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Australian musician James Reyne is coming from down under to visit our shores for a tour in August. You might know him from hits 'The boys light up', or 1991's 'Reckless' - James was the frontman for Australian Crawl. In the late 80s James began his solo career and went on to release album Hard Reyne - featured the hits "House of Cards" which was #17 on the ARIA Charts and "One More River" #22 on the ARIA Charts. James Reyne talks to Tim Beveridge about the tour. LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Little River Band guitarist, David Briggs, has been honoured as a member of the Order of Australia today. After leaving the Little River Band, Briggs embarked on a highly successful career as an audio engineer and producer, working on albums for Australian Crawl, Darryl Braithwaite and Russell Morris. Luke Grant catches up with David Briggs to find out about his incredible career and what the Australia Day Honour means to him.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amos and Edda are in a body of water, so that of course means that it is unclear: a) what kind of body of water it is, b) how deep the water is, and c) if there are any other people around. Amos threatens (promises?) to drown himself waiting for Edda to swim by again. I mean, they're married or at least dating at this point, so I'm not sure why he's being so stealthy about looking at her. Later, he sees legs under the water and decides to swim through them BEFORE BEING CERTAIN THEY BELONG TO EDDA. It ends up being Edda, who traps him between her thighs (metaphor!), and then he basically stays there, with his head pressed against her vagina. Mostly, it's the top of his head, which is confusing but also a bit of a relief. There's a moment where it totally seems like Ol' Mac-El-Dee wanted to imply that Amos was going downtown while in the pool, but the way it's drawn would rule that out. Physical impossibility rears its head in a strip where it appears Edda has removed Amos's head from his body. In the end, they either fuck, drown, or fart jointly under the water. Because ROMANCE! In a bonus strip, Edda dance/romances a dead-eyed Amos (is there any other kind?) and ends up kissing him while standing with her feet on his shoulders. Yeah. Try to imagine what that looks like. And good luck! The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode: You can find all of the strips either on Twitter by clicking here (https://x.com/9chickweedRAGE/status/1830800511823671634) or on Instagram by clicking here (https://www.instagram.com/p/C_cGP8up0MM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==). This disgusting episode includes: Headphones vs. Earsets Jigsaw puzzles Kansas City Is Stroud's Fried Chicken still around? Yes, it is (https://www.stroudsrestaurant.com/). Sudoku Jigsaw Chat! Brooke's hair surprises! The official beginning of Spring Crocuses are fucking useless Stretch Armstrong Australian Crawl Giantesses Catywampus and Kitty-Corner 9-1-1 & 9-1-1 Lone Star Thigh gap Becky Thatcher A bit of a Ben Franklin Milk Milk Lemonade Little House on the Prairie Slingblade "Can't Touch This!" by MC Hammer "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer Talk to Us! Having trouble understanding what's going on in a 9 Chickweed Lane strip you just read? Send it our way! We'll take a shot at interpreting it for you! Or maybe you just want someone to talk to? We're on Twitter: @9ChickweedRAGE (https://twitter.com/9chickweedRAGE). And we're on Instagram: @9ChickweedRage (https://www.instagram.com/9chickweedrage/).

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Local legends Sean P and Riley O'Brien join with a cover of the Australian Crawl classic "The Boys Light Up" . They come in ahead of a MASSIVE weekend for local music - "Help A Soul Out", raising money for Base Services and Belle Vie Animal Rescue!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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James Reyne joins Jonesy & Amanda ahead of Australian Crawl's upcoming tour. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Flashback to when Rev Bill Crews spoke to James Reyne, who today turns 67, and was lead vocalist of Australian Crawl.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Steve picked an hour of songs that mention someone or something being beautiful and/or pretty.  The artists this week: Blondie, Australian Crawl, Starbelly, The Church, Clem Snide, Neko Case, INXS, Manic Street Preachers, Modern English, Spacehog, The General Store, Wire Train, Weezer, The Heartbreaks, Van Go, Sex Pistols.   On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio      *** 5pm Friday ***      *** 10am Sunday ***      *** 8pm Monday *** Stream live at http://209.95.50.189:8178/stream Stream on-demand most recent episodes at https://wbnh1051.podbean.com/category/suburban-underground/ And available on demand on your favorite podcast app! Twitter: @SUBedford1051  ***    Facebook: SuburbanUndergroundRadio   ***    Instagram: SuburbanUnderground   ***    #newwave #altrock #alternativerock #punkrock #indierock

Geoff Cox, better known as “Coxy”, is a star of radio and television, and former drummer in The Bootleg Family, Avalanche and Little River Band. His life in the entertainment industry started out playing drums six nights a week in Rock and Roll Bands, fast becoming one of the top session drummers in Australia, playing on 20+ gold albums. During the 70's Coxy toured the world with the likes of Russell Morris, the Bee Gees, and Cliff Richard. He also played in Las Vegas for several international artists throughout his career. From 1979 until 1987 Coxy ran The Roxy, an iconic Rock and Roll pub in Melbourne. The catchcry “Coxy from the Roxy” in his raspy, Aussie voice on radio ads became legendary. One of his earliest TV appearances was on Countdown, in a short documentary which led viewers through the process of making Australian Crawl's music single, "Beautiful People". Coxy later went on to become a presenter himself on Channel 9's Postcards, and Coxy's Big Break on Channel 7. Coxy's radio career started on the Smithy and Cox Show on 3DB, before he joined forces with our very own Gavin Wood for the Gavin and Coxy Breakfast Show on 3TT and TTFM. He then went on to host Juke Box Saturday nights with Coxy on 3MP for the next decade and he can still be heard on ads, as a guest, or giving interviews.

Bill McDonough is known and loved as a member of the iconic rock band Australian Crawl, and we are stoked to have him as our guest on the Food Bytes podcast this week. Bill recently released his compelling memoir, Sons of Beaches. He talks to us candidly about life, tragedy, band politics, his horrendous health scare, fractured relationships – and how he gets along with James Reyne these days. Oh, and we also find out how Bill shapes up in the kitchen! And the ultimate comfort food is front and centre in the Friday Food Poll this week … are you a fan of macaroni cheese? Presented by Sarah Patterson & Kevin HillierBroadcast each Sunday on the ACE Radio Network - https://aceradio.com.au/ Catch us also on: The Buzzz - Melbourne's Home of Classic Hits - thebuzzz.com.au Radio 2DD - Easy Listening - On Line - https://www.2dd.online/ Follow us on Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/foodbyteswithsarahpatterson/ Twitter & Instagram - @sarahfoodbytes Post-production by Chris Gates for Howdy Partners Media | www.howdypartnersmedia.com.au/podcasts © 2024See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

James Reyne is hitting the road over the next six months in celebration of the 40th anniversary reissue of Crawl File, the greatest hits collection from legendary 1980s band Australian Crawl. We discuss his time with the band, as well as his solo career (including his huge '90s hit Way Out West). To buy tickets or the vinyl reissue, visit jamesreyne.com.au.

