"This sort of music isn't a career option," says bass and guitar player Andrew Withycombe, "so we may as well have fun. We're all friends anyway." He's talking about Huon, his pop combo with bassist Ellen Turner, singer and multi-instrumentalist Mia Schoen, and drummer-vocalist-putative leader David Nichols. If pedigrees matter to you, Huon's breeding is impeccable. Different band members have been in most of Australia's finest indie-pop bands, including the Cat's Miaow, Hydroplane, the Cannanes, Crabstick, Blairmailer, Sleepy Township, and Driving Past. They can tell you what's wrong about being in a band; between them they've been screwed by record labels, toured themselves sick, and been so bored and frustrated that they had to quit their own bands. The Melbourne-based quartet's already gotten all of that out of their system, so none of it happens in Huon - the group is mercifully free of bad vibes and infighting. "It's not," Withycombe explains, "one of those bands where you're fighting to get your song played." Instead, it's the kind of band where no idea will be shot down out of hand.