicex]

@raggedclown No.

[grievemourne]

@raggedclown No.

[Jarrahnut]

A near perfect performance by that man on the xylophone!

[boscombefun]

@Jarrahnut

:))

[MrVulcan09]

Only just got to hear about this excellent group. Real 'hair on the back of your neck' music. Brilliant!

[GeeElleJay]

adoration. folk music is so underrated.

[GordonArmstrong1]

Here's the Tender Coming is a brilliant song, sang superbly. I'd never heard about The Unthanks until last week, but this song about my home town, South Shields, brought a tear to my eye. I think it's a song that will make people from South Shields, Sunderland very proud, 'cos it's about our forefathers and our town.

[GeeElleJay]

@GordonArmstrong1 North east <3

[buchseboelken]

music is always attracting emotions. take care about it. unthanks are a great gift to the world.

[gungirlz]

You can almost hear the remorseless beat of the press tender's oars in the repeated verse "Here's the tender coming", and the strings call to mind all the partings and loss of so many wars

[DJkevvykev]

Saw the Unthanks at Wood Festival this year.

Just great !

Highly recommended.

Ooh-err. Shiver down the spine listening to this.

[DJkevvykev]

Saw the Unthanks at Wood Festival this year.

Just great !

Highly recommended.

[folkfanjimmy]

I really like this one but have to admit I never knew what the 'tender' was until Maz O'Connor explained it at Warwick before she sang it on Friday night. Great, great version of an amazing song here.

[thicketwings05]

anyone know the lyrics or where i can find them?

[Jarrahnut]

That guy on the xylophone (?) - he's sensational!! Yeah ... the rest of 'em are quite good too. No ... seriously ... I think this is a beautiful effort. I'm reminded of the young Watersons (I saw them in Belfast in 1967). Greetings to one and all from Big Hugh of Mundlimup in wonderful Western Australia. Cheers!

[thicketwings05]

saw them at latitude......in a musical war between this lot and justin bieber.......he would not stand a chance.

[rufisfudpucker]

such a great song,jus sit back and close ur eyes

[tuffy966]

geordie pride!xx

[paulfreefall]

just lovely

[samsingssongs2]

i sorta of take this song as a joke - me and my friends watched it on bbcs glastonbury's coverage (while drunk and with subtitles) and couldnt help but sing along and just generally take the piss!!

sorry for people who love this as im pretty sure its a good song when sober!!

[thegunner14]

glastonbury aswell, amazing song :D

[weeeeoooow]

Just watched this on Glastonbury......beautiful!

[Nigelcf]

@weeeeoooow Same here. Totally haunting song. They kind of remind me of an English Folk version of Clannad.

[normanski21]

i got this for my birthday as a friend mistakenly thought i liked "folk music". i do if this is it!

[doctorquackingtosh]

Inspired!

[SilverColoredGold]

I found it!

I heard this song on the radio a few days ago and I've been searching for it 'cus it's amazing ..

[oddn]

that was gorgeous!

[LstCowboy]

Bearing in mind the subject of the song is the impending arrival of the press gang, you'd think there would be a bit more urgency! Perhaps the lasses want the blokes to be pressed.....

[greyladydown1]

@LstCowboy While I think your comment is more than valid, I think that maybe the tone is that of dazed shock as they see their men sailing away and so has even more poignance.

[brebsy]

I *would* have seen them live on the day they performed on Later, but they cancelled their gig that day to do the TV show instead... Here's hoping they reschedule the gig soon...

[greyladydown1]

Loved their Tar Barrel in Dale on Christmas Sessions, hungrily looked for more and am never disappointed in this band. They have the most wonderful freshness and every note of every instrument and voice is placed sparingly to great effect. Great stuff

[peter1krausz]

Well, the gyu with the glockenspiel really did a great job. Don't get me wrong, I really love their music.

[tess57]

gorgeous!

[ellierog]

Niopha,my mate on the fiddle!!! SPECTACULAR,mate..hope you all get the success you so richly deserve,This is a stunningly beautiful song xx

[hobgoblin731]

Gorgeous... looking forward to seeing you all in Derby on Tuesday

[hurricanebtvs]

Saw these guys on LWJH and I was blown away. Becky is an incredible singer. Shame she didnt get more time to shine.

