Tunng 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. 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. Sam Genders and Mike Lindsey, two of the founding members of Tunng, began their musical careers together after meeting at one of Sam's early London solo gigs..[1] 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[2]. 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. In May 2010, Tunng were headliners at the Wood Festival in Oxfordshire, England.
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Tunng Bullets-Lryics These things they make us sentimental inside Your words are gelignite Or just another sentimental aside We're catching bullets in our teeth And though it's easy when you know how it's done They split the secret up six ways before they gave it to us just before dawn And now we don't remember Our blood and guts are out We spread our bones across the table at night We cut our fingers off To give ourselves those little extra insights We're catching bullets in our teeth And though they try hard not to say how it's done They always do They spill the secret out six ways And beg for our forgiveness Just before dawn And now we don't remember We're catching bullets in our teeth It's hard to do but they're so sweet And if they take a couple out We try to work things out We catching bullets with our Heads and hearts and all the darkest parts of us It's strange to find such light In such endless night So sweet to lose a friend You leave the church and taste The air in your lungs Old lies and fireflies Carve angels on your eyes And all is undone You whisper prayers into the dark Up to a god in whom you've never believed You always do You split the secret up six ways But it won't make it any easier to see And now we don't remember We're catching bullets in our teeth Its hard to do but they're so sweet And if they take a couple out We try to work things out We're catching bullets with our Heads and hearts and all the darkest parts of us It's strange to find such light In such endless night We're catching bullets in our backs We sent the undertaker back Into the garden in the drought To try to work things out We're catching bullets with the best resources that we've got We're happy then again we're not We shout - through the endless doubt |
