Live Earth Antarctica-style

The Live Earth extravaganza took place around the world on Saturday, and featured all the big names in music doing their bit for climate change. But while everyone else was swanking it up in their posh trailers at Wembley Stadium and the other venues around the world, one band were perched on the edge of an iceberg in their parkas and cosy gloves, waiting for their big moment. That band was Nunatak. They are a five-piece band who are truly at the sharp end of climate change, as they are made up of the crew of the British Antarctic Survey. There are only 20-odd people out there at any one time, a fifth of whom are in the band. Somehow, word spread about them, and they ended up performing live to the thousands of people watching Live Earth. When asked what they thought of it all, they said that as far as they were concerned they were only performing to a sell-out crowd of 17 so it wasn’t that big of a deal. What a humble bunch. And their music’s not half bad too.