“We decided to write songs that were very harmony orientated so that we could sing them together. The songs just flowed and we recorded them with Paul {Hester]. Paul played brushes and grooved along on a snare drum.”

“The first day we got together, we wrote Weather With You and he had the title and the chorus line. ‘Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you’, and the opening line, ‘Walking round the room singing stormy weather’. We started playing that and got the guitar riff going and wrote the whole thing on the first day, so it got off to a good start.

57 Mount Pleasant Street is a fictitious address as far as the number goes, but my sister used to live in a house in Mount Pleasant Road in Auckland and that’s what we were thinking of when we wrote the song. It was just a good contrast to the theme of the song for it to be called Mount Pleasant Street because really it was about a guy who’s totally wrapped up in melancholia standing in his lounge room feeling lost.”

“We were trying to imagine a time and a place, and the line ‘Walking ‘round the room singing Stormy Weather’ helped us get into some atmosphere of somebody troubled who is always on their own in a room. We were trying to find lines that described the scene, like the ‘small boat made of china’, and that feeling of ennui or languishing that permeates the song. Ultimately, the theme of the song is, of course, that you are creating your own weather, you are making your own environment, always.”

“I remember being back home in Melbourne [having left the band in late 1991] and I received the call that Weather With You was number seven on the UK top ten. I played the song as loud as the studio could take it and just felt the bliss. So it didn’t feel like, oh I should be there sharing the glory or whatever. It just felt so good to have written a song that could do that - and recording it in my house too.”