"I didn’t necessarily plan on that but I certainly planned on trying to get the right environment. It was quite a challenge but it seemed to work; it’s a bit of a field recording and it seems to have caught people’s imaginations over here, actually.”

"One of the important steps that made our sound different was the fact of going acoustic, losing the drums, losing the electricity.”

“It’s not just music, it’s life. We sing and we play about our loves and our lives and it’s done with great joy and emotion."

I’m going to keep making records forever, as long as I feel enthusiastic about it, which I can’t really see that I won’t.”

“My show is always very uplifting and positive so when somebody leaves my show I think that they can go back to work or to school or wherever feeling good about themselves and feeling good about life."

“With Paulie, it was a bit more of a professional relationship, even though there was that underlying friendship, but we were going to him as a producer so we valued his opinion. We wouldn’t have gone there for starters if we didn’t, but he also valued our opinions.”

"We’re going to retell the story through someone else’s eyes and taking a slightly different angle on the overall story."

"I was really lost there for a while. I let my guard down I think, and thought maybe this is my big break and I can let someone else take care of it all… But ultimately I’m glad to actually be at the helm of my career and the one in charge."

"I didn’t survive particularly well, especially the first year. I had no money and I couldn’t afford a band. Like I thought I could go over there and just play with a band like I had here, and the reality very quickly came upon me that the cost of touring..."

"I do not exactly know what a Power Diva is. I think it relates to a tough woman who does not take shit. It is a compliment as I am inspired by Tina Turner, Cher and Etta James, who I consider power divas."

"I’m not an idiot, when you put on the record you can hear a soul side, but I think there’s a different intention behind it, too,” Lance Ferguson of The Bamboos talks about escaping pigeonholes.

Clairy Browne is bringing her Bangin’ Rackettes back to Brisbane for the Love Letter tour and, as she tells Steve Bell, the fun has only just begun.

Six albums into his career, international folk sensation Seth Lakeman has ditched major labels.