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“The fife and drums is very blood-stirring music but very war-like. When the Deep South black American population took up the fife and drum, they would play for life, love, death, birth – it was also a party atmosphere, and I just love the energy of it.”

"If anything, we’re probably trying to avoid sounding like more bands or genres than we are trying to sound like ones."

“We used to run a venue at that pub. It was called the Bum Club. We’d charge a buck to get in. In those days you had to provide food, so we’d make a chilli and four or five bands would play. We also had films and strippers.”

“We didn’t know the name was going to exist for more than one show... we certainly didn’t think we were going to exist as Blues Control for the next six years.”

“I think our only plan at the moment is to play lots of shows. We might start looking at recording an EP at the beginning of next year – which should be great.”

"The glass eaters and shit – we’re definitely among them. If we weren’t on the stage we’d be down there with them."

“Right now one of my songs that’s going really hard and everybody likes is Go Duffy. It’s simple. It means go hard or go home: ‘come ready to party or get yo’ ass right back out the door and go home’.”

"I just remember my heart pounding and calling the guys in the band, and we were all freaking out and screaming over the phone while I’m playing it over the phone in the hotel – it was like an epiphany, a real exciting moment."

"People are quick to say, ‘Oh you’re a post-rock band, you’re a post-metal band’, and I get it I guess, but those aren’t the bands that we really feel a connection with."

Bryget Chrisfield checks in with previous Jagermeister Independent Music Award winners The Herd and The Jezabels, both nominated again this year, to find out whether there’s room in the trophy cabinet for another see-through statuette.

“For us it was always a bit of a haven out the front of the Flinders Street Station, where you couldn’t get kicked out, really... But I think they’ve stopped that now, so I guess you need the [busking] licence.”

“The Woohoo Revue is a very Australian band because where else do you get such a mash of different cultures in one place?”