“Including all the shit high school efforts, it’s like the sixth or seventh album I’ve done. So it is your debut record, but it isn’t, in another way.”

"You can find another guitar player to replace me and another bass player to replace Pete and another drummer to replace Bil – you can find people to do the jobs – but it really wouldn’t be the same."

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"If we’d have been doing this 25 years ago maybe we wouldn’t be getting the praise that we’re getting now."

"Honestly we just didn’t want Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings to hear that we were trying to steal their thunder or something like that."

"If I move from San Francisco I’m going straight to Melbourne!”

"I play shows in rooms that aren’t that big, so it’s intimate, I’m able to hear what people are saying, or texting, or what conversation they’re having over there on the side of the room. It’s all part of it."

"I’d rather be compared to the people who I have a lot of respect for, who aren’t in those circles. I don’t want to be before some five-year-old who can sing the National Anthem and after some magician, that’s not my thing.”

“Before the technology existed that allowed me to do all this mixing with video, I was always using audio samples from movies in my audio mix: throwing in little quotes from Star Wars or Scarface or whatever."

“I really wanted to come back, I really did. The last time I was in Australia was so long ago, I think it was ’98 and that was when I was over there with Pulp and I’ve never played on my own. I want to come to Australia to see some real friends!”

"But live, it’s pretty simple. It’s like the usual setup: two guitars, bass and drums. It works for us on stage, obviously, and it’s probably what we’ll bring to Australia.”

Fast becoming an institution on Melbourne’s festival calendar, the 2013 edition of Sugar Mountain offers up plenty of quirky hipster cool, good music and fun times.

"Though the Little Red elephant in the room is never mentioned, it exerts its influence in strange ways."

"S&TH affirm that when it comes to playing proper rock’n’roll, being unforgiving, appropriately reckless and totally unpretentious are qualities too rarely seen and undervalued."

"While Bowie has just released one of the most painful singles of his career, it seems that there is plenty of life in Murphy, who is ten years younger and can still rip it up."

"But it does seem as though some people have come to pray at the altar of Talking Heads."

It may not be fashionable, but this style of metal is alive and well and no one here tonight would have it any other way.

All the while the audience marvels at her beauty, her remarkable voice and the incredible music and vitality that pours forth from this amazing woman.

All this and they didn’t even play their best song.

We leave invigorated and elated, buoyed by a crowd and still laughing at the memory of a crowd-surfing ninja.

Cuomo hasn’t aged an iota – apart from, strangely, his hands... and his weird old-looking hands still shred.

Dylan Stewart

Dylan Stewart

Dylan Stewart

Dominique Wall

Brendan Crabb

Mark Hebblewhite

James d'Apice

Paul Barbieri

Bob Baker Fish

Brendan Telford

Those that missed this first-rate festival should start saving as a premiere winter MOFO has been announced for 2013 with acts still to be announced.

Without cliché, the atmosphere on stage is tangible. You can smell that gumbo!

"To borrow a line from his Kill Bill movies, it’s a “roaring rampage of revenge,” albeit one that’s also surprisingly moving and hilariously funny.