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Artist: Tunng
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Group Members:

Sam Genders, Mike Lindsay, Becky Jacobs, Ashley Bates, Phil Winter

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Influenced By:

Belle & Sebastian, Nick Drake, Flaming Lips, The Beta Band, Fairport Convention

Formal Connection With:

The Accidental, Mike Lindsay
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  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "Good Arrows

Biography

Though the core members of Tunng, Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay, began their musical partnership composing scores for soft-core porn, they soon decided to form a band that would bring together Genders' gentle vocals with Lindsay's guitar playing and songwriting. To fill out their sound, the duo added more guitars as well as female vocals, turntables, programming, and other percussion. Often labeled as either "future folk" or "folktronica" by critics who had a hard time placing the band's sound, Tunng released a handful of singles in their native Britain before their full-length debut, This Is...Tunng: Mother's Daughter and Other Songs came out in 2005 (the album was later re-released in the U.S. the following year on Ace Fu). In 2006 their follow-up, Comments of the Inner Chorus, hit shelves. By this time more of a collective than anything else, especially because initially Genders had opted out of performing live, the six-piece (Genders and Lindsay plus vocalists Becky Jacobs and Ashley Bates and multi-instrumentalists Martin Smith and Phil Winter) released Good Arrows only the next year. ~ Marisa Brown, All Music Guide
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Tunng
Origin London, England, UK
Genres Folktronica
Years active 2003-present
Labels Static Caravan
Full Time Hobby
Thrill Jockey
Associated acts The Accidental
Website Tunng's Official Website
Members
Mike Lindsay
Sam Genders
Ashley Bates
Phil Winter
Becky Jacobs
Martin Smith

Tunng are an experimental folk band from the United Kingdom.

The band is often associated with the Folktronica genre due to the electronic influences evident in some of their work.

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Biography

Becky Jacobs of Tunng

Tunng are often noted for their use of strange instruments, including sea shells. They supported Doves on dates at the end of their 2005 tour. Member Becky Jacobs is the younger sister of electronic musician Max Tundra.

Besides releasing three albums and numerous singles since 2004, Tunng have covered Bloc Party's song "The Pioneers". Both the original and cover were featured in the 3rd season of The O.C. ("The Man of the Year", Episode 24). They also covered Tim Buckley's "No Man Can Find The War" for the 2005 tribute album Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley.

In 2007, the band were included on The Imagined Village album, with a re-told version of "Death and the Maiden". In 2008, Tunng remixed the song "Hoko Onchi" on Dive Index's Collisions - The Mid/Air Remixes.

Their song "Bullets" was played during the end credits of the Weeds season 4 episode "Till We Meet Again" in September 2008.

"Jenny Again" from the 2006 Comments of the Inner Chorus LP was used as the soundtrack for the TV ad from the NSPCC to launch the NSPCC Child's Voice Appeal[1].

In March 2009, Tunng played together with a trio from the Tuareg desert blues band Tinariwen on a UK tour, and they also played together at Glastonbury in June 2009.

Discography

Albums

Singles

  • "Tale from Black", June 2004
  • "The Maypole Song", August 2004
  • "People Folk" (Remixed by Dollboy), May 9 2005
  • "Magpie Bites", November 21 2005 (7")
  • "The Pioneers" (Bloc Party cover, January 23, 2006) (7"/CD)
  • "Woodcat", (24 April 2006) (7")
  • "Jenny Again", (4 September 2006) (7")
  • "It's Because...We've Got Hair", (11 November 2006) (7")
  • "Bricks", (13 August 2007) (7") #20 UK Indie
  • "Bullets", (15 October 2007) (7")
Mike Lindsay of Tunng


References

  1. ^ "Jenny Again" on NSPCC TV advert

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