Bill McDonough - best known as drummer and songwriter for Australian Crawl - has penned a book called Sons of Beaches. It is the story of the McDonough brothers, Bill and Guy, before and during their days in Aussie Crawl. Bill tells Brian and Kev about the story behind doing the book and much more, including being fried one night at the Prospect Hill Hotel. Our other guests are Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) and John Cowsill (The Cowsills), two thirds of Action Skulls - the other member is Bill Mumy, a talented singer songwriter and yes, he played Will Robinson in Lost in Space. Vicki has the latest on The Bangles and John recounts being recently sacked as drummer for The Beach Boys.   All thanks to Murcotts Driving Excellence. Head to their website - murcotts.edu.au - or call their world famous number 1300 555 576. Make your loved ones safe on the roads this holiday season.       See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BILL McDONOUGH – Australian Crawl Drummer  has released a New Book 'SON'S OF BEACHES'See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Everyone loves the Manly ferry. It's so iconic it's been in an Australian Crawl song, but is it now time to say goodbye to them?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dive deep into the iconic musical world of James Reyne as we recap his unforgettable Sydney gig at the Enmore Theatre. From the legacy of Australian Crawl to his solo feats, we explore his endless array of hits. Plus, a special spotlight on Ella Hooper of Killing Heidi fame, who has been impressively sharing the stage with James. Join Chris for an authentic Triple M Gig review and uncover why James Reyne's concerts are must-see events.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Once again we celebrate great Aussie music. From Icehouse's classic signature song Great Southern Land to The Go Between's slow burn classic Cattle And Cane and Australian Crawl's number one song Reckless the program spans an... LEARN MORE The post Great Southern Land appeared first on Yesterday Once More.

Why are there exactly four strokes in swimming? Why are the Native Americans credited with the invention of Front Crawl and why is it also called the Australian Crawl? How did Butterfly come about as a variation of breaststroke? When was the dolphin kick invented? ... we explain like I'm five To the ELI5 community that has supported us so far, thanks for all your feedback and comments. Join us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/eli5ThePodcast/ or send us an e-mail: ELI5ThePodcast@gmail.com  

Australian Crawl's James Reyne joins the show to discuss his country music tour and some of his best songs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Cheryl Lee - That Radio Chick on STILL ROCKIN' IT for news, reviews, music and interviews with some of our favourite Australian musicians.Back in 1978, band Clutch Cargo was renamed Australian Crawl and the rest is Australian music history.James Reyne was lead singer of Australian Crawl for 7 years, releasing 4 albums in five frenetic years.He's been a solo artist now for over 30 years, releasing 12 studio albums plus four live albums.We had a chat about life and family, and his national tour with Ella Hooper, and their new old single.Includes Songs:James Reyne - RecklessAustralian Crawl - Beautiful PeopleAustralian Crawl - Boys Light UpElla Hooper - Small Town TempleJames Reyne & Ella Hooper - Way Out WestWhat has James Reyne been up to lately … let's find out!Get out when you can, support local music and I'll see you down the front!!Visit: ThatRadioChick.com.au

Join Matty O on Triple M Homegrown as he sits down with Australian music legend, Russell Thomas, for an unforgettable conversation. With a career spanning various roles such as management and publicity, Russell has left an indelible mark on the music scene. Join us as we embark on a captivating journey through time, reminiscing about the iconic songs that Russell helped break on radio. From the timeless tunes of John Farnham to the energetic rock of Australian Crawl, and the soulful melodies of John Butler, Russell Thomas has had a hand in shaping the careers of some of Australia's most beloved artists. With an abundance of stories and experiences from his travels around the world, Russell's wealth of knowledge and insights provide a unique perspective on the music industry. Tune in as we delve into the fascinating tales behind the scenes, shining a light on the challenges and triumphs encountered along the way. If you're a fan of Australian music or simply curious about the inner workings of the industry, this episode is a must-listen. Gain exclusive access to the man who has seen it all, as Russell Thomas shares his remarkable journey filled with incredible moments and unforgettable achievements. More info on what Russell does best, below. https://kaosman.com.au/about/    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Matty O on Triple M Homegrown as he sits down with Australian music legend, Russell Thomas, for an unforgettable conversation. With a career spanning various roles such as management and publicity, Russell has left an indelible mark on the music scene. Join us as we embark on a captivating journey through time, reminiscing about the iconic songs that Russell helped break on radio. From the timeless tunes of John Farnham to the energetic rock of Australian Crawl, and the soulful melodies of John Butler, Russell Thomas has had a hand in shaping the careers of some of Australia's most beloved artists. With an abundance of stories and experiences from his travels around the world, Russell's wealth of knowledge and insights provide a unique perspective on the music industry. Tune in as we delve into the fascinating tales behind the scenes, shining a light on the challenges and triumphs encountered along the way. If you're a fan of Australian music or simply curious about the inner workings of the industry, this episode is a must-listen. Gain exclusive access to the man who has seen it all, as Russell Thomas shares his remarkable journey filled with incredible moments and unforgettable achievements. More info on what Russell does best, below. https://kaosman.com.au/about/    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Gleeso on Triple M Nights as he welcomes the legendary James Reyne, who is embarking on the highly anticipated 'Way Out West' Tour alongside Ella Hooper of Killing Heidi. With the tour set to kick off on June 23, we get an exclusive preview of what fans can expect, including exciting secret collaborations that are sure to leave audiences buzzing. However, it hasn't been a smooth journey for James Reyne, as he shares the story behind the rescheduling of the first leg of the tour. A mishap in Surry Hills left him with a broken ankle and a cracked rib, prompting him to reflect humorously, "Did I fall over, or did I have a fall? I'm at that age now where it's like, 'Aw, James had a fall.'" In addition to discussing the upcoming tour, the conversation delves into Ella Hooper's recent record, 'Small Town Temple,' and sheds light on how this exciting collaboration between James Reyne and Ella Hooper came to fruition. Listeners are treated to a special rendition of the iconic 1992 hit, 'Way Out West,' originally performed by James Reyne and James Blundell, highlighting the enduring appeal of this timeless track. Furthermore, James Reyne expresses his admiration for the late Broderick Smith of The Dingoes, the original songwriter of 'Way Out West,' and highlights the significant influence he has had on numerous artists, despite often going unrecognized. Gleeso takes a moment to acknowledge James Reyne's immense contribution to Australian music, applauding his role in bringing local talent to the forefront, even amidst the domination of international artists in the market. We also explore the enduring popularity of Australian Crawl's iconic anthem, 'Reckless,' with Gleeso noting that every time he witnesses James Reyne perform it live, the crowd's fervent sing-along is twice as loud, a testament to the lasting impact of the song across the country.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reyne was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He formed a band called Spiff Rouch. By early 1978 Spiff Rouch had split, and Reyne formed Clutch Cargo, with Binks, Robinson, Williams and his younger brother David Reyne. In late 1978, Clutch Cargo was renamed Australian Crawl and started to gain popularity on the pub circuit. The band went on to sell more than one million albums in Australia in the 1980s. In 1987, Reyne released his self titled debut solo album and started the "Rip it Up" tour. The first two singles released from the album, "Fall of Rome" and "Hammerhead. His debut was followed in May 1989 by his next solo release, Hard Reyne, which featured the hits "House of Cards" (#17 ARIA Charts and "One More River" (#22 ARIA Charts. In 1991, Electric Digger Dandy was released. ". It remains Reyne's highest-charting album in Australia, reaching No. 3 on the ARIA albums chart. In 1992, he recorded a duet with country singer James Blundell. Later that year he joined former Sherbet frontman Daryl Braithwaite, Jef Scott and Simon Hussey to create the album Company of Strangers, which spawned three Australian top 50 singles: "Motor City ,"Sweet Love", "Daddy's Gonna Make You a Star. October 1994 saw the release of his fourth album, on the RooArt label, The Whiff of Bedlam, recorded in Los Angeles with Stewart Levine. Reyne returned to the studio in 1997 to work with producer Ashley Caddell. Now signed to Village Roadshow Music, the first release was "Brand New Emperor's Clothes" in October 1997. In 2004 he released Speedboats for Breakfast, which included the singles "Bug" and "The Rainbow's Dead End". Reyne hosted Dig, a music show on ABC2 (2006–2007), and made an appearance on The AFL Footy Show in Melbourne in 2006. In May 2007, he released a new studio album, Every Man a King, which features the singles "Light in the Tunnel" and "Little Man You've Had a Busy Day". A second acoustic album, Ghost Ships, was released in September 2007. In April 2010 Reyne released, TCB (Taking Care of Business), a collection of Elvis Presley covers. The album debuted at number 32 on the ARIA Albums chart. In the Australia Day Honours of 2014, Reyne was recognised with a Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division "for service to the performing arts as a singer/songwriter, and through support for a range of charitable organisations". Universal Records released a two-CD set, The Anthology, on 1 August 2014. The double album featured all of Reyne's earlier hits on Disc 1 and a collection of his more recent material and radio singles on the Disc 2. In late 2014, Reyne launched a "James Reyne Plays Australian Crawl" series of shows across Australia. Performing only songs from the Australian Crawl catalogue, Reyne stated it was the closest thing to a reunion as fans were ever to get. In July 2019, Reyne released an original song titled "Fearless" for the Australian film Palm Beach soundtrack. In April 2020, Reyne announced the release of his twelfth studio album Toon Town Lullaby, alongside the album's lead single of the same name. Toon Town Lullaby released in July 2020.

