Depending on when you read these questions, you’ll either have just finished the Groovin The Moo tour, or will have one stop left in Bunbury - how has it gone?

It was great, we're sad to see it go because the shows just kept getting better for us. The Canberra show was particularly enjoyable, I was feeling very relaxed onstage which is a rare thing indeed. 

At least in Maitland, the crowds seemed pretty damn enthusiastic.

Well Larry that's not really a question but thanks all the same. 

I remember seeing you at Sydney’s Club 77 when you guys were just starting out. It’s impressive to see a garage rock band - who made music perfect for the dingy clubs around the country -  have their music translate so well on festival and stadium stages. Was it at all daunting once you started playing the larger outdoor venues?

It was at first yes, I think we assumed that we would have to change what we do quite drastically. But on attempting that the shows sometimes felt forced and so we reverted back to what we always did. Watching other bands play festivals I’ve decided that a lot of their performance is theatrical in way that is very lowest common denominator, we have a bit more faith in our audience than to think all they want to do is get drunk and beat the hell out of each other.  

How do you think have you grown musically over the years?

I think in terms of technical ability Matt our drummer has improved greatly, he's world class, the others however plateaud long ago and probably won’t improve much in terms of finesse. What has developed has been our self assuredness and our faith in ourselves not to rely on outside sources to greatly influence our music, that's why we couldn't have written a song like 90 Ways To Leave Your Lover on either of the other two records, we'd have been to self conscious with it and would have tried to turn it into something else. Other than that we're still the same dead beat wasters we were when we started.  

Speaking of growing musically, you just released your phenomenal third LP Avalanche – can you talk about making it? I understand you recorded it in Melbourne at Sing Song Studios?

That'd be Sing Sing studios. Once we decided we wouldn't be making the record with Harry Vanda in Sydney we decided to buy a house in country Victoria and make the record there in a sort of Villa Nelcote, Big Pink environment however when that didn't come to fruition we carried that mentality over to Sing Sing studios which I think we chose because it was central to our locations and very homely and relaxed. The sessions usually started with a late lunch at the studios at three in the afternoon where we'd discuss what we needed to do and drink beer or vodka sodas before watching Simpsons at six and starting recording soon after that. Present would be the four members of the band our producer Glenn Goldsmith and engineer Callum Barter and often we'd invite friends and girlfriends to drink watch films or just hang out, we'd carry on drinking and recording until dawn at the latest and get cabs home or to a hotel to sleep it off. The sessions were really enjoyable but sometimes we wouldn't get much done which could be very frustrating, we recorded about 25 songs of which only about 15 were contenders where as the others were just for fun or covers of other peoples songs and then trimmed that down to 10 songs we thought went well together. 

Is it important to you guys to record your music at home?

I don't think it's terribly important but it did make the Avalanche sessions memorable and distinctive, I'd like to record away from home perhaps next time. 

You’re a band who have been consistently touring AND releasing new music since you formed – to make this possible, do you do a lot of your writing on the road?

I think we definitely find it easier to write when we on the road, turning each other onto ideas and on the same wavelength, I'd be concerned that if we took too long of the road to write music specifically we'd stagnate and run out of ideas.   

Did you feel any pressure (from the label or otherwise) to replicate the success of Thieves?

During the recording sessions we felt pressure to produce the album to a high standard and to make the right decisions of what to include, but due to the relaxed nature of the sessions we felt like we had all the time in the world to get these things right. As for the writing of the songs it was completed over such a long stretch of time that we didn't feel very much pressure, we still do most of our writing in Matts parents garage which is very dingy and unglamorous  so its actually necessary to remind yourself that the songs have to be written to a standard and sometimes to a certain feel, we tend to only think of our own hopes and aspirations for a song when we write, we don't let our audiences expectations or tastes enter the equation. 

How did it feel to hit the ARIA top 10 at the height of the Mother’s Day Weekend? Your second consecutive album to do so!

It feels relieving to crack the top ten, however I'd much rather have released any other week and gotten a better number! 

And off the back of that success, you’re about to embark on your first headline Avalanche tour – it’s quite extensive! Will you be playing anywhere you haven’t played before?

I'm not sure. I hope so, it's always nice to accrue new memories and adventures. 

How have you found the new tracks to be received live so far?

Fantastic, the response the new songs has got has really exceeded my expectations, the songs from thieves took a much longer amount of time to sink into our audiences collective memory which leads me to believe the Avalanche songs will provide us with some live standards for a while to come. 

Are there any tracks in particular that you haven't played on the GTM tour that you're looking forward to bringing out at the headline shows?

Anti-Gravity, Messiah and Friends all the dirgey weird ones. 

And finally - other than the local headlining tour, what else is coming up for British India? Will you be heading overseas at all to conquer the world?

We'll head back to the UK next year sometime, we hope for the best in the face of mighty adversaries.