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"We’re not putting out a new record or anything yet, we’re just clowning around and seeing if we enjoy it enough to keep doing it, and if we do want to keep doing it, we will."

“Well, I figured before we went in, ‘If I can’t bloody sing a song I wrote well enough live to put on an album, I don’t deserve to be a musician’."

“But with this record, it’s very strange... because we started recording it on half-inch eight-track, and then it kind of mutated into going in the studio with the Neve board, then going into our own basements with our Pro Tools – we just did every imaginable technique.”

"You guys are amazing at pop music. I wish our chart was like yours, to be honest. America would hate me for saying that but it’s true. You guys are always a little bit ahead of the curve."

Five minutes with BIGSOUND 2012 performer, The McMenamins.

3 brothers and a friend grew up surrounded by charismatic music. They formed The Rubens and they couldn't be in a better place right now.

Many bands were given the Post Punk title, though none hold the energy and ferocity anymore than the one and only Gang Of Four.

Five minutes with BIGSOUND 2012 speaker, Stephen Wade.

Five minutes with BIGSOUND 2012 performer, Teeth & Tongue.