Mayday is the third album by Mark Seymour and the Undertow, which was released in May 2015.

"I invent characters or occupy the space of somebody else and imagine myself in their condition, but there's a lot of me in there.

"[2] Seymour said "FIFO" was inspired by a 62-year-old worker he met after a gig at a fly-in fly-out mining camp.

"Frankston station is at the end of the line and you get the full cross section of Melbourne there—all classes, every kind of person.

"Struggle Street" is interesting, the drama around it makes me think people are afraid of confronting the reality of what Australian culture is like.