Tony McMahon, Journalist

"The album’s done everything I’ve wanted it to do, pretty much. It’s gotten me some pretty good recognition, it’s sold lots of copies, and it’s exposed me to that festival scene, which was kind of the goal."

“The album is very synth-heavy and slow and pretty. It’s going to be called Adult Fantasy. It’s about the journey into adulthood and the destruction of your childhood dreams. It’s a lot of fun."

Perth indie poptronica maestro Carl Fox is touring nationwide to promote his cracking new EP, King.

Local soul five-piece Captain Dreamboat are garnering quite a reputation for their West End live shows. Tony McMahon chats to composer/singer Ofa Fanaika about how it all came about.

"I kind of composed the album on this little Casio PT-30 and when I went back to Paris to record it, I really wanted to keep this first feeling of when I composed it with these really basic chords. It sounds really cheap when you play it in your living room, but when you plug it into a system on stage they just sound so fantastic."

“Yeah, it’s been [fairly] great up to this point. We’ve had some positive reviews so far, but they can’t all be positive, can they? I’m waiting for someone to hear it and go, ‘What’s the point?’”

"All our songs are stories, in a way, so I’ll be thinking long and hard about what stories I think the fans are going to relate to."

"If people started to say that they were all beginning to sound the same, then I might have to think about doing things differently."

"I’m just loving the band I’ve got at the moment. I don’t take those kinds of things for granted, you know: the fact that we’re all in the same place at the same time, all able to play the same kind of music. They’re phenomenal musicians, and really tasteful musicians. I couldn’t be more happy, really."