Aussie beauty Lisa Mitchell, born in Canterbury, England but raised in New South Wales, Australia, is just twenty years old. She’s probably best known for the appearance of her lovely song ‘Neopolitan Dreams’ on a fabric softener advert a couple of years back. It may have been Persil but I might be mistaken. I digress.
Lisa took to the stage of the packed out Living Room tent thirty minutes late due to an unexpected and complex full band setup behind her, and completed a short set of perfectly pretty acoustic ditties that went down well with a music-hungry audience of acoustic appreciators.
Lisa’s age and “genre” seem to naturally lend her to comparisons with other young folk star such as Laura Marling, but if we’re going to pigeon hole Lisa anywhere, I’d place her beside other lovely Aussie folk ladies such as Emily Barker instead. I didn’t feel like I got a full idea of Lisa and her music because of the shortness of her set and the huge number of people making the full tent feel like it was about to burst at the seams, but certainly what I heard I liked.
There’s something very un-English, magical and perhaps even exotic about Lisa and her sound, and it’s refreshing, impressive and very much pleasing to the ear. I look forward to catching Lisa Mitchell and her band elsewhere for a longer set later on in 2010, but until then, she really is an artist well worth a listen.
Oh, and here’s that advert…it was Surf, not Persil: