Chris Hayden, Journalist

"His band are routinely spot on, but Callinan really opens up when he's alone on stage."

"The irony of a band so cheekily named asking us to raise our smartphones while preaching the death of personal ego gets a little lost in the moment."

"Troye Sivan is nothing if not an overachiever."

"I was on his website and got really inspired so I hit the contact button and wrote him a weird poem. He actually called me but I didn’t believe it was him, I thought it was just one of the band guys doing an accent and taking the piss."

A better than expected version of Beyonce’s Halo is trotted out for her housemate’s birthday but it’s her own compositions in Cold Water and closer Reckless that have the crowd hanging on her every swoop and dive.

"We had a lot that we wanted to cram on. It’ll probably be really irritating to listen to but we’ve gotta get it out of our systems, I guess.”

"For the first year we went through a time when we didn’t really know whether we wanted to keep making the type of music we were making before we moved to Melbourne."

"A week later I got a text on my phone and it was Taylor Swift. It was surreal to know that she was really a fan, that she was texting my phone and it wasn’t a fake number."