This is just an iconic album. I remember hearing ‘Salad Days’ for the first time and watching live videos over and over again of Mac playing all these songs and it was like, “Who is this weird Canadian guy?” I remember learning them on guitar and thinking that it was the coolest thing ever. It’s a similar thing to how I felt with Alex Turner; you could just feel his personality through the album.”

When you met him, was he as weird as you expected him to be?

Totally, but he’s such a sweet guy. I’ve been able to strike a friendship with him and saw him fairly recently at a show that I played. He just dropped in, I hadn’t seen him in a few years and he looked great. What I love and what a lot of these bands have in common is they didn’t do the things that other people wanted them to do. They just did what was interesting to them. I don’t think any of these bands signed to a major label, moved to LA – though there’s a lot of bands that did that that are great. 

There’s something to be said about people that have their own journey and I feel Mac’s a great example of someone who has just done whatever he wanted to do, and it’s totally worked out for him. So he’s always been a really inspiring person to me… and thinking about walking around when you’re 13, 14, and being like, “Yeah, I’m so cool listening to this music.”