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Hindley Street Country Club
OriginAdelaide, Australia
GenresRock, New wave, Dance-pop
Years active2017 - present
MembersConstantine Delo*
Mark Flogiano
Jordan Lennon
Danny Lopresto
Jason McMahon
Bel Martinez
Kat Jade MiIic
Jake Milic
Bradley Polain
Dave Ross
Ben Todd
Steve Todd

Hindley Street Country Club (HSCC) is an Australian cover band formed in 2017 by Adelaide musicians Constantine Delo and Darren Mullan.[1] The band performs live and online, leveraging social media audiences on YouTube, Tik Tok and Facebook.[2][3]

History

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HSCC was established as a project by Darren Mullan and bassist Constantine Delo. Their goal was to create live versions of songs that are popular with Australian audiences[4]. To achieve this, they collaborated with notable live musicians from the Adelaide music scene, often forming a band of up to 12 musicians.[5][6] The group would record re-imagined covers of popular songs, rehearse the songs three or four times together, and then record in one take and upload them to YouTube every Friday at 5pm.[7][4]

The Hindley Street Country Club derives its name from Hindley Street in Adelaide, South Australia, a location where many members of the group performed at various venues during the peak of the street's live music scene in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.[1][3]

In 2020, HSCC’s videos gained substantial traction on YouTube, resulting in nearly 987,000 followers and approximately 567 million views.[1] In 2022, Dennis Dunstan (Fleetwood Mac, Air Supply, and Men at Work) was hired as band manager[7] and in the same year, the band was signed to American record label, Renaissance Records.[7]

In 2024, Mark Pope, Australian artist manager and producer, teamed up with entrepreneur, businessman and concert tour promoter, Michael Chugg to take on the touring management and promotion of the band.[8] The group travelled to Singapore to perform at the Singapore Grand Prix and in Manilla, Phillipines in their first overseas performances.[9]

As of January 2025, the band has over 1.19 million subscribers on YouTube and continues to tour across Australia and the USA.[10]

Band members

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The band is made up of regular and guest local musicians. The line up depends on what is required to reproduce the original song.[11]

Current Members

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  • Constantine Delo – co-founder, arranger and bass guitar
  • Mark Flogiano - keyboard
  • Bel Martinez - vocals
  • Jake Milic - guitar
  • Kat Jade Milic - vocals
  • Danny Lopresto – vocals
  • Jordan Lennon - vocals
  • Jason McMahon - saxophone
  • Bradley Polain - drums and vocals
  • Dave Ross - keyboard
  • Ben Todd - percussion
  • Steve Todd - percussion

Previous members and guest artists

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Previous band members and guest artists have included co founder Darren Mullen, vocalists Andy Seymour, Vince Contarino, Ian Moss, Cam Blockland, Melissa McCaig, Diane Panopoulos, Ian "Polly" Politis, Zkye Compson-Harris, Glenn Cunningham and Pina Del Re. Other musicians have included Paul White (keyboard), Stefan Hauk (guitar), James Muller (guitar), Tzan Niko (guitar), Sam Leske (guitar) and Eric Santucci (trumpet).[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Hindley Street Country Club notches more than 1 million video views". Sunday Mail (SA). 13 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Hindley Street Country Club Australian Tour 2023 | Australian National University". www.anu.edu.au. 8 August 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  3. ^ a b "About Us". The Hindley Street Country Club. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  4. ^ a b Hui, Jin (8 April 2022). "Music's game-changers return". Noosa Today. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  5. ^ Pagulong, Charmie Joy. "Hindley Street Country Club to perform hits from '70s, '80s in first Manila show". Philstar.com. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  6. ^ "This Cover Of Dire Straits' "Sultans Of Swing" Is Guaranteed To Get Your Feet Tapping". The Music Man. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  7. ^ a b c Wilson, Rebecca (19 July 2022). "Former Fleetwood Mac band manager teams up with local SA cover band". Glam Adelaide. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  8. ^ "The Aussie cover band praised by the world's greatest artists". 9now.nine.com.au. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  9. ^ "The Hindley Street Country Club: Just Get's Better 2025 AUSTRALIAN TOUR". Empire Theatre. 3 May 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  10. ^ "The Hindley Street Country Club: Just Get's Better 2025 AUSTRALIAN TOUR". Empire Theatre. 3 May 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  11. ^ "This Cover Of Dire Straits' "Sultans Of Swing" Is Guaranteed To Get Your Feet Tapping". The Music Man. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  12. ^ juliusg (2 July 2019). "Adelaide Music's Online Giant - HSCC". CX Network. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
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