"It’s been pretty hectic, but we had a bit of time off at the start of the year to do a bit of writing, so that’s been a pretty fuckin’ good chill out time to get back into making new songs and stuff.” Rozenbergs and The Bennies certainly did have a huge 2014, catapulting themselves into the watchful eye of triple j with their banger of a track Heavy Disco, and taking themselves all the way over to the US, where they quickly became famous for something entirely unrelated to their music. “We sort of woke up and it had gotten like a million hits or whatever.”

Rozenbergs is talking of a supposedly accidental image of theirs that went viral thanks to Reddit, which depicts Rozenbergs himself in a mirror reflection, puffing on a bong while the other members pose for a photo. “It sort of originated while we were in Canberra touring with The Dead Kennedys, I think, and I think it was accidental. I actually can’t remember how the second one – the one that got a lot of attention – it was the first couple of days in the States and a good chance that that was snapped completely accidentally, and then we realised... It was one of those things, I don’t know if it’s because it’s the States or whatever, like they’d never seen a bong before, we kind of thought, ‘Oh, fuck,’ you know, you can’t try and do that stuff.” Aside from that, the band still had a fantastic time in the Land Of The Free. “It was fantastic, man. Getting a chance to meet a lot of our heroes, that was a big component.”

They didn’t just get to play alongside these heroes either. “We actually recorded a few tracks before playing in Florida, and we were recording next to this brewery, and The Interrupters, which we’re big fans of, were actually playing during our dinner break in the evening, and they ended up coming back and partying and recording on the tracks with us. Those weird moments, it goes back to that dumb luck, we couldn’t have organised that, and it just seemed that in the States we could do no wrong... It was really nice to bring our brand of rock’n’roll there to see how we would fare against it, and people were so supportive and receptive, so it put a big boost in our sails, man. We played everything from dive bars to DIY spaces to big shows, and every turn was like, ‘Fuck, this is like the bar from Cheers.’ No matter what happened, there was something good to draw from it.”

It’s busy times for The Bennies currently, the band gearing up for a national tour around the country this month. As Rozenbergs sees it, it’s their job as a band to continue doing just that. “We love to play, we’re a band. It’s a loose belief, it’s not a doctrine, but you know, bands tour, our role models tour, and as an Australian band, we like to feel that we’re holding the torch of a touring act, and I suppose we’re seeing the benefits of having that attitude.”