Big-name bands may get back together on a roughly bi-weekly basis now, but it was not always thus. When the original line-up of UK folk linchpins Pentangle reunited for a string of performances in 1982 after nine years apart, it was quite the event.
That restored line-up was short-lived, though, and despite the quintet’s perennial voice Jacqui McShee continuing to front various incarnations of the band to this day, much excitement also greeted the reunion of the founding five – McShee plus guitar virtuosos Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, plus Danny Thompson on double bass and drummer Terry Cox – in 2008, which lasted until Jansch’s death three years later.
