Yeah, you do.

Someone just showed me a photo.

Social media drives me nuts.

I can't stand it.

But anyway, you have to do it.

Someone just showed me a photo.

It's just I can't stick on social media because I don't do anything.

David fit in?

here

we go without any further ado.

Introduced by Josh musically.

Here we go.

Here we go.

about my mountain home where all the ladies names are Joan where husband works back late at night hopes are up for trousers down with a business flight a taxi in a Mercedes drive I hope that driver's coming out alive.

The garden, it is tortuous.

That

Yeah, you do.

Someone just showed me a photo.

Social media drives me nuts.

I can't stand it.

But anyway, you have to do it.

Someone just showed me a photo.

It's just I can't stick on social media because I don't do anything.

David fit in?

The time feels right right now.

Does it feel right right now? Well, yeah, it did.

I mean, look, I can't take any...

I have to be honest, I can't take any credit for it.

The promoter of Red Hot Summer, Dwayne McDonald, and my manager, Scott Crawford, and a couple of others, obviously got together and they came to me and said, what about this as an idea, as a doable idea? And I said, well, if Simon's...

wants to do it simon's being simon yeah then i'm in it then i'm in because you've got simon and me and unfortunately brad and guy who are in the band are no longer with us yeah john watson who plays drums with me played drums in australian pool so he and i've been playing together for 43 years yeah david was the original drummer before he and he went off to film school before we'd even made a demo you know before he even recorded anything yeah so he was keen to do it And John, and also I like the fact that John, who plays with, John's with me and played in the Australian Corps, is married, Vicar and Linda are on the bill and he's married to Vicar.

And my brother's there, so it's like a one big lovely family affair.

This is probably like... a chance to reinvigorate everyone that's going to be on this tour and a chance to play amongst friends must be great.

I was in here yesterday, and

I was on air yesterday, and I mentioned his name, and five minutes later, he rang me up.

He's also a stirrer.

Yeah.

But he's humble.

So anyway, he's had...

And he's obviously had conversations with Scott, who manages me.

What is that like when you are writing a song and at inception it's just been written and then thousands of people are singing those words back to you? That must be a pretty crazy feeling.

You had that

advantage.

It's a different kind of thing, I think, between acting and being a singer in a band.

I left the drama school because the band started to do things, so I thought I'd better go and do it.

We made a decision, let's go and give this a couple of years.

Look, in terms of your question about the business, therefore I had no ambition about that, didn't think we were going to do it.

We'll do this a couple of years and go back to what we're all doing, go back to uni or whatever.

How do you step back?

Yeah.

My eye, I had a...

Well, I had a BCC on my eye, which anyone who's ever worked or surfed or been in the sun or, you know, when I got it, it freaked you out because they sort of go, well, I'm a bit concerned about it.

I'm going to get you in there straight away.

And you never want to hear that.

They want to go, well, just watch it for a couple of years.

So they got me and they got everything.

Do you still love it, mate? Do you still love getting out on the road and getting out to regional Australia?

Just like riding a bike for you guys, James, when you get back on stage together.

Yes, it is.

Well, basically it's my band.

We play all the time.

We play done right before last.

We play up in Sydney.

And Simon Binks is joining us and my brother's going to join us.

Yeah.

You and a few of the fellas are getting back together and playing some of the Aussie Crawl classics when you're at the Red Hot Summer Tour.

We are.

Simon Binks, who was the guitar player in Australian Crawl, is joining us.

John Watson, who plays with me, and he and I played together for 40-something years.

But my brother's going to rejoin.

He'll be playing percussion and singing and So you're going to have four of the members of the Australian Crawl, because unfortunately two of them are no longer with us.

But that notwithstanding, it's better than what you could possibly get.

They probably go harder than you these days, James,

What does that mean?

Well, it was just a joke because it was-- it's next year, it's 40...

And I never remember these days, but my manager, Scott, reminded me, going, "Next year, it's f-" 'Cause I always go, "Oh, bloody Australian Crawl.

Everyone, just leave it alone.

Get over it," you know? So next year, it's 40 years.

'Cause I was go, "It finished.

Everybody, it over.

Mm-hmm.