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“We’re pretty keen to try and go to the US I think, but it’s all unfortunately dependent on getting a grant because we don’t have enough money to fund it ourselves... but if that doesn’t end up happening then we’ve already got most of the songs that we want to put on the next album written."

"We found it hard to believe that they showed interest in putting us out, because as far as we were concerned we were just some band on the other side of the world."

“I don’t expect anything – I’ve learnt to never expect anything. We’re really proud of it. Bands say this all the time but this is actually definitely my favourite record out of all the ones we’ve made, so I’m happy already.”

“In the end, it just happened, after ten years of a friendship. We had no previous discussion about it, we’d never mentioned it at all before. I’d always played in other bands and I knew she played keys, but one night we just decided to play together for fun, a spur of the moment thing.”

It’s been a horror year for Peter Black, otherwise known as Blackie, wild axeman of seminal Aussie rock icons the Hard-Ons. Yet as he shows Brendan Telford, he’s as resilient as they come.

“I just wanted to play with things, then get them out there and see what made sense. I think that’s some of it, I’m realising what it’s about, maybe…”

"The first EP was very naïve; we hadn’t done a gig before, we were trying a lot of the sounds in the studio, whereas now these songs are toured and tested – especially She’s A Riot.adventures ahead of a national tour supporting sophomore EP She’s A Riot."

“It sounds like my life was really intense when you cram it all into one or two paragraphs. But, like, being born blind and having an interesting major at college were actually eighteen years apart. I never saw them as connected in my head."

“We felt like we were that band and that song. But we always knew there was much more to it. And on the other hand, I’d rather have a song like that, than not have it at all.”

Alex Wall from Bleeding Knees Club tells us about some of his favourites things.

"If you’d told me ten years ago that my band would tour Asia, I wouldn’t have believed you then."

"You know, I never like to analyse our connection with Elton too much. I mean, why does anyone meet anyone in this life? I just don’t like to look at it too closely – because the whole thing has kind of changed my life."