You’ll be ending the Voodoo national tour with gigs in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast this weekend; is there anything on your to-do list while you’re in Queensland?
I usually just walk around Fortitude Valley and look around, but I’ve never been to Maroochydore before, so that should be interesting!

You’re planning to release your second EP soon – any idea when we can expect that?
Hopefully in the coming months …

We heard you recorded that overseas last year?
Yeah, it was really cool – we recorded it on a boat studio. It was a docked boat at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London and the inside of it had been turned into a big studio. It took about two weeks to record on the boat and then a week after that at Jake’s house in London.

That’s a far cry from recording in your bedroom for your first EP!
Yeah, for that first one I recorded three songs in my room and then two songs in a studio in Brisbane. It was really good; I worked with a bunch of really cool people in Brisbane.

Why Brisbane?
Well I had a friend Jake Miller who was living there at the time and he gave a really good deal on a studio plus he had friends who could help out with recording, like one of the guys from The Cairos helped out on guitar on ‘Big Bois Gotta Eat’.

Can you remember the first time you ever performed for an audience?
Yeah, I did Battle of the Bands when I was in Year 9 – I sung for that one. But we lost …

And now, this many years later, do you get nervous performing or are you completely comfortable on stage?
I’ve been a bit nervous on this tour because my drummer Ben Zubreckyj recently moved to London, so I’ve pretty much had to get a new drummer in every city. It’s been fine so far though; it’s been great.

When did you first get into songwriting?
It wasn’t really until I put that first song on Unearthed High that I wrote my own music – I was just playing drums in bands before that.

You were a finalist in the Triple J Unearthed High competition back in 2012 – would you consider that your ‘big break’?
Yeah, things probably wouldn’t have picked up if it wasn’t for that, really. I just put my music on there to test the waters and it ended up doing really well.

You’ve supported some great acts and played at massive festivals over the last few years – what has been your personal highlight?
I reckon my first ever tour was the coolest tour – it was with Mac DeMarco, so that was pretty sweet! It was pretty crazy – I had to buy myself a 6:00 am flight because I didn’t know I was doing it, and I was trying to make it work but I was just really tired.

You performed a bunch of shows overseas recently, what can you tell us about that experience?
Yeah, well when I was recording I played the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany. That was really cool and really weird. I also played two gigs in Berlin. And now I’ve just gotten back from the UK, playing The Great Escape festival in Brighton and I did a bunch more shows in London and wrote some music.

What would you say is one of the biggest myths about being a musician?
Well when I was 16 I used to think that once you got played on Triple J, you’re pretty much set and you’d get heaps of money and live it up. But now that’s happening and I’m still broke and I’m like, “This is not what I thought would happen!”

Finally, if you could collaborate with any musician or band, from now or in the past, who do you think you’d want to work with?
That’s a really tough one … Maybe Wu-Tang Clan, that’d be sweet! And I’d co-write with Elvis.