"I see them as the greatest ever rock'n'roll band. How can it be a bad thing to be compared to the best there is?" Airbourne on AC/DC, non-annoying Christmas songs, and why their new album had to be exactly right

Airbourne onstage.

As Airbourne, the rock ’n’ roll machine from Warrnambool, Victoria, prepare to undertake six UK dates, frontman and guitarist Joel O’Keeffe sets the scene for an upcoming, as yet untitled, sixth studio album –the follow-up to 2019’s Boneshaker – that he considers “maximum Airbourne”.