Mississippi Shakedown

Half the night is their own songs. Mississippi Shakedown are a Cairns blues trio who split the set evenly between rocking covers and originals drawn from six albums of their own, and the originals lean upbeat and witty, with the kind of chorus that follows you home. It's a pub band sound first, built on groove. Their stage needs are short: three monitors, a mic on the bass drum and two vocal mics. So a pub, a bar or a party after live blues with a sense of humour can squeeze them in without fuss. Their radius from Cairns is 100 km.