How do you like to start your weekend?
Usually about 1:00 pm, I wake up and go to the cafe down the road with friends.
What’s your favourite thing to do on a Saturday morning?
Sleep.
How do you like to unwind?
Lying in bed listening to music. I do that a lot – though it basically counts as research.
What are your essentials for a well-spent weekend?
Free drinks and money in my wallet at the end of the weekend.
What’s something you’ve been meaning to do on the weekend but haven’t got around to yet?
I need to finish writing this new song – it’s just for fun, but I need to finish it and a few other songs.
What’s your favourite thing to do on a Sunday evening?
Hanging with my friends from Brisbane bands Millions and Gung Ho.
What are you looking forward to next weekend?
Touring the Sunshine Coast and our second Sydney show.
What are you reading at the moment?
I just finished Slaughterhouse Five, but I’m feeling the need for a new Isaac Asimov sci-fi book.
What inspires you?
Musically, really rough things and rough times inspire me. But also, just listening to my friends’ band’s songs and realising that they are better than mine, and then I’ll try to write a better song. That’s the most inspiring thing – being competitive.
What was your childhood dream?
When I was a child, I wanted to be a pro cyclist. Then as a teenager, I wanted to be a civil engineer. But now, it’s to be a musician.
What has been your greatest achievement?
Playing Splendour in the Grass in 2010. That was just really ridiculous. It was an extreme rollercoaster of emotions. Boy and Bear played before us, so there was a huge crowd in the tent. So we went from being on an extreme high of excitement, before dropping to a real low when the crowd emptied out after Boy & Bear, except for about 50 people, which were mostly our friends. But then the crowd grew to about 150 people and halfway through the gig the tent was full again, so we regained our high spirits. At the end of the gig we sang Sam our bass player ‘Happy Birthday’. Such an emotional rollercoaster.
What is success to you?
Being on a Japanese talk show. If you’re a celebrity to the point where you’re asked to appear on a Japanese talk show that must mean that you’ve made it.
What are your words of wisdom?
Just wait. I’ve always lived by that – just being really patient with everything.
Only a local would know … where the quarry is.
FAVOURITE WEEKEND SPOT TO:
Perk up … Alhambra Lounge to fuel myself.
Relax … In my cupboard. I do my vocal warm-ups in the cupboard.
Dine … Sunnybank.
Indulge … With friends in Paddington.
Shop … Op shops.
Catch-up … the warehouse.
Be inspired … Great George Street in Paddington – Millions and Gung Ho live there.
