1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Jump Mission with Jos and Amanda. 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: Well, our next guest has more number one albums than 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 2: any other Australian So we're thrilled to be talking to 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 2: Jimmy Barnes about his new one, Flesh and Light, about 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 2: to embark on a tour and I hear a new cookbook. 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 2: I could not be more excited. Jimmy Barnes for. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 3: Lost there he is. Yeah, they how are you guys? 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 4: Yeah? 9 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 2: Very well. 10 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 3: We've been really busy, haven't you. Just Yeah, some people. 11 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 2: Use a lot of bit, but some people use lockdown 12 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,480 Speaker 2: to sit on a couch and eat Natella. The two 13 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 2: of you just ramped up the business. 14 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 4: You I think we did a bit of that too. 15 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 3: That's why we've got sugar rush and then just had 16 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 3: to do stuff. Yeah, we did a lot of good things. 17 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 3: I wrote a kid's book. Jane and I wrote a 18 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 3: cookbook together. 19 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 2: Kind of white for that. 20 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 3: It's really good. 21 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 4: It's called Withere the River Bends, and it's it's like 22 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 4: most of them are Jame's recipes. 23 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 3: I do a few, but I write stories for every 24 00:00:58,640 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 3: sort of chapter. 25 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 4: And and you know, we were sort of there's a 26 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 4: lot of banter between Jane and I all the way 27 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 4: through the book with. 28 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 2: All your recipes because I follow you guys on your 29 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 2: socials that sometimes I say you saying, here's how you 30 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 2: make really great gravy. He's a roast, but Jane's stuff 31 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 2: is more tie in fu. So there's a lot of 32 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 2: fusion in your life. 33 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 4: Jane, Yeah, there's cook confusion normal, Jans, No, we don't. 34 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 4: We don't normally do a lot of fusion. What we 35 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 4: do is if we're going to do tie, will cook tie. 36 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 4: But Jans James, you know, see Jane grew up as 37 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 4: the daughter of a diplomat, so you know, she grew 38 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 4: up in Italy. He grew up in Russia, grew. 39 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,279 Speaker 3: Up in Malta, grew up in Mcuala, Lumpa. 40 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 4: So so it's food from everywhere all and there's all 41 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 4: these recipes that are part of her life as well 42 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 4: where she grew up and so there's all these dishes 43 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 4: they're really dear to her heart and that she's sort 44 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 4: of passed on to the kids. 45 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: In camera when because Jane was living in camera because 46 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: dad was a diplomat. But you were like two different worlds, 47 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: weren't You were like this rough and ready rocker and 48 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: Jane had been brought into it into class and culture. 49 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I've tried to sort of mix that 50 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 4: up and tell everybody that I was a sort of classy, 51 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 4: cultured one, but nobody believe. 52 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 2: So the sliding doors of life. Here you are, the 53 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 2: two of you managed to make it together, and the 54 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 2: kids are involved in a big way too, aren't they. 55 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 4: Well yeah, well, you know the thing is what this 56 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 4: all stemmed from from, you know, lockdown of course, you know, 57 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 4: from COVID like everybody else. Like you said, we did 58 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 4: have a lot of time to think, and we had 59 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 4: a lot of you know, we had a lot of 60 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 4: time to do things. 61 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 3: Part of the things one of the things we did. 62 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 4: As you well know from our socials, was we decided 63 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 4: we're going to sing every night. Jane learned guitar and 64 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 4: she present a song and we say, oh can we 65 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:31,399 Speaker 4: sing this? And I'd sing it, and we thought it'd 66 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 4: be a nice way to reach out to people. And 67 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 4: we discovered that that was sort of not only were 68 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 4: we reaching out to help people, it was reaching out 69 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 4: to help us, and it helped bring us you know, 70 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 4: close and chain and I've been together forty years. 71 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 3: We've never been locked in the same place for more 72 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 3: than three weeks. Were all was moving. 73 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 4: So we were there and we got to see a 74 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 4: lot more and see more other sides of each other 75 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 4: some some way like someone did, and so it became 76 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 4: this sort of extension of us. And and I thought 77 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 4: it'd be a great thing about you know, we songs 78 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 4: with their kids and stuff. So and I thought it would 79 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 4: be great to make a record about, you know, the 80 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 4: about family and about that, you know, about that flesh 81 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 4: and blood, you know, like even sitting I don't know 82 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 4: about you, but I think a lot of people do this. 83 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 3: You know. 84 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 4: I've got everything I could want at the most beautiful family, 85 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 4: and at night sometime I just want like I can't 86 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 4: get to sleep and lie there thinking I'm not good. 87 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 3: Enough for them, you know. 88 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 4: So I wrote about I wrote about the self doubt 89 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 4: and the fears that come into relationships. I wrote about 90 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 4: that just that joy of being together. I wrote about 91 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 4: my children. You know, when I look at my children, 92 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 4: I can see I can see all the good parts 93 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 4: of me in them. But I can still see something 94 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 4: about ones. 95 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 3: As well, you know. 96 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 4: And uh, and just sort of and I and I 97 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 4: and I have to laugh because I think you know. 98 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 3: The problem is I spent sort of set sixty. 99 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 4: Five years sort of going through all these or trying 100 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 4: to deal with these problems where these kids are like 101 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 4: the new software version two point oh, so they've they've 102 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 4: dealt with this by the time they were fifteen, you know. 103 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 4: So it's it's a it's an interesting look at family 104 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 4: and and so the natural extension was to take that 105 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 4: on tour. 106 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 3: And that's what we're doing with the flesh and blood too. 107 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: Your grandparents are gay. In congratulations, that's fantastic. 108 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:03,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, really good. 109 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 4: Eliza Jane, a beautiful daughter who lives in New Zealand 110 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 4: with a fellow Jimmy, has had a beautiful baby boy, Theodore. 111 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 3: His name is the Darling. His middle name is Darling. 112 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 4: Darling there Darling, the teddy teddy Darling. 113 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: And you you've seen little baby Theo. 114 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, well we we actually it was a miracle when 115 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 4: that window opened up, that bubble for New Zealand. It 116 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 4: was like two days before the birthday and we were panicking. 117 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 4: Ej was panicking that weren't going to be there, and 118 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 4: we the bubble came out. Who was the gun tour 119 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 4: manager got us on the first flight out of Australia. 120 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 3: We were in New Zealand for the birth. 121 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 4: That was beautiful, and so they're coming out for the 122 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 4: tour andj is going to be singing with me and 123 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 4: the baby. The baby will be in the papoose backstage 124 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 4: and wandering around. It's going to be great, just like 125 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 4: the all this we put the work. 126 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: When you have to be doing something. 127 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 3: I'm going to sample him and get. 128 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:58,799 Speaker 1: The tin lids all over again. 129 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 3: It's great. Talk to you. 130 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: Pre order Jimmy's new album now from Jimmy Barnes dot 131 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: com today. Do it is so good Jimmy. It's always 132 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 1: a treat to catch up with. 133 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 3: Love to talk to you guys too. Well, let's let's 134 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 3: do it again. Take care, Jonesy and Amanda's