Features / Music

"The whole point of music for me is communication. Whether its ideas or concepts or feelings, a lot of it’s about conveying things that there aren’t words for"

"We decided that, for a bit of fun, we’d do some busking, fruit picking and a bit of pub work and road trip around Australia"

"It’s a birth-to-death pursuit playing jazz, you’ll never ever stop learning”

Vance Joy takes us through his debut track-by-track

“I just let the songs show me where the album was going to go”

"I was told you really need to give your music an identity, unless it’s pop and falls across all of them"

"The idea is to, eventually, create a sort of massive box set of piano music of different artists whose work I love, and it just seemed natural to begin with Elvis"

"You have to be a bit nuts to rock and roll for as long as we have"

‘If you want to write blues-roots songs, you’re not an American – you’ve got to write about what you know, the blues and roots that we grew up with"

"RTR continues to fight against this and supports independent thinking, arts and music all year round"

"Prong evolves and we do a lot of different things, it’s always changing.”

“I’m not a hugely outwardly emotional person, so when I write music it tends to be emotionally driven"