It’s on a rainy Saturday at the end of the austral winter that Betty & Oswald stand out at one of their first concerts at the Glebe market in Sydney. There are second-hand clothing stands, gluten-free cookies, homemade falafels and a patch of grass where you can sit and listen to the guest group of the day. Today it is a surprising couple who seems to be coming straight back from Byron Bay (Australian Hippie HQ). They both have long hair, one playing the accordion the other of the guitar: original association of sounds influenced by a European tour of several months as the Australian tradition.
Their first 18-minute EP featured various stories of portraits encountered along the way. Each song is a travel souvenir, a “lullaby”, a sung photograph of these encounters of the road, always accompanied by this accordion sometimes exchanged for a megaphone giving them a look even more vintage and almost activist.
Original hippies, marginal children and bios Betty and Oswald, of their real names Claudia Aphrodite and Pete Sot come back with a new look a little more modern, a larger group and a new song still in the same vein: King of Bohemia. From King Street to the cemetery, this song portrays Newtown, Sydney’s favorite neighborhood. After the Prince of Bel Air, here is the King of Bohemia, rhyme again in their superb repertoire.