Gleeso tells the story on Triple M Nights of how Gun's 'N Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine has been compared to an Australian Crawl record. What do you think?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No worries this week as we once again say G'Day to our number 1 guest from Down Under; CRAIG ELVIN! We Americans may know AC/DC and a few select other Aussie bands, but the CEO of Pub Rock is back to take us further on our continuing sonic journey across the continent to hear where that meat and two veg rock originated. Grab a pint and get ready to rock - - - Aussie-style!What is it we do here at InObscuria? On most shows, Kevin opens the crypt to exhume and dissect from his personal collection; an artist, album, or collection of tunes from the broad spectrum of rock, punk, and metal. This go-round we turn the microphone over to Craig Elvin to give us all a schooling on more lost, forgotten and should have beens selections of Aussie Pub Rock. Our hope is always that we turn you on to something new.Songs this week include:Buffalo - “Sunrise (Come My Way)” from Volcanic Rock (1973)Australian Crawl - “Things Don't Seem” from Sirocco (1981)The Radiators - “Comin' Home” from Feel The Heat (1980)Baby Animals - “Working For The Enemy” from Baby Animals (1991)Sunnyboys - “Happy Man” from Sunnyboys (1981)Skyhooks - “Women In Uniform” from Guilty Until Proven Insane (1978)Johnny Diesel & The Injectors - “Parisienne Hotel” from Johnny Diesel & The Injectors (1989)Please subscribe everywhere that you listen to podcasts!Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/InObscuria?asc=uCheck out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/

Episode 246 of Ungoogleable hosted by Jonny Stofko with special guest Simon Binks.     Simon is an original founding member of the iconic Australian Rock band “Australian Crawl” this conversation took place at Simon's house in Melbourne, Australia during the filming of the documentary  “How Music Connects Us”  https://youtu.be/Yd2kmFh5Rjs   He shares some incredible stories about growing up in the Mornington Peninsula with James Reyne (lead singer/founding member of Australian Crawl) along with many other stories about touring the world with Duran Duran and making hits such as “Reckless” and “The Boys Light Up”. He also tells the story of their first experience on the hit show “Countdown” in the early 80's.      SUBSCRIBE TO UNGOOGLEABLE via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play Music or wherever else you listen to your favourite podcasts at.       “UNGOOGLEABLE” is a podcast that's streamed in over 80 countries worldwide and is consistently in Australian ITunes Top 100 downloaded shows.  It's a conversation built around stories of the human experience.        THE UNGOOGLEABLE PODCAST is sponsored by MiWellness CBD “Discover A Better You” Home | M/I Wellness CBD | Ohio's Premiere CBD Store | Central Ohio | www.miwellnesscbd.com       Produced and edited by Golden Robot Productions.     

On Live Life Live with Daryl Shuttleworth tonight: Live music from Evanescence, Bush & Devilskin; the feature artist is Australian Crawl... there's Black Smoke Trigger with rumours of a new album - all that and much more on the show - here's the podcast!

"Best of" lists can be subjective, depending on who is surveyed, and what they were asked. There's a huge difference between popular and “all-time great”, and great music needs to stand the test of time.  So, we've had a look back at Aussie albums over the years and decided we'd talk about some albums we regard as the "best of all time".    References:  Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die”, Robert Dimery, Sex and drugs and rock and roll, Go your Own Way, Dreams, Don't Stop, You Make Lovin Fun, The Chain, Lindsey Buckingham, Kylie Minogue, Savage Garden, Crowded House, The Mullanes, Frogstomp, Silverchair, Diesel and Dust, Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel, Whispering Jack, John Farnham, INXS, Chris Thomas, Back in Black, AC/DC, The Boys Light Up, Australian Crawl, Beautiful People, Robert Palmer, Living in the 70's, Skyhooks, The Angels, I'm Stranded, The Saints, Ed Kuepper, Business as Usual, Men at Work, Down UnderRolling Stone LinkAll the albums in one playlist

In episode one of the My88 Podcast with Wayne Tunks, we delve into 'The First Time'. By that, we mean, concerts, what was your first concert.Join Wayne and guests as they discuss their first concerts. Artists include, Bros, The Cockroaches, Culture Club, Paul McCartney, Australian Crawl and Pat Benatar.And make sure to tune into My88, your home of the 80s. Able to stream anywhere in the world on iHeart.

Prospect of reconciliation, memories of some funny conversation. Feel like taking a vacation, like going to the moon. I can't afford it, your mother with a bird's nest hairdo. Your brother with plenty of action, your father always thinking me a weirdo. I can't get no satisfaction. Now that you know what James Reyne is singing, read along as you play the song! It's terrific fun! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samuel-pettit6/message

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John Swan - one of the great characters of the music biz - chats to Brian and Kevin about the good and bad old days and reveals some personal and professional challenges he has overcome. You will also hear Bill McDonough - drummer with Australian Crawl - talk about the new Desk Tape release of Aussie Crawl live in 1981 and some memories from the halcyon days of the band's multi platinum success.  Thanks to Murcotts Driving Excellence 1300 555 576 murcotts.edu.au A Murcotts gift voucher would be the perfect Christmas present.       See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Victoria has recorded the highest daily number of covid cases ever seen in Australia, police “currently assessing” a video of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews walking across a carpark without a mask, ACT has become the first state or territory to make stealthing a crime, Australian company offering its employees an extra $1200 on top of their salaries if they continue to work from home, eighteen former NBA players charged with allegedly defrauding the league's health insurance scheme, James Reyne, James Bond, The Australian Crawl,  Triple M's Moonman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats Musical See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we talk about meeting famous people. Bad tv shows.  Thirst traps.  Foot fetishes.  Doo do do do do! Amyl and the Sniffers! Australian Crawl. Clem Ford.  Audience etiquette and hating on young people.

