"Do the math: you get paid like a four-piece, but you have four bands in your group".
He's been in DIY bands since the early 90s, is missing teeth as well as most of his hair, and is wearing a T-shirt that says Dinosaurs Are Wankers.
In Queensland, it seems, bands can't wait to queue up to offer support – or at the least, their silence – in exchange for a few dollars.
The number of staff receiving increments is reducing as more staff reach the top of their pay bands, which is when annual increments usually stop.
In England there is a grading structure of nine pay bands.
Like most rock kids of his generation, from an early age he had a working knowledge of electronic music through listening to industrial bands such as Nine Inch Nails, and an obsession with "IDM" ("intelligent dance music"), in particular "anything on Warp Records".
They all shared a guitar as children, although Louis moved to bass in 1961 after being smitten by the guitarrón, a large acoustic bass favoured by mariachi bands, which he had heard being played in a shopping arcade in LA.
The bands were also notable for their layers and layers of warm, fuzzy guitars, vocals enigmatically buried in the mix.
At the age of 14, while still at Compton junior college in California, she started a singing career, performing hillbilly songs with her father on the radio, and solo with touring bands.
Still only 23, Macpherson has already been in two bands, neither of which registered on our radar: Les Incompetents and Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man.Lion.Man
Westlife are one of the last remaining bands from pop's late-90s boom period and have enjoyed an unusually lengthy run of success.
