Nostalgia, chicken nuggets and rock’n’roll: the morning indie gigs where preschoolers are welcome

Ben Lee playing a Small Fry Rock gig at The Great Club in Marrickville, Sydney. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

It may have been Melissa Collins’s idea to get tickets to Ben Lee in concert but it’s her daughter, preschool-aged Joyce, who is the most excited to be here.

“She’s been listening to nothing else for three weeks,” Collins says in the line outside The Great Club, a cosy live music venue in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville. “She woke up this morning and was like, ‘no more sleeps until Ben Lee!’”