Australian Crawl bassist Paul Williams catches up with Triple M's Brendo on the 40th anniversary of the band's first number one record, Sirocco. Hear how the record came together, the positive influence of Guy McDonough's addition to the band, the track Paul co-wrote that spawned a Guns n' Roses plagiarism debate and how the band accidentally fell into their own niche. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the 20 year anniversary of Essendon overturning a 69 point North Melbourne lead, home schooling, taking the ferry, Australian Crawl and more.

From the influential rock band Australian Crawl, Bill McDonough and Paul Williams join the podcast to talk about the origins of the band, their roots in Australia, and their lifelong connection to surfing. They look back at the genesis of Australian Crawl in the late 1970s, touring Australia, and eventually making it onto the international scene. They dive into their personal history with surfing, being attracted to the lifestyle, getting into the sport as teenagers, and eventually sponsoring the Bells Beach contest. They also share stories from a lifetime of adventures in rock n roll, explore the buzz you can get only from surfing, and discuss the fortieth anniversary of their four-times Platinum album “Sirocco.” You can stream the remastered album "Sirocco" here: https://AustralianCrawl.lnk.to/Sirocco-40 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nerd Alert! Lazy Animals, Who did you go to school with? James Reyne 'Boys Light Up' performance and chat, Song Whisperer, Mary Coustas & Effie, Office Etiquette, what have you brought into the office? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the countries most Iconic Singer/Songwriters James Reyne joins Matty O to chat about everything from the early days with Australian Crawl, the pub scene in the 80's playing Countdown with two arms in Plaster, songwriting and plenty more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Not to be missed...   If ever a country can thank and pay homage to one person who unequivocally shaped the landscape and soundscapes of Rock n Roll, Australia should do so.   Mark Opitz undoubtedly is the George Martin of Australian music with a resume that boasts AC/DC, The Angels, Australian Crawl, Noiseworks, The Hoodoo Gurus, Divinyls, The Models, and our very own INXS to name a few. To knock back Guns N Roses also highlights just how much Mark was in demand. Not just a Producer, he has worked in A&R, owned and ran studios such as the legendary Rhinocerous in Sydney, created unique musical platform businesses, and shared his passions and expertise via work with the ABC and Australian National University in Canberra via his esteemed Fellowship stint. But today Mark is yours. Sit back and absorb part one in this unique musical insight into the man that arguably produced 3 of INXS' greatest studio albums and revel in the legacy that is “Mark Opitz”! #inxs #inxsmusic #inxsfans #inxsmusic #inxs #coldchisel #acdc #raycharles #theangelsband #noiseworks   This week's episode is sponsored by Tilly&Wilbur Expressive Wear. Please visit their website. https://www.tillyandwilbur.com.au and use the code INXSPOD  for 20% off your first purchase.    Please sign the petition at  http://inductinxs.com to help get INXS nominated into the ROCK & ROLL HALL of FAME, where they belong.  follow us on https://www.facebook.com/INXSaccessallareas   If you would like to support the show then why not buy us a virtual coffee, by becoming a Patron and helping us continue to grow and become better.  Paypal donations welcome If you would like to donate to our podcast via Paypal, then please follow the below link or  email us at inxsaaa@gmail.com We would like to give you a shout-out on the show and send you an  INXS Access all Areas Patron Package. If you would prefer to remain silent, then we thank you humbly and kindly for helping us to continue to make this series of podcasts. https://www.paypal.me/INXSAAA To become a Patron/ subscriber then check out our different levels and see which one suits you.  See you next week. Love Haydn & Bee.  

James Reyne chats to HEAVY Magazine about everything from his solo career to Australian Crawl as he gets ready to play at Trip The Switch.

Merry Christmas to all of you and thank you for the support throughout 2020.  There is no question that it's been tough :-).  The X-mas eve edition of TSORR went on air at 7 pm on 24 Dec 2020.  It wasn't particularly Christmasy as I generally am not overly Christmasy myself and especially when it comes to music.  I wasn't a total grinch though and did play 'Christmas in Hell' by Sixx A.M. The show kicked off with some Whiskey Myers and then hit stuff like Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, and Animal Drive.  My daughter was in the house and she is a big part of why TSORR exists as both a book and a Radio Show so I played a couple of tracks and explained how all of this came about.  Kiss - Destroyer, John Paul Young's Yesterday's Hero, and The Boomtown Rats' masterpiece the Fine Art of Surfacing, all have a special bearing on the show as do Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and The Stranglers.There was a short tribute to Leslie West, a giant of a man both physically and as a guitarist.  He sadly passed away last night (23 Dec) and so, it was fitting that we played 'Legend' off his Unusual Suspects album.  Leslie's tone and feel were indeed extraordinary and he will be missed.  That's Leslie in this episode's thumbnail for those who may not be familiar with the man (perish the thought).Highlights for me included Tom Petty with 'Have Love Will Travel', Machine Head with Bastards, Tom Waits with Mr. Siegal, and Rammstein with Deutschland.  Artists featured:  Whiskey Myers, Slash, Quiet Riot, The Lazys, Animal Drive!, ACDC, Ozzy Osbourne, Arapaho, POD, Rammstein, System of a Down, Australian Crawl, Kiss, John Paul Young, Sixx AM, Mötley Crüe, The Boomtown Rats, The Stranglers, The Clash, Seether, Clutch, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dire Straits, Tom Petty, Leslie West, the Killers, The Longshot, Cold Chisel, the Mayfield Four, Machine Head, Megadeth, Rival Sons, Airbourne, Prime Circle, Bad Company, Tom Waits, Iced Earth, Halestorm, Tesla & Slade.

