WPAM albums and concerts featured guest appearances by other influential Australian musicians including Chris Wilson, members of Weddings Parties Anything, Joe Geia and Tiddas.
On that tour they performed live on German radio station WDR to a Friday night drive-time audience of over 3 million listeners.
With Wild Pumpkins Nick performed at the prestigious Montreaux Jazz Festival (Switzerland); shared billing with Santana, Björk, Nick Cave, Dirty Three, Tricky, Rage Against the Machine, Porno 4 Pyros, Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones), David Crosby (Crosby, Stills & Nash), Link Wray and others.
Dan Rumour & The Drift also included Cruel Sea drummer Jim Elliot and fellow ex-WPAM member Michael Turner on bass guitar.
From late 2010 until 2016 Larkins performed with fellow Tasmanian musician Monique Brumby as a guitarist, bass player, and engineer on her self-titled album released in 2014.
twentyfive aimed to write, record and release a new song every two weeks, with twenty five different singers primarily from the Melbourne independent band scene.
[2] From 2005 Larkins played as a guest musician on Hammond Organ for Indigenous lead Melbourne band The Grenadines, appearing on their first album 'Story of Woe'.
In 2008 he became their bass player and in 2011 the band changed their name to The Deans, focusing on a modern soul sound, and released a self titled album in 2012 recorded and produced by Larkins.
These include: Dan Rumour and The Drift, Dandelion Wine, Duckdive, Wons P Phreeley, Even, Catnip, Renee Geyer (studio assistant), Paul Kelly, Chris Wilson, Lunars, The Winter Migration, Autumn Gray, Man Bites God, James Hazelden, I Dream in Transit, Slow Human Escape, The Triangles, Digger and The Pussycats, Immigrant Union, Brillig, The Shambelles, Stories and Songs of The People, Joe Geia, Big Low (Netherlands), Monique Brumby, twentyfive.