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"I actually got a call recently asking if I wanted to be a part of a compilation of noise artists making techno. I kind of said, ‘Well, yeah, okay – but this will probably be the last time I really do anything with this sound’."

“I am a massive wanker... I love Boney M! You know what I think it is – people in Australia take themselves way too seriously and it’s way too boring."

Rick Froberg of Brooklyn garage exponents Obits tells Steve Bell to throw away the blueprint and live by the seat of your pants, and that it don’t matter what you look like when concocting kick-ass rock’n’roll.

A well known Australian band is at the centre of a nude photo scandal after a raunchy game of pick-up-sticks.

Their brand of instrumental rock isn’t an easy sell, particularly when the negative connotations of “post-rock” rear their ugly heads.

“Honestly, we don’t really have anything like Soundwave. Like there’s no point in time in the States where I could ever play with Metallica,”

The new generation of partygoers don’t necessarily know dance music’s history – but, then again, nor do some of the DJs

“We got up on crates and sang a French song in harmony, and it was so exciting, and made us so happy, that when it was over, we decided we were having too much fun to stop now.”

“Making the type of music, in Australia, that I make means that I waver between having money and not having money

“I thought about getting a producer involved,” he continues, “but I just thought ‘why not do it myself’

My mum being put in a home with Alzheimer’s, which brought up unresolved issues of losing my brother (and only sibling) to Leukaemia as a teen. Then my dad died of Dementia in 2010. It’s been a full-on couple of years.

Not content singing generic songs about the dole and breakups, Luke Butcher discovers from Wil Wagner of The Smith Street Band that it only takes one album to get the attention of a nation.