My guest today is bass player Harry Brus. Born in Austria, Harry and his family moved to Australia when he was 7 years old.  Inspired by Hank B Marvin and The Beatles, Harry first picked up the guitar as a teenage. In '65 his band The Amazons scored a record deal with Festival Records and since then he has never stopped working as a professional musician. In '67 Harry jumped at the chance to play lead guitar for pop idol Johnny Young, and later joined Tony Gaha And The In People. A fortunate encounter with sax great Geoff Oakes started Harry's lifelong love affair with soul music. During these years Harry discovered bass-giant, James Jamerson, whose legendary bass style became Harry's true inspiration on the bass. Jamerson, the great Chuck Rainey and Jerry Jemmott became the three gentlemen of bass who inspired Harry's own unique bass style. Harry has played with a host of Australian and NZ greats. Mother Earth, Renee Geyer, Kevin Borich, Australian Crawl, Tommy and Phil Emmanuel, Barry Leef, Marcia Hines Jimmy Barnes and countless others.  A workhorse of a musician, a true Australian music legend, this has kept Harry in the game for 53 years and counting.  This one's a cracker. So sit back back and open your ears to some of the life and times of Mr Harry Brus. This conversation was recorded 05/10/2020. For more information on Harry Brus: Harry Brus Facebook Harry Brus Band Facebook YouTube ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Click here to securely donate or tip The Gig Life Podcast via PayPal. Your support is very much appreciated. Thank you. The Gig Life Podcast: Website Instagram Facebook  Twitter  

Today West Coast Eagle Elliot Yeo told The Bunch about talking new West Coast young gun Hamish Brayshaw to last year’s Brownlow Medal, Disney have spent a fortune on a live action version of Mulan, find out what our movie guy Ben O’Shea thought of it here and James Reyne chatted to the guys about touring in the early 80s and his love for Perth plus found out how Australian Crawl got their name...

As 96fm continues to celebrate 40 years in 40 days, The Bunch caught up with James Reyne, most known as being the front man of Australian Crawl. He talks about how the band came up with its name, how its also the 40th anniversary of Boys Light Up, trips to Perth and lockdown life in Victoria.

Slap on your self tanner and grab a fruity cocktail, Beloveds! We're rebounding into the arms of Bachie in Paradise Season 3, complete with discussion of our fave cast members, what old-lady wisdom Lucy wants to whisper to the young women, and Ciarran's rumoured Fall From Grace. PLUS bonus thoughts on Jessica Simpson's underrated comic ability, patriarchal brainwashing, and those current pop chart stalwarts, Australian Crawl. Oh, and how we TRIED to love Love Is Blind but ejected ourselves from the pod after Ep 1.Your co-hosts Lucy May (reality dating TV tragic) and Karen Pickering (Noted Public Femmo, Bachieverse newbie and lol-bringer) take a dip in the warm Fiji bin juice of Bachelor in Paradise Australia 2020.Send us #bachie memes on:Twitter:@nearly_belovedInstagram: @nearlybelovedpodcastEmail: nearlybelovedpodcast@gmail.com

The Cavills were a well-known Sydney family who were pioneers in swimming. Take a listen to their story and the tale of Percy Cavill who, amongst other things, invented the Australian Crawl.

The Cavills were a well-known Sydney family who were pioneers in swimming. Take a listen to their story and the tale of Percy Cavill who, amongst other things, invented the Australian Crawl.

The Cavills were a well-known Sydney family who were pioneers in swimming. Take a listen to their story and the tale of Percy Cavill who, amongst other things, invented the Australian Crawl.

Je hoort muziek van Blackbird, Suzy V., Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Mayer, Billie Eilish, Adele, Australian Crawl, Thijs Boontjes en Weezer.

I'm sharing all of the incredible insights I have received from William Stafford's book Writing the Australian Crawl. Join me on the podcast this week to discover how the lessons of Bill's work have impacted my life, and how this translates to your creative journey, trusting the water to keep you afloat, and the only justification you need to pursue anything that occurs to you. Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/40

James Reyne joins Clancy and Errol this week to answer all the questions no one has had the integrity to ask him before. Where are ya living? What new stuff does he like listening to? Did he intend to become a stoner icon with 'Boys Light Up'? Did Guns N Roses copy Australian Crawl? And what is it like to be the first African in pub rock music?

Vandaag muziek van Joe Jackson, The Zombies, John Mayer, James Bay, Australian Crawl, Joy Division en Blood Sweat & Tears.

Mark Opitz is probably the most important Australian music producer in that country's history. Beginning in the mid-70s with AC/DC's Powerage album, Mark went on to define a generation's worth of rock music with his style he coined "sophisto-punk". In 1978 is produced the Angel's landmark album Face To Face and his legendary status was cemented. From there it was other Australian icons like Cold Chisel, Divinyls and Australian Crawl, as well as global phenoms INXS. Other credits we discuss in this interview are the Hoodoo Gurus, the Ocean Blue and even Kiss. In 2012 Mark published his memoir "Sophisto-punk: The Story of Mark Opitz and Oz Rock" which is an insightful look into all he's accomplished. Over the course of this chat you'll hear some great music and excellent stories.   http://www.markopitz.com/

