Hindley Street Country Club (HSCC) Concert in Manila

 

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The Hindley Street Country Club (HSCC), described as the greatest cover band in the world, with over 1 billion views across social media platforms, will perform live in Manila on September 29, 2024, at the New Frontier Theater. The band’s unique blend, high-energy performance, and catchy tunes have garnered viewers from Australia and abroad, amassing over 590 million YouTube views with over one million subscribers globally.  

The HSCC, an online band sensation from Australia, was founded in 2017 by arranger and producer Constantine Delo, along with a cohort of seasoned Adelaide session musicians who got together, for a lark, to record re-arranged covers of their favorite songs from the 1970’s and 1980’s and uploading them to Facebook and YouTube weekly. All HSCC tracks are recorded live, with everyone in one room (with the exception of a few when COVID 19 restrictions were in South Australia). As there is no PA or fold-back speakers to hear themselves in the room, the singers use Shure In-ear monitors to hear themselves, so the sound can be captured through the microphones as isolated as possible to make the job of the mixing engineer easier. 

The band got its name from Hindley Street located in the center of the city of Adelaide.  Many of the musicians who have played with HSCC had gigs in bands up and down that street in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The name is a play on the reputation of the street which is an eclectic mix of activity today.  In addition to pubs, clubs, amusement arcades, cinemas, fast food outlets, ice cream parlors and a university campus at one end, the street features adult entertainment, tattoo shops, motorcycle gangs and a steady stream of traffic cruising up and down the strip. There is no actual “country club” on Hindley Street, and the in-joke is mixing up a genteel concept like a country club with “Hindley Street.”

 

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Following on from HSCC’s major internet success, the band now tours throughout the world to audiences far and wide. Releasing videos weekly, they perform all of pop’s greatest and most popular hits, sounding faithful to the sound of the original recording and getting praised by the original artists themselves. 

Their videos showcase the hit songs of Dolly Parton (Islands in the Stream), Phil Collins (Something Happened on the Way to Heaven),  Toto (Africa), Foreigner (Waiting for a Girl Like You, Feels Like the First Time, I Want to Know What Love Is), Beegees (Too Much Heaven),  Billy Joel (Just the Way You Are), Gerry Rafferty (Baker Street),  Crowded House (Don’t Dream It’s Over), Sade (Sweetest Taboo),  Christopher Cross (Arthur’s Theme, Sailing), Barry White (Can’t Get Enough of Your Love,Babe), Boz Scaggs (Lowdown), The Alan Parsons Project (Eye in the Sky), Supertramp (Take the Long Way Home), A-ha (Take on Me), Spandau Ballet (True), Cliff Richard and Olivia Newton-John (Suddenly), Cyndi Lauper (Time After Time), Sergio Mendes (Never Gonna Let You Go), George Harrison (My Sweet Lord), Andy Gibb (I Just Wanna Be Your Everything), Cheryl Lynn (Got To Be Real), Wham (Careless Whisper), Earth, Wind and Fire (Boogie Wonderland, September), Whitney Houston (The Greatest Love of All), Tears For Fears (Head Over Heels), The Beatles (While My Guitar Gently Weeps), Dire Straits (Sultans of Swing, Money For Nothing), Barbra Streisand (Woman in Love), Mike + The Mechanics (The Living Years), Rod Stewart (I Don't Wanna Talk About It), Mister, Mister (Broken Wings), John Waite (Missing You), Hall & Oates (Kiss on My List), Taylor Dayne (Love Will Lead You Back), Madonna (La Isla Bonita), Fleetwood Mac (Silver Springs, Sara), Joe Jackson (Steppin’ Out), Wings (Silly Love Songs), Starship (Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now), Donna Summer (Bad Girls) and many more.  

The HSCC’s live show in the Philippines is presented by Main Events, a sub-unit of Ovation Productions Inc. that specializes in corporate events and other special projects that include live performances by various local and international artists. Tickets are available on September 3, 2024, at ticketnet.com.ph at the following ticket prices: PHP 4,500 (VIP)/ 4,000 (Orchestra) / 3,500 (Loge)/ 2,500 (Balcony) plus ticketing charges.  

For more details and updates about the concert, please check the official Facebook page of Main Events at https://social.mainevents.asia/facebook.