Michael Smith, Journalist

"In the past few years I’ve had the travel bug and I’ve always loved being on the road. I think growing up in a small town, you want to escape from the routine; it’s great to get somewhere else where you don’t know anyone or the culture or anything like that."

"I was previously using a standard mic. I have a belief that when you use a Green Bullet, the valve mic, you can cheat, because everything sounds fantastic."

"We felt that the album had to be this collection of songs that had been written over the past year because that kind of defines the start of Splashh. Now we’re experimenting a bit more."

"I was really overdoing the heart on my sleeve, singer-songwriter thing, and I didn’t want to do it this time."

"We’ve just toured with Rodriguez [at this year’s Bluesfest and his sideshows] and Dan Sultan. We might be an instrumental band but that doesn’t mean we reject singers as such. We actually quite like singers."

“The only thing that’s gonna last in the future, in my opinion, is artists who put on a good show.”

"I wanted with this record to really get back to ‘I’m David Bridie, the singer and the songwriter’. That’s what I do best, that’s what I love doing best – I couldn’t do the other stuff if I wasn’t doing that."

The [original] song, Fuck Winter, was a bit too happy – it sounded like a, you know, Coke ad or Channel Ten ad or something like that for summertime – so it wasn’t really where we were going in the studio, so we had to get a big dirty sound up.

"On this album I’m singing a bit more and it was something that was talked about amongst me and Lotus to try to strive to do that. So I just kind of went with it, you know?"

"I’ve also got a loose idea to have an instrumental project come out, like a side project thing, and plus maybe even a collaborative thing at some point, which I’ve sort of started work on but it’s a little early to talk about. There are a few things on the go."

"I think this third album has a lot more depth, whatever that means. It’s not quite so glib and clever, and, I dunno, it’s posing some hopefully interesting questions and alluding to some interesting things with the music."

"There was no over-riding theme across the record – each song is different – but again, I’m not an expert by any means but I do get into Beat literature and stuff like that, through Bob Dylan and Tom Waits."