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James Reyne: I Think It's A Really Good Line Up · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Australian Crawl and Minute Worker uniting for an historic Red
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  Speaker 1: Hot Summer tour at Sandalford Wines Saturday November fourteen. Tickets
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  Speaker 1: will go on sale next Thursday through ticket Master and
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  Speaker 1: James is with us.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, morning, James, Good morning to you both.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: It's for joining us another Red Hot Summer tour with
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  Speaker 1: another amazing lineup. But it's you know, top of the bill,
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  Speaker 1: you and Men at Work. It's only taken forty years
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  Speaker 1: for you guys to be on the same lineup.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, well we're used to beggig together occasionally when we
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  Speaker 3: both both bands started the band. Yeah, we know, like
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  Speaker 3: university lunchtime concerts before.
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  Speaker 1: Right, good days.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but Dwayne the promoter has been you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: been hustling this one for a while. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well it must be pretty hard, James, because obviously you're
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  Speaker 4: you've been very busy with your solo work as well.
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  Speaker 4: And of course Colin Hay of Men at Work, he
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  Speaker 4: lives in la and he's with Ringo Stars All Star band,
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  Speaker 4: so he'd be pretty busy there. So get you all
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  Speaker 4: together on the same stage a bit difficult.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I think it's just one of those things
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  Speaker 3: where but you know, it's a great idea and everyone
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  Speaker 3: loves the idea. It's just a matter of it.
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  Speaker 2: With so many of these things, it's a matter of
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  Speaker 2: it is everybody in the same place at rough or
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  Speaker 2: can everybody be in the same place at roughly at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, and then all the logistics of that,
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  Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff, you know, But it's worked
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  Speaker 2: out and it's a great line I really think it's
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  Speaker 2: a great line up. And it's you know, Victor and
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  Speaker 2: Linda on there, and Vica is married to John Watson,
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  Speaker 2: who plays drums and who played drums in Australian Floor
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  Speaker 2: but he plays been playing drumms with me. But you
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  Speaker 2: know I've played to get for forty something years. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, my brother is going to be joining and
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  Speaker 2: Simon being Simon the guitar player. He's joining us ICEPT
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  Speaker 2: my band with Simon.
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  Speaker 3: And my brother. You know his original drummer, David was.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a big family affair with Victor and Linda
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  Speaker 3: on there, and you know so.
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  Speaker 1: And Tokyo and Eskimo, Mella Hooper who you can just
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  Speaker 1: want a single day crush opera.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, no, you crash Who are friends of ours. It's
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  Speaker 3: big family.
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  Speaker 1: People love to imagine rivalries between big bands of certain eras,
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  Speaker 1: and you were two of the biggest bands of that era.
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  Speaker 1: Was there ever any competition between Aussie Crawl and Mental Work.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, because well the thing is we we sort
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  Speaker 3: of knew, you know, someone you don't have to chat
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  Speaker 3: to you not because because we did do gigs when
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  Speaker 3: there was nothing at stake.
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  Speaker 2: We're just having fun.
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  Speaker 3: And then of course they sort of kind of got
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  Speaker 3: kind of really super hupa super dupa famous.
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  Speaker 4: Like when they had the number one album in the
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  Speaker 4: US and the UK at the same time the world,
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  Speaker 4: they were the biggest.
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  Speaker 3: Band in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: You know, no Blur and Oasis.
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  Speaker 3: No, there's there's none. That's my line with everybody, and
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  Speaker 3: I've got I've made over the years. I've made some
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  Speaker 3: with the friends with people from other bands. Like one
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  Speaker 3: of my best friends is a girl called Wrick Grossman,
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  Speaker 3: who I met when he was in a band called
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  Speaker 3: Matt Finish. Then he was in the The Vinyls. He's
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  Speaker 3: now in the Huda Gurus. So he's been in three
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  Speaker 3: of the greatest Australian bands and he's a really good
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  Speaker 3: friend of mine and we always laugh about going. It's
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  Speaker 3: not a competition at all, but it's sort of is.
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  Speaker 1: I love the idea of you and David traveling together,
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  Speaker 1: brothers on the road together. Is there ever any you know,
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  Speaker 1: cripple nipples or flights going on and men?
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  Speaker 4: But he'd be pretty good with the travel wise brothers.
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  Speaker 4: He'd be good with the travel tips, so wouldn't he.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I haven't been a band with
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  Speaker 3: him for a while, but I mean he's one of
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  Speaker 3: my best friends. I think dinner with him and his
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  Speaker 3: wife Karina, probably once a week, so because I'm you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a single guy, and Karina is an amazing cook
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  Speaker 3: and the lovely because she's always saying, come on, come
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  Speaker 3: over for dinner. I know, not eating right, and I'm going,
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  Speaker 3: but I find she's an incredible cook. So much is
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  Speaker 3: over there. He's one about their friends. So we you know,
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  Speaker 3: we we we're in we.
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  Speaker 2: Talk all the time. Well, it's it's not a big
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  Speaker 2: deal in that sense.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be huge. As we said, Birds are Tokyo Rescueo, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: Linda and Vicker Boom Crash Opera and Ela Hooper and
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  Speaker 1: Australian crawl at men at work. James will see you in.
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  Speaker 3: November, see you then for thank you, no thank you.
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  Speaker 4: There he is James Ryan