The walls are plastered with posters of The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix and more. It’s not the man-cave of some middle-aged classic rock dude, but the bedroom of 19-year-old Jay Millar, the singer, songwriter and lead guitarist with The Gnomes.

He still lives with his parents in Frankston, a 40-minute drive south of Melbourne on Port Phillip Bay.

The Gnomes – Ethan Robins (front), and (left to right at back) Olly Katsianis, Ned Capp, Jay Millar.

“Frankston has kind of a bad reputation as being rough because it’s at the end of the railway line and it’s very working class,” says Millar. “But it has this great music scene that revolves around a place called Singing Bird, which has rehearsal rooms, a recording studio and a live venue.”

Despite his tender years, Millar has bee

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