“Youth Allowance came out of the same mid 2012-jam period as The Haunted. That grating guitar riff that starts the song is the first thing we wrote and we built the rest of the song around that idea,
It just so happened that that guitar riff, which came from just messing around, was better than anything else we had made that day. The lyrics formed pretty quickly too. They stem from Zach’s feelings of frustration that he wasn’t eligible for the government funded youth allowance, whilst seemingly all his friends were receiving it and having a great time spending their extra cash on partying.”
“Youth Allowance came out of the same mid 2012-jam period as The Haunted. That grating guitar riff that starts the song is the first thing we wrote and we built the rest of the song around that idea,
It just so happened that that guitar riff, which came from just messing around, was better than anything else we had made that day. The lyrics formed pretty quickly too. They stem from Zach’s feelings of frustration that he wasn’t eligible for the government funded youth allowance, whilst seemingly all his friends were receiving it and having a great time spending their extra cash on partying.”
From: tonedeaf.com.au/404327/advance-stream-northeast-party-house-any-given-weekend.htm