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Three Tassie lads and a boy from Canberra (the Hub) all individually moved to Melbourne for fame, fortune and a public transport system that was second to none. Zak, from Canberra's 'Contraband', had been playing some solo shows in Melbourne, but was keeping his eyes and ears out for prospective musicians with which to develop his music. In 2002, a mutual friend (who now claims to be entitled to a percentage of all potential profits) introduced Ben and Zak. After their first meeting, standing at a nightclub, both Zak's neck and Ben's back were sufficiently sore, and they sort to remedy their height difference by having a seated jam at some stage. Ben's solid 'rhythm and groove' bass playing were quite contrasted to Zak's then tempo-unconstrained song writing, and the two of them knew they were onto something (namely the chairs on which they were sitting). At that point, a drummer was needed: enter Carlos 'the Jackal'... an old friend of Ben's (they didn't speak for a while after