By Bob Gosford
Barry Brown & the GetDown – the bastard children of Freddy Mercury and Dave Graney meet James Brown inna funkhouse!
There have been a few Barry Browns about in our time – there is the American playwright and actor that passed away in 1978 and then there is the Jamaican reggae singer, who also died young – but this is the story of Australia’s – no, Darwin’s – very own Barry Brown of Barry Brown and the Getdowns, an eight piece band that has been getting around a few (selective) traps in Darwin for the past few months.