The Young'uns

This article is about the musical group. For the children's books, see The Younguns.
The Young'uns
Origin Stockton-on-Tees, England
Genres Folk
Website www.theyounguns.co.uk
Members
  • Sean Cooney
  • David Eagle
  • Michael Hughes

The Young'uns are a British folk group from Stockton, County Durham, England, who won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards "Best Group" award in 2015.[1][2][3] They specialise in singing unaccompanied, and they perform traditional shanties, contemporary songs such as Billy Bragg's "Between the Wars" and Sydney Carter's "John Ball", and original works including "You Won’t Find Me on Benefits Street" (alluding to Stockton's reaction to a Benefits Street television crew) and "The Battle of Stockton" (on a 1933 clash with Oswald Mosley's blackshirts).[4][5]

The members are Sean Cooney, David Eagle and Michael Hughes, who met as teenagers and encountered folk music as underage drinkers in a local pub. They enjoyed the music and returned to the Stockton Folk Club, where "One day someone said 'lets hear a song from the young'uns' and we sang this one verse we knew from a sea shanty", hence the band's name.[6]

Discography

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Folk Awards 2015 - The Winners!". BBC Radio 2. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Irwin, Colin (28 May 2015). "The Young’uns review – an irresistible set from the folk group of the year". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Heath, Theresa (8 September 2012). "Interview: Introducing…The Young’uns". For Folk's Sake. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  4. 1 2 "When Our grandfathers Said No". The Young'uns Shop. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Another Man's Ground". The Young'uns Shop. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "How a happy accident launched vocal trio into the inclusive world of folk". Western Morning News. 10 August 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Never Forget". The Young'uns Shop. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Folk Awards 2016 - The winners". BBC Radio 2. 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "The 2015 Spiral Earth Award Winners". Spiral Earth. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  10. ↑ "Fatea Awards Winners And Runners Up 2014". FATEA. Retrieved 14 April 2016.

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