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A chat with Kindred Studios' Tim Slattery.

"I love the tone of tape – I think it sounds beautiful. I have just got a Sony 24-track tape machine – I’m just waiting to get it serviced and set up."

"Harry repaid the kind venue staff by blocking the toilet the next day and leaving it for them to clear whilst we ate breakfast."

"Feminism is not an uncontrollable urge to take to the street with your bra aflame, it’s not necessarily wanting to give up grooming, and it’s not wanting to round up all men in a paddock to be shot."

"A week later I got a text on my phone and it was Taylor Swift. It was surreal to know that she was really a fan, that she was texting my phone and it wasn’t a fake number."

"Music is like a collage, an alchemy of elements which turn into something different again. It’s not easy – it’s always an act of will.”

“We just figured, if you’re going into a studio you may as well use everything you possibly can. That’s the whole point."

"I know I’m a little bit over the top here ‘cause I believe in it so much, but the fans that we have and the ones that we talk to tell us how we’ve saved relationships, how we’ve made their parents understand who they are."

“This is kind of it, you know, this could be a turning point. If I wanted to do something else with my life, this could be the time and so that was the question. And the answer was Glow."

“I think it’s easier working with a family member in a band in a sense that we know what each other likes and what will work with us."

“Even though it’s a pain in the arse sometimes, when we all lock in together and we’re up on stage it’s a pretty magic experience.

“Since then, like any worthwhile underground culture that hits the mainstream when people discover its magic, punk has been commodified and chopped into one stereotypical genre after another."