Benny Doyle, Journalist

“It’s just weird. I’m comfortable with it, but it’s just very bizarre.”

"When I hit the ground we’ll rock’n’roll.”

We’re on a rooftop, the sun is clocking off for the day, replaced by the lights of the Wheel of Brisbane. Tables of well-dressed house cats dine on pulled pork, brisket, and the bar is picking up the drink bill for the first four hours of the event – it’s all rather glamorous.

"There’s enough of the N-word, there’s enough of the B-word in black music and culture, and I just don’t want to be like that, I don’t want to be about that."

"I had people telling me they were going to kill themselves then and there that night."

"the Massachusetts’ quintet would much rather go out swinging than wave the white flag."

"I touch on more subjects of the times when I can’t be around for everybody, there’s [that] sentiment on the record."

"With Happiness Is, everyone had both hands in it."

All it’s done, however, is made us ravenous for a main course of the Royk-Rob variety.