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"For the first time, I wrote songs to go with those chords..."

“People really love [‘B.O.T.A.’]. In a way, this always surprised me. It’s quite important to me to be about music.”

We caught up with Henry Rollins in the lead-up to his first spoken-word Australian tour since 2016.

The band will be playing songs from last year’s acclaimed The Dream album as well as faves from their back catalogue.

With all the huge reunion and throwback tours we’ve been graced with lately, we thought we’d look at some of the more contemporary legends who need to head Down Under.

Mudhoney frontman, Mark Arm, recounts how good music still had ways of finding sympathetic ears on distant shores even in the pre-internet age.