Features / Music

“There were a lot of emails coming through and labels were interested and from that we were able to sort of jump onto the next level I suppose and work with that.”

“We sort of explore the areas of urban music with a string section, a big band.”

“It’s weird for me to go back and try to forensically sort of analyse why that is, I mean that was a song that wasn’t even intended to be on the album at all, and was written at the eleventh hour.”

“I guess different people are curious about music to different degrees, and lord knows I’m still getting around to music that I missed somehow. So it’s certainly nothing I could ever fault anybody for."

“You just have to be very direct and strong and hold onto what your vision is. It can be hard to do that along the way but I just knew that the arrangements were gonna be a really big part of it and so recording with the band was just about kind of keeping all of that fairly simple."

“We’d go into the studio to make a punk record, and that record ends up taking a year and a half to make. People pretty much forgot about the band. Then the second record comes out on Island and doesn’t sell a hundred million copies so Island drops you."

“This album is very collaborative, although all the Camper albums are pretty collaborative.”

"A lot of people will say, you know, ‘Forget that tour, forget that tour’, and just concentrate on their own territory, but we want to be a worldwide band… and you’ve got nice beer as well,"

Matt from Funeral For A Friend chats to us about their latest album 'Conduit' ahead of their upcoming Aussie tour.

“A lot of times I’ll just get a few songs and then realise that there’s something connecting them – some theme or something – and then I’ll just kind of elaborate on those.”