[lucyjordan50]

I saw them on Jools Holland, having never heard of them before. Went to see them live 3 days later.

They are without a doubt the best band this country has produced in a decade, and I don't say that lightly.

Buy their CDs and see them live. They are absolutely amazing and are doing things with traditional folk songs that no one else has even thought of.

They will make you see all the normal showbiz dross for what it is.

This is REAL MUSIC.

[pibbleswan]

I think the Unthanks have found their form. Looking forward to listening to more of the new line-up.

[merlini1]

Every time I listen to this I have a tear in my eye. They have an uncanny knack of really pulling at the heart strings. I love the pacing of this version and the real accents.

In an age of posing, show-business affectations they're the real thing; honest, genuine, heartfelt and utterly musical.

[joeygsmom]

the accent--geordie, yes?

[merlini1]

Certainly is. This is a very different interpretation of an old sea shanty, but it works magnificently.

[23creative]

quite amazing tho .. anyone remember Shellyan Orphan they were very very similar.. but they was mid 1980's

[mattythehammer]

When I listen to this song, It takes me to another play...

[bonniekilty]

Absolutely beautiful.

[ShaggyAlonso13]

At a time when British music is being totally eclipsed by the great stuff coming out of America, The Unthanks are a ray of light. Their music is truly beautiful and original.

[bullyweeclive]

@ShaggyAlonso13 What great music coming out of America? I haven't noticed any....Music generally is becoming more diverse, but there is very little that is new or innovative, especially from the USA, in my humble opinion

[ShaggyAlonso13]

@bullyweeclive Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom, Fleet Foxes, Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, Beirut, Avi Buffalo, She & Him etc - the list is endless. British music is in a bad, bad way - save for a few great folk acts. And I don't mean Mumford & Sons.

[bullyweeclive]

@ShaggyAlonso13 I have to say I don't rate any of those you mention apart from She & Him, who are quite good fun in a cute kind of way. The rest of the bands are fairly dull and light-weight. I wouldn't say anywhere in the world is particularly producing anything fundemantally new or exciting at the moment and I find the new folk stuff fairly samey and bland.

[ShaggyAlonso13]

@bullyweeclive and by the way you've clearly never heard a Joanna Newsom record if you think she is dull and lightweight. In fact Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective and the others are anything but - they are making innovative, challenging and extremely creative music. Ask the Unthanks what they think of DP, AC, Sufjan and Newsom.

[bullyweeclive]

@bullyweeclive If you want some fresh and exciting sounds, I would prefer to quote the likes of The Vaccines, Jessie J, Tinie Tempah, Pendulum, Eisenfunk and Zombie Zombie. The likes of Franz Ferdinand and Rammstein have been quiet in recent months but are still sounding better than most things around at the moment..

[bullyweeclive]

@bullyweeclive And if you want more folkie stuff then I would much prefer to listen to Aidan Moffat, Malcolm Middleton, Peter Bjorn and John or good old Bell and Sebastien. Not to forget the brilliant new albums by Edwyn Collins and the reformed Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark.

[ShaggyAlonso13]

@bullyweeclive PENDULUM?! Jessie J?!? Franz Ferdinand??!? Each to their own eh

[cbp76]

@ShaggyAlonso13 erm, what great stuff coming out of America?????

[catriona123]

@ShaggyAlonso13 british music was never being eclipsed by america.... just saying

[shutupandshave]

@catriona123

Early nineties.

Eeez are good, eeez are good.

[kopukapu]

go see them live if u get the chance, best gig i have seen in years...their version of Annachie Gordon was truly astonishing

[joeygsmom]

thanks for saying that I love that song and havent seen a new version in a while!

[mark9780]

Beautiful song, beautifully performed.

[aikighost]

Just bought the album on the strength of this.

[GoldhunterUK]

@aikighost Same here, beautiful song. Just getting into folk music and love it so far.

[bobsy49]

@aikighost I also purchase the album after watching this video. A beautiful album.

[MarkLawrance9]

Truely Amazing.

[christheking]

Stunning! Beautiful!

[mattythehammer]

Beautiful!!!!