East Sussex quintet The Longshore Drifters play old-school country, harmony duets, honky-tonk and cosmic country at The Lord Nelson.
The Longshore Drifters play The Lord Nelson on Sunday 6 December, starting at 16:00. They're an East Sussex quintet, so this is a local band playing a Sunday afternoon slot in Hastings.
What they do is old-school country, and that's a fair bit of ground to cover in one set. There's the honky-tonk side of it — the sort of dancehall country that works as well in a pub as it does on a stage — and then there's cosmic country, that more psychedelic, wide-open sound that pulls in a bit of rock and folk. In between, they lean on harmony-rich duets, the kind of two-part singing that's a hallmark of the old country records they're drawing from. With five of them on stage, there's enough room for all that to sit together rather than one style crowding out the others.
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Because it's a quintet, you'll get a full band sound rather than a stripped-back acoustic set. That makes a difference when they're moving between the honky-tonk and the cosmic country, as the full arrangement can carry the shift from one to the other. It's a Sunday afternoon gig, so it's an early start — 16:00 — and it's in Hastings, at The Lord Nelson.