James Reyne - Friday Music Show feature interview 2014James Reyne has an enviable career in the Australian music industry - first appearing on ABC TV's Countdown in 1979 with both of his arms in plaster after being hit by a car in Melbourne.Australian Crawl held court around Australia's pub rock scene for just seven years, but the sound of the band and the themes of their songs are the story of numerous Australian summers.As a solo artist, James Reyne has released over a dozen albums, continued to tour Australia and internationally with audiences of up to 200,000 people.ABC Newcastle's Carol Duncan caught up with James Reyne ahead of his Anthology tour."I'm enjoying it more now than I ever have. I've developed an attitude over the many years that I've been doing this that it's amusing. You can't let most of it worry you. Certainly most of the people of my generation who were in it for the wrong reasons or the shifty ones have been weeded out. There are still a couple floating around and you run into them occasionally and think, 'How is this person still here?'Knowing my attempt to get James to name names will be rebuffed, I ask anyway.He laughs, "No, I'm not going to name any names because they're usually quite litigious people anyway.""I just think it's quite amusing. It's like a crash-course in human nature. You see a lot of extremes of human personality in quite a short time, and up close!""I've made some fantastic friends and there are some wonderful, wonderful people who work in this industry and most people are genuine with depth and credibility."James Reyne, particularly given the success and image of Australian Crawl, is perhaps seen by many as the quintessential sun-kissed Australian, yet like so many of his generation of peers he wasn't actually born here."The ten-pound Pom thing, and Adelaide - the ten-pound Pom into Adelaide. It astounds me. A little city like that, the amount of music that came out of there either British or Scottish-based. We owe Adelaide. But yes, I was born in Nigeria,""My father was an Englishman in the Royal Marines, he was ADC to the Queen, but he left. He didn't want to be a career soldier. He got a job with BP and he was posted to Nigeria. My (Australian) mother and he were not long married and they went to Nigeria when he was posted there. He'd be out in the field and she'd be sitting in a house in Lagos and my brother and I were both born there.""I was tiny, three or four, when we came to Australia. I have a really vague memory of one little thing in Nigeria, but I don't really have any other memories of it."James Reyne is heading toward 40 years in the Australian music industry with a career that has taken him to stages around the world with massive audiences, but names Creedence Clearwater Revival as one of the first bands he remembers hearing on the radio."There were probably things I heard before that but I remember hearing Creedence and thinking, 'Wow! What is that? I want to do that!' I'd have been 10 or 11 and it was probably Proud Mary or Born on the Bayou or something like that. I've been a total fan of John Fogerty ever since. I love all the Creedence stuff and some of his solo stuff. Like everybody, it was my formative years, I just love all that and that led me into other things and I was just hooked,""There was a great show on the ABC called 'Room to Move' and it was hosted by a guy called Chris Winter. I think it was a Sunday or Monday night, quite late; we used to listen to it on the radio under the bedclothes. A few years ago I did a show with Tracee Hutchison on ABC 2 and Chris was our producer, I remember going, 'Chris Winter WOW!'""He was brilliant, and I was hooked. His whole approach, his on-air style, his whisper - it was brilliant. So I fell in love with that, it was the first sort of album show. Then I started to get into albums with my friends at school. We'd collect albums and we had a little folk club - we got quite serious about"I remember really loving records from Creedence, Little Feat, Ry Cooder, Jerry Jeff Walker but I think Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks 'Last Train to Hicksville' - as a whole album there's not a dud moment on it. So if anyone can find it, get it. It's brilliant. The whole history of Dan Hicks and his influence - he was in a band with a guy called Robert Hunter who essentially invented the San Francisco scene. This is before The Grateful Dead and so on. I was really in to the sociology of it - the background of who influenced who,""I used to pore over the album covers and sleeves and read all the liner notes. I don't know that there's much you can put on liner notes now that would be as interesting as they were then. That was your only access because there was no Google or anything. Your only access to any information about the band is what was in the liner notes."By the time James Reyne was just 20 years old, his band with a group of art college mates had been renamed Australian Crawl and taken off on the pub circuit, and although James admits that although they had no idea what they were doing, they were having fun."I was never thinking, 'This will be my career' or 'this will be my job' or 'this will be something I'll do for another 30 or so years and keep doing',""We weren't very good. The first band was terrible! But you've got to do your apprenticeship and you start learning. But I wasn't aware of it, we were just doing it."James Reyne has always appeared to be a complex person; well-spoken, intelligent, thoughtful, possibly a bit feisty. What about the 20-year old James Reyne?"I was at the Victorian College of the Arts Drama School and it was about then that we all had to make a decision, are we going to do our tertiary courses or are we going to do this band thing? I guess it wasn't so much 'serious' but we figured, 'I guess you've got to make a decision and if you're going to do it you have to dedicate yourself to it'.""But the 20-year old was, I dunno, pretty happy-go-lucky. He had a big mouth."Was he confident?"I guess relatively confident, but if I saw what I thought was a 'real' band or anybody from a real band somewhere down the street, (I thought) they were a cut above me. I never thought I'd be breathing that rarefied air. I just thought 'those guys must have an extra gene'.""Joe Camilleri. I'd see The Falcons all the time, I'd see The Sports, I'd see The Pelaco Brothers and Joe and Steve Cummings were in The Pelaco Brothers.""Where we grew up on the Mornington Peninsula, in summertime they used to have bands come down and play in the boat clubs down there. Every club had a boat house that they'd put a stage in and bands would play in there,""In my last year of school I used to go to a place called Reefer Cabaret in Melbourne at a place called the Ormond Hall and I remember I loved Arial, I loved Spectrum, Chain - I loved all those great 70s Australian bands. I remember going to the Myer Music Bowl when Thorpey (Billy Thorpe) had 200,000 people there. I was a fan of all that stuff. I remember seeing Skyhooks before Shirley (Strachan) joined. I was aware of Shirley, I didn't know him, but I was aware of him because there was a surf band that played around where we grew up called Frame and Shirley was the singer of that band. He was such a personality, everybody was aware of him.""It was certainly a very unique time and a very formative time for Australian music, for Australian rock and roll and pop music. This is pre-Countdown and any of that stuff and there were so many great bands around; The Dingoes, Carson - I was a huge fan of Broderick Smith. What an incredible presence on stage, incredible singer and harmonica player. He was in a band called Carson, sort of boogie/blues band, and then they went and formed The Dingoes,""I used to see as many Dingoes shows as I could. There's a pub in Prahran called the Station Hotel, I used to go to the Station Hotel quite a lot and they'd have Saturday afternoon sessions where The Dingoes would often play. That would just devolve into fantastic mayhem."I've interviewed James Reyne a few times over the last 20-plus years and I've never quite felt convinced that he's entirely at peace with his back catalogue of wonderful work. I have often wondered if he perhaps underestimates the importance of his music to his fans. Is this why it's taken so long to get Anthology together?"Well, it's actually got very little to do with me! A record company merger meant that the new label realised that the Australian Crawl back catalogue wasn't available digitally, and although they can kind of do whatever they want because they own the masters, they asked if I wanted to do it and bring it up to date. I paid for my more recent solo records so I made a list of about 50 or 60 songs, cut it back down to about 40. And good on them. They've put the solo stuff on there, the ones that people would know, but it's a good cross-section of all of it right up to the most recent stuff. Why did it take so long? I never thought of it! It's just the story so far, I'll keep making records."But has he been dissatisfied with the big machine of the music industry?"I'm not so naive as to think that's just the nature of how it works. You're there as long as they need you and then you're not and that's fine and that's the way it works. No, it's not dissatisfaction, a lot of my amusement or ammunition I can get for song writing is just human beings. So aspirational but so easily impressed. People get so easily impressed with all sorts of things, not just the entertainment industry,""But I think we're all aware now with the media generally people are drip-fed what they're supposed to be hearing and seem to lap it up. And adopt these opinions! They read a crappy headline and that becomes their opinion and they know all about it! Well, no, you don't. You haven't studied the situation in the Middle East. You don't know.""In terms of the entertainment industry I find a lot of fodder in the way people are so easily impressed and so aspirational about all this silliness."In a time when independence is increasingly a healthy option for artists and creatives of all sorts, does James Reyne feel there is a disconnect between the work of an artist and what a corporate entity only sees as 'product'?"I think the role of the big, big record companies is getting less and changing. Certainly changing, they're less significant in the scheme of things. They're still there and still part of it but I think the disconnect between art and commerce is always going to be there."And yet independence is creating a healthy relationship between the artist and the audience, particularly via crowd funding - Kate Miller-Heidke being a good case in point. Kate says that crowd funding O' Vertigo cuts out the middle man and brings her back into a relationship with the people who love her music."That's right. I think the response was so good she raised more than she needed, which shows how loyal her fan base is. I didn't understand it when it first started happening, but I do now. I think it's a very viable development.""The last four solo records I've made I've paid for myself and then licensed them to a distribution company - it gets quite expensive and you're never really going to make your money back.""I still love writing, I write more now than I ever have and I think I write better because it's a craft and I've been doing it longer, I apply myself more to it now than I ever have.""I'd like to think I'm a songwriter who is always learning, trying to get better and trying to improve the craft. I'm quite self-critical. I've also written a few other things but I won't talk about them because I've learnt that you jinx them until these things get up and running!"James Reyne's career has also included varying degrees of success as an actor - harking back to his tertiary studies at the Victoria College of Arts Drama School. Is there more he wants to do other than music?"Oh plenty! I've got about five things bubbling along at the moment. A few times people have said, 'James, you've got to write the book'. I'm not going to write the book! The world doesn't need another rock autobiography and I think unless you can write the real book and name names," James laughs, "you're going to get the pasteurised version of something of nothing ...." Who wants to hear that stuff? It's boring. It's been done. That's not to say anything bad about anyone who has written a rock biography, because some of them I know and they're lovely people. Mark Seymour wrote a great one. I loved Mark's (book). He's a friend and a good writer."On a roll, the tongue remains firmly in cheek."I always wanted to do 'Australian Crawl The Musical' and you either do it as a really bad kids' play and get kids to play it with terrible home-made props or you do the most stonkingly gay thing you've ever seen with a chorus of boys in tight board shorts! We could do that!"I suspect I'd be happy to see either version and after interview number whatever over a couple of decades, James Reyne actually sounds more genuinely comfortable in his own skin than he ever has.

