Silversun Pickups are not necessarily a band you can set your watch to. A free-flying take on touring and recording might frustrate some, but they wouldn’t have it any other way, as bassist Nikki Monninger explains to Cam Findlay.

"I think techno has been over-intellectualised," says Bill Brewster, the man who intellectualised dance in his big-selling Last Night A DJ Saved My Life book.

They've partied on Hellyeah’s tour bus and trashed stages across the US and now Dead Letter Circus are coming home to cause havoc in Australia.

"Yet everyone was like, ‘She can only [sing] about two things, cats and weed!’ That really pissed me off, because I feel like I only mentioned my cat and weed, like, once or twice on the first record."