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Speaker 1: Tell you who we should talk to. Russell Crowe. He's

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Speaker 1: got the Garden Party.

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Speaker 2: He's just on a tour of Australia and also his

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Speaker 2: latest album is called The Gentleman Barbers, So let's talk

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Speaker 2: about that morning, Russell bonny Man. So the band has

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Speaker 2: been in the works for a while.

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Speaker 3: As you know, I've been performing with bands for the

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Speaker 3: last four decades or so.

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Speaker 1: This is the sort of next iteration.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, indoor Garden Party seeds from a night in

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Speaker 3: two thousand and nine at a pub just outside London,

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Speaker 3: a pub owned by the chat show host Michael Parkinson.

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Speaker 3: Just so happened to be all these different musician friends

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Speaker 3: of mine were in England at that time, so we

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Speaker 3: all brought them together in one place, including like the

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Speaker 3: entire cast of Master and Commander and things like that,

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Speaker 3: and they all got up and sang a song together

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Speaker 3: as shipmates, you know. So it was just an interesting

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Speaker 3: thing about, you know, having a core band but then

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Speaker 3: bringing in guests, and it's sort of it's been something

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Speaker 3: we've been doing reg you leave, but not in any

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Speaker 3: sort of particular schedule. This next album at will work

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Speaker 3: at the moment, pros and cons, I'll come out this year.

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Speaker 3: That's more rootsy, you know, it's back into the bar again.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Well, the new single I thought I had almost a

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Speaker 2: feel of New Orleans touched to it.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of gospel in there and R and

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Speaker 3: B and you know, just you're right, you know, that

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Speaker 3: dirty New Orleans kind of jazz sound, but sort of

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Speaker 3: taken into a sort of a darker place.

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Speaker 1: I suppose.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to songwriting, do you ever feel like

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Speaker 2: you have to compromise in order to get commercial success

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Speaker 2: or even to just get played on the radio.

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Speaker 3: No, no, not at all. And it's pure form. The

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Speaker 3: greatest pop song is the greatest song. That's not a

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Speaker 3: bad thing to aim for. Respecting the fact that I

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Speaker 3: don't give a toss if it sells one copy or whatever.

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Speaker 3: I'm not pursuing the perfect pop song on behalf of

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Speaker 3: a extet of corporate responsibilities.

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Speaker 2: Well that's a great place to be though, too.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's right when my songwriting stuff.

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Speaker 3: At the moment, I'm backtracking over a whole bunch of

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Speaker 3: idea years that I almost completed and then put aside.

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Speaker 2: You know, I heard a great story the other day

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Speaker 2: about Tom Waits. He was driving in his car and

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Speaker 2: he had this fantastic idea for a song that came

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Speaker 2: to him from the universe, which is essentially where a

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Speaker 2: lot of the great ideas come from. And he said, no, no,

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Speaker 2: not now, I'm driving, come back to me later.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Does that happen with you?

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Speaker 1: Do you suddenly get this last night?

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Speaker 3: Had Last night I was in bed, I absolutely exhaust

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Speaker 3: and just as I was drifting off, this song that

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Speaker 3: I've been talking about for days started coming to me,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, I do really, but I just

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Speaker 3: didn't have the juice to get up and write it down. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm just hoping later on today that the title of

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Speaker 3: it will come back to me.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I tell you, I hate that. Why don't write

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Speaker 2: it down there?

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Speaker 1: And then it's gone? I mean, never get the thing back,

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 3: You know, I had that type of conversation with Sting,

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Speaker 3: you know, and I was asking him, you know, if

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Speaker 3: you're in the middle of writing, you know the stuff

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Speaker 3: he was doing for that instead of medieval period he

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Speaker 3: was going through right now, And in the middle of

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Speaker 3: that he wrote that song Hung my Head, which is

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Speaker 3: basically it comes from Western thematic that he put it

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Speaker 3: in a different time signature.

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Speaker 1: When he did it, but then later on Johnny Cash.

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Speaker 3: You're the pre eminent version of the song, and I

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Speaker 3: was knowing, how can you be, you know, your head

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Speaker 3: in the middle of lutes and all of this sort

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Speaker 3: of stuff, and then that thing pops out and he

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Speaker 3: just said something funny.

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Speaker 1: He just said listen.

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Speaker 3: To be totally honest, I have no idea where the

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Speaker 3: songs come from. But all I do know is the

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Speaker 3: more times I sit and sort of asked for them,

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Speaker 3: the more songs that have come, you know.

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Speaker 1: And even if I'm in the middle of writing something, I.

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Speaker 3: Realized, Junius, this is shit, you know, because it might

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Speaker 3: lead me somewhere else. And that's what I say before

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Speaker 3: about songs that we've you know, from Convenience, we've just

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Speaker 3: pushed aside. I know that there's some good stuff there.

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Speaker 3: I've just got to go back and work out why

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Speaker 3: it didn't quite make the mark this time around.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm looking forward to hearing the new album from

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Speaker 1: the band.

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Speaker 2: You've got to talk to you, Russell. Thanks a lot, mate.

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Speaker 1: Just look at yourself in