Band members? Quang Dinh, Will Lopez, Brendan West, Cameron Potts
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Years active? Three
Home town? Melbourne
What are you listening to on the road? Pixies – Bossanova, Leonard Cohen – Death of A Ladies' Man, Bob Dylan – Nashville Skyline and Television – Marquee Moon.
What's your earliest musical moment? The ear-piercing frequencies of my mother singing Vietnamese karaoke. My sister singing Mariah Carey's Hero. And hearing a high school band perform Killing in the name of in a high school battle of the bands. The "F" word blew my mind. Been using it ever since.
How do you prepare for a gig? Beers and a slow disassociation from my regular self.
What's your favourite post-gig pastime? Either hiding in a toilet cubicle alone or meeting and greeting everybody.
What's the greatest thing you have seen on stage? Leonard Cohen.
What's your best piece of touring advice? Get on with it.
Who are your musical heroes? Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Rowland S Howard, Nina Simone, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Pixies, The Drones, Gareth Liddiard, Harmony.
What's on your dream rider? Guitar pedals.
Who would you most like to tour with? My dog. It'd be great to have her on the road.
What was your musical epiphany? When I witnessed Leonard Cohen performing a stadium show. I was sitting in the second or third-last row of the stadium yet this 80-year-old man had command of every single soul in the room. His baritone was vibrating like an ancient mystifying Om chant. He played for about 3 hours. That's longer than a football match!
Describe your sound? Violent, unpredictable, mad, inebriated, misanthropic.
Tell us something about where you grew up and how it influenced your sound? I grew up in a suburb in Victoria full of mostly white private school kids. It never felt like home to me. It felt like a compound. A lot of the people were too privileged for their own good. As a result, I'm a misanthrope and sceptical about Western society. Seems to have winners, you have to have losers. Big losers. Whole nations of losers. Lyrically, this has had an effect on me. Sonically, the influences came from strange people who recommended that I listen to a bit more out there stuff like Radiohead.
What would you be doing if you weren't a musician? I'd be a horticulturist, novel writer, road traveller, alchemist.
What is something we don't know about you? If I was prime minister of this country, I think there should be a free printing press for all. The advertising companies own too much of the surface area of our minds. I'd also subsidise fruit trees on all nature strips. Death to Woolworths! I'd also have a suburb in every state exclusively for musicians. No sound pollution there.
What does the future hold? Whatever we wish for it to hold. Hopefully people wake up a little bit, walk away from their masters and free their minds. We will be making album No. 2 soon.
Where can we catch your next gig? June 21 at The Front.
