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"The older stuff is still played exactly the same, we haven’t changed that. But yeah, the newer stuff, we’ll probably add a guitar in there, and there’s a lot of bass playing and stuff along with the electronic – we use real bass lines."

"We’re all very proud of our previous work as a group, but it – and we – have got everything to prove to ourselves and we’ve also got everything to prove to our audience because they don’t owe us shit – we owe them.”

"It’s a wake-up call, and a pretty sad day for the Aussie scene as far as we’re concerned, they were a pretty big part of that scene, and they did great things for it, so it’s sad to see a band like that finish up."

"We finished the mastering of the record for vinyl and CD and mp3 in January or February this year. It took ten times to master the album. It cost a lot of fuckin’ money."

"We never really set out to make something sound a certain way. Songs kind of just evolve over time and then they end up sounding a little bit different."

"I started getting texts one day last year from friends saying ‘The Whitlams are on triple j’, and I was like ‘bullshit’, because we hadn’t been for ten years, so it was a real surprise to turn on and hear these album tracks."

Very exciting times have graced Jagwar Ma recently, which resulted in a strike of Purple Sneakers luck as we got to speak with Jono Ma of the duo!

"It definitely helps when your mates are in a good band and they think that your band is cool and they want to help out."

"There’s no bullshit. That’s the whole thing [about] working with Ash – if it doesn’t sound good and if it doesn’t feel good then don’t do it!"

"Like any self-respecting OCD control freak, my CD racks have to be well maintained."

"We’ve just toured with Rodriguez [at this year’s Bluesfest and his sideshows] and Dan Sultan. We might be an instrumental band but that doesn’t mean we reject singers as such. We actually quite like singers."

“The only thing that’s gonna last in the future, in my opinion, is artists who put on a good show.”