Any Young Mechanic

Any Young Mechanic play Hyde Park Book Club on Saturday 31 October, a night presented by Futuresound Events. They're a five-piece from Tarntanya/Adelaide in Australia, and this is a headline show with them as the sole act on the bill.

The name comes from a line in 'Hooray For Hollywood', and they've told us they took it because of how the song is used in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye — a jarring bit of placement that clearly stuck with them. That debut album, The Modern Shoe Is Ruining The Foot, blends folk music's enduring charms with a musical dexterity and a sharp vision that reaches beyond the genre's usual corners. It's the kind of record that doesn't just sit comfortably in one place, and the live set should follow suit.

They describe their own sound as 'a mesh of criss-crossing rhythmic paths, melodic alleys and lyrical highways', which gives you a fair idea of what to expect: folk at its heart, but with a rhythmic and melodic curiosity that keeps it from feeling too familiar. With five people on stage, there's enough room for those criss-crossing paths to actually happen in real time, rather than just on the record.

It's a Saturday night in Headingley, so it works as a proper night out. The set runs from 6:30pm to 10:00pm at Hyde Park Book Club, 27-29 Headingley Lane, LS6 1BL, and tickets are £14.06 including the booking fee.