"The best looking woman in the world worked there, so we spent three hours drinking two coffees."

Alex Gow is one half of songwriting duo Oh Mercy. Disposable camera in hand we asked him to take some snaps on his most recent band jaunt ...

Who are your favourite Pop Divas of all time?

Dusty Springfield, Diana Ross, Nancy Sinatra and Chrissy Amphlett. Some of them smooth and sultry. Some proud and overtly sexual. All unique and passionate and own the songs they sing, whether they wrote them or not.

If you were to serenade to one of them a song from your EP In the Nude for Love what one would you choose and why?

I would sing Dusty Springfield a song called Needs a Woman because it was her song Some Of Your Lovin that influenced the simple, honest and direct lyrical style of the song.

Apart from bassist Eliza are there any other women who are an honourary member of Oh Mercy?

The band's tour van Pauline. She sees all we have, shared our trials and tribulations, gets us safely and comfortably from A-B (Adelaide to Brisbane in an epic 25 hour journey). She is an inspiring woman and we love her and have loved in her.

What gets you in the mood for love?

The Go-Betweens Tallulah, turtles and straight whisky.

Heartbreaker Vs Tease?

Heartbreaker. At least I can assume I witnessed the given woman in the nude before she broke my heart. Well worth it.

A view from Luna Park in Sydney.

Cups to put water inside of at the JB Hi Fi staff room.

Sound checking at our EP launch at The Toff. I am doing up the buttons on my shirt. Thomas is playing the guitar. Eliza is playing the bass guitar. Rohan is looking at the camera behind the drums. Rohan looks a little creepy.

A beautiful tropical cemetery in Newtown. We ate our $6 Thai cuisine there most days.

Baby dogs, commonly known as ‘puppies’ having a rest. I watch them resting during my lunch breaks at JB Hi Fi in the Southland Shopping Centre.

Sophie from Myspace holding her camera. We did an interview with her at Luna Park in Sydney during the Come Together Festival. She is a very lovely woman.

Pauline the tour van having a rest.

Thomas and I sitting outside a café off King Street in Newtown. The best looking woman in the world worked there, so we spent three hours drinking two coffees. A bird also did a poo on one of the stools. It jumped up on the stool to do its poo. Very impressive.