Lochlan Watt, Journalist

"It’s a cool opportunity to redefine the band, and some sort of movement in the story, as opposed to repeating things that we’ve done in the past. That’s what excites me about it.”

"I really hope that people can pick the gems from the different types of music styles that are going to be represented on this tour, and just go above and beyond the limitations of just one genre."

"I emailed him and called him a mad Swedish viking which got his attention... I basically said, ‘Look mate we’re interested, but are you interested in coming over?’"

"One of us went up and was like, ‘Hey, we’re in a band from Australia, we’re recording an album, and we were wondering if we could use your portrait for our album’. She was like, ‘Umm... yeah, okay’. She was a bit weirded out, but it was cool.”

The ‘sold-out’ crowd packs in so tightly to the stage that from the bar’s vantage point the venue no longer appears to be at capacity.

Melbourne-based Heirs exist in the ether between instrumental music’s darker genres. Drummer Damian Coward informs Lochlan Watt of their position in the greater scheme of things.

"Carpe Diem – I was not expecting that to be as big of a song as it is.”

Sydney rockers Melody Black have left the past in the past, and forged into the future with the value of personal enjoyment placed over that of self-destruction.