In 2013 Liddiard cited Dimitri Shostakovich , The Stooges , North African music and Olivier Messiaen as musical influences . In terms of writers , Liddiard provided Carl Sagan and Kurt Vonnegut as examples . Regarding his own lyrics , Liddiard stated in 2013 : " I read but I 'm not that widely read . I do n't know . They 're just words for songs . That 's all they are . Yeah , they 're sometimes funny . You 've got to be funny ; life 's funny . " As of May 2019 , Liddiard is a vegan and resides in the rural town of Nagambie , Victoria , Australia with Drones bassist Fiona Kitschin and two fox terriers . Prior to Nagambie , the pair lived in the rural Victorian town of Myrtleford . The Nagambie property , next to the Goulburn River , was the recording location for the 2013 Drones album '' I See Seaweed '' . Liddiard explained the locations attributes in a media interview : " It 's as good as anywhere for writing , but the main thing is it 's cheap , ... There 's a huge amount of room . We have a billabong , there 's a swampland , a creek , we 're on the river . It 's nice . " Liddiard was living in the same area as the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 and subsequently attained a 75 series Landcruiser Troop Carrier vehicle in the event of such an incident in the future . Liddiard explained in 2013 that " it 's basically our ticket out of the next bushfire . In the last fires we had a 1990 Ford Falcon which would n't have been much use once a tree fell across the only road out of our valley . " '' See also : The Drones discography and Tropical Fuck Storm discography . ''
Black Saturday bushfires
Black Saturday bushfires
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