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From the entire family at Thrills, we hope that this finds you all safe and well. Our thoughts are with all of the people and communities recently affected by the worldwide pandemic. There's really no other way to put it - things have been pretty fucked up of late. Sadly, for many of the world's musicians, work stopped immediately, and for many touring artists, isolation started early. With some of the more interesting and creative minds contained to their homes, we thought it was probably high time we checked in to see how they were keeping sane. Call us nosey, but we're genuinely curious to see what’s been going on behind closed doors. Enter, Snif from Pist Idiots to help us figure out just how to ride out the quarantine wave.       ​ ​ Add Pist Idiots' tunes to your Quarantine playlist ASAP: 

From the entire family at Thrills, we hope that this finds you all safe and well. Our thoughts are with all of the people and communities recently affected by the worldwide pandemic. There's really no other way to put it - things have been pretty fucked up of late. Sadly, for many of the world's musicians, work stopped immediately, and for many touring artists, isolation started early. With some of the more interesting and creative minds contained to their homes, we thought it was probably high time we checked in to see how they were keeping sane. Call us nosey, but we're genuinely curious to see what’s been going on behind closed doors. Enter, Sloan Peterson to help us figure out just how to ride out the quarantine wave. Add Sloan Peterson's tunes to your Quarantine playlist ASAP: 

From the entire family at Thrills, we hope that this finds you all safe and well. Our thoughts are with all of the people and communities recently affected by the worldwide pandemic. There's really no other way to put it - things have been pretty fucked up of late.Sadly, for many of the world's creatives, work stopped immediately, and isolation started early. With some of the more interesting and creative minds contained to their homes, we thought it was probably high time we checked in to see how they were keeping sane. Call us nosey, but we're genuinely curious to see what’s been going on behind closed doors. Enter photographer and long-time friend of Thrills, James Adams to help us figure out just how to ride out the quarantine wave.     Get around James' work here. Stay tuned to see who we chat to next.

From the entire family at Thrills, we hope that this finds you all safe and well. Our thoughts are with all of the people and communities recently affected by the worldwide pandemic. There's really no other way to put it - things have been pretty fucked up of late. Sadly, for many of the world's musicians, work stopped immediately, and for many touring artists, isolation started early. With some of the more interesting and creative minds contained to their homes, we thought it was probably high time we checked in to see how they were keeping sane. Call us nosey, but we're genuinely curious to see what’s been going on behind closed doors. Enter, Em (San Mei) to help us figure out just how to ride out the quarantine wave.         Add San Mei's tunes to your Quarantine playlist ASAP:  Stay tuned to see who we chat to next.

It's been a crazy year. From trips to the USA, to touring NZ, to parties we can hardly remember, to some of our favourite band collaborations, to our biggest campaigns yet, and plenty more, we simply can't put how stoked we are with the year. From everyone at Thrills, we want to take a minute to say thank you. Without you, all of this wouldn't be possible. Here's to a bigger and better 2020.  

The Jack’s are back! With the festive season nothing more than a blurry haze in the rearview mirror - Here we are, left to pick up the pieces of our lives, and reassemble ourselves to bear some resemblance to our former mediocre self (pre-festive season). For such a task there really is only one thing that could possibly rid us of the hangover left after the last 2 weeks of debauchery. A Bloody Mary. Jack (Pist Idiots) and Jack (Liquid Face) are back behind the bar and looking worse for wear as they attempt to drag themselves out of a hole that they have no memory of digging. It doesn’t appear that their skills as mixologists are getting any better, but something tells us that after a Bloody Mary, they’re going to be just fine. 

Xmas has come to an end for another year, and boy was it a big one. Thanks to our last Apple Pie Cocktail, life chats with Uncle Max and catch-ups with the in-laws weren’t half as bad. So that’s why our friends Jack (Liquid Face) and Jack (Pist Idiots) are jumping behind the bar and bringing us into the new decade with another one of their iconic cocktails in yet another iconic vessel. Get inspired, folks, with their second installment where we get the scoop on just how to (or more accurately, how not to) make a delicious Sangria.

It’s the festive season, and we all know what that means.. Time spent with family, the giving and receiving of gifts, a time to unwind and reflect on the year that was.….I joke. It means drinking. Lots & lots of drinking.And if there’s one thing we’ve learnt about our good friends Jack (Liquid Face) and Jack (Pist Idiots) over the years, it’s that they’re really bloody good at drinking. So good in fact that the Jacks have taken it upon themselves to jump the bar and give you a little bit of cocktail Inspo for your silly season - Proving in the process that being able to knock back a couple yourself doesn’t necessarily make you handy with a shaker.So without further adieu, I present to you what will no doubt be your new favourite cook(ed)ing show: LIQUID IDIOTSIn this first instalment we get the scoop on just how to (or more accurately, how not to) make an Apple Pie Cocktail.