James Reyne - Friday Music Show feature interview 2014James Reyne has an enviable career in the Australian music industry - first appearing on ABC TV's Countdown in 1979 with both of his arms in plaster after being hit by a car in Melbourne.Australian Crawl held court around Australia's pub rock scene for just seven years, but the sound of the band and the themes of their songs are the story of numerous Australian summers.As a solo artist, James Reyne has released over a dozen albums, continued to tour Australia and internationally with audiences of up to 200,000 people.ABC Newcastle's Carol Duncan caught up with James Reyne ahead of his Anthology tour."I'm enjoying it more now than I ever have. I've developed an attitude over the many years that I've been doing this that it's amusing. You can't let most of it worry you. Certainly most of the people of my generation who were in it for the wrong reasons or the shifty ones have been weeded out. There are still a couple floating around and you run into them occasionally and think, 'How is this person still here?'Knowing my attempt to get James to name names will be rebuffed, I ask anyway.He laughs, "No, I'm not going to name any names because they're usually quite litigious people anyway.""I just think it's quite amusing. It's like a crash-course in human nature. You see a lot of extremes of human personality in quite a short time, and up close!""I've made some fantastic friends and there are some wonderful, wonderful people who work in this industry and most people are genuine with depth and credibility."James Reyne, particularly given the success and image of Australian Crawl, is perhaps seen by many as the quintessential sun-kissed Australian, yet like so many of his generation of peers he wasn't actually born here."The ten-pound Pom thing, and Adelaide - the ten-pound Pom into Adelaide. It astounds me. A little city like that, the amount of music that came out of there either British or Scottish-based. We owe Adelaide. But yes, I was born in Nigeria,""My father was an Englishman in the Royal Marines, he was ADC to the Queen, but he left. He didn't want to be a career soldier. He got a job with BP and he was posted to Nigeria. My (Australian) mother and he were not long married and they went to Nigeria when he was posted there. He'd be out in the field and she'd be sitting in a house in Lagos and my brother and I were both born there.""I was tiny, three or four, when we came to Australia. I have a really vague memory of one little thing in Nigeria, but I don't really have any other memories of it."James Reyne is heading toward 40 years in the Australian music industry with a career that has taken him to stages around the world with massive audiences, but names Creedence Clearwater Revival as one of the first bands he remembers hearing on the radio."There were probably things I heard before that but I remember hearing Creedence and thinking, 'Wow! What is that? I want to do that!' I'd have been 10 or 11 and it was probably Proud Mary or Born on the Bayou or something like that. I've been a total fan of John Fogerty ever since. I love all the Creedence stuff and some of his solo stuff. Like everybody, it was my formative years, I just love all that and that led me into other things and I was just hooked,""There was a great show on the ABC called 'Room to Move' and it was hosted by a guy called Chris Winter. I think it was a Sunday or Monday night, quite late; we used to listen to it on the radio under the bedclothes. A few years ago I did a show with Tracee Hutchison on ABC 2 and Chris was our producer, I remember going, 'Chris Winter WOW!'""He was brilliant, and I was hooked. His whole approach, his on-air style, his whisper - it was brilliant. So I fell in love with that, it was the first sort of album show. Then I started to get into albums with my friends at school. We'd collect albums and we had a little folk club - we got quite serious about"I remember really loving records from Creedence, Little Feat, Ry Cooder, Jerry Jeff Walker but I think Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks 'Last Train to Hicksville' - as a whole album there's not a dud moment on it. So if anyone can find it, get it. It's brilliant. The whole history of Dan Hicks and his influence - he was in a band with a guy called Robert Hunter who essentially invented the San Francisco scene. This is before The Grateful Dead and so on. I was really in to the sociology of it - the background of who influenced who,""I used to pore over the album covers and sleeves and read all the liner notes. I don't know that there's much you can put on liner notes now that would be as interesting as they were then. That was your only access because there was no Google or anything. Your only access to any information about the band is what was in the liner notes."By the time James Reyne was just 20 years old, his band with a group of art college mates had been renamed Australian Crawl and taken off on the pub circuit, and although James admits that although they had no idea what they were doing, they were having fun."I was never thinking, 'This will be my career' or 'this will be my job' or 'this will be something I'll do for another 30 or so years and keep doing',""We weren't very good. The first band was terrible! But you've got to do your apprenticeship and you start learning. But I wasn't aware of it, we were just doing it."James Reyne has always appeared to be a complex person; well-spoken, intelligent, thoughtful, possibly a bit feisty. What about the 20-year old James Reyne?"I was at the Victorian College of the Arts Drama School and it was about then that we all had to make a decision, are we going to do our tertiary courses or are we going to do this band thing? I guess it wasn't so much 'serious' but we figured, 'I guess you've got to make a decision and if you're going to do it you have to dedicate yourself to it'.""But the 20-year old was, I dunno, pretty happy-go-lucky. He had a big mouth."Was he confident?"I guess relatively confident, but if I saw what I thought was a 'real' band or anybody from a real band somewhere down the street, (I thought) they were a cut above me. I never thought I'd be breathing that rarefied air. I just thought 'those guys must have an extra gene'.""Joe Camilleri. I'd see The Falcons all the time, I'd see The Sports, I'd see The Pelaco Brothers and Joe and Steve Cummings were in The Pelaco Brothers.""Where we grew up on the Mornington Peninsula, in summertime they used to have bands come down and play in the boat clubs down there. Every club had a boat house that they'd put a stage in and bands would play in there,""In my last year of school I used to go to a place called Reefer Cabaret in Melbourne at a place called the Ormond Hall and I remember I loved Arial, I loved Spectrum, Chain - I loved all those great 70s Australian bands. I remember going to the Myer Music Bowl when Thorpey (Billy Thorpe) had 200,000 people there. I was a fan of all that stuff. I remember seeing Skyhooks before Shirley (Strachan) joined. I was aware of Shirley, I didn't know him, but I was aware of him because there was a surf band that played around where we grew up called Frame and Shirley was the singer of that band. He was such a personality, everybody was aware of him.""It was certainly a very unique time and a very formative time for Australian music, for Australian rock and roll and pop music. This is pre-Countdown and any of that stuff and there were so many great bands around; The Dingoes, Carson - I was a huge fan of Broderick Smith. What an incredible presence on stage, incredible singer and harmonica player. He was in a band called Carson, sort of boogie/blues band, and then they went and formed The Dingoes,""I used to see as many Dingoes shows as I could. There's a pub in Prahran called the Station Hotel, I used to go to the Station Hotel quite a lot and they'd have Saturday afternoon sessions where The Dingoes would often play. That would just devolve into fantastic mayhem."I've interviewed James Reyne a few times over the last 20-plus years and I've never quite felt convinced that he's entirely at peace with his back catalogue of wonderful work. I have often wondered if he perhaps underestimates the importance of his music to his fans. Is this why it's taken so long to get Anthology together?"Well, it's actually got very little to do with me! A record company merger meant that the new label realised that the Australian Crawl back catalogue wasn't available digitally, and although they can kind of do whatever they want because they own the masters, they asked if I wanted to do it and bring it up to date. I paid for my more recent solo records so I made a list of about 50 or 60 songs, cut it back down to about 40. And good on them. They've put the solo stuff on there, the ones that people would know, but it's a good cross-section of all of it right up to the most recent stuff. Why did it take so long? I never thought of it! It's just the story so far, I'll keep making records."But has he been dissatisfied with the big machine of the music industry?"I'm not so naive as to think that's just the nature of how it works. You're there as long as they need you and then you're not and that's fine and that's the way it works. No, it's not dissatisfaction, a lot of my amusement or ammunition I can get for song writing is just human beings. So aspirational but so easily impressed. People get so easily impressed with all sorts of things, not just the entertainment industry,""But I think we're all aware now with the media generally people are drip-fed what they're supposed to be hearing and seem to lap it up. And adopt these opinions! They read a crappy headline and that becomes their opinion and they know all about it! Well, no, you don't. You haven't studied the situation in the Middle East. You don't know.""In terms of the entertainment industry I find a lot of fodder in the way people are so easily impressed and so aspirational about all this silliness."In a time when independence is increasingly a healthy option for artists and creatives of all sorts, does James Reyne feel there is a disconnect between the work of an artist and what a corporate entity only sees as 'product'?"I think the role of the big, big record companies is getting less and changing. Certainly changing, they're less significant in the scheme of things. They're still there and still part of it but I think the disconnect between art and commerce is always going to be there."And yet independence is creating a healthy relationship between the artist and the audience, particularly via crowd funding - Kate Miller-Heidke being a good case in point. Kate says that crowd funding O' Vertigo cuts out the middle man and brings her back into a relationship with the people who love her music."That's right. I think the response was so good she raised more than she needed, which shows how loyal her fan base is. I didn't understand it when it first started happening, but I do now. I think it's a very viable development.""The last four solo records I've made I've paid for myself and then licensed them to a distribution company - it gets quite expensive and you're never really going to make your money back.""I still love writing, I write more now than I ever have and I think I write better because it's a craft and I've been doing it longer, I apply myself more to it now than I ever have.""I'd like to think I'm a songwriter who is always learning, trying to get better and trying to improve the craft. I'm quite self-critical. I've also written a few other things but I won't talk about them because I've learnt that you jinx them until these things get up and running!"James Reyne's career has also included varying degrees of success as an actor - harking back to his tertiary studies at the Victoria College of Arts Drama School. Is there more he wants to do other than music?"Oh plenty! I've got about five things bubbling along at the moment. A few times people have said, 'James, you've got to write the book'. I'm not going to write the book! The world doesn't need another rock autobiography and I think unless you can write the real book and name names," James laughs, "you're going to get the pasteurised version of something of nothing ...." Who wants to hear that stuff? It's boring. It's been done. That's not to say anything bad about anyone who has written a rock biography, because some of them I know and they're lovely people. Mark Seymour wrote a great one. I loved Mark's (book). He's a friend and a good writer."On a roll, the tongue remains firmly in cheek."I always wanted to do 'Australian Crawl The Musical' and you either do it as a really bad kids' play and get kids to play it with terrible home-made props or you do the most stonkingly gay thing you've ever seen with a chorus of boys in tight board shorts! We could do that!"I suspect I'd be happy to see either version and after interview number whatever over a couple of decades, James Reyne actually sounds more genuinely comfortable in his own skin than he ever has.

