The band incarnation of The Potbelleez has become such a mainstay of Australian popular music that it’s easy to forget they made their name behind the decks of some of Sydney’s sweatiest clubs. While anthems like Don’t Hold Back, Hello, Are You With Me and From The Music have become festival-smashing bombs for Dave Goode and Jonny Sonic, The Potbelleez DJz have never forgotten their roots.

“It’s who I am, it’s who Jonny is,” says Dave of spinning tunes. “We’ve always been itchy and always kept one finger in the pie the whole time.” They’ve also kept digging through the world’s digital crates for those special tracks rather than snap up their favourite producers’ every release, though it’s Australian acts who they name check as current favourites – Tommy Trash, Sgt Slick, Bass Kleph, Uberjak’d and Christian Luke among them.

So the return of The Potbelleez DJs should come as little surprise to those who’ve followed the two Irish expats over the past decade. “It’s what we’re best at,” says Jonny, and few who have witnessed them behind their favoured battle station of four CDJs and two mixers would argue. The pair have a sixth sense when they DJ together, an instinct for what the other is about to do without so much as a sidewards glance. “Jonny’s got an ear for making the biggest reaction possible to really bring the crowd up,” Dave says, “while I’ve got the backbone to set all that up.”