CHRISTMAS: Existentialist Albert Camus (puff, puff) once said, "in the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer" and that idea inspired 'The Day Summer Fell'. But then so did new love, tamboura, tambourine and born again Christian handclaps. I was obsessed with the idea of 'no hi-hat on this record' - it had to be tambourine, shaker, maraca, claps or ride cymbal (or all of above).

BEN: "Cheerfully celebrate aging. The opposite of 'Yesterday'..."

BEN: "You can radically change your life whenever you want. Just pack the van and go. This is Andy's sun theme for this record."

CHRISTMAS: "True love will find you in the end..."

ANDREW: "Rock's most haunting song about fidelity..."

BEN: "The day you realise you're with the love of your life. You may still catch yourself scoping on a hottie, but it no longer means anything. You realise you're not going to be the old sleazy guy at work, feeling up the young woman. A good day. There was a third verse. 'men in my office like to play' 'sure hope I don't end up that way'..."

BEN: "I had a sudden realisation one day. I was high. Great music was playing (the wonderful first Black Sun Ensemble record). And I was watching my girlfriend, who was pregnant and glowingly beautiful at the time, paint. I was in paradise. Sometimes you have to stand back, stop moping, and realise how lucky you are..."

CHRISTMAS: "I love the driving etiquette whereby if someone on the opposite side of the road sees a police speed camera they'll flash their lights to warn you to slow down and avoid being pinged. It's a wonderful tradition and makes you feel good when it happens. Which, of course, has nothing to do with 'Black Sun Ensemble' other than I'm flashing my lights at you..."

CHRISTMAS: "One of my best mates Dylan Tawse and I wrote this a few years ago. At the time Dyl looked like Paul McGann in Withnail & I hence the lyric..."

ANDREW: "Chris and Ben convinced me this would sound great if I sang the whole shebang in a girlish falsetto - I personally had opted for a gruff lower register performance, but they said they liked it 'castrato-stylee'. I still reckon I heard nasty sniggers everytime I left the mixing room, but there you go. Pop history is littered with mannish boys singin' like girls."

BEN: "Mark Forrester was a good friend at high school in the 80's. We used to do bedroom recordings together - pissing our parents off with mono synths. He told me he was going to produce Prince one day. I told him he was full of it. Turns out I was. He died a couple of years ago. A sad loss."

CHRISTMAS: : "Moving Too Fast sees Ben exert his metaphysicality. Tanner's falsetto once again proving the perfect vehicle. I like the wigged out 'Zabriskie Point' middle section - 'Evie Parts 1, 2, &3' as inspired by Spacemen 3."

ANDREW: "Sometimes the simplest songs are the hardest to nail - this little sucker has got scars all over it."

CHRISTMAS: "'Dirty' first appeared on our self-released LP Shakes. It was co-written with the enigmatic Tasmanian Tor Fredheim before his infamous implosion. Most of the lyrics were lifted from a 'Neighbours' script."