Concorde 2, BrightonWith their blend of Muscle Shoals soul, boogie-woogie and pub rock, the Teskey Brothers are trapped in the past – but make gorgeous
music nonetheless
![The Teskey Brothers review – Aussie blues revivalists let the good times roll](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/927d4b8e1ef4602bb6484fb2ae3ca945e6b42a6f/1386_890_5025_3015/master/5025.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctcmV2aWV3LTMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=4ea1299256555c10b6cd8ae7f6a1616d)
It feels preposterous to suggest a band who formed in 2008 are enjoying a meteoric rise, but in the case of the Teskey Brothers, it makes a weird kind of sense. They spent nine years playing the bars of Melbourne; it wasn’t until the release of their 2017 album Half Mile Harvest that they performed outside of the state of Victoria. Two and a half years and a second album later, and here they are: 10,500 miles from Melbourne. Tonight’s venue is fit to burst with punters.
It’s more peculiar still when you consider the Teskey Brothers’ music. Their sound occupies a space bordered on one side by old-fashioned Muscle Shoals southern soul ballads and on the other by the late-60s blues revival – the lengthy Honeymoon features a middle section for which the once-popular phrase “good-time boogie” was invented; the harmonica-heavy Louisa arrives replete with a drum solo and sounds not unlike the theme tune to The Old Grey Whistle Test. If you wanted a fractionally more modern comparison, it doesn’t involve a huge leap of imagination to picture the Teskey Brothers doing good business on London’s mid-70s pub rock scene.