12:00a.m. 8th October 2008

Tim Loydell and the Deckchairs will perform at Sol Bar on the weekend. Photo: Contributed

There’s plenty happening at the Sol Bar this weekend to coincide with the kite festival.

Kicking off festivities is Tim Loydell and the Deckchairs, the latest development in a musical venture that has roots spanning far across the east coast of Australia.

For more than two years Tim Loydell has been delivering his emphatic style of songwriting to astounded audiences everywhere, from the Edinburgh fringe festival to the Woodford Folk Festival.

Hailing from a small village in Northern New South Wales, Tim was gifted with a 12 string guitar on his 16th birthday, and in the years following, developed an intricate style based around the open tunings of John Butler, Leo Kottke and Don Ross.

Around the same time, slide guitarist Josh Catt was honing his own skills a little further south in Grafton, and drummer Joe Brisick was getting busy playing with, and producing, other bands on the Sunshine Coast.

In 2007, when the three enrolled in Bachelor of Music at QUT in Brisbane, the musical connection was immediate. In a matter of weeks the trio recorded a demo and started playing gigs around Brisbane, still under the name Tim Loydell.

Three months later, when a fourth member was discovered, The Deckchairs were born.

On Saturday night, Sol Bar will play host to The Groovelands Soundsystem.

Ben Walsh and Bobby Singh are two of Australia’s hardest working drummers, constantly hopping in and out of an incredibly diverse range of rhythm projects and collaborations.

Although they have concentrated on percussion and live music they are no strangers to the sweaty, bass-driven realms of dance floor culture; they have been the rhythm section of Australian electronic sensation The Bird for 14 years.

The Groovelands Soundsystem will take you on an audio world tour.

WHO: Tim Loydell and the Deckchairs

AND: The Groovelands Soundsystem

WHERE: Sol Bar, Coolum Beach

WHEN: This weekend

INFO: 5446 2333