Amber Fresh, Journalist

"The Waifs used to play a lot of songs like that and then it went a bit more poppy. Vik and I have come back to storytelling in the songwriting."

"You know, I wouldn’t say I’m a black sheep in my family but I’m definitely a multi-coloured animal in my family."

Hoffmann's confident preciousness and a literal being in-the-right-room-at-the-right-time that kicked things off for the band. A trip to Sydney as a 17-year-old to see heroes The Triffids play ended in Hoffmann being up on stage a few months later to sing with them at their PIAF tribute show.

"We don’t make music just for a trend. Every album we put out has some sort of story behind it."

"I think I pretty much played in every venue in Melbourne and probably all across Australia; any venue that would have me. Just because you just gotta get ‘gig fit’ like that."

"We’ll do that maybe twice a year to work on demos and stuff but we communicate every day by text or email; we still have an active friendship, it’s not just like music production together, I talk to him every day. But yeah, I don’t see him that often unfortunately...”

“The whole time I grew up I was a tomboy, so it didn’t really bother me because I would look at dudes doing music and relate to them just the same as I would a woman."