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'Mountain music, they used to call it. Made by people who lived up in the hills, in the backwoods; people who often made their own instruments, and certainly made their own rules and their own fun. Datson+Hughes live in the hinterlands behind the Sunshine Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes began their artistic collaboration in 2000 when they set up their independent Stickylabel. Poet and sound artist Datson (Surfside 6, Samurai Trash, Konk) penned SS6’s Hit single Cool in the Tube. Hughes is a published author (Harper Collins 4th Estate) and event manager (Reality Bites Festival). They formed their songwriting partnership and folk duo in 2008, playing all original songs on Datson's handmade mountain dulcimers. They began performing publicly in conjunction with their book projects (Then & Then, Protest Singer and Art Life Chooks) and were consequently invited performed at various writers' festivals, including Byron Bay Writers' Festival where the duo appeared in concert with Paul