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e are a bunch of urban hippies working our way through the world as it presents itself to us everyday. The term urban hippy references the fact that we all work for a living because the days of the full time artist making a reasonable living have shuffled off into the distance like a drunken old geezer in the early evening. We have to pay the bills, we have to pay for a roof over our heads and we have to rock out. And here in lies the conundrum, work and all that comes with that, potentially at the risk of dulling creativity. Each Rocket has done both and the balance right now seems fine. Work hard, play hard and enjoy the conflict of the two pulling against each other. And the music reflects that conflict; it can be at times uptight, edgy and jittery and then it drifts into moments of reflection and contemplation. The song “Adult Responsibility” is emblematic of this struggle: the lyric “ Adult responsibility, doesn’t really suit me” basically states that the expectations of us