James Reyne is one of the biggest names in Aussie music history. Before his show at BREC early next year, this morning James joined Blackers for Breakfast. If you have Dinosaur loving kids in the family then this is a must-download - Dan the Internut's App of the Week gives them the chance to shoot a video with a dinosaur, and with Triple M's Dumb Things competition in full swing, Blackers shared with us one of the dumb things he's done.

O Sonora traz um apanhado do que está sendo feito de mais legal hoje em dia em termos musicais focando num país apenas: a Australia. Uma hora só com bandas e artistas contemporâneos australianos – o que significa que nada de Men at Work, Australian Crawl ou Olivia Newton John... - Jinja Safari – Plagiarist - Last Dinosaurs - Time & Place - The Boat People - Born In The 80s - San Cisco – SloMo - Oh Mercy - Let Me Go - Gypsy & The Cat - Jona Vark - The Cat Empire - Hotel California - Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better - The Paper Kites - Bloom - The Go Betweens - Surfing Magazines - Alpine – Gasoline - Architecture in Helsinki – Souvenirs - Seeker Lover Keeper - Light All My Lights - Owl Eyes - Pumped Up Kicks

On Episode 267 of Trick or Treat Radio we do a creature double feature! We kick it off with the American reimagining of the divisive Death Note from Director Adam Wingard and Netflix. We also talk about The Transfiguration, the indie vampire film from first time director Michael O'Shea. We debut the latest Evil Streaks song, Marz goes nuts on some internet troll and we dig into the thin line between passionate fandom and insanity. So grab your favorite VHS vampire flick, write some dirtbags name in the Death Note and strap on for the world’s most dangerous talk radio show! Stuff we talk about: Super no vacancy, Rock and Shock, Drive Jacket Mark, Hurricane Ravenshadow, El Boro, Dynamo’s Twizzler trick, SARSquatch, Hascon, Stan Bush, Peter Cullen, Chris Benoit, infinity gauntlet, brony, nerd fandom, Star Wars, My Little Pony, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Death Note, Adam Wingard, Netflix, Willem Dafoe, The Evil Streaks, Myra, Australian Crawl, more than meets the eye, Transformers, Julie MeowMeow’s birthday, Lakeith Stanfield, Nat Wolff, Unsolved Mysteries, 100 Bullets, Yankee Diddler, perfect films, Kuso, Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, hate masturbating, King Kong, Godzilla, Dr. Zevia tastes like racism, stupid petitions, Johan Solo, The Transfiguration, Michael O’Shea, Eric Ruffin, Martin, Let The Right One In, Chloe Levine, Elm St. Kids Movie Club, Wonder Woman, It, slide whistle, dating at the dog park, You’re Next, Phantasm, killing kids on film, Hurricane Irma, Kong: Skull Island, Blair Witch, vampire flicks, tropical storms, The Mummy, The Joker, Martin, brownies, Milo, MZs social schedule, Larry Fessenden, Ares, Guardians, Lloyd Kaufman, OTC 500, remakes, Dynamo’s gift, Marvel Superhero RPG, pop skull, the new Tori Amos, being in cahoots, Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata, the new National record, whitewashing, things to do in Vegas, Dr. Strange’s Ancient Ones, buying drugs, and the fine line between being a passionate fan and an asshole.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradio)

The second battle of the competition! Skyhooks up against Aussie Crawl! The battle for Down Under.

The gang is back and passing the substances around. How many times can they pause a comment line call. Letter Seventeen. Cambodian Rock And Roll. Old gaming systems. Australian Crawl. Sr-71 or Sum 41. Call the comment line at (206) 309-7308. Thanks for listening.