Hamish Waddell

That was Cameron's Gonna Be My Friend by Hamish Waddell, and I am extremely privileged to have Hamish right here in the Dolby Studio with me tonight.

Hey, Hamish.

Um, thanks for making the journey, dude.

Hi.

Hello.

Thank you so much for having me.

What a privilege.

You know, it's, uh, it's hard to make friends these days.

You know, I, I'm, I'm getting a bit older and I don't have that many.

I, I have enough.

I, I used to have heaps.

I'm not even sure, though, these days if, if I want or need to have friends anymore.

I think it's something that happens to men as they get old.

It's the slow metamorphosis into, like, cantankerous old bastards.

I, I, I just wanna know, um, uh, who is Cameron?

Um, Cameron is, uh, like one of my old friends from when I went to school.

Uh, the song's really not that esoteric.

It kind of just, um, literally describes an afternoon when I was a kid.

We went on a bike ride together and went to the swimming pool, and it was pretty fun.

It was a beautiful, sunny day in the lovely southern town of Gore, where I, where I hail from.

And yeah, he, he, um, Cameron, yeah, he, he's my friend.

Well, I actually haven't seen him in ages.

He plays for the Highlanders now.

He's, like, the first five, one of the first fives for the Highlanders or whatever.

So he's a bit of a celeb in his own right.