"Maximum Rocknroll publisher Tim Yohannan turned me onto his record collection and we found Vicious Circle - that was my introduction to Australian Hardcore".

“The Australian scene is real, honest, friendly, full on. There’s a real side of possible violence should anybody fuck with them….."

Punk is rebellious. It’s against the system, against capitalism, against everything that is wrong about society, regardless of what the music sounds like.

"In the mid 70s the first Australian band we heard was Rose Tattoo".

“ When the Dead Kennedys toured Australia in the 1980s, that was the first time we’d heard of a North American band going all the way down there".

“Any band that came from Australia that you would hear on records, would be introduced by the fact that they were from Australia, it was that much of a rarity.”