“I can’t write a record after a life-changing event and not address that...it wouldn’t be fulfilling. It wouldn’t be my truth and it certainly wouldn’t be a good record.”

Ahead of his 'Bad Apples House Party' as part of Vivid Festival 2019, we chat with Briggs about his darkly satiric new single 'Life Is Incredible’ and the potency of delivering a message through comedy.

"I love, I love giving people that happiness, that feel good feeling, those times where they feel they can’t control their body from bopping and dancing and feeling confident and feeling cool."

Alexisonfire's Wade MacNeil on how he and his bandmates found themselves in the position of starting over, working on the band's heaviest music to date and how "all roads lead back to Australia" for Alexisonfire.

"I don't want to be a celebrity. I'm a musician. There's a real difference between the two."