Benny Doyle, Journalist

"Once you’ve figured out that [being in a band is] a piece of piss, you couldn’t have any more fun in the world.”

Bloods show that you can rip out garage jams without sounding like shit; thank the whoa-oh choruses of MC and Sweetie, and the great guitar sound they squeeze from every tune.

Things soon climax with Feel The Love before it drips away a cappella. The Brits then disappear to the wings and the venue erupts. The three-song encore that follows is a mere victory lap around the glory that’s been.

“I think we’ll be forcing it if we go back to a six-piece; things are really working out with the five now."

“People keep mentioning that things are going so good and we don’t even have an album out."

"It’s almost creepy but it’s cool, it’s my ex playing that instrument, and the motion between the record is this memory of her, and she was a big part of 2012.”

“The new record is pretty drastically different, it’s like a fully fledged hip hop record; not Aussie hip hop at all, it’s like this punk, MC5/Beastie Boys/De La Soul – it’s legit!"

More like ‘holy shit!’