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Pour Habit are one of Fat Wreck Chords most exciting bands to play under their banner in recent years. Hailing from Long Beach and Compton, their 2007 album 'Suticide' (re-released in 2009) is a powerhouse of high energy skate punk. Following up with 'Got Your Back' in 2011, the boys have been touring hard and are once again cmoing to grace our shores with their highly rated live show. They'll be playing alongside Australian punk stalwarts Hightime and coastal fun merchants Totally Unicorn. We caught up with drummer Colin Walsh about everything happening in the world of Pour Habit.

Meat Loaf has touched down in Melbourne - but there's nowhere for him to play this weekend

The Mondo Cane album is “…half done already. I just have to put it in the assembly line and get it done. It basically was done by the same method the first one was done."

"I pretty much suck at the keyboard – I have trouble playing with more than one hand on the keyboard at any one time – but there’s still keyboards all over the album. It didn’t stop me!"

“I did not think it was genetically possible for there to be someone who was stupider or more terrifying than George Bush, but there is, and it is entirely likely that [Romney] will be the next president. I do not have a lot of hope for the future of the United States, or its role in the world; it’s very, very frightening times.”

“I’m always the guy with the iPod, kind of DJing and trying to make everyone dance. So I figured I’d make a danceable kind of record. And try to marry it with considered lyrics… often with those types of songs that I’d play, the lyrics would be fairly throw-away and a bit of an afterthought.”

"It’s a wonderful feeling to look back and say, ‘Oh my god, I’ve been a woman for 35 years now. I’ve always been insecure about this. I’ve always been self-conscious about this. I didn’t even know it, and I’ve finally let it go,’ and that’s just an incredible death, and I wish it for every single woman out there, because it plagues us all.”

“This is us, this is what these four people made and this is where we are. And let’s start a conversation. Undoubtedly there’ll be strong opinions, but fuck, it’s good. It’s a good thing to do. So let’s keep it TZU. That’s what it is.”

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