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“When we started it was just you jam, you play shows, you don’t put anything on the fucking internet, release a CD and then tour, and tour and tour and that’s what we did and that’s what Parkway did."

“I think that's the future of independent music-making - if you isolate you'll be picked off like penguins. You've got to stay in the pack!”

"This is Lightning Bolt! We're not Slayer or anything. For the most part people are there to have a good time.”

"Nobody's chasing another hit, chasing a song that sounds like an old song or chasing a format that's popular amongst music buyers. It's put the excitement back into the seed that was planted when we got together and first started making music for ourselves when there was no one listening."

“We didn't go away for maybe a long time in terms of actual time, but in the music world nowadays, where everything really relies on the fifteen minutes and then refresh your blog kind of timeframe, three-and-a-half, four years is kind of a long while."

“Of course when Timo left things were pretty hard for us because of all the things being said in the press."

“There are so many little things I’d like to change but as soon as I listened to the master – I literally listened to my final master in my car on the way to press it – I knew it was the right decision."

"These days, bands think that when they put all the pieces of the puzzle together, they become extreme. But they hardly ever fucking do anything."

Brisbane/Sunshine Coast's Take Us To Vegas are ending their year strongly, having recently played with the likes of Senses Fail, Northlane and The Getaway Plan, as well as shooting a music video and releasing their new EP "Bloodwolves". We caught up with the band's bassist Nick to discuss the new EP.

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes have a strong interest in Australia as a band. While being no strangers to Australian soil, both with this band and their other projects, the band also released an EP of covers by tracks from Australian bands back in 2011. We caught up with the band's guitarist Joey Cape just before their recent tour.