Do-It-Yourself, You Know?

"We picked up on the whole do-it-yourself thing, I think, more than anything from punk," he says. "I always took from paint that gave you license to do an experiment in any way possible" The band was inspired by a group of Christchurch art students who were playing covers of psychedelic stuff and making their own music. But they weren't necessarily conforming to a defined, you know, conformist idea of what paint should be or whatever.