Perennial slacker god Kurt Vile has a unique love affair with the Great Southern Land. He's recently collaborated and performed onstage with Courtney Barnett and opened for Nick Cave and Warren Ellis at their once-in-a-lifetime Hanging Rock gig. Vile is also no longer a wannabe Neil Young for the millennial age, he has well and truly arrived. Now he’s taking his Violators to promote their most recent LP (watch my moves) to the world.

Walking into The Zoo, I was confronted by a barrage of shirts depicting the biggest names of the Grunge era - Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. This had me wondering, does a band really want to look out into the crowd and be reminded of all their dead friends? In a scene marked by drug overdoses, suicide and the otherwise premature deaths of many of its prominent members, Mudhoney demonstrate a longevity uncommon to other Seattle grunge alumni.