Zoe Barron, Journalist

“When I first picked up the play, I thought of the stalker possibly being a sociopath or even a psychopath; someone having some fairly serious, I suppose, mental complexities. As it turns out, the average stalker is not necessarily suffering from a mental illness. It’s just more of the pattern of the way they engage socially with people…"

"It was not exactly a break-up... What happened was, we put a pause on the entire project because back then we needed the space to get our families up and have some time to chill out."

It is cohesive, it is whole, and you should put it on and settle in for an album that’s leaps and bounds above Oh Mercy’s previous goods.

The opening night of Hidden Treasures was opened not by electronica four-piece Funilingus as programmed, but by Leure – electronic solo project of Ash Hendriks of Wolves At The Door

“The only time I really relax when listening to songs is when it’s in a language I don’t understand," says WAMi keynote speaker Pat Pattison. The Berklee songwriting professor is ready to dissect the creative process with 'his peeps'.

They even had an extra member: a skeleton Jake Tarasenko had found somewhere in the Arts Centre building. “Does your new friend have a name?” Hosking asked him, prompting Tarasenko to quickly dub the boney addition ‘Fremantle Freddy’.

"Much of the gig had this air of spontaneity, the impression that things had been vaguely planned, but this was one unique show, rather than another repetition of every other show they’ve ever played. Darnielle loves what he does. He plays his gigs with little-kid enthusiasm and it’s infectious."

It’s music as music should be – genuine, gutsy, honest.