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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's possibly one of the biggest musicals in the world.

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Speaker 2: Hamilton has taken the world by storm, selling out night

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Speaker 2: after night, London, New York and now of course in Sydney,

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Speaker 2: cleaning up a ward after a Water along the Way.

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Speaker 2: Starring in the Australian run is the super talented Gury

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Speaker 2: Knox in the role of George Washington, one of.

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Speaker 1: The big lead roles. Huri, Hello, how did you get

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Speaker 1: this role? Did you know of the did you know

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Speaker 1: of the musical? How did the process happen for you?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 4: I had tried out for it o the year, even.

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Speaker 1: It was for the previous income.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the previous So like just before they went

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Speaker 4: on tour around the world, I missed that one. I

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Speaker 4: guess they had their eye on me. Yeah, they just

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Speaker 4: they just kept me on their mind and come back

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Speaker 4: around again and try it for it. But they gave

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Speaker 4: me a bigger role because I tried out for Madison

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Speaker 4: Mulligan yep, which is one of the sons of lib

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Speaker 4: and I expected to be called back for that one

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Speaker 4: when I come back to try again and they called

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Speaker 4: me for George Washington. Okay, he's got the big numbs.

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Speaker 1: I've heard of him.

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Speaker 4: He's got big numbers.

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Speaker 5: Did you know a lot about George Washington? Not really?

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Speaker 4: I knew he was the first one I started reading

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Speaker 4: his book. He was an interesting fellaw, yeah, he was

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Speaker 4: an interesting guy.

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Speaker 5: I gotta admit.

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Speaker 3: All I know about Georgie Washington's jumping down a tree

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Speaker 3: that's the cherry tree.

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Speaker 1: And then he also had wooden teeth is all I

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Speaker 1: don't even know? Is that true?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't know it. You can use that anytime you like.

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Speaker 5: Don't encourage you, please, This is just a man as

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Speaker 5: pun humor.

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Speaker 2: But this is also your first role in a musical,

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Speaker 2: which takes so much, this one in particular, all the

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Speaker 2: stamina that it takes.

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Speaker 1: Is it what you thought it would be?

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Speaker 4: It's yeah, and it's everything I expected and more. Honestly,

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Speaker 4: I've never been. I feel I feel really kind of content,

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Speaker 4: you know, because you work hard enough, sing the big songs,

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Speaker 4: and everyone's so cool, everyone's so cool, and cinema and

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Speaker 4: then go outside there's some fans waiting around, and I mean,

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Speaker 4: I'm just a small town country boy.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, this is big for me. Well, a big

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Speaker 3: deal when you look at it. At First Nations person

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Speaker 3: playing George Washington. Well, do you think that's a big deal?

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Speaker 4: It's all right.

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Speaker 2: You also come from a very musical family. Your grandfather,

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Speaker 2: Roger Knox was known as Australia's Black Elvis, the couri

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Speaker 2: King of Country. Your grandmother, or Andrew, she was also

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Speaker 2: a country performer.

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Speaker 4: Yes, she was first ever woman on television. My grandfather

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Speaker 4: traveled the world. My nana she did all this stuff.

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Speaker 4: But all that entertaining and the the stuff that requires

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Speaker 4: you know, what is required for musicals. I'd say that

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Speaker 4: comes from my nana. None was the one where this

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Speaker 4: type of side of things came from the stagecraft in

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Speaker 4: terms of musical and theatrics. That's that's from None side.

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Speaker 4: From my mom's side, I should say.

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Speaker 3: From your point of view playing your character, there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of dialogue. You've got a lot of dialogue and

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Speaker 3: like you know, the whole all of Hamilton.

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Speaker 5: I was when I saw it when it came out.

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Speaker 3: He just I think it was mid pandemic and had

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Speaker 3: a largely American cast.

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Speaker 4: First time around.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I just couldn't get out of the dialogue.

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Speaker 3: How the hell do you remember all that.

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Speaker 4: Great effort, great effort. And I mean also being a

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Speaker 4: musician like you, You've got so many songs in your

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Speaker 4: mind anyway, so it's a skill that you develop other times.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I look at Barnsy. I was watching coultures

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Speaker 3: of performing, and I've been watching cultures for a thousand

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Speaker 3: years and they just get better and better. But I

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Speaker 3: was watching Barnsy just performing. How does he remember all

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Speaker 3: these songs?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 5: How does how does he do it? I have no idea.

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Speaker 4: I've always I've always said I wish I was in

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Speaker 4: that era. I wish I could have like watched them

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Speaker 4: perform at their pick. They would have been the best.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're a Chisel fan.

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Speaker 4: Only only new fan. Yeah, we didn't grow up listening

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Speaker 4: to him at home.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know.

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Speaker 3: And for me, I got into cultures in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 3: when I started in commercial radio because and by that stage,

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Speaker 3: cultures have been broken up for about six years. But

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Speaker 3: commercial radio loved them all of a sudden, they went

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Speaker 3: crazy and started just playing them a lot. So I

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Speaker 3: really missed the boat on Cold Chisel, And then I

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Speaker 3: got into them because I was playing them every half

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Speaker 3: hour on the radio. So the songs like Forever Now

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Speaker 3: or flame trees. They all got a new they got

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Speaker 3: a new audience from people like me, and then again

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Speaker 3: with yourself and people.

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Speaker 2: I took it up later because I love the poetry.

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Speaker 2: The Don Walker lyrics are just so beautiful.

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Speaker 3: But you know forever now that that particular song just

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Speaker 3: the more I listened to it, and that was originally

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Speaker 3: written by Steve Press, which the drama of the band

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Speaker 3: passed away in twenty eleven, but he was that song,

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Speaker 3: you know, just to you know, taking a seat at

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Speaker 3: the bar, you don't talk to you know, the lyrics

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Speaker 3: of that they just become.

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Speaker 4: It's just it's so simple. It's two separate verses of

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Speaker 4: a couple and simply written. But the imagery is just striking.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: I regon what you play it, where you play forever now,

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Speaker 3: once you get it, once you get it on.

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Speaker 4: I mean I could, but you could play it. I reckon,

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Speaker 4: I could have a little hit.

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Speaker 1: I'd love that.

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Speaker 3: I'd love that he's gonna play it.

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Speaker 1: But I'm going to be in charge of the radio station.

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Speaker 5: I think, well, okay, we need what do you need

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Speaker 5: for this?

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Speaker 4: Guitars?

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Speaker 5: Two guitars. Well, you've got an Dargell in the green room.

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Speaker 4: And there real comfortable. Let's let's bring them out.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, let's we'll take a break, we'll get some

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Speaker 3: ads on and then we'll set up and you'll play forever.

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Speaker 3: Now I love that, Okay, Let's it's spontaneous, it's happening.