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"It was the quickest we’ve ever recorded a record."

"Some life-changing things have happened to me and I think this album definitely is me trying to work them all out."

"So how’s the Abbott thing working out for you?"

"At some point in my career I want to work with Disclosure."

"There’s a song that Ross [Pearson, guitarist] just wrote which is about being really hopelessly bored."

"The tapeworm! I was dead for seven months! That’s the longest anyone’s ever been dead, and then not dead."

"It’s about finding a balance. Music is the most important thing in the whole world, beside my family."

"I don’t really spend a lot of time trying to fit in."

"We went about the best of like it was a gig, like we were writing a setlist."

"There are so many festivals these days – some of them really work and some of them don’t seem to work as well."

With the unfortunate cancellation of this year's Push Over festival in Melbourne, local punks The Smith Street Band will play Push On this Monday. The band takes the stage at Footscray’s Phoenix Youth Centre eith The Bennies, Luca Brasi and Max Goes to Hollywood, along with punk trio Rockenspiele and US visitor Max Stern. The Smith Street Band’s Wil Wagner answers some questions for us.

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