Outstanding.

Not one for the folk purists, I imagine, as the central core of folk songs has been widened out with extra instrumentation - strings, brass, piano even (the horror! the horror!) electric bass and a real-life drum kit. But to me, this only added extra tones & musical 'colours'. And they drew from other traditions too - some 'modern classical' here & there and the more 'baroque' end of pop - once or twice I was reminded of the Beach Boys - though the Unthanks aren't boys, of course (though some of their band are) and are hardly Californian.

And as for that support act I asked about above, they were pretty good too, with excellent male/female harmonies and some understatedly stylish guitar playing, though a little winsome in terms of some of the originasl songs.