There’s something about the idea of the “escape”; A romantic desire to drop it all and head full speed into the unknown. Summertime, more than any, draws this desire to the surface. It starts as a small inkling and grows into a raging beast, but what is in the escape? Is a day enough, or do you need weeks? Do you set a destination and turnaround once you’ve reached it or do you keep going until you’ve lost track of the beginning? Whatever the result or the reason there’s no refusing it when it emerges. For most, viewing the world as it flies by from the safety of a car is enough, and it should be, you are free, your worries left behind you your escape is in full flight – For others they want the wind on their face to smell the air and feel the temperature change as the road dips or you cross a river. This… this can only be felt from behind the handlebars. The moments that others miss are the ones that keep you going, no music, no conversation, the sound of the engine drowns everything else out. It’s here the desire grows, until your 40-year-old bike breaks down, in a field, with nothing and no-one around, maybe romantics isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Shop the shoot now.  

The Mystery Box Rally is an annual event dedicated to raising much-needed funds to support cancer research. Teams are to drive their own 25+-year-old cars along a mystery route in a unique 5-day challenge - The route is a loop starting and finishing at the same location, but all the other details are kept under wraps, only given to the teams each morning. This year, we decided to team up with our friends at Rockinghorse Studios to sponsor their particularly shit car and support their journey around Australia. Departing from our home town, Byron Bay, the team sped (or jumped) off on their expedition. We sat down with driver, Taryn McGregor to chat all things about the rally and give us a front seat view of her experience.  Firstly, for those who don't know, would you mind telling a little bit about the rally and how it came about? James, the director of Box rallies, created the Mystery Box Rally to raise funds for Cancer Council a decade ago after losing both of his parents to cancer. I believe they started out with the Shit Box Rally, added in its baby brother, the Mystery Box Rally, and over time have developed into two Shit Box rallies and one Mystery Box rally each year. This year, around June, they hit the $20,000,000 mark as funds raised between all the rallies over the last 10 years. This year was the first Mystery Box Rally to crack $1 million raised in a single Mystery Box Rally, the previous record was approx. $840,000. Was this your first year? How did you get involved? We heard about the box rallies when they left from Brisbane last year in May, thinking it would be a great way to get involved, raise funds for science and research while having a great adventure and seeing parts of Australia that we may never get around to seeing. This was our first rally and we raised nearly $6000 in all, and we have been accepted into the Autumn Shit box rally next year where we will need to raise at least $5,000 to join. However, we will also need a shitter car with the rules stating cars can have to be a max of $1000 market value and two-wheel drive. Best highlight of the rally? Best highlight... it's hard to say. You meet great people from all walks of life, the daily adventure of not knowing where we will be going next and it was great fun driving around in a 1985 Corona which brings back so many memories of being kids as well as first cars. Of course where we went was amazing, so many people forget we have such diverse and interesting country, even though it's dusty out in the outback the people from each town who supported us all driving through were just amazing and wonderful people. Assuming the car made it to the end, what happens to it now? Have you formed a bond? Yes, our car made it with flying colours, she just skips and jumps over the rough roads, not even a flat tyre. she is too good for the shit box rally next year, so will likely be left to pasture until our teenager starts learning to drive in a year or two, I think teaching kids to drive as we learnt back when cars had manual windows and no power steering gives you an appreciation and understanding of the road and how fast you are really going, a perfect thing for new drivers to learn. But to be honest I may just keep her for a fun car to drive around in, or perhaps another Mystery Box Rally. There you have it, folks. Want to know more about the event or donate? Head to the Mystery Box Rally website here.

Choppers are an interesting thing, a money pit, a passion for crusty old machines that cost 10 times more and perform 10 times worse than any Japanese street bike you can find on gumtree – they are loud and obnoxious and the general population despise them, but nobody dislikes them more than their owners. These bikes have broken down a 1000 times in every shit place in every bit of shit weather imaginable, each and every time you ride them there’s a chance you won’t reach your destination, but still, somehow, you’ll find a way to love them.

Quentin Tarantino’s latest film Once Upon a Time In Hollywood is screening the world over and stars some of Hollywood’s biggest hitters. But more than 25 years ago Tarantino was just another video store clerk with big ideas and dreams of making in Hollywood. So we’re making a list of the best 'feel-good' independent films that will at least keep you distracted from your phone long enough to charge it past 40 percent.

We don’t have the secret to make your worst hangovers disappear, but we think this might be able to help you. There’s nothing quite like aimlessly wandering down a street full of vendors all selling the most delicious food in those moments when you are feeling a little fragile and everything is a little bit of a struggle.

So Rocketman is out and with the box office success of Bohemian Rhapsody and the steady stream of 60s and 70s superstars falling off the perch, we can expect a few more to come in the future. So how does Rocket Man compare among the list of other notable biopics and why does it work?