Features / Music

“I like the smaller, more intimate shows, as generic as that probably sounds. Realistically, I mean I don’t even know if I’d like to be that popular.”

“I was like a bit of a black sheep in Bristol in that I was pushing and making house music, and most other people were dubstep and stuff.”

"I’m the sort of person that gets inside their head and questions things, but when I realised that I could do just what came naturally to me, that was the best direction for me to take anyway.”

In the lead up to their upcoming co-headlining tour, we thought it'd be fun to get Brisbane bands Millions and Cub Scouts to interview each other!

"I didn’t necessarily plan on that but I certainly planned on trying to get the right environment. It was quite a challenge but it seemed to work; it’s a bit of a field recording and it seems to have caught people’s imaginations over here, actually.”

"I think it might have been the last record of that chapter… You don’t ever set out to write songs about a particular time or period of your life.”

"I think for those of us who love music we’re very aware of our place in the overall scheme of things, and try to help out whenever possible. I just try to stay engaged and always listen to music.”

"I think it’s a really interesting point for younger people when they go and see bands now where [this] music originates from."

“[My dad] made me get up and I rapped a verse in front of them, and they lost their crap, basically. They loved it, which was an amazing feeling – I’d been listening to all those guys since I was about five years old.”

“For me, most of my songs always come out of live performance. I have a really strange kind of ritual – before I play a gig I sit down and before I know it I’ve written a song. It’s happened so many times it’s weird."

“Standing up in front of people scares me, I have to say, but getting up and playing music is really not that hard compared to standing in front of 30 adolescents and trying to control them and communicate something to them."

“I listen to a lot of music from the ‘70s, it’s probably my favourite sound – I love The Stones and bands like Big Star – so there’s also that element in there too, that I wanted it to sound a bit older.”