Angus & Julia Stone

Interviewed March 2010.

Angus Stone talks life on the road and the band’s organic process.

You can go to a fancy restaurant and have a not-so-good time or you can take your meal out onto the gutter and have a ball. The aesthetics are not always so important to creating something amazing.

Yves Klein Blue

Interviewed April 2008.

Michael Tomlinson speaks from Austin, Texas on YKB’s debut EP, essentially a demo remixed and expanded for their newly acquired major label.

To us, we’re still just a local Brisbane band who have a chance to do some really cool things.

Hilltop Hoods

Interviewed January 2008.

MCs Suffa and Pressure discuss the future of the Hoods in the wake of their successful ‘restrung’ tour and album, which mixed beats and rhymes with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

At the show, we had people coming along who were fans of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. I don’t know what they made of it because I can’t see classical music fans going nuts over anything, especially a hip-hop group.

The Saints

Interviewed June 2007.

Chris Bailey and Ed Keupper discuss their unlikely reunion for the Queensland Music Festival in 2007.

I feel like I’m in the middle of two bands. It’s like having my very own private time machine. Having seen Ed recently, it seems like we haven’t lost our peculiar sense of humor.

The Vines

Interviewed April 2006.

Drummer Hamish Rosser talks about rebuilding The Vines in the shadow of impossible expectations and front man Craig Nicholls’ diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome.

Most people thought the band had broken up so the expectation was zero as far as I’m aware.

The Grates

Interviewed April 2006.

The Grates are in London, eating square pies at a table next to Har Mar Superstar. It’s a long way from their start as three people in a shed.

I’m both crying-in-the-corner nervous and singing-in-the-rain happy. Put them all together and what have you got? Ding dong, clap-clap, hot dawg excitement!

Arctic Monkeys

Missy Higgins

Public Enemy

The White Stripes