Concrete Playground

When I first heard Kitty, Daisy and Lewis’s Goin’ Up The Country I actually presumed it was the original version, and that Canned Heat had covered it in 1969. I was wrong. The track was in fact recorded at the teenage siblings’ home studio in 2008, using 8-track tape machines and retro BBC microphones.

Their sound is so vintage, so reminiscent of ‘50s rock'n'roll, blues and country music, that it’s almost as if this three-piece band from London were plucked straight out of mid-century America. On stage they perform tracks like Honolulu Rock n Roll and Mean Son of a Gun with a rainbow of instruments including guitar, piano, banjo, lapsteel guitar, harmonica, double bass, ukulele, drums, trombone, xylophone and accordion. In person they’re just a bunch of cool kids who love to write music and perform good old-fashioned rock n roll.

Comb up your quiff and head to the Manning Bar on 10th December for their one and only Sydney gig.

By Emma Waters Freeman