New band of the day: The Cornshed Sisters (No 1,218)

Pat Benatar said love is a battlefield. The Cornshed Sisters say it's more like the carpet bombing of Germany in the second world war.Hometown: Sunderland.The lineup: Jennie, Cath, Liz and Marie.The background: You wait all century for an all-girl folk harmony group and then two come at once. Unlike the Staves, though, the Cornshed Sisters aren't actually sisters. We don't think. The press release says: "If they were raised as sisters it was by a father who sang like an angel and by a mother who...

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