“We just aggressively started practicing on the porch and playing music and learning songs, and me learning Maddy’s songs and Maddy learning mine. While their energy was enough to headline the entire show, Babe Rainbow hit the audience with a second groovy wave. Babe Rainbow wrote “Johny Stays Stay Cool” while living in a squat in Paris — a “nice squat,” to be exact. “I felt like [the location] had heaps to do with those songs,” Dowling said. It’s more sound tracking just in this way if there’s a guitar or piano or something … suddenly there’s music playing,” Dowling said.