Tyler McLoughlan, Journalist

"Touring with The Kooks a couple of months ago, that was insane ‘cause their first album was one of the first records I really obsessed about in high school."

"I guess we were just sort of getting used to being a band, and [working in a] professional studio recording properly – it was a steep learning curve."

"I just said to myself, ‘Man, I need a new band – I need a new dance band that’s gonna go crazy and gonna be the wickedest thing in the world,’".

An encore nicknamed The Beast demands the full attention of all nine performers who cleverly weave Rick James’ iconic Superfreak bass melody into the mix, leaving the audience enthralled, soothed and moved in equal measures.

"I would just say that it’s just about four dudes tryin’ to write music that they enjoy and having fun with it – that’s really all we’ve ever been about."

"At the beginning I wanted to make quite a stripped back record that would work around piano and voice and then surround it with these layerings of sounds that had a bit of edge, that were sonically interesting."

"I actually got a phone call from my mum the other day saying that she’d just seen our new track Cape Town on TV in South Africa which was really exciting."

But his last tour changed a few things

Each song stands up on its own tonight, though the set hasn’t flowed as wondrously as Tank’s previous visits to Brisbane.