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AIRBOURNE
The Aussie rockers return to Download festival in June. Hooray!
Airbourne: is Download braced for their return?!
How is the COVID situation in Australia right now? It seems like you’ve had a fairly OK handle on it over there… Joel O’Keeffe (vocals/guitar): “It’s been different in all states; Melbourne, Victoria had the harshest, longest-running lockdown. When we were allowed outside it was for one hour a day and we had to adhere to a strict home-kilometre radius. They had drones and choppers in the sky watching the streets below to literally send in the police to restrain anyone caught outside after the 8pm curfew. A rumour circulated they would ban alcohol so everyone went out and stocked up big time – then they said, ‘Nah, ya mongrels, we wouldn’t do that to ya!’ Now there’s a huge spike in AA programs to get people off the booze… this whole thing is just mental.”