6ft Hick: Notes from the Underground ONLINE ANSCHAUEN: STREAMEN, LEIHEN ODER KAUFEN

Strip the money out of rock and roll, bring back the danger and you're left with the raw force of 6ft Hick. Armed only with strut and pure provocation, 6ft Hick level a rock 'n' roll sucker punch you would lean in for. Slog 6,000 kms across Europe with Australia's mangiest Rockabilly Punks through 15 shows in 18 days, in a world where managers, roadies and riders give way to blood, sex, and pure adrenaline. Raised on a chicken farm in rural Nambour, on Australia's northeast coast, Geoff and Ben Corbett (the Hicks' front men) sought their artistic beginnings in the 80s, dabbling in punk and performance art. They milked their North Queensland roots relentlessly for its inbred, bigoted imagery, filtered through such wicked wit and self-deprecation that it was sent skittering into the realm of parody, gathering in the ensuing years touches of the surreal and the dirty lustre of big-city degeneracy. Inspired by the success of their early 90's death-country musical Country Style Livers, the boys realised they might be onto something. Promptly scraping up the afterbirth and breathing life into the remains, they formed the legendary 'cane-swamp rockabilly punk' machine known as 6ft Hick.