“I think for a long time in this country, country music has been such a niche,” says Evans. “So if you knew about it, you knew about it. And it was kind of like an almost underground thing and that makes you feel like you’re part of something. Now, I think, it’s becoming pretty mainstream down here, from what I can see just coming in and out.”
“And it’s [not] until you start playing that it’s, ‘Oh, that music doesn’t happen here, that music happens over there.’ ” “There is poetry to them, but it’s more storytelling and that just resonates with me. And I feel like as a writer, it makes sense to emote in that way, like a more candid way. Silverchair are one of my favourite bands, but I don’t know what half their songs are about, but I know how they make me feel. Whereas country songs, I know what they’re about and I know how they make me feel. And as a writer, that makes more sense to me.