Con-tra-dic-shun

"Four times nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Stu and Debbie Hanna are on another round of down-to-earth folk songs. A mix of traditional songs rooted heavily in the North East plus a handful of their own originals, Con-tra-dic-shin finds them on a journey marked with conversations and contradictions".

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"The husband-and-wife duo have done a deft job of placing their own self-penned material alongside a host of 19th-century lyrics - mainly from their native north-east England - which they dazzlingly reinvent with catchy, up-tempo contemporary melodies. Stu Hanna's finely picked banjo, guitar and fiddle frame the fluid interplay of their voices. Con-tra-dic-shun is, as the name suggests, about the bittersweet ironies of a life in which every argument has a counter-argument. As you might expect, they write wittily on the trials of married life. But this is also a broader social and political album, touching on tolerance to immigrants, parliamentary representation and the temperance movement. Much like the Young'uns, this is on-the-money Teesside folk".