It’s about eight o’clock on a Thursday morning in May and triple j’s breakfast team are hard at work. Robbie Buck, Marieke Hardy and Lindsay McDougall (The Doctor) are interviewing The Hilltop Hoods in preparation for their trip to Sale in regional Victoria for triple j’s One Night Stand concert the following Saturday.

But despite the talent gathered together in the ABC studio in Ultimo, the Hilltop Hoods interview of 28 May 2009 was not a particularly noteworthy piece of radio. McDougall and Hardy riffed with Suffa and Pressure, the Hilltop Hoods rappers, about the resemblance of their microphones to phalluses; Hardy made a joke about ‘brewer’s drop’, while Buck tried to draw the conversation back to the Hilltop Hoods’ headline performance at triple j’s One Night Stand in Sale. About the best that could be said for the interview was that it was diverting, perhaps mildly amusing.