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"We have actually two albums already finished, so we might play some stuff, I don’t know… but it’d be fun to do it like that."

"I think we’re gonna be able to do a lot of cool stuff on this record and, really, we’re excited that the guys are down with us doing it. And I’m really excited that we’re actually going to do it."

"It’s a cool opportunity to redefine the band, and some sort of movement in the story, as opposed to repeating things that we’ve done in the past. That’s what excites me about it.”

"I didn’t survive particularly well, especially the first year. I had no money and I couldn’t afford a band. Like I thought I could go over there and just play with a band like I had here, and the reality very quickly came upon me that the cost of touring..."

"Instead of thinking, ‘I’m going to write about love’, ‘I’m going to write about this’, I was, like, ‘I’m going to write a song where I hit a low A and a high C’, you know what I mean?"

"We may go and live in the States next year, even for six months or a year... At this stage it is hard to tell if we will do that yet."

“I won’t be taking any time off the band apart from my [current] solo tour… at least in the immediate future… For the remainder of the year I’ll be promoting my album and writing album two with Boy & Bear.”

“It’s simple. In the rehearsal room, in our mind we’re the biggest band in the world. We still look forward to a rehearsal, to recording, to just playing a gig – even in front of people we know who are just there to heckle us.”

“I take pride in the arts that I am involved in and the different sorts of music that I am trying to make. If that’s what is described as bohemian that maybe that is me.”

"Under these circumstances it is incumbent on us all to be a bit of a rebel, to question authority. Music – ska music – is one of the last platforms where people can raise these things and complain about them."

Now in its ninth year, the Laneway Festival is one of these festivals that I know I would line-up for

Our Last Night is an American post-hardcore band, formed in 2004 signed to Epitaph Records.Their new release Age Of Ignorance, the third album by the New Hampshire-based band was released on August 21. As the name suggests the album marks a move into more politically inspired songwriting, we caught up with guitarist Matt Wentworth about the bands progress, rise to fame and new found inspiration.