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“It bores me a little bit when people say, ‘Oh, no. I only do it for the love of it’.” Bryget Chrisfield discovers Rick Astley would rather work hard for the money.

"We’ve been around for thirteen years now in the same band, we’ve never played with anyone else and we’re all getting a little older with families and what have you. We’ve come to the conclusion that our plans for world domination didn’t quite pan out as we had hoped."

"People who dug it fifteen years ago still like it, and young kids check it out and dig the vibes, so it feels right to pick up the pace."

“With Paulie, it was a bit more of a professional relationship, even though there was that underlying friendship, but we were going to him as a producer so we valued his opinion. We wouldn’t have gone there for starters if we didn’t, but he also valued our opinions.”

“I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s going to be very sexy, in a Wong way.”

“I hope there are some surprises! I think so as it’s the next progression for us with new ideas we haven’t tried before, but it still sounds like us.”

Missy Higgins tells us about some of her favourite records.

"I never really liked the whole ‘garage’ tag or being associated with that at all, because I think there’s a lot of bands like that which just sound really fucking boring and don’t need to exist."

Five minutes with Lior

“I guess I just write about what I feel needs to come out, and I don’t really think too much about it – I leave it up to others to say whether they like it or not.”

The first leg of Gay Paris' Death To Spring Tour and they get a whole load of Ke$ha.

"The concept was the seedier side of the late ‘60s and that shift in western culture. It’s a fascinating era. I realised I’d been interested in the pop culture around that for years, so it made sense."