Samson McDougall, Journalist

"I always wanted to sound like David Bowie."

"I’m not sure how we got to be so good at this but we really are good at ignoring our surroundings and pretending that nothing’s different."

Alice In Chains open with the grinding classic We Die Young and it quickly becomes apparent this is not a band of mere mortals but rather musical gods incapable of making mistakes or singing out of key.

"It’s kind of basically talking about relationships and how much freedom to give your partner in order to keep your relationship alive."

"It explores how video is used in Australian hip hop and how communities [can] utilise hip hop as a powerful tool for young people to engage in."

"When I looked for a band I looked for some place to call home. When I found this band I called it home, that’s it."

"I don’t tend to, like, take a big idea like the meaning of life, I like smaller things.”

The band persist well into the third hour of a show that would’ve been far more effective in a small, beery bandroom – especially the second half.

“The first time we played it we just sat on the same kind of groove for, like, 45 minutes and we were just like, ‘This is insane!’”

"Remember that time you got fucked up on tequila and pashed that boofhead from Gladstone? Maybe you don’t, but we do. Don’t deny it. You were messy as fuck."

Inside her formative years

"I did all those solo shows with the last record and went through all that pain – as well as pleasure, don’t get me wrong. It was good fun, but when it was hard it was hard."