Daniel Cribb, Journalist

“I like sort of taking it easy for a second. I mean, we’ve been touring pretty extensively and releasing music pretty steadily for the past five years, and it’s been great, but it’s kind of nice to say, ‘Let’s chill out for a little bit’."

“My aim was specifically to write music together and not apart, because for Neighborhoods we weren’t together at all – we just weren’t even really talking."

"I think what’s really important is taking what you learn, but then also applying it to yourself. Not completely emulating what those people do, but applying your favourite aspects to what is it that makes you unique as a writer."

There are musicians, and then there are performers - Colin Hay is inarguably the latter, and is no doubt becoming more refined with age.

"A lot of people will say, you know, ‘Forget that tour, forget that tour’, and just concentrate on their own territory, but we want to be a worldwide band… and you’ve got nice beer as well,"

“We’re so fucking old now that we keep making records and everyone keeps thinking it’s our last. Especially if you make a good one, then they really think that."

"All of our kids were like, ‘What’s the deal?’ They took some interest in what we had done and were like, ‘Well, you guys were in this band, are we ever going to see you play?’"

"Their rawest and most organic album yet."

Besides some cuts and bruises on the band and a few rowdy punters, gigs don’t come much better than this.

“I’d love to put a new Vengaboys album into the world, because I really want to have some fun with some new songs."