The Young'uns: 'We were out busking and a bystander said, "Shut up singing or I'll glass you"'

Teesside trio the Young’uns are setting the folk scene on fire. The band talk about drunken harmonies, upsetting Scotland – and belting out songs about everything from the founder of Marks & Spencer to the fishermen they meet in pubs

In 2003, three teenagers started frequenting the Sun Inn in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. In the back room, they found the Stockton Folk Club in full voice. “We didn’t even know there was a folk club,” says David Eagle, the trio’s baritone, sitting in the self-same room today. “When someone started singing, I thought, ‘What the heck?’ But we stayed to listen.”

To their amazement, they found that traditional songs about working people’s lives – sung by much older people – spoke to them more than pop. “We’d stumbled across this rich tradition that we’d no idea existed,” says Eagle’s bandmate Michael Hughes. “Unaccompanied songs about ordinary people being belted out in Teesside accents.”

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