Cruising on the Interislander - The Warratahs

Easy come, easy go, I'm going to go with the flow. Hey what's the hurry, what's the rush?

– Opening lyrics to Cruising on the Interislander jingle

Before that ad, we had been a working country/folk/rock band. Then that came along like a missile that went into middle New Zealand. Even now, a couple of times a week someone in the street will mention it. Quite unbelievable!

– Performer Barry Saunders on the huge appeal of their Interislander jingle, Audioculture, 14 August 2018

We'd been offered ads before but this one worked because we toured a lot, the ferry was part of our highway and it all tied together. And there was the Cook Strait with all its beauty and craziness, it was a part of us and we were a part of it.

– Barry Saunders on the first Interislander advert, in a Radio New Zealand interview, 10 September 2018

[Rob] Winch, who had become a successful session musician and jingle writer, asked [Barry] Saunders to sing on a demo for a song he had written for a campaign to convince New Zealand travellers that the Interislander was an experience worth sharing.

– AudioCulture writer Nick Bollinger on how Warratahs ended up performing the song, 18 July 2024