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Johann Beardraven of The Beards will tackle a broken arm any day, unless his beard is still intact.

Our man Tom sat down with LA artist Goldroom to talk about his upcoming tour of Australia

“We liked the name, but there was already a band called Smoke & Suede. Then we liked the imagery of the word ‘smoke’ in general... I think I was watching something on TV about wolves. It got me thinking about wolves and jackals and coyotes and stuff… I said it to Jared and we just kinda went with it."

"There’s no way in a million years that if you’d have said to me three years ago that I would end up playing with those two people that I would have ever believed you, because it is a bizarre idea. But somehow it worked."

"There is still a part of me that yearns to make another full-on rock’n’roll album so, I don’t know, we’ll see if I have that in me over the next few years or not."

“Everything that I have done in my life has just been for a laugh really.”

"People are so fast and trying to get to the top too quickly. There’s so much noise out there, it’s really hard to get heard – I understand that completely."

“And R&B music from America is so important to the history of Jamaican music – not just reggae, but way before – so I thought, to get people thinking about that, even subconsciously, we’d do an R&B record.”

“Now that we don’t have a drummer, we’ve got that space at the back of the stage that we can fill up with fun things.”

Charles Jenkins tells us some of his favourite things!

“They were in control of our merchandise, our international distribution, they’d press us on what songs should go on the album, so they didn’t control us as a band, but we felt limited in what we could do.”