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Speaker 1: James and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, what can you say about Australian Crawl that hasn't

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Speaker 2: already been said? What about a list of banging songs?

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Speaker 3: Beautiful people, Errold?

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Speaker 2: What about this?

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Speaker 3: I know? Not? You again?

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Speaker 2: Were our favorites? Always hard to see a long Jem.

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Speaker 1: It's been forty years since Australian Crawl debut their first album.

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Speaker 4: James Rain has gathered.

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Speaker 1: For troops to hit the road for a national Crawl

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Speaker 1: File tour.

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Speaker 4: That's not easy to say, James.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Hi, good morning here.

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Speaker 1: So you're going to do all these fabulous greatest hits, Yes.

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Speaker 3: We are, and in gathering the troops, not the.

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Speaker 4: Actual original no, I understand, yes.

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Speaker 3: That have been played forever, but yes we're going to

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Speaker 3: be playing all those songs and more and we're all

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Speaker 3: those sort of songs. Just it's all cruel, it's all

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Speaker 3: all the way.

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Speaker 1: It's not easy to say, practice saying crawl File tour,

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Speaker 1: crawl file to it all right, yeah, Because there was

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Speaker 1: a great bit trick if you don't mind.

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Speaker 2: There was a great article in the newspaper and I

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Speaker 2: always think about you guys because it's forty years of

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Speaker 2: Australian crawl. It's been forty years, and in those early

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Speaker 2: days you would have thought, well, the world is all

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Speaker 2: of ours, but the band was. It was acrimonious. You

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Speaker 2: had death in the band like you had like it

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Speaker 2: was a health to deaths in the band. And it's

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Speaker 2: been a hell of a hell of a journey. Do

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Speaker 2: you think now? WHOA No one told me there'd be

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Speaker 2: days like these.

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Speaker 3: No one did tell me there a been days like

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Speaker 3: these where I'd be doing this all those years later.

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Speaker 3: But I'm glad, i am, and it's good. It's better now.

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Speaker 3: I mean it is better now. It's just better to

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Speaker 3: do as easier touring. We tour better, we play better.

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Speaker 3: It's a better band, with the greatest respect of the

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Speaker 3: two who are with us anymore. And then there were

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Speaker 3: the two sort of you know, major ones. If anyone

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Speaker 3: wasn't as major, No, someone writes another about me.

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Speaker 1: But we were talking to Jimmy Barnes the other day

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Speaker 1: and they're doing you know, their fifty too. But he

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Speaker 1: was talking about how some of the songs hit differently

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Speaker 1: now he's older. Do you find that going back to

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Speaker 1: this material now you've had that wealth of experience, did

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Speaker 1: the songs feel different.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, some of them do some of them I just go,

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Speaker 3: oh my god. I mean a couple of songs there

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Speaker 3: I wrote when I was There's one. There are two

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Speaker 3: songs I wrote when I was seventeen.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Now, when you revisit something you did when you were

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Speaker 3: seventeen from the distance of several years, you know, you

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Speaker 3: look at it and go really to me. And I

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Speaker 3: can say, because I wrote them, I think some of

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Speaker 3: them a look. I respect the fact that a lot

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Speaker 3: of people love these songs. I won't say which ones.

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Speaker 3: Some of them are extremely clunky.

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Speaker 4: The song about your pencil case of.

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Speaker 3: My pencil case, well, are you talking about because of

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Speaker 3: my rubber?

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Speaker 2: Because indisposed? Indisposed had the lyric he's of the male gender. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but you'll soon beyond the manda And that was your

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Speaker 2: own because you got hit by a car.

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Speaker 3: I got hit by a car and Brad wrote that song.

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Speaker 3: I sort of helped him finish it, but he stars

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Speaker 3: as a joke. A lot of these songs too, we

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Speaker 3: wrote as jokes. Isn't again. I think some of these

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Speaker 3: songs I look at them as almost novelty songs because

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Speaker 3: I look at that band sometimes I think it's a

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Speaker 3: little bit of a novelty band.

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Speaker 4: But what a gift to have it so be so loved.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that is a gift. That's the positive thing. And

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Speaker 3: it was so loved and it's still loved.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you're not Joe Dolci. You're not doing shut

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Speaker 4: up in your face.

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Speaker 2: You could add that, don't antag.

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Speaker 3: Today.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't know.

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Speaker 4: He would never have seen you as a novelty band.

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Speaker 3: That's me. You're overthinking just moments in the set, okay,

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Speaker 3: just because the next one I'll be fine, Yes, But

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Speaker 3: things like intersposed for instance, bringing that that was written

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Speaker 3: as a joke, doing his silly rhymes. I want to

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Speaker 3: tell you about my Friender. He got hit by a fender,

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Speaker 3: but he was soon to be on the menda. And

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Speaker 3: then Brad's father at the time was a judge. He

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Speaker 3: was he was on the arbitration Commission, did things like

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Speaker 3: beside the national wage and that was his and he thought,

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Speaker 3: this pop music the boys are doing it sounds like

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Speaker 3: a bit of a lark. So he started writing verses.

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Speaker 3: Then he presented us with a couple of songs that

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Speaker 3: he'd written. Judge, Sorry to the arbitration.

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Speaker 2: How interesting when when you guys perform things don't seem

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Speaker 2: That is my favorite Crauwel song because it's just ball

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Speaker 2: tearing from the start, but the lyric, you know, you

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Speaker 2: look at your fellow concert goers, but things that don't

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Speaker 2: want to be going right.

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Speaker 3: To it. Yes, there is, and it is interesting watching

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Speaker 3: people sing along. In fact, I saw Jimmy b interview

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Varans been interviewed recently and him saying similar thing.

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Speaker 3: So you watch people sing along to the songs, and

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Speaker 3: you think for all those years and some people just

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Speaker 3: never get it right. I mean, good on them.

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Speaker 1: I saw a thing with Rita Ora the other day

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Speaker 1: where she went in front of a crowd and was

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Speaker 1: asking individuals to sing lines to her song and none

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Speaker 1: of them knew them.

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Speaker 4: That's embarrassing. At least everyone knows yours.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, surprisingly, you might forget two sometimes too well. I

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Speaker 3: saw you performing with Sting before the big concert.

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Speaker 4: Came, before the big concert came, before the big.

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Speaker 3: Storm came at the Hunter Valley. Yeah, because we made

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Speaker 3: it and he didn't. He got four songs out and

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Speaker 3: I was happy for that. I was happy to see you.

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Speaker 2: And then Sting did four songs before he got out

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Speaker 2: the lute and did the strange stuff and then we

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Speaker 2: all we all bug it off.

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Speaker 3: It was pretty good. But John Watson was on the

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Speaker 3: drums as well. Yeah, and he's still with you on

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Speaker 3: the Yeah. He's been playing with me for forty one years.

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Speaker 3: He's an extraordinary ordinary drummer. A drummer. And here's John

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Speaker 3: Watson from Townsville. And John Watson who looks after cold

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Speaker 3: Chisel and manages all those ment he's from Townsville as well.

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Speaker 3: There are two John Watson's from Townsville.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever seen them together?

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Speaker 3: No, we haven't a good justice one who knows one John?

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Speaker 1: Before you gear up for a big tool like this,

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Speaker 1: do you like Beyonce trains by running on a treadmill.

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Speaker 4: Do you have to go into a regime.

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Speaker 3: I do a regime anyway. I run and I swim

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Speaker 3: so I kept fit. Look, I keep fit.

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Speaker 4: You have to be careful you don't get a cold

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Speaker 4: and all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 3: You really watch yourself with the singing thing. You really

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Speaker 3: do watch yourself. And I don't talk much on big days.

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Speaker 3: No passion, no passion, Well it depends who's around.

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Speaker 4: The passion and if they've been given a clean but.

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Speaker 3: I think we've got to wrap this up. Why did

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Speaker 3: why did that come up?

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Speaker 1: What thing? Because you can't get germs, you can't catch

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Speaker 1: germs pashing.

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Speaker 3: Off, you're pashing off.

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Speaker 4: I know you mean, yeah, you could get germs the room.

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Speaker 3: James, What you mean passionately good? That might be good though.

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Speaker 4: I just don't want to get germs. Just be safe, James,

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Speaker 4: for sure.

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Speaker 2: Just but well sure, how about we just d and

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Speaker 2: I just leave, okay, and you guys can what about okay?

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Speaker 3: James, it's always to stick to It's always nice to

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Speaker 3: S's a beautiful studio.

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Speaker 4: I know, isn't it. The view of the city is extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: Get tickets to see the crowd file now at James

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Speaker 2: rain dot com dot au.

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Speaker 3: James the Treat a treat. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 3: having me