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It’s an irrefutable truth about art – there ain’t nothing like the classics. Songs, books and films that have never finished saying what they have to say. It’s this kind of bedrock that Perth band, The Reductors, are founded upon. Singer/songwriter/guitarist, Luke Nixon, has harboured a deep love of classic punk and post-punk since his earliest years. “I grew up in Wales, and spent my teens listening to Manchester punk and post-punk bands,” he recalls. “In particular Joy Division, The Fall, Buzzcocks and The Smiths which, as it happens, also had a big impact on the other band members.” Literature has also played a part in Nixon’s continued artistic development. The characters and themes in his songs are borne of a lifetime of reading. “Philip K. Dick, David Foster Wallace, Martin Amis, Dylan Thomas,” he notes, “variously for intellect, imagery, humanity and humour.” These flavours and inspirations motivated Nixon to create his own music and write his own songs. Not from a punk-