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Special Splendour In The Grass edition!

Anyone remember Bikini Kill? With a name like that, how could you forget. Cheryl Billman tells us about their new record label

“I’ve always been a musician and I can’t even think about staying behind a laptop playing with a track pad.”

While tech-house champion Joris Voorn might not be pulling in the mega bucks of people like countryman Tiësto, he tells Cyclone his ambitions are as big, if not bigger.

“Drum Media, does that have to do with drums? Because I have my brother right here if you need any questions about drums. I am not equipped to handle them, but he is."

“And we were just thinking ‘Why don’t people respect this pop thing anymore? Why don’t people genuinely love it and try to use the same amount of imagination like these amazing alternative bands are doing?’ So we set ourselves that rule."

"[Wally de Backer]'s like the coolest famous guy you’ll ever meet. No fucking attitude, man!"

So who would Pavlovic consider her favourite big old bear of choice from her childhood? “I was pretty into Winnie the Pooh. I think I’ve got an A. A. Milne poem book somewhere,” she laughs.

“We have the same amount of money now as when we started: none.”

"Everything’s in the two guitars and voices. Isn’t that what makes the Everly Brothers so great?"

"We drank, we thanked, took the cash and banked, made our way through Hindley St, ate plenty of kebabs, watched Jacob and Reuben having a dance off, and after all this excitement Ali had a wet dream."

French producer/DJ extraordinaire Yuksek is back in Oz for Splendour in the Grass. Our girl Cheryl sits down for a chat