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"The way I figured it was you only get 30 years for murder in Britain nowadays, it’s been 33 years – I’ve left it long enough, so we can pretend it’s long-awaited instead of long-overdue."

"I wasn’t at risk of offending anybody by them thinking the whole record’s about them..."

I’m not a man hater, I love men, but I think it is this constant battle... it’s about being a human... things like this remind you that you can be treated poorly by the opposite sex

"So I’m actually kind of toying with the idea of doing a solo album of Screamfeeder songs. A lot of the songs actually worked way better really, really quietly than I imagined they might, so that was pretty interesting.”

Our contributor Joshua Daydream headed over to Sydney's Annandale Hotel recently to check out The Laurels doin there thing live

One of Meredith Music Festival's most coveted acts for 2012, Primal Scream are tantalizing Australian tastebuds with a massive national tour

The gig went wonderfully and the tour was over so we were ready to let loose. And where better to do such than on a distant friend’s yacht in Darling Harbour? So, straight out of a 50 Cent video, we popped sparkling wine off the bow of the boat and finished the tour with a bang!

"I know the scene in Australia, I’ve been coming back and forth – they’re the best people in the world and they know music much better than we do. It’ll be great!"

“We were painfully aware of the expectation that we needed to fulfill and it made it real difficult at times. Because we’d often cock-block ourselves and it took a while for us to say, ‘Hang on a second we need to just do something, we need to do what we’ve always done and just be true to ourselves’...And this is the new era for us.”

“I can’t work out what I was expecting when we made the first thing, but it certainly wasn’t this... It came as a shock to everyone. It would’ve been really unrealistic of me – or of any of us – to expect anything on the scale of this.”

“We’ve just finished recording our new album. It’s still early days but it may have strings, brass, woodwind and may be a bit more poppier than our previous albums.”