Jon English

Are they not in it? They are not in the ARIA.

John English is not in the ARIA Hall of Fame.

The Ted Mulry gang are not in the ARIA Hall of Fame.

Harsh.

yes or no, all 55 in the hall,

I would have said, yep, of course they are.

Why wouldn't they be? I would have said John English would have been in there too.

God, Hollywood 7 was a massive, massive, massive hit.

Like, remember the Shantuzis?

Remember John English? Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's not filling me with, like, you have cachet, I don't think.

Mm

... "I've gotta go out and see bands again, and I need to acquaint, reacquaint myself with all the, all the bands that I, that I knew and the bands that I didn't know." So you'd be at the Chevron two or three nights a week and, you know, you'd see John English on Wednesday night, and then you'd see Moving Pictures Thursday night, and you'd see Chisel on Friday night.

It was fantastic.

I used to love going to the Chevron.

Here to represent

the John English fan community.

I also love John English.

You neglected to mention that he played Judas in the original touring production of

Jesus Christ Superstar in Australia, I believe.

I wrote a couple of them.

With John English? Yes.

Wow.

I mean, I didn't write it with John

English.

No, not with John English.

No,

no.

Nothing so much in mainstream media.

Just before we do go on, John, of course, thank you to everyone joining us live.

My apologies for... looking a bit ordinary today with not that i'm saying i don't look ordinary anyway but the old eye got something in it overnight last night and it's looking a bit the worst for wear so my apologies if anyone's just eaten and they're not feeling too great 60s out there being

in the pub getting punched on as always you know he's a legend for you know trying to stir up the uh the locals

Yeah, so anyway, shout out, of course, to our sponsors, Star Partners Real Estate, Auburn, Norellin and Parramatta, and of course, the home of the Eels Parramatta Leagues Club.

Also, John, we love people coming up and introducing themselves and saying g'day.

And I've said many times, One of the great things is having people introduce themselves in situations where it's not expected, I guess.

And today it was when I was visiting mum in the nursing home today and one of our listeners, our viewers to the podcast, Anthony, he was a visiting optometrist to the... nursing home and he introduced himself to me and um so i wanted to thank anthony for saying g'day and also for the the great chat we had uh comparing how we feel about the woes of being an eel supporter did you uh

Sunday, it was not too bad, but Monday morning, beautiful black eyes.

I think for a couple of days they called me John English, if you know the reference.

Anyway, Gary was very passionate about everything.

And every conversation you started with him started with asking you, how are you going? Now, I think half the time he didn't know people's names or forgot them or didn't know.

Yeah.

Uh, also, um, uh, uh, I, I put together the, um, uh, the prostate, uh, ad, uh, with Angry, um, and, uh, John English, um, uh, John Farman and, uh, uh, Jimmy Barnes.

Oh, right.

Did you?