). That was in 1994. It wasn’t until 2020 that they scored their first Australian No 1 with an anthology, ’Akilotoa. Their seventh album, The Wait, debuted at No 2 last year.sessions kept them working during Melbourne’s long lockdowns, and introduced them to new audiences, while reconnecting with their existing fans.
“I always wanted to play the Palais; I always wanted to get a No 1,” she says. “I’ve always wanted to expand our audience and be ourselves and do things in a way that was natural, and it just felt really good that we did it that way. I’m rapt. I feel over the moon.” Her other primary concern is staying healthy. The most difficult passages of No Bull reveal Vika’s struggle with alcohol, about which she is forthright. “It just caught up with me, and it wasn’t good for me. I was a shithead, basically, and I had to quit! It’s as simple as that. I should have done it years ago.” She has been sober for nearly 12 months now.
Legends.