Tyler McLoughlan, Journalist

I think Jake first met Calvin working with Kylie [Minogue] actually… it was on Aphrodite – he co-produced a track

"It’s a very inspiring experience. You go and you dress up, and you see what other people are wearing, and you see the amazing cars – it’s just this big festival of colour and style and tattoos and awesomeness."

"Citizens Of The Planet will tour; it’s like TED talks meets music. It’s where you have 16 x 30 foot LED flooring, which means I could blow on the floor and it would ripple out like water, or I could kick my feet on it and suddenly you would see all these leaves scatter."

With new EP Ineffective Lullabies to spruik down the East Coast this month, Travis Hair of The Incredible Kicks tells Tyler McLoughlan about the Brisbane trio’s path to pop-shaped progressive rock.

Describing their style as “porno, folk, country, cabaret music”, The Good Ship are certainly not ones to take themselves too seriously, though don’t call them irreverent.

“Watching these other bands and how they interact has really made us aware of the battle between all of these bands to try to get people to stay for the main act...”

The amazingly strong group dynamic of King Cannons is certainly understood when Yeoward explains that each of the band members have the same crown tattoo that adorns their throat, though the lyrical journey for The Brightest Light was a deeply personal one for the straight-shooting frontman.