If you're passing through the streets of Barnsley on Sunday afternoons, you'll likely hear and see something out of the ordinary.
COVID-19 restrictions have prompted a local band to adopt a left-field solution to the problem of not being able to practise together - they've been taking their instruments out into the neighbourhood to rehearse.
With four of the five bandmates living in Nelson Street, The Barnsley Boys have been setting up their gear on their driveways to play some tunes at about 3pm each Sunday for the past month.
It's created a much-needed bit of neighbourhood spirit in a time where the global pandemic has made acute issues out of isolation and loneliness.
"A lot of [neighbours] turned up to have a look, in the end we're finding a lot of them are sitting out the front having a wine or a beer," Trevor 'Woody' Woodward told the Newcastle Herald.
"If anyone's listening, then good for us, but if no-one turns up that's OK we're still playing on."
Woodward plays keys in the five-piece outfit, with his neighbours Bill Burton (lead guitar and vocals), Jeff Wilson (rhythm guitar and vocals) and Mike Raub (bass).
Arthur Jones plays guitar and sings back-up. He is the only member who doesn't live in Nelson Street.
The Barnsley Boys have built up a repertoire of about 180 songs in their 14 years together and mostly play charity gigs such as community fetes and fundraisers.
Fans of country and blues, they cut their teeth at Newcastle Steel City Country Music Club meets and now serve as the house band about once a month at the club's open mic nights.
Woodward said the band started after regular catch-ups for a card game - between he, Burton and Wilson - transformed into jam sessions.
Woodward and Burton played music together many years earlier - as school-aged boys in the West Wallsend Junior Brass Band.
Burton said the idea behind the band was mates spending time playing music together, so they "didn't chase gigs".
Having played the odd set or two out on the street in years gone by - to raise money for Queensland flood relief, for example - the lack of practice time after the pandemic broke out pushed them to think outside the square.
"We thought: we'll see if we can hear each other enough to play a few songs," Burton said.
"It's certainly been positive, the response from those around us. We just enjoy getting together."
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