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Brian Cain singer, songwriter, blues harp player and novelist was born in south London in 1953, one of six boys to a military family and migrated to Australia in 1969 two days prior to his 16th birthday. He acquired his first blues harmonica at the age of 12 swapping it with a school friend for a giant ball bearing, amazing him and his friends by bending notes. With no musical influence in his family at all Brian took it upon himself to find musical influence and jammed along to local bands in south London hiding outside places of rehearsal, usually raw blues rock bands. The first band Brian witnessed live at the age of 14 was The Rolling Stones and The Kinks. The radio was bombarded with The Beatles, Herman's Hermits and Elvis at the time but Brian preferred Little Walter, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker often played by radio Caroline pirate radio station at the time, anchored in the Thames estuary in full site from the end of the Southend on sea