Who are The Hindley Street Country Club?
Founded in 2017 by Arranger/Producer Constantine Delo, The Hindley Street Country Club (The HSCC) started as a group of Adelaide musicians, recording re-arranged covers and uploading them to Facebook and YouTube weekly. Fast forward to today, The HSCC has amassed over 540 million YouTube views with over 940,000 subscribers globally and accumulated over a billion views accross social media platforms.
Following on from major internet success, The HSCC now tours throughout the world to audiences far and wide. Still releasing videos weekly on YouTube every Friday at 8am (ACDT).
Do The HSCC really record live?
Yes, all HSCC tracks are recorded live, with everyone in one room (with the exception of a few when COVID restrictions were in South Australia). The singers use Shure In-ear monitors to hear themselves as there is no PA or fold-back speakers to hear themselves in the room. This is so sound can be captured through the microphones as isolated as possible to make the job of the mixing engineer easier.
Where does the name come from?
Hindley Street is located in the centre of the city of Adelaide, and many of the musicians who have played with HSCC had gigs in bands up and down that street in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The name is a play on the reputation of the street, which in addition to pubs, clubs, amusement arcades, cinemas, fast food outlets and ice cream parlours, featured adult entertainment, tattoo shops, motorcycle gangs and a steady stream of traffic cruising up and down the strip. Hindley Street is an eclectic mix of activity today, including a university campus at one end. There is no actual 'country club' on Hindley Street in Adelaide, and the in-joke is mixing up a genteel concept like a country club with ‘Hindley Street’.
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