Kitty, Daisy and Lewis: Jamming family head downunder
Despite not having any mainstream chart success yet, this band have a very high-profile fanbase. Coldplay's Chris Martin personally hand-picked them for his US tour in 2009. "He was late on stage because he was jamming with us backstage in the dressing room and Kitty was trying to teach him harmonica," recalls Daisy.
"I'd just left school after my GCSEs," says Kitty. "I came down the stairs and Mum said, 'do you want to go on the Coldplay tour?' We were thrown in the deep end." They appeared in Dustin Hoffman's 2009 film Last Chance Harvey when they performed their remake of Johnny Horton's song Mean Son of a Gun . Their 2008 single Going Up the Country was used in the closing credits of Jake Scott's film, Welcome to the Rileys .
Amy Winehouse was also mad about the family band. The group's sound is a mix of old-fashioned 1940s/1950s rhythm 'n' blues, blues, roots music, jazz, country and western, Hawaiian, rock 'n' roll and ska, which makes it impossible to pigeonhole. They hate being called a rockabilly band - "because that is just not what we are about," says Kitty, who, still in her late teens, is the youngest of